• xenomor@lemmy.world
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    If you are a service member, you have a responsibility to refuse illegal and immoral orders. By participating in this administration’s un-American fascist projects, you position yourself as an enemy of the constitution, an enemy of the law, an enemy of the people. We did not accept “just following orders” as a defense the last time we put down a fascist uprising, and we wont accept it this time.

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      Yep. The fascist party propaganda machines (Fox, OAN, NewsMax) have been reporting that Seattle and Portland are literal war zones for years now. I live in Seattle, and when I travel to the South or the Midwest, I always get the “ohh I’m so sorry” concerned comments from people when they learn where I’m from. So many people think that the cities literally burned down entirely.

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        You should ask “who’s telling you this?” The follow-up is “you should ask yourself ‘why are they lying to me?’”

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        I’d see certain commenters repeating that last sentence as just something that was an assumed truth.

        Every single time I saw them doing it, I’d ask the usual suspects to show me exactly which cities “burned to the ground”. These same people would basically scamper off, providing no evidence, only to make the same claims again in a few hours/days.

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      Oh yeah, they think BLM burned cities to the ground and there’s riots everyday and fentanyl heads on every block, broken up with the occasional roving trans kidnapping gangs.

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      To be war ravaged, it must be at war. Trump is literally declaring war on the American people. And also encouraging the armed forces to kill civilians, unless you think “full force” could possibly mean anything else in a military context.

      It’s amazing how people can look at stuff like this and say “gee this guy sure does use some crazy hyperbolic language, I wonder what he can mean by that”. It’s pretty fucking clear.

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    He’s looking for a weaker target that he thinks he can manipulate. He didn’t succeed in LA or Chicago or even DC. But he won’t succeed in Oregon either because the governors have banded together to share information and protect their citizens as much as they can. And because the people he has on the ground are incompetent. And the competent people have been unwilling to break the law for him. Most of the military and national guard are very unhappy with this stuff.

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    Clearly Trump hates traditional American values like the constitution, the separation of church and state, freedom of speech and habeas corpus. I guess he should be put on his own terrorism watch list

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    Portland just recently broke the top 50 list of the safest cities in the US.

    And of course it is a blue state and Portland is known to be extremely liberal.

    Fuck you and fuck off fascists

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    Traitor lunatics really do seem to believe that decent people live in war zones and burned entire cities to the ground.