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[–] xenoclast@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

Don't wanna be that guy, but this seems pretty far down the list of awful stuff it would bring.

Every entry is written like : We'll destroy this freedom we don't like as well as anything else we don't like. Followed by: We'll dismantle these other human rights plus anything else we don't like.

It's literally "We're going to do whatever we want and we're going to make anyone who opposes us an enemy of the state. Thus removing all rights to personhood for those people."

If they get control, slavery will return to America in less than a couple years.

Sure they'll be called "Prisoners with jobs." and instead of "just" black people. It will be all poor people and a bunch of women and queer kids

This plan is a recipe to create a ruling class who trade in the lives over humans. Especially the idiots that vote for them.

Ok so I got a bit ranty.. but the thing is. I'm writing this thinking it sounds pretty hyperbolic right? Sounds like I'm blowing it way out of proportion.. but I read it and think.. NO it's even worse than that...

[–] wizzor@sopuli.xyz 31 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I think the intent here is to make sure army vets understand voting for the trumpet is not in their best interest.

[–] xenoclast@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Yeah, I know, and it's totally true.. I support the message. It just feels like a drop in the ocean compared to the other horrifying outcomes.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 months ago

Sadly they like other republicans love to vote against their interests in order to hurt others

[–] EnderWiggin@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

If they get control, slavery will return to America in less than a couple years.

You think that's the end game for some people? I think it's worse. I don't think it would happen immediately, but I think things escalate over the years especially as they find they can't simply deport everyone they don't like, and not everyone will be "fit" for slavery. You can imagine where I'm going I am sure.

[–] xenoclast@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Yeah. I was trying my best to not spiral into the worst case.

[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

It will resemble something like Gilead

[–] Crikeste@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We already have “prisoners with jobs” (slaves) in America. Don’t try and act like America isn’t already a racist shithole.

[–] xenoclast@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I would never. It most certainly is a fucking nightmare

[–] Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It’s much higher than you realize. VA budget is roughly 180b, and that won’t be cut. Instead it will all be privatized.

So now the burden is on the private healthcare to treat veteran specific issues, and they won’t.

There are also hundreds of thousands of vets who depend on the compensation payments. Now you have hundreds of thousands of additional homeless people across the country. They are now a burden on society.

The 180b? All going into the coffers of Federalist society allies and big businesses. That is a lot of money removed from the economy. It will ripple worse than any factory shuttering. This one is going to cause massive devastation so some rich fucks can buy a new yacht and be oligarchs.

[–] xenoclast@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Woowwww.. that's nuts. I often forget the US is mostly just one big military and the infrastructure to support it.

[–] Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Our three branches of government are Oil, Finance, and the Military Industrial Complex.

[–] xenoclast@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Oil powers the machine and the money people steal from everyone to keep it going