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We can work to improve the system over years of working together. We can still fix things, tho the people murdered by ICE in detention camps won't ever come back.

Problem is, the media is owned by friends or supporters of orange shithead so they’re biased towards him.

I’m up in Idaho and while we’ve always had white nationalists, the past couple of decades it’s become a haven for the ones fleeing blue states. One tried to unseat our old school Republican type governor this week and though he lost, he still got 30% of the vote. He’s a real estate agent and specifically markets “move to Idaho if you’re white”, there’s a lot of them here now that make racism the goal. Some of our rural towns have become white nationalist enclaves. Boise is the one city they can’t flip and they caravan in from the boonies to roll coal and harass us any time we have a protest. One of our DFP rallies was about 100 of us protesting and several hundred counter protesting, many of them armed. Neonazi bikers, excon white boys covered in Swazis, boogaloos, and the cops stood with them. The cops watched one point an AR at us and simulate shooting us; nothing happened. In the 90s they’d crawl out of their compound and have a parade once a year, now they behave worse every day in public.

The pro Confederacy movement has been alive and well since the Confederacy f****** died. they killed Martin Luther King. it hasn't gone away. none of them are punished. racism is alive and well in America. it's all f****** propagated by these disgusting billionaire leaches like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump.

I think that it's been really galvanized the last couple of decades. People forget the money and power structures here are largely dynastic and have been for a while.

I guess it's what works.

Maybe if we stop inventing terms for literally everything a white man could ever say or do and then turning it into yet another reason to manufacture outrage, then we'll stop pushing vast swathes of every generation of young adults into echo chambers where they get radicalized into these hateful extremist camps.

Don't get me wrong, I hate maga, fascists, white supremacy, and evangelical nationalism. If you read this as a defense of those camps then you're missing my point entirely.

I'm just saying that I might easily be labeled as an "angry white man" if I'm ever forced into a situation where I have to choose between standing up for myself or rolling over and taking it in the ass. And then once you get that label, suddenly no progressive people will be your friend, so it's not surprising that so many impressionable and dejected young people wind up in toxic right-wing spaces.

I'll admit, it gets fucking frustrating. There's always a word for whatever it is, whether it's "performative," or "white saviorism," or "virtue signaling" whenever you're trying to do something good; "mansplaining" whenever you're passionate about something, "fragility" whenever you get upset and let it show, etc.

Like, I get it, other demographics have it bad and in many cases worse. But nobody else has to put up with this particular type of shit. I'm pretty progressive and I despise machismo culture, so I try to let that stuff roll off my back, and I'll never personally wind up in right-wing spaces. But man it gets fucking lonely when literally no one will respect you or even permit you to insist on having basic self-respect, except in the only places where you're accepted (at least until you make it known that you're a socialist), where you refuse to hang out anyway because they're primarily full of toxic right-wing white men who only think you're "a good ole boy" because you look like them.

Fuck maga. Fuck fascism. Fuck white supremacy, and fuck evangelical nationalism.

But also, fuck broad generalizations that lump everyone of a certain demographic into one category based on immutable characteristics.

And before that, they were the Nazis. The point is, every era, going back to the beginnings of civilization, has this same demographic segment of Sociopathic lunatics who want to take over the world, and force everyone else to do their bidding.

A healthy society recognizes the serious dangers that those people pose, and never allow those people to gain too much power. But now and then, a society let's down their guard, and those people rise up and take power. They've had different names over the years - Confederates, Nazis, MAGA, etc., but they're all the same people. We just made the mistake of letting them off the leash.

We've seen what these people have done in the past, how much blood they're willing to shed to keep power, so we can predict what they'll do in the future. The worst of MAGA is still ahead of us, and it is going to get much uglier before it gets better. For one thing, he has no intention of leaving after 2028.

I'm trying to, but HuffPost feels like playing 2 ads every 10 fucking seconds and it's driving me nuts.

The Republican ideals died out in the early 80's. What we have now is the pure sociopathy of a movement without any ideals. It doesn't really think, it just feels, and most of what it feels is fear and anger.

I made one based on the subtitles from the video:

I have no doubt in my mind that the map's going to pass. If y'all can give us less than zero seats, you would do it. Y'all do this under the orders of somebody that said the Civil Rights Act was harmful to white people. That it caused reverse racism. RFK [Jr.] said that Black children are overfilled on antidepressants and that they need to be reparented on different farms. All of them. Pete Hegseth constantly brings Doug Wilson to the Pentagon to give a prayer service. Doug Wilson is the same pastor that said that slave owners were on strong spiritual ground. I don't have no belief in no morality on anybody that follow Donald Trump. If you wasn't with this map, you wouldn't be underneath this president, you wouldn't be in your party. You would stand up, you would stand against it, you would speak out about it. So, as far as I'm concerned, if you here as one of these Trump Republicans, you already showed us who you are. You showed us what you want to do. And I believe the country as a whole is rebuking your party. Y'all are in a death spiral. That's why y'all have to redistrict. That's why y'all have to cheat. That's why Trump gotta go to Texas and say he entitled to five more seats. It's because y'all know what y'all doing is abhorrent. We letting our people die in Iran based on false pretense that Tulsi Gabbard and y'all can't say it ain't real. Y'all okay with all that, so I'm positive y'all gonna be okay with the maps. But the beautiful thing is, the children that y'all have made and the people that's younger than y'all don't support none of this racism that y'all want. The MAGA party is the last breath of the Confederacy and I'll be happy to see Millenials and Gen Z bury y'all. There will be no more of your party. The midterms gonna come, y'all gonna get wiped out. Trump gonna get dragged out of the White House and I'mma love every second of it, because y'all loved every second of the suffering that he caused to everybody in this country and worldwide. We starving Cuba, we bombed Nigeria, we holding Zimbabwe and Zambia hostage for their minerals. We don't want to give them AIDS support. The pro-lifers that say all life is special, y'all letting kids die of AIDS. What part of your Bible say that? Point out the scripture. I think everybody would love to see it. And we would love to see y'all in the midterms.