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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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[–] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 121 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago (32 children)

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

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[–] Ethalis@jlai.lu 91 points 4 days ago (4 children)

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

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 44 points 4 days 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.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days 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.

[–] Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 30 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Vex_Detrause@lemmy.ca 14 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Or just take the key. Unplug the batteries?

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 39 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 6 points 4 days ago

There ya go.

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[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 66 points 4 days ago (7 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.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 31 points 4 days 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.

[–] JacksonLamb@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

Personally I think it started before that. It has its roots in the mass overturning of civil rights after 2001, the implementation of secret courts, disappearing people into black sites, extrajudicial killings, and breaking international human rights laws to hold people in indefinite detention without trial.

No subsequent administration has ever walked that back because that kind of power is so convenient to them. But this framework is what has facilitated the slide towards fascism.

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[–] mienshao@lemm.ee 74 points 4 days ago (5 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.

[–] Catpurple@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 4 days 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.

[–] arrow74@lemm.ee 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

That would just feed their persecution fetish

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago

Who cares?

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

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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

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[–] FahrenheitGhost@lemmy.world 19 points 4 days 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.

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

So: education, agitation, and mobilization are off the table then eh?

Off to the purge are we? I wonder if highly effective propaganda has anything to do with just giving up before you try?

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[–] sirico@feddit.uk 36 points 4 days ago

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

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 49 points 4 days 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.

[–] CPMSP@midwest.social 20 points 4 days 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.

[–] parody@lemmings.world 4 points 4 days ago

Why in the world is this the first time I’m hearing this – immediately believable

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[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 7 points 4 days 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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[–] VirgilMastercard@reddthat.com 53 points 4 days ago

RADICAL LEFTIST GRANDMA

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 26 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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

[–] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days 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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[–] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 12 points 4 days 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.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 14 points 4 days ago

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

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 20 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 days ago

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

[–] Strider@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days 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.

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