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[–] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 51 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

This is the sleight of hand they want you paying attention to. Instead, keep an eye on the other hand;

Because that is the one doing the damage.

[–] Chip_Rat@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

It kinda feels like both hands are doing a lot of damage....

[–] OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml 37 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

The real trick is the fact that both of these do damage, and you can't afford to ignore either.

Signaling to the police that the executive branch has your back and will support you when you kill poor black men is going to get people straight up murdered.

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[–] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

true, but also, there's a point that laws don't really exist anymore. it's just gang shit. the cops are the gang that want to kill you rather than make a profit off you. there is no legitimacy, there is no reason to respect or obey them, and in fact they will kill you if you do.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago

Elon trying to use this to distract from all the federal firings he's done

[–] Wilco@lemm.ee 89 points 1 day ago (4 children)

They just want to cause riots. Trump and Elon are agitators.

[–] nicky7@lemmy.ml 51 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This. I'm convinced at this point they're attempting to instigate riots so they can declare material law and seize full control over the US government.

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[–] Tedesche@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

I agree. This is just intended to cause civil unrest to distract from everything else they’re doing to tear America apart.

But also, Musk is a Nazi.

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[–] uberdroog@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

That should go over well.

[–] pinheadednightmare@lemm.ee 19 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Honestly, a part of me wants this to happen because I believe it would cause some serious protests.

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[–] segabased@lemmy.zip 44 points 1 day ago

They reeaally doing anything they can to get that martial law step started from their project 2025 handbook

[–] answersplease77@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Elon's brain got damaged by ketamine usage. At his level of power and wealth, he basically runs the planet and the drugs embolden him to shamelessly call for whatever shits he believes

[–] Goblino@lemmy.studio 24 points 1 day ago

He's basically Baron Harkonnen with a broken dick.

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[–] halykthered@lemmy.ml 295 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Nazi child of apartheid encourages elevated racial tensions, more at 11.

[–] Septapus@lemmy.ca 40 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I mean the plan was always to annihilate people of color like my wife and I. This country has treated our people like shit for centuries and the rest of the world wants us to stay and fight to fix our country. I say fuck that. That's like saying the German Jews should have stayed to fix Germany and should have started committing acts of violence to fix their country. That was never going to work last century what the fuck makes anyone think it would this century. No the fact is racist whites enabled and did this, we aren't at fault and we are not responsible to fix it for them. We are going to be part of the brain drain of this country. Leave the whites to sort out their own fucking mess for once.

[–] halykthered@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

They'll beat the drums of nationalism, and try to guilt you. If you flee now, the hundreds of years of oppression will have been in vain. You dare turn your back on the failed revolutions of MLK? Malcolm X? Coward, they'll say. But I say fuck that noise. You owe them nothing. Get out, before it gets worse. You owe it to you and yours to try and find happiness, if you can.

Edit: This is my 666th comment. I meant to drop it in a christian thread, but I thought I had at least one more. Oh well.

[–] Septapus@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

Congrats on your 666 comment! Sorry you ending up using it on my comment but I appreciate it all the same!

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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 47 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Gotta throw red meat to the racist AF base to distract from how fElon and his Incel Clown Posse is stealing from the American people...

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[–] Nualkris@lemm.ee 83 points 1 day ago

I think the ultimate goal is martial law, and I think he is unconcerned about what triggers his ability to declare it.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 182 points 2 days ago (17 children)

Do you want riots? Because that's how you get riots.

[–] JohnnyMac@lemmy.world 212 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Yes, actually. Riots give them an easy path to invoke the insurrection act.

[–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 75 points 2 days ago (5 children)

It's so weird how people in power play the most dangerous games in countries where the population is not disarmed

[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 54 points 2 days ago (16 children)

for all the guns americans have, theyre clearly too cowardly to use them for anything outside of school shootings

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Nazi Musk does nazi things.

[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 38 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So which company building we burning down first? I vote for Wal-Mart.

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How about a Tesla building? Or a government building?

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[–] moakley@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I scrolled all the way to the bottom of these comments, then breathed a sigh of relief.

Because the comments that I'd see on reddit, the ones all the way at the bottom that show up every time George Floyd is mentioned, weren't there. I hadn't even thought about those comments until I got to the end.

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[–] friendofspongebob@lemm.ee 10 points 1 day ago

But that guy was convicted of murder wasnt he? Is Felon now doubting a jugdes decision? I really think he is losing his shit. Did for sometime but now its getting obvious.

[–] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 46 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 52 points 2 days ago (3 children)

A possible motive is to push the power of the executive. If Trump can somehow seize this power, there's nothing that can stop him.

That or just trying to embolden the police, but I'm guessing it's even worse than that.

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 52 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I'd say it's to embolden police and violent racists, in hope of helping encouraging their race war to destabilize the country so that they can divy it up.

The interesting lack of forethought from the oligarchic billionaires is that their billions mean nothing without the US dollar and NYSE. The majority of their hoards of wealth are not backed by anything tangible that could be of use in the event that the US dollar ceases to be relevant. I suppose that this kind of thought isn't likely to occur to sociopaths that were born with platinum spoons in their mouths.

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[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

Getting classier by the day. Fucking embarrassing

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