Today April 14, 2025, the United States officially becomes a dictatorship, as the President of the United States openly refuses to obey the Supreme Court.

Sad, sad day…

    • @KoboldCoterie@pawb.social
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      372 days ago

      He’s openly talking about shipping US citizens off to a foreign prison; if there’s ever going to be a cause to rise up over, it’s this.

      • @Jhex@lemmy.world
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        21 hours ago

        yes but americans are proving to be sheep in wolves’ clothing so they are going to take it with a shy smile

      • @ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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        The time to rise against Trump was before the election. Because frankly, unless you’re willing to risk being shipped off to a concentration camp without due process or worse, whatchagondo about it now…?

        • @frostysauce@lemmy.world
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          114 hours ago

          The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is today.

          …Even if doing so gets you rendition’d to El Salvador.

        • @KoboldCoterie@pawb.social
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          212 days ago

          I mean, I agree with you on principle, but that’s like saying “The best time to rise up against Trump was 2016.” Yes, but also we’re well past that now and a ‘We should have done X’ attitude isn’t going to solve any problems. Better to look forward and consider what we should do now.

          • Yup. The best time will always be now, because conditions will just get worse, opposition will just get more fractured, and Trump will just get bolder every time he gets away with pushing the line.

            This has been the narcissist’s playbook for forever.

          • @ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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            22 days ago

            I agree with you that you can’t change the past and you can only change the present - and that’s it’s not terribly constructive to say coulda-shoulda.

            But honestly… It takes a particularly dim-witted individual to vote for Trump the first time, and a complete and utter moron to do it again the second time. It’s not like nobody could see any of this shit coming, and anybody with an IQ above room temperature knew this was gonna happen. That’s what’s so damning!

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      I left the US 24 years ago. I saw all this coming when Dubya shat out the USA Patriot Act.

      The US has been a fascist country for decades. Just ask any Gitmo detainee… Now it’s official.

      • @teamevil@lemmy.world
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        112 days ago

        The heritage foundation wrote the Patriot act, I’m pretty sure I remember reading, that’s why it was ready so quickly after 9/11, just like project 2025, it was massively unpopular but they used a national tragedy to sneak it in.