The White House has found a novel way to ensure Donald Trump’s nominees ascend to power.
Federal judges in the Western District of Washington swore in former King County Superior Court Judge Roger Rogoff as U.S. attorney Wednesday morning. Within 54 minutes, Trump fired him.
The district’s 17 federal judges have been trying to find a replacement for Seattle’s First Assistant U.S. Attorney Neil Floyd, after Trump failed to formally nominate him. Floyd was appointed in October, though his name was never officially advanced to the Senate for consideration.
Federal law grants a district’s judges the power to appoint a U.S. attorney if the president and the acting attorney general fail to do so within 120 days, subsequently stonewalling the procedural Senate hearings.
Couldn’t they just rehire him? (If he’s willing to game this)
Not without waiting the 120 days, or that’s how I’m understanding this game. And if they did, the Administration would probably do the same. It a technically correct method that skirts the spirit of the law.
They’ve been doing this with US Attorneys in several states, to get what they want. They did the same with Tessa Gormon in the same district, and Donald Kinsella in NY.
This is a good topic for LegalEagle or lawfaremedia.org or similar, so watch for something soon.
It a technically correct method that skirts the spirit of the law.
Better than the methods that piss on the spirit of the law, but aren’t held accountable, whether or not they are technically correct.
But yeah, obviously not an ideal situation. Maybe worth it as a form of protest though?
Sheep people rise now
Four legs good! Two legs behhhtter!
Meeeeh!
Another step towards becoming an authoritarian dictatorship and still Americans do nothing.
What should they realistically be doing?
Sit back let it happen I guess. Wait for the next president to do nothing and slowly slide down the slope.
A national shutdown.
Every direction now involves hardship, because there’s no more fair elections till this regime is removed. Peaceful shutdown is the easiest and least bloody.
They failed at the easy option, twice. Running won’t help either because we can’t stop it and it’s not our job to.
People in the USA can’t afford to lose everything by missing even a week of work. I’m dead serious. If you do a shutdown, you will get fired. If you get fired, you will lose your access to healthcare, assuming you have any. There is no housing protection and no food safety net in place to help people who commit to a cause.
Now, let’s say none of that mattered. Something close to 2/3rds of Americans cannot cover an emergent $500 expenditure. To fly from the west coast to DC in order to protest costs about $1000. Driving across the country costs even more.
Now, let’s say none of that mattered. The USA has about 2 million of its citizens in prison at any given time. This doesn’t account for the implementation of concentration camps both throughout the USA and abroad to hold people detained by ICE, including American citizens, some of whom have been deported to countries that they have never been to.
Now, let’s say none of that mattered. Slavery is still 100% legal in the USA as punishment for a crime under the 13th amendment. The cool thing about slaves is that you can assign them to do whatever. Maybe you work a call center for a corporation, maybe you get sent out to fight wildland forest fires, or even disaster relief cleanup. For those that are compensated, the average across state rate is $0.62 per hour. If you refuse to participate, the consequences start with the removal privileges, escalate to solitary confinement, and eventually you get transferred to a higher security facility.
Now, let’s say none of that mattered. While in prison you will be exposed to abuses including but not limited to the following: physical violence, sexual assault, excessive force, and systemic retaliation.
All of this can happen as a result of 1 serious offense, where the seriousness of the offense is determined largely by the current presidential administration. A typical felony case in the US will cost you about $5,000 unless you go with a public defender. A public defender still costs money, but the cost is less and their services are funded through a sliding scale fee based on the defendant’s income, plus court filing fees. While there is no difference in the severity of the outcome of provided by a public defender, there is a difference in the timeline, with public defender caseloads requiring longer timelines to get before the court. It’s not a huge difference, but remember where you would be waiting it out.
So, as a parent in the USA I have to decide if I want to protest against the government. This is an unseen entity on the other side of the country. My job is dope, so I could actually do this. I could buy a ticket, take the time off work, travel to Washington DC, protest, get arrested, pay the money to expedite my trial and return to my family in, let’s say, a calendar year, during which time I would lose my job, income, and healthcare benefits and my daughter cannot go to college or really count on any type of inheritance. I have to decide if that is a price that I am willing to pay. Given that we live in a high surveillance police state, the odds are overwhelmingly in favor of me being caught. This also assumes that the federal government doesn’t gun me down in the streets, which is now a real possibility.
Or I can do nothing, hope that the old fucks in government die off (they are all very old), and generally live a decent life. I know that the government has no qualms about destroying my life or those of my fellow citizens on a large-scale basis. It’s seriously not worth the risk. Does that make me complicit in the atrocities committed by my government both at home and abroad? Sure does. Does it spare me being the victim of those atrocities personally? Sure does.
This isn’t written as an excuse for the average American’s behavior. It is written to provide some insight into why the average American doesn’t take up arms or even publicly resist the government. The average American is scared of losing access to the incredible amount of wealth and privilege that we enjoy. We know that it is all built on outsourced oppression. As long as we don’t make waves, we can enjoy access to shitty food, mass produced culture, and use internet filters to block out the bad news that we don’t want to see.
Where the real money is, in terms of political change in the USA, is lone wolf violence. Not the fake stuff coordinated by the President, but actual nut-job, mass-shooting, cars-into-crowds, crazy home invasion political action. Since I am a regular-ass human being, none of that is reasonable to me. But the other side has people who are sure as shit willing to throw their lives away on a murder charge because they believe, rightfully so, that they have a non-zero chance at a political pardon followed by a boost in income from becoming a minor celebrity to their cause, and literally no access to mental healthcare or opposing viewpoints. Even if my fake-ass “left” political party was in power, I couldn’t get away with that.
So, yeah, that was off-the-cuff and a bit of a ramble, but I hope that it provided some insight to, without condoning, the behavior of the typical American citizen.
Not really, it’s just a summary of the necessity to put up with hardship, the easiest form of it, because they couldn’t take the easy path.
This opinion that we don’t understand because we’re outsiders is just another example of Americans expecting understanding they don’t offer others, over a problem that now threatens the entire world because they couldn’t vote.
Nice story, but it adds nothing. We know they’ll lose jobs and healthcare. It’d take two weeks for a shutdown in just the cities to get Congress acting, but don’t expect any sympathy from outsiders when we just keep getting more, longer excuses implying we don’t understand.
We understand all right; it’s a selfish population of individualists who only start caring when their own shit pile is harmed. Then they’ll probably try and run.
I mean buy buy buy its the American way. Spend more money then any other country per person.
How else are we going to be number one in personal debt? (I don’t know if that’s actually true, but I wouldn’t be surprised.)
Fucking protest at the very least. When other countries try authoritarian shit you have millions of people protesting in the capital for days on end.
We’ve been protesting weekly in Minnesota for half a year now. Since the ICE stuff started.
From the scarce videos I can find the weekly protests they appear to be in the order of dozens of people, not the hundreds of thousands or millions that are necessary to even have a chance at making a difference.
Great. You’re participating in democracy. That’s what you’re supposed to be doing during the BEST of times.
Try doing something.
Great, you’re expressing great frustration without explaining any specific details. That’s not what you’re supposed to do.
Try telling us what to do.
You’re not asking what to do. You’re asking what performative nonsense you can do that requires no sacrifice or risk on your part but allows you to feel less guilty. Fuck off.
I speak for me. I’m asking.
From one complete stranger to another.
Tell me what you expect of me? If I were good and brave and resilient, what would I be doing?
What should I do?
Edit: I’m clearly going to get down voted into oblivion, but that doesn’t really matter. What does matter is that if you are a US citizen, protest AFTER the upcoming election if you are going to do it. Especially if you are in a “red” state We need to remove as much of the veneer of legitimate as possible from this administration. If you protest now, there is a risk your vote gets removed. Don’t listen to dumb fucks from other countries who have no concept of the social issues of the US. They don’t even understand the moral, economic, and social issues around tipping. Their opinions are invalid. VOTE. It probably won’t work, but we can always protest etc. After. This act now right before midterms bs is just ignorance or psy-ops.
Original post below: He’s doing this to create civil unrest so he can declare martial law. You are suggesting people take action that aids that goal.
Unfortunatly we know your social issues more then our own. People can quote stuff from your constitution but not our own. We drown in the shit you putout.
Oh? Well just sit back and let the fascists take over without so much as raising a finger to stop them 👍
Ah yes, some 5d chess move to invoke martial law. From the same guy that has already deployed the national guard and has his goons shooting people daily.
HA!
What a shit eating people, you are already at that stage, this administration has clearly shown they need nothing based in reality to do anything. They just do it, and say things.
So In don’t get it? You say it well invoke Marshall law then say they don’t need a reason to invoke it.
What in the broken spell check are you trying to say? I can not parse it, sorry.
You cowards have been using this line for cover for more than a year now, and continue to be steamrolled every day.
Just keep your head down, yeah? Everything will just work out if you stay peaceful.
No, protests could (and should) have happened earlier. They also have.
The No Kings protests occurred but caused little social changes. Given that the US doesn’t have the same social support system of other countries, it is difficult for most people to protest for an extended time without essentially destroying their own life.
Due to rampant racism, the Black Lives Matter protests simply resulted in most white people taking personal offense instead of actually comprehending the systematic bias US society has against blacks and minorities.
Occupy Wallstreet lasted pretty long, but was co-opted by fringe social movement groups and homeless plants by police. And that happened during the presidency of everyone’s favorite Dep president darling, Obama.
My point is that protesting right now, during an election period, instead of just fucking voting doesn’t make much sense given that US society has very clearly marched to this point with everyone aware.
Afterwards, when the system clearly doesn’t work, and/if we are still fascist, sure let’s fucking riot.
With regard to the “coward” comment. If you aren’t in the US, you likely don’t have the same social political, economic, or societal factors in place so you can’t really judge.
Also, more crudely, if other countries had got off sucking US dick decades ago, it would have removed US soft power, wealth, and resources, and allowed internal social movements to have more weight. As example, we wouldn’t be able to amass such a large military if other countries hadn’t allowed the US to be their police. So, kindly fuck off and fix you own damn problems so we can do the same, though probably slower because of you cowardly enabling fucks.
I hate to burst everyone’s bubble, but if the elections aren’t free and fair, the protests don’t matter anymore.
We’re down to the last box, and I doubt the comfiest humans who’ve ever lived will give up all that comfort to do political violence and risk dying or spending life in prison.
We are all comfortably numb. Things have to get uncomfortable. Until then, the masses won’t do shit.
I’m not reading your excuses.
Violent revolution is the only answer, but we won’t do it. So my plan b is to move. Doesn’t solve the world crisis the US is causing, doesn’t solve the rise of fascism, but it at least gives me some breathing room to reset and regroup.
No it’s not
Peaceful shutdown is the only answer. You have to grind the wheels to a halt and force those influential people who actually can act, act.
That’s the only way now.
Edit: no point running, we can’t stop it, and you brought this on yourselves. We had no say in this, why should we bail you out? Stay and help fix it please
Where is a good place to move? Australia seems to be the only option that’s furthest away.
My fiancée is 'Murican
We’re getting her out of that backwards shit hole and over to Oz
It’s not perfect here, but I’ve lived in many countries, and it’s damned close
There’s a reason why I chose to make it my home
@aceshigh @AlecSadler Wherever you move, check the weather and I’m serious.
Don’t try to move north. We don’t want servile, shitty cowards up here.
If you think Canada will be immune to this fascistic cancer you are very, very wrong.
Once the wheels start moving they will come for Canada and Cuba and Venezuala and Greenland. Mark my words this will happen. We (Canada) will be in the fight from day one, this is more than crystal clear.
They will need to make their move right around November, most probably in a Reichstag fire type moment (maybe they assassinate trump and blame liberals? That would take care of two birds with one stone).
They will tell us that Antifa and the Democrats have done this. They will declare martial law and will start arresting liberals and leftists. After they take the US they will immediately turn their attention outwards.
Our only saving grace is that we will have righteousness on our side and they will have failing moral from invading their closest allies whom they train with constantly.
I have no doubt that Canada will prevail in the coming war but it wont be easy.
Were well aware of all this, thanks.
Been telling you to stop letting your fuckup kid play with matches for ages- in return, you got belligerent and shitty and gave us the finger yelling about freedom and how good you were at fighting. Now that your house is ablaze and threatening to engulf everyone else’s, we we tell you to put it the fuck out and you respond by reminding us that “your house is next” like this isn’t what we’ve been telling you for decades would happen?
“We” will have righteousness on “our” side? No, you’re complicit in what is happening in the US right now. Yes, YOU, personally.
Go fuck yoirself, really. You’re MAGA-lite at best.
Rioting
And when CBP, the national guard, and police show up and shoot everyone when Trump declares martial law (you know, exactly what Trump wants before the midterms)? What then? I’m taking notes.
You surround them and take their shit as soon as they show up. Yes some people are going to get hurt, but thats already happening anyways isnt it. Revolution does not come quietly
No, no- Americans don’t want to be told what they need to be doing. They want to be given easy performative bullshit that requires zero risk or sacrifice but telegraphs to everyone that they’re “one of the good ones.”
Pieces of shit pretty much to the last individual, and at this point they deserve whatever MAGA has planed for them.
see the Maidan Uprising, no need to take notes, ask Ukrainian’s.
The point is to show up in large enough numbers that it doesn’t matter.
Revolts aren’t without risk, and typically bloody.
I don’t disagree. But people generally don’t want bombs dropped on their heads and will avoid it until it becomes the final option. Until that time comes, small groups will be shot or imprisoned. Just like what happened in Texas last week. Just like what happened with BLM. There are countless examples of people rising against, only to be stomped because the fed arrives. Trump would love any excuse to fuck over the midterms, and would be happy to kill some left leaning opposition if given the chance.
Further, the US is very spread out. The cities and urban areas are relatively easy to get together. It’s everywhere else that needs the ability to join the crowd. It’s not like Europe where it’s fairly easy to travel around, unfortunately.
If you want my thoughts on what we should do, it’s to actually hurt what they care about most: their wallets. A general, nationwide strike would work well. However, to make it so people don’t just starve to death, we need to set up a strike fund or food network. With that, the strike could last long enough to affect their bottom lines, and people would actually be willing to participate, knowing that their family won’t starve to do it.
A general strike is more or less impossible in the US. It would need to be coordinated across multiple key industries in every state, you’d need basically every shipping company and truck driver on board, and it would have to last for weeks. It’s simply not a thing that can actually realistically happen in the US.
The national strike is the one. If it’s just the cities that’s more than enough to grind the wheels down. The sooner the better, the larger the more effective. I reckon two weeks to a month would see it out. Congress would move pretty quickly once everything is starved.
It’ll involve hardship and a willingness to do this without logistical coordination though.
No-one said the revolution would be easy, immediate, nor convenient.
You get the treatment you tolerate.
Prepare accordingly.
That is exactly my point. People outside of the US are expecting it to be easy and want immediate results. It won’t be easy nor will it be immediate.
Why? To get shot by the police? How long ago was BLM?
You absolute goddamn coward.
And yet you haven’t been killed in a riot, curious.
Haphazard corpses don’t change the world, no matter how noble their intentions before becoming corpses. This isn’t a problem you throw bodies at. This is a problem which requires organization, and strategies more coherent than “Riot”.
You’re part of the problem.
No u
You’re right, we should just lie back and take it like we’ve been.
No one said that.
Emmigrate
@crandlecan @WhoIzDisIz In early 2017 after the election we knew had putin in it, we got our passports and looked. One of us went to “seminars” about going to different countries. We’re still here.
Friends who escaped nazi Germany are still here and one is deathly afraid of what’s happening. She likely has enough to get out but seems unable to.
If we could leave, we’d leave. We can’t and we’ll die here. Younger people with skills that are needed elsewhere should get the hell out.
😢
@crandlecan I’m sorry. I can’t keep living with euphemisms so folks feel better when it comes to politics. Me thinks if the media was more up front about what was going on we wouldn’t be here but who knows. Pelosi knew about it and experts have been predicting this move to fascism for about 25 years. We knew - we just didn’t know what was going on.
Agreed 💯💯
You got any money for those of us that can’t afford it and are trapped in one of the most capitialist hellholes?
What happens when fascism knocks in the new country? Fascism is rising globally.
Rising? No, planned
Yeah I’m pretty sure it’s a coordinated plan to shore up power and resources before the inevitable climate collapse. Amoc is shutting down, we’ll likely have a blue ocean event in the next decade, and we were already in one of the most significant extinction events in planetary history. It’s gonna get real real bad.
Done that, but it hasn’t fixed anything. Also, the UK is noticeably worse since I got here… I can’t get anything right!
I moved back in 2015 and, while many things about my personal situation are better (though not all), that doesn’t solve the actual problem. Things happening in the US still impact the rest of the world no matter what.
Yeah, no. I left a long time ago as the writing was on the wall well before Trump. The political right has been working to dumb down America beyind belief since at least the 1970’s.
Similar things could be said about the UK.
Except things are way worse in the US than in the UK (as bad as they are there).
Sure, but that doesn’t mean it’s not getting worse in the UK as well. I haven’t seen much action on the UK’s part either, but unlike most people leaving comments like the one I replied to, I’m willing to admit that I don’t live there to see what people are doing on a daily basis.
They’re getting worse elsewhere BECAUSE YOU ARE SITTING ON YOUR ASSES.
You spent a century belligerently giving everyone else the finger and crowing about how fighting authoritarianism was the one thing you’re better at than everyone else. Yeah, fascism will spread to our countries topic but at least before that happens MAGA will give you what you deserve.
And british people tend to react when things get bad.
Americans arguably have the most effective tools at their disposal and aren’t doing anything
Do they? They’re getting bad right now, and yet, I’ve not seen much reacting.
Do you see the problem here? If you’re not in it, you cannot possibly know for sure what the average person is doing. Not when our media is owned by the same fascist billionaires.
Americans may have guns, but we also have the highest funded military. The military is controlled by the very fascist we need to fight against. Plus, Trump is counting on violence before the midterms so he can stomp out all opposition domestically. Is that something you’d want, the opposition dead so he truly has full control?
What has the UK done that’s anything like this? You’re actually crazy if you think the situations are comparable.
There are enough people protesting the treatment of Palestine now that the upcoming Prime Minister already feels the need to call out the way his predecessor treated the issue. I don’t see enough protests in the US for things that affect them directly, let alone for things that affect people thousands of kilometres away. What happened to the energy behind BLM? You guys need it now more than ever.
In Western Washington, the protests have not stopped. There are daily protests at the ICE facility in Tacoma. There are constantly people on overpasses waving Palestinian flags. There are people marching in Seattle nearly every weekend, protesting selling weapons to Israel.
This is happening not just in Seattle, but in all major cities. People in Texas got slapped with terrorism charges under the premise of “antifa operatives”. People in New Jersey are being arrested every day at the ICE facility there. People have organized against ICE locally, giving out free whistles to blow when ICE is spotted. Portland has also been in constant protest mode, so much so that the feds felt the need to shoot tear gas on elementary school property.
The media is generally owned by the billionaires, who intentionally hide grassroots campaigns here. Just because it’s not reported on, does not mean it’s not happening.
Similarly, I don’t see protests happening in the UK being reported on very much here. Likely by design. It gives the appearance of nothing happening. This is the problem of relying on media to tell you what’s happening in a fascist takeover. The reporters are gagged, forced to drop stories, and getting layed off.
Unlike the UK, we’re further along in our fascist take over. The government has no sense of what “stepping down” or “impeachment” means anymore. They don’t care.
I get that the mainstream media might be suppressing the news about these things, but surely there are plenty of independent media reporting on them. So far, I haven’t heard about people being arrested everyday for protesting in America like I am hearing about in the UK, which I also hear mostly from independent media. It might just be the algorithm not showing me, so can you give me some sources to read?
And I hardly ever hear about protests in the UK from western Washington state. Shocking, right?
Have the govt you voted for! If you didnt vote, well sucks to be you then, huh?
Western Washington is one of the bluest areas in the country. Western Washington certainly didn’t vote for this.
But how can bad thing happen if they didn’t deserve it??
And Eastern Washington is the state’s Bible Belt.
So anyone living in a country with a bad government is a bad person, provided there is some form of elections? That’s your baby-brained dipshit take here?
Kind of.
I don’t think the term “bad person” is helpful in this context. No I don’t think that everyone living in a country with a bad government is a bad person.
However, citizens of any country are accountable for the actions of their government.
For example, Australians of today are accountable for the human rights abuses perpetrated against First Australians even though we may not have been alive when that was occurring. I’m not a “bad person” because of it, but nor can I wash my hands of it.
Over the last 2 years I’ve developed a fairly deeply held frustration and anger at “Americans” due to the behavior of the Trump administration. The entire world is bearing the consequences of their shit decisions.
I acknowledge that no individual American is responsible for any of this, and many are opposed to the Trump administration. However, I’m still angry and frustrated at America generally and it’s very difficult to separate that from my feelings toward an anonymous American I interact with in the fediverse.
I get that. I live as an immigrant American in the UK, and it’s very frustrating sometimes. I more get along with the people who hate America, but I’m used to seeing the light in their eyes die when they hear my accent the first time. I don’t wash my hands of anything America has done, but I’ve done everything I practically can. I still vote, I stay informed, and I am depriving the regime of my taxable income.
I watch with great satisfaction when a leftist sets a cop car on fire, but I have a family to think about. I can’t be doing those kinds of heroics, and the temptation to throw down was too great when I was living stateside. I have pacifist beliefs and ideals, but not pacifist emotions. I probably never will. Growing up has been a slow motion destruction of everything I was raised to think I was part of. I was raised in cosmopolitanism and intellectualism, only to learn that my country had abandoned those ideals decades before my birth (if they were ever sincerely held at all).
I do understand hating Americans, I’m the conflicted vampire-hunting daywalker of hating Americans. But even I try not to judge people purely by their governments, that would just be stupid. Imagine hating North Koreans or Russians, it’s obviously wrong. What are they supposed to do, overthrow their governments? Their governments that are orders of magnitude weaker than the US government? See?
I acknowledge that no individual American is responsible for any of this, and many are opposed to the Trump administration. However, I’m still angry and frustrated at America generally and it’s very difficult to separate that from my feelings toward an anonymous American I interact with in the fediverse.
You’re doing critical self-examination unlike what some “America bad = all individual Americans bad” emotional onanists here do, and I appreciate that.
But further, there is no true moral defense for collective punishment, and all of that philosophical foundation applies to collective blame. For example, collective punishment violates both the Hague international legal principles and the Geneva Convention. It is contrary to Kantian ethics (and if you’re using utilitarianism to justify depriving people of individual moral agency, then we have nothing to discuss). There is plenty more food for thought here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_punishment .
Blame people who support and act in support of Trump. But don’t blame people who oppose Trump and act in opposition to Trump. It’s pretty easy to understand, morally-sound logic.
“I am against world hunger.”
There, all of the world’s problems are solved.
Talk is cheap. Americans clearly haven’t done enough to address Trump and/or the causes of Trump, or we wouldn’t be here. Rigged prosecutors is just one symptom of that, and should be seen as a kick in the ass to do more.
What have you done? The point of my post was to remind you that there is no single American monolithic moral entity.
As an individual, you and an American have the same moral agency and duty to correct a wrong that you did not directly create. Likewise you share the same collective blame. So tell me, why haven’t you done more? If you think the question is absurd, you’ve just explained to yourself why it’s absurd to hold an individual American who hasn’t personally solved Trump to blame for Trump.
Again, some Americans do deserve blame. A lot of them in fact. Which ones? The ones who support and acted in support of Trump. It’s pretty simple actually. Moral reasoning doesn’t have to be hard, but you have to put in the effort rather than just say what makes you feel good and righteous.
Sure, it’s a fair question. Without doxxing myself, I’m in a situation where there’s few realistic options for me to contribute more without getting myself arrested. Plus, I have my own local politics to focus on, which helps my community resist Trump.
To be fair, maybe I could help do some remote organization with more engaged groups, I will look into that.
Anyways, scapegoating the 30% of Americans who actively voted for trump honestly just makes the problem worse.
Anyone living in a country that gives a right to choose their leaders and government, yet chooses to squander that right has no moral ground to complain about the outcome. Theyd be lucky if november actually happens. But sure. Blame the system. Who do you think put the system in place, in the firat place?
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Ah yes, laughing at the lower class dying will surely teach the billionaires and millionaires a valuable lesson.
You do realize that’s what you’re doing, right? Laughing at the poor dying, the same thing that the polluting billionaires and millionaires in the US are doing?
Let me really spell it out for you: the polluters of the US (and world) are not the ones without A/C, and they’re not the ones that will suffer from lack of food due to drought. No, they will just come to your country once they’ve extracted the resources in the US, and laugh at you dying. Just like they’re doing to the lower class in the US.
Some of them have already moved. Hope you’re ready, and not just laughing at people dying.
You’re not understanding. The right people are getting hurt.
This begs the question of just who you think is being hurt.
I was assuming the mind of op
You do realize that’s what you’re doing, right? Laughing at the poor dying, the same thing that the polluting billionaires and millionaires in the US are doing?
Nope just jokes
I might be misinterpreting it, but I read their comment as a criticism of that attitude due to the association of that phrase (‘the right people’ getting hurt) with MAGAs
They did a piss poor job of communicating that. It reads as if they’re cheering on all Americans dying.
Which is not an uncommon view on Lemmy let’s be real.
Alright, enjoy spiking that football. You were born someplace that doesn’t need to stop existing, happy for you and your lack of empathy.