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    No funding, but there’s 40 billion to “buy” the election in Argentina…

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      And $300 million for a new ballroom, $230 million to compensate him for the FBI investigating his extensive criminal activities, etc…

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          That plane won’t even be available until he’s out of office, yet we have to pay for renovating it, so he can fly a palace around in his retirement.

          Unless he’s not planning on leaving. Suddenly he’s acting like he knows he has to leave after this term, but, y’know, he LIES.

          He’s not going anywhere, if he has anything to say about it. Out of office means prison, or worse.

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    Interesting history fact of the day: It took about one and a half years from Hitler coming to power to the night of the long knives.

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    He’s also doing it because it’s what billionaires want.

    Hmm these people don’t want to work a 996 to afford my enshitified garbage, better fund lobbying to starve them to death and if that doesn’t work I’ll make sure to fund propaganda to stoke racial tensions then just in case they get wise as a last line of defense why not fund the modern day Gestapo

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      I still like the idea of burying Trump and his kitchen cabinet in a deep geologic repository, where we bury vitrified spent fissile fuel.

      To be fair, here in the states, we have a lot of fuel in line to be deposited.

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        It would be a very appropriate message for the tombstone:

        This place is a message… and part of a system of messages… pay attention to it!

        Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.

        This place is not a place of honor… no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here… nothing valued is here.

        What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.

        The danger is in a particular location… it increases towards a center… the center of danger is here… of a particular size and shape, and below us.

        The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours.

        The danger is to the body, and it can kill.

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        Times have changed since then though. Modern public infrastructure is a lot better suited for troop movements compared to the 1700s and 1800s when there was plenty of revolutions occurring across Europe. People seem to have this idea that they’re going to take out their guns and start guerrilla warfaring massive groups of armed troops.

        I do believe we need to be more aggressive, more proactive, but there is a good chance that it might be expected. It’s entirely possible that they’re just waiting for an excuse to start gunning people down in the streets.

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          Right now the soldiers and ice feel invulnerable, untouchable. Imagine being a foot soldier in an area where most folks now want you dead. Doesn’t matter if its crappy hunting rifles shooting at you, they will kill you, they demoralize you. All of a sudden your brothers and sisters want you dead and you’re not quite sure what you’re even doing there. Worse, maybe you’re not onboard with all of the stupid shit Trump and his ilk are doing, maybe you decide you’re actually with the civilians.

          No question though, so much death is on the way, but the fight is worth it for our children and future.

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        a qoute from ff13, when lightning was discussing wether to destroy a FAL’CIE that can make food/supplies out of thin air. and “she said hungry people are an angry people.” by destroying the very thing that feeds people will cause the people to start persecuting “l’cie people” and demand thier executions.(of course this was all engineered by the fal’cie as a contigency)

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    Incase anyone wants to help their local community. I talked to my local food pantry today and they said they prefer financial donations vs food drops. They can make a dollar go further than we can at the grocery store

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      Work with a food bank and this is spot on, except they do get food donations that make sense from farmers and food service companies. But people buying food at the grocery store will do worse than the food bank can do with their connections, experience, and volume.

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    The US government seems to want people to violently revolt.

    I imagine they want to use it as an excuse to take absolute power. But I don’t think they thought it thoroughly.

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    A tyrant exercises power in a manner that is arbitrary, unreasonable, and cruel.

    Trump makes it a point to always do all 3 simultaneously

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    MAGAts seeth with resentment at being told that they are backwards, ignorant, stupid racists. They want to hurt people because they have been hurt. They never think about improving themselves or not being backwards, ignorant, stupid racists. They love Donald Trump because he hurts people. MAGA had a hardon for cruelty.

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      i dont think magats have been hurt, they are afraid of the same reprisal, they used to oppress minorities, also facing the music, that thier voting pattern has consequences.