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  • Greenland PM Tells People to Prepare for Possible Invasion

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  • Sure, let me just take a look at the board of directors... Gonna take a look at Reggie Van Lee, right at the top... Check open secrets on his consulting firm aaaand:

    National Republican Congressional Cmte $71k, 2024

    Hmmmmm.... Well at least theres also thousands of dollars going to establishment Dems earlier on.

    But that's just a board member. They'll be absolved by the clients listed in their testimonials. Surely it's the good guys filling their bank accounts?

    Southwest Airlines: Top contributions go to Trump (by a mile), Susan Collins, Ted Cruz, the RNC etc...

    Estée Lauder: Wow! I'm seeing top contributions totaling $3 million+ to the RNC, Keystone Renewal PAC, Senate leadership fund, and 3-4 other sketchy conservative funds.

    NFU Mutual: One of the top 5% groups for spend. $1 mil in contribution and even more in lobbying in 2024, a sea of red support...

    Mercedes Benz: The same one slobbering over Trump's tariffs? 😂

    Enterprise Mobility: 2/3 of their PAC donations end up in Republican coffers...

    I'll give them credit, they show a lot of non-profits and schools-for-poor-orphans to signal how woke they are, but those clients aren't the whales that keep the lights on. You think they're tearing up those big checks when push comes to shove?

    As Carlin once said, it's a big club and we ain't in it.

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  • What in the wet fuck?... Are you having a fever dream about some alternate reality USA?

    Wealth disparity in the USA is higher than basically any country in history. The top 10 people or so have more wealth than the bottom 50%. There are plenty of guns in the USA but the vast majority of people don't ever come close to owning a gun; the average gun owner has something like 7.5 guns. If you're looking at the split between pro/anti-fascist demographics the weapon gap is massive.

    So yes, the average American is dirt poor and unarmed. Come up with a different way to pin all of your trouble on foreigners.

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  • Don't ask who signs their paychecks, what other media outlets they own and what PACs they contribute to

  • Greenland PM Tells People to Prepare for Possible Invasion

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  • Waaaah Waaaah Waaaah

    You're free to go march down to your local government office and demand that every US plutocrat's assets be siezed today. Are you doing that? I'm going to play by your rules and assume no because I didn't see a headline. I really doubt you "know what you'd do" if you can't even do that much tough guy

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  • They can impeach or Amendment 25 him out right now

    This mindset that the "American defeatist voter" is the issue is so blatantly out of touch with the USA's reality that it's exactly what other US commenters are trying to point out. That part of the game has been over for a while. Federal representatives quite literally shut the door, leave the assembly or move away when they're pressured. They don't need your vote any more, their job is to rubber stamp whatever happens; the plutocrats pay them well enough to insulate them from repercussions.

    There's no political leverage to oust them or anyone else in the fed. If you want them out the answer is adventurism and there's no citizenship requirement for that, buy yourself a plane ticket if you think that urgency is required.

    Knowing that, the American citizen's pressing concern is resistance, community safety and solidarity. Regardless of how scary things are for the rest of the world, we're stuck in the eye of the hurricane for the foreseeable future. Maybe the post-Trump fascist dictator will be less aggressive to your country but we'll be under the same boot. Our goals are framed in the longterm view by necessity.

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  • Yes, and that's happening in states with a federal presence. Look at the resistance in Minnesota or Chicago or LA or the DC area for example. But each state being their own independent polity means that what happens in Minnesota is not under the purview of any other government office until you get to Congress. I could riot at my state Capitol for eternity and that doesn't change their power or jurisdiction, they can't control Minnesota.

    If most Americans wanted to resist the fed their best tangible option would be... A post office maybe? For all the glitz and bombast of ICE and other DHS jack boots there are probably sub 10k agents on the ground. If all 340 million Americans decided to oust the fed there are only about 8500 buildings to burn down nation wide, and most of those concentrated in a few specific states.

    So unless you're talking about balkanization and secession via inter-state compacts, there isn't a ton of room for the headline-grabbing resistance that people want to see. And if it got to that point, every major US city would be rioting and ungovernable anyway.

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  • Where did the original commenter say they weren't doing these things? Or are you just not satisfied unless every random person on the internet is declaring they're committing suicide by cop?

    Where do you live, should I make assumptions about you? Are you out on the street right now calling for sanctions on US plutocrats? Are you in the USA and not seeing this networking happen on the ground? If so, where in particular and what are you doing about it? Otherwise, what conditions are making your networking successful and how can we replicate those? Because I promise your imagined passivity is not universal...

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    Greenlanders are mocking the USA on social media by acting like they are fentanyl addicts

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  • B-b-but that's not as edgy 😟

    It's really crucial to take jabs at people living a literal hellish nightmare because there's no other way we can get our high minded, avant-garde social commentary across! 😭

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    Greenlanders are mocking the USA on social media by acting like they are fentanyl addicts

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  • Woah, deja vu! I'm pretty sure I've heard this exact same response from shitbag US conservatives

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    Greenlanders are mocking the USA on social media by acting like they are fentanyl addicts

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  • Then why is the butt of this joke not the corrupt healthcare system or the CIA distributing drugs as a power play or any other number of angles? If they wanted any depth to the joke beyond "haha addicts" there are dozens of better ways to deliver it.

    Edit: on top of that, fent addiction isn't even uniquely American. This clip could just as easily be mocking the people I've seen slumped around Toronto.

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    Greenlanders are mocking the USA on social media by acting like they are fentanyl addicts

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  • You are hallucinating a lot of depth that doesn't exist. The butt of the joke is the crippling addiction of the most vulnerable people in American society.

    As a rule of thumb: if the joke wouldn't bother the corrupt pedophile cabal currently plundering half the world (or their volunteer jack boots) then you're punching the wrong way. If this was about rich kids on coke or a billionaire in a k-hole it would be an entirely different joke

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    Greenlanders are mocking the USA on social media by acting like they are fentanyl addicts

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  • Grade school level historical analysis

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    To Every American Who's Sorry (from the Greenland subreddit)

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  • Billionaires also footed the bill to organize and bus in the J6 insurrection crowd. There was also a bunch of planning to mitigate normal security measures. And it still didn't work!

    Are people really so out of touch that they think a few random people in Washington DC were able to try that on a whim?

  • we're a nation of middlemen

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  • Anything critical to the life of an individual citizen, like health and home insurance, should be publicly run. It just doesn't make sense for a private company to manage that because their profit motive is in direct opposition to the individual (i.e. they must fight claims and inflate premiums to increase revenue).

    The state loses money anyway if the person is homeless or destitute so they might as well pay out. Yes there are still agents to manage funds and adjust claims and set rates but they're now operating as impartial public servants instead of antagonists.

  • Inside Iran’s protests: ‘Either we overthrow the regime, or we are destroyed. We have nothing left to lose.’

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  • Dude is so high on tankie juice that he's hallucinating arguments

  • Cartoon Network

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  • If ONLY there were SOME WAY to DEICE pavement and THWART these PAGAN RIOTERS

  • context in body

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  • Ice when they see a protester pull out the piss jug

  • Over 12,000 feared dead after Iran protests, as video shows bodies lined up at morgue

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  • If the protests were widespread enough it's not impossible to approach those kinds of numbers. That's ~20 cities of 600 deaths spread over 2+ weeks. Other modern protest crackdowns have also been more about asserting power in full view of the world. This is a regime fully blocking media accountability while potentially fighting for its life.

    The Nazis were also doing that with mostly bolt action rifles and some tanks and inaccurate artillery, mainly benefitting from shooting 430,000 people in a concentrated ghetto. Drones and modern weapons are much more deadly and are being deployed against cities with populations in the millions.

  • ICE Now So Hated Even Their Own Agents Are Terrified

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  • Funny you should say that when Idiocracy came out exactly 20 years ago, though even then the movie was being optimistic by setting the narrative 500 years in the future.