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This is a screenshot of a bluesky post from “The Tennessee Holler” posted 12 hours ago. The post reads: “If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?” The post includes a repost from Joe G posted 2 hours ago that says “Arresting people in wheelchairs protesting Medicaid cuts.” Below the text is a video thumbnail showing what appears to be law enforcement officers restraining an elderly person in a wheelchair in what looks like a government building or office setting.

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[–] [email protected] 121 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, you guys are. Yet you’re still moralizing to countries across the planet.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Turns out women should have rights. Even while we're rolling them back, we're still leagues above a lot of the world in that regard. I don't think we've done much moralizing, as you put it, to western Europe.

My apologies if it offends you that we've been telling Afganis they shouldn't screw young boys and telling Saudis that maybe it's okay to let women drive.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Your country is run by fascists but it’s easier to criticize a country across the planet than to fix your own mess. Americans need to shut the fuck up and stay out of global affairs for a long time. You’ve murdered and colonized enough of us that we don’t buy your moral bullshit

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

It's incredible how often people will directly blame the Americans here on lemmy as if those of us here dont lean progressive.

Am I directly responsible for the trail of tears, banana republics, and the Middle East despite the fact I've only been able to vote in 3 elections?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I'm not mad at my Iranian friends because of what their leaders do. I can't blame them for not starting a bloody uprising. It requires coordinated, collective action, and religious leaders and the uber rich work together to keep true change from happening. The same goes for the USA. Propaganda works, and it's keeping the people too divided to easily take serious action.

We need to help make change possible, not only chastise people for being trapped in oppressive systems.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (16 children)

People are pissed because even progressives in the US are pretty fucking weak half the time. Sometimes you get these grannies being awesome, and sometimes you get cowardly centrists who can’t stop being defensive.

I don’t think you fully grasp just how much the rest of the world hates the US, nor how much damage the US has done despite having all these supposed “progressives” in it. Your Overton window is in a real fuckin’ bad place.

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Why are they even ziptied? Are the cops afraid of being beat up by grandmas ?

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The answer is Yes. ALL cops are cowards to begin with, and are trained to embrace their cowardice by responding with extreme force to the slightest inconvenience.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

The cruelty is the point.

Republicans see these people as undesirable leeches on society.

I pay my fucking taxes and social security so Grandma there can have housing, healthcare, so give her the fucking money.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why didn't they just zip tie the wheel on the rascal

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Or just take the key. Unplug the batteries?

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Or just grow a pair and not be the boot for the oligarchy

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

There ya go.

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 week ago (11 children)

The US is beyond saving. Fuck this place. I don’t care what it takes, we need a revolution, and conservatives need to be annihilated. Tarred and fucking feathered.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Christians, through history, loved stoning anyone who did not agree with them or follow their beliefs. I think it would be ironic if they ended up on the other end of this.

But truthfully, I think just permanently removing their ability to have any effect on the world we live in, by their speech, money, action, position, etc, as quickly as humanly possible is far more important than just carrying out old fashioned punishments for catharsis. We all just need them gone.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That would just feed their persecution fetish

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Who cares?

So will giving them everything. Dumb to cater to the delusions of others.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So what? Society shouldn't have to indulge their untreated mental illness.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nothing matters in this country aside from how much wealth you generate or spend at the moment. Doesn't matter how good or bad you are. Ethics are frowned upon. How much money you can spend or generate for others is the only factor. We are an experiment in how far largely unrelated capitalism can be pushed. The only fix for this is an absolute societal collapse.

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Everyone could have seen this coming years ago. I still remember the first images from the ICE facilities where small children were separated from their parents and held in steel cages. Google it, it was heartbreaking.

That was the moment I realized where the US was headed.

It didn't even cause much protest, people were just shrugging it off. These were not humans, but immigrants, after all. Being from Germany I had a good understanding of the depths of inhumanity ICE was already willing to entertain back then. US Americans not only let this happen, they wanted more of it. Now they're getting it.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago

The outcry over HitlerPig's child separation policy was enormous. I personally called every one of my elected officials and literally HOLLERED at them over the phone, demanding they do something about it. I don't think I was ever outraged more about a government policy. He rescinded it after a few days because the pressure was so intense.

The Biden administration tried hard to return those children, but to this day, there are almost 1000 children who have never been reunited with their parents, and likely never will. It is one of the worst modern atrocities of the American government iny lifetime, and it is entirely MAGA's fault.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Everyone could have seen this coming years ago. I still remember the first images from the ICE facilities where small children were separated from their parents and held in steel cages. Google it, it was heartbreaking.

"No no no, you see. It was fine when democrats did it under the radar. We're just angry an uncharismatic person won and bad things started to happen. Now we're losing respect and soft power all over the world by blatant disrespect of the law. And I have to pay more for the chinese shit? This is UNACCEPTABLE.

If a democrat had won, we'd totally be fine with its continuation as long as it doesn't affect me.

They'll totally fix it in the next election though. You see, It's only because of those darn republicans who are the only ones being bought by billionaires and foreign lobbyists dragging us down.

I just want to return to a time when we could bomb civilians abroad and still get nobel peace prize for our president. Oh how many war crimes we committed and got away with it. Still gives me goosebumps. Is that too much to ask?"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Well, you're wrong. Or just another pathetic liar.

It wasn't fine when democrats did it. In fact, when immigrant family separation was happening under the Obama administration we the people protested. (One of the images passed around of a crying kid in a cage is from those Obama era protests) And we took the administration to court and we got that shit stopped. The administration followed court orders and ended family separation.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago

RADICAL LEFTIST GRANDMA

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 week ago (3 children)

This is Tennessee. My sister in law just left there after working in rural areas the last few years. She spent time as an aid worker in Kabul and found Tennessee to be worse off.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That's why people in deep red states think the government is filled with waste, fraud, and abuse - they don't realize that crumbling infrastructure, a lack of social services and societal blight aren't the norm.

They just see other poor people getting help from the government in blue states and wonder "well where's my handout?" Without realizing they are in fact voting against those measures every election.

The cons keep telling those voters that the government is broken - so they re-elect them to prove it.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

People would talk about Baltimore as being a really scary place.

And I wished they talk more about Tennessee being just a sad awful state.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago

Slap another black scale punisher sticker on the f-350 for being so badass

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is what an insurrection looks like to Republicans who have pardoned January 6th people.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Someone should screen record this embedded video of an embedded video of an embedded video lol

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

being good guys isnt the point

owning libs is the point. and they are bigly owned right now,

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Lookout, Jimbo, she's comin' right for us!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's funny because the zipties literally won't stop them.

But unfortunately it takes more than one braincell to understand that.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

But they are very uncomfortable, which I can only imagine is the point.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

We are the baddies, and it's long past the time when that was even in question.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Maybe - bear with me - some people don't want to be and just want to power trip?

I think not acknowledging that is part of the issue.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

and that is not trump. neither cuffing nor cuffed.it is the average joe. and in the US average joe has become an asshole.

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