Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2025
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Can we just scrap the Untied States and start over? This franchise needs a reboot
Back to Britain
We have a constitution so old as to be a relic, antique. No well run democracy still uses a constitution that old, because they've made huge improvements in the past couple centuries. We should absolutely start from scratch.
The cowardice of it being an unsigned letter is almost the most galling part. Sniveling authoritarian cowards
When no one signs, they all signed
Except those who dissented publicly, right? Pretty sure Sotomayor was pretty publicly pissed off at the rest of the court.
So many people here are always pushing this "they're all the same" bullshit and it's starting to get very fucking tired.
It is so goddamn disingenuous.
The voices of reason are becoming outweighed here.
Yeah so let's just ignore that they exist.
You misunderstood me, possibly because you were telling me to go fuck myself on another post. "Assaultpotato" is a voice of reason on this post. People read a news story about the Supreme Court staying an order and now want to impeach the whole Court?
I'm afraid the politics and news communities hosted on Lemmy servers are falling off the deep end.
It was one commenter and the following comments rebuking them are much more highly upvoted. It's maybe a bit early to stick a fork in it.
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Cool. So if I join ICE, am I allowed to sneak up on random people and toss em in my van?
You don't even have to join. ICE wears plainclothes, drives unmarked vehicles, wears masks, and never shows their badge. Anyone can be ICE.
Their recruiters admire your ambition and will be in touch.
Well, brown people, yeah. I thought that was obvious.
Clearly the peaceful protests are working!
At the last protest, I embraced a crying queer young adult for over an hour, because they were completely beside themselves.
They had a mental breakdown because they didn't even realize they were living with so much stress and fear these past few months.
And when they finally summoned the courage to show up to their very first protest in their young life, they SO relieved that so many people CARED about that happened to them that it completely overwhelmed them.
So please and kindly, shut the fuck up.
A lot of folks forget that peaceful protests are a great way to get people together and doing something, even if that something is initially just catharsis. Even if things escalate to... let's say spray painting JD Vance oompa loompa graffiti everywhere... forming up at protests is how you can make that happen.
Thanks for being there. We need more people like you.
Thank you for helping that person
And I'll do it again, and again if I have to.
They looked about ready to hang themselves, I'm just so glad they managed to hang on for so long.
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I bet you’re not living up to your screen name at all you simp for assholes
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