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    Jesus fucking Christ. These pieces of shit are really feeling emboldened now, like there’s not going to be any opposition to stop them. We need to make fucking sure these pieces of shit are left cowering in their homes, and afraid to be out in society. Removed from the herd.

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      23 days ago

      Unfortunately half the US agrees with him and the other half is a bunch of pants-pissing cowards.

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          You know what? It doesn’t matter. It could be 5 percent and it wouldn’t make a lick of difference if the rest of your country sits there with its thumbs up it’s asses and allows it.

          If it’s 30% and not 50? Great- the rest of you look even WORSE for not dealing with it. Get off your sofas and start ensuring these people don’t feel safe leaving their homes.

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          30% backing a fascist government as the floor is pretty fucking awful. That doesn’t leave a lot of room for the shitty normal conservatives or the centrists who are so terrified to actually have a stance that they’ll fight people with a strong opinion before they fight a fascist.

          Absolutely half, maybe more even, are the kind of people who will either cause the problem or do nothing to stop it or even try to tell the good people that they’re being dramatic because they don’t want to face the fact their country is a broken mess.

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            The US isn’t a democracy. Its rare for people’s votes to lead to positive outcome.

            People should vote, but they MUST do direct action to bring about positive change, especially for fighting systemic & entrenched racism. That’s more important

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              I’m sorry that taxing and auditing the rich, getting paid sick leave to railroad workers, expanding healthcare coverage to millions of americans, keeping literal nazis who set up illegal tents and cages out of power, etc aren’t “positive outcome” to you.

              Just so we’re clear, everything happening right now is happening because millions less people voted in 2024 than in 2020.

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                everything happening right now now is happening because millions less people voted in 2024 than in 2020

                This is just wrong according to newer studies. https://www.npr.org/2025/06/26/nx-s1-5447450/trump-2024-election-non-voters-coalition

                I think dems lost because the campaign they ran on was “remember the last 4 years? It’s gonna be the same again! No real change” and it completely distanced themselves from those who are struggling due to inflation, the job market, etc. Trump promised “change” and that’s all the people want. It doesn’t matter if it’s good or bad change, but that’s why Trump won in my opinion. The dems need to push for and talk about “change” in the next midterms or else this country is lost.

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    Timecop, the Van Damme movie, predicted a future US would have a White Nationalist Party. But they only predicted it would get 5% of the vote.

    I’ve decided to stop referring to them as Republicans. From now on I’m just referring to them as Confederates. There’s no distinction whatsoever between the two. Their goal is a 21st century CSA.

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      Yup. I am learning how to use a gun, so that I can serve as a member of the Union against these Confederates when the time to fight has arrived. They simply aren’t worthy of being part of civilization, because they refuse to uphold the things that make it good.

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      Agreed. It’s time for reckoning by the voters, instead of more blaming the system/ politicians/ lack of good candidates. The system did as it always did, and dumb, lazy voters and virtue signaling sitouts got trump back into office.

      Edit: brain fart word

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      This. The reporting around things like this are reckless. Half the time it sounds like they’re inadvertently giving a platform to the rhetoric to spread. To normalize something that people already fought down before. But unfortunately many people are ignorant to that fact because many were raised with a revisionist version of history. And most don’t talk to people. Seriously. They don’t listen to family stories of what actually went down in their communities. For better or for worse.

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    This isn’t “full mask-off white nationalist”. This is regular dog-whistle white nationalist.

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      Yes I believe this isn’t even his final form. His true power level is yet TBD.

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    My own family sees nothing wrong with being white nationalists. Because BLM is a thing they can be racists now. The amount of hate in these people is palpable.

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      I suspect many families will dissolve in the coming decade. If I had this kind of people as relatives, I wouldn’t want to be related.

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        Honestly. Without us liberal children. They’ll die because they can’t care for themselves. They are both immobile from obesity. It’s pathetic. But I expect most of us to just shuffle them to a retirement home where they can be crazy with the other faux news watchers.

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    Incredibly annoying to read article. Felt like the author was intentionally being ambiguous about what was paraphrasing and what was reading between the lines.

    Reading the actual speech it’s not so much mask off as it is mask slightly higher. It’s still white supremacist garbage but it’s just the same white supremacist garbage they’ve been saying for years. Mask-off means explicit, it’s still just implicit.

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    I just went through the transcript and the part that stood out as the worst was the dangerously divisive “America doesn’t belong to them. It belongs to us.”

    This guy should not be allowed to hold office.

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      Those comments are in criminal violation of his oath of office. He should be impeached, convicted, and removed. Of course there will be nothing but crickets.

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      This “Us” sounds like a venn diagram where each circle is nested inside of the previous one, like an archery target.

      Us = US citizens
      Us = white “real” US citizens
      Us = the people who agree with our ideology
      Us = middle & upper class
      Us = elite white

      Us = the billionaire that wins the hunger games at the top

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    " His answer is that the nation is fundamentally not based on the idea of equality or freedom or any other ideal. Nor is it accessible to people of all races and religions. "

    Well he isn’t wrong about that. Fundamentally it was a nation for “new money” people to own.

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      Fuck white nationalists, but this article seems like a sensationalist headline with little actual backing. They don’t give a full quote of a single sentence of his speech, and seem to take a lot of liberties connecting the dots. I don’t know anything about this guy, and he may well be a piece of shit, but I don’t trust this style of reporting.

      This year, Schmitt, a sitting senator, outdid them both. Schmitt opened by reiterating the antisemitic tropes of his senior colleague. America is threatened by the “elites,” he declared, “who rule everywhere but are not truly from anywhere.” This is the “rootless cosmopolitan” trope at the heart of modern antisemitism. They serve “global liberalism” and “global capital” and support mass migration, he continued, a nod to the “great replacement” theory, which blames Jews for replacing white Americans with nonwhite immigrants.

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        The white Europeans who settled America and conquered the West “believed they were forging a nation—a homeland for themselves and their descendants,” he said. “They fought, they bled, they struggled, they died for us. They built this country for us. America, in all its glory, is their gift to us, handed down across the generations. It belongs to us. It’s our birthright, our heritage, our destiny. If America is everything and everyone, then it is nothing and no one at all. But we know that’s not true. America is not a ‘universal nation.’ ”

        I dont think there is a lot to interpret here…

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          Give me a full quote… all I’m saying. There’s not a single sentence.

          Edit: my bad, I just realized your quote was the one full quote in the article that I’d missed. Lack of coffee. Still, a whole lot of editorializing around a bunch of partial quotes.

          And again, fuck white nationalists.

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              Haha, thanks friend. I didn’t type it for upvotes or downvotes though, I was just annoyed. I get that it’s unpopular. It’s a lot easier to just be angry. I prefer to be both angry and annoyed though. 😅