• Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca
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    13 days ago

    Which is odd.

    America was a country literally founded on a protest, helped by, of all people, the French. They have such a wonderful protest heritage and then they collectively decided “nope, we are meek and love the billionaire boots on our necks and ruling class dicks in our asses”.

      • epicurean_toast@lemmus.org
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        13 days ago

        gorilla warfare

        What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.

  • GirthBrooksPLO@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    That’s because our country was sold a long time ago. The Heritage assholes and Ronny Rayguns took their victory lap 45 years ago.

    Obedience and tolerance to the intolerable were beaten into anyone younger than that, and all they had to do was give the 1980s Americans an ever revolving target of innocent minorities to be the vessel of their contempt.

    Now there is nothing left to strip from the economy and the billionaires are now desperately looking for another place to loot, and there is nothing left. Thanks to globalism, they already ate the planet.

    If we don’t find a new way forward, capitalism is going to eat itself and us along with it.

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      13 days ago

      Goes back way further than that… The simple fact is that America has never been a progressive nation that ever cared about social equity or equality.

      The reason Americans cannot protest like they do in france is because the American police system was molded off of the system the slave owning Confederates developed to fight against potential slave rebellions. A system that marries institutional violence from the state and extrajudicial violence from the populace with a ruling majority to maintain a strict social hierarchy.

      • A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        12 days ago

        Goes back way further than that…

        colonizers used to teach natives to ‘turn the other cheek’ in the face of injustice