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[–] simplejack@lemmy.world 57 points 1 week ago (4 children)

AI gave that old guy 4 knees

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 14 points 1 week ago

And put them in South Park for some reason

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Either that or he got quad implants for the 'Gram.

[–] gaybriel_fr_br@jlai.lu 3 points 1 week ago

Gram crackers

[–] lunarul@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And randomly chose to put a grandfather clock in the door of the ICE office.

[–] simplejack@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

My racist brother does have a lot of our grandmother’s furniture.

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 34 points 1 week ago (2 children)

For all the media likes to call it unprecedented, the kind of stuff Trump has been up to (using anti-immigrant sentiments to gain power and then implementing draconian laws to target them, critics, and whatever other minority groups are unpopular with conservatives at the time) has occurred over and over again throughout the history of the US. This isn't a defense of him, but it should be considered that Trump is merely the tip of the iceberg, and if things manage to swing back the other way as they have before, without any fundamental change to our electoral or economic systems, this stuff won't actually be gone, just hidden again until the next time comes around.

[–] floo@retrolemmy.com 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, I’m glad that people are upset about it, but this isn’t a new thing for the United States. We’ve been down this road before.

[–] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Still within living memory.

George Takei was 4 when he and his family were put in a Japanese internment camp. Ruby Bridges, the first black student to attend a white-only school during desegregation, is only 70, currently lives in New Orleans, and is a prominent civil rights activist in the area.

The US doing anything for the betterment of society was a blip in its overall history, and done in spite of this country and its values, not because of them.

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Andrew Jackson 2: AI-Crypto Boogaloo

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

King Jackson throws his own hands tho and doesn't have bone spurs

Side question, what would he dislike more, being the most popular face on a central bank note or that there was a proposal to replace him with Harriet Tubman, a black woman.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Wilson as well.

[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I don’t, feels like the US has been alternating between fascism and fascism-but-with-a-cute-face for a while; if not for its entire existence

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

No, because the country was founded by the rich for the rich. George Washington's net worth after he died when adjust for inflation would be around $600 million. This has been a problem for a looooong time.

[–] digital_man@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You must have a great imagination then, because that was never the case.

[–] absentbird@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

This sort of comment is so weak. Yes, America has always had a fascism problem, heck we've got literal fasces on the US seal.

But there has also been a massive flare up of fascism since Trump took office. If you look at Obama, then Trump, and you see the same picture I just can't take you seriously.

It's possible for two things to be imperfect, and still have one be massively more awful. It's like comparing influenza to cancer and being like "America has always been sick"; yeah no shit, but what we've got cooking right now is a different beast, and it necessitates different interventions.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

ICE agents without masks apprehending an old white guy? Definitely fake.

Also, "ENFORCEEMENT."