• araneae ( araneae@beehaw.org ) 
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        “They chose this”

        Ah yes, the drowned children and the women carrying ectopic embryos and the detainees all down to a man chose this by voting. Sure.

        There’s an empathy shortage on this planet and its gonna drive us extinct. People on this site delight in the suffering of faceless unknown Americans like my grandparents delighting in Christendom’s pillaging of the heathen Middle Eastern countries because “they chose wrong,” that choice being non Christian and non-white.

  • Doc_Crankenstein ( Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net ) Banned from community
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    As someone living in the heart of South Louisiana.

    The Southern States are lost and we need to focus on trying to get people out instead of trying to change the minds of a bunch of xenophobic hicks.

    I’m 100% for breaking up the union and expelling the Republican states.

  • deaf_fish ( deaf_fish@midwest.social ) BannedBanned
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    My opinion is that we are all people and the southerners have been steeped in racist and capitalist propaganda for a very long time. Their media environment is turning them racist and afraid to the point where the effort needs to turn them around would be extreme. We don’t need to abandon our Southern brothers and sisters, but one we get power we should begin reconstruction reeducation. And just accept that a lot of them are too far gone for saving.

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        Not camps, but for every news report of Mexican and other people being violent rapists thugs before taking power, we will need the same amount or more news reports on how those people are just like us, not bad, not good, just human.

        People who are ideologically racist should have their platforms removed so the only way they can spread their hate is through friends and relatives.

        There should propaganda produced that calls racists idiots, low IQ, and whatever else. Just shame them generally.

        I don’t like the idea of any physical harm coming to them, but they will either grow out of it or live in a country that is antithetical to their ideology.

  • Fleur_ ( Fleur_@aussie.zone ) Banned from community
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    Idc I’m not American I just want you guys to collapse so each state is its own country and maybe have a European union style relationship with each other so that y’all stop being so internationally inflammatory. Stg the main reason for considering learning a language other than English is to enter a conversation that defaults to excluding Americans.

  • Dae ( DaedalousIlios@pawb.social ) 
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    I appreciate posts like this. It’s nice to see people calling out this shit.

    Every time I see so-called “progressives” talking about succeeding from the union or writing off southern states, I feel incredibly terrified and abandoned as a queer person born and raised in Texas.

    So… What? I just get to die? I’m just an “unfortunate casualty” Collateral? I get it’s tiresome. I get it’s scary what’s happening. But don’t call yourself an ally if you’re not willing to fight tooth and nail for us. Cause I guarantee, if states started succeeding, it would be game fuckin’, over for a lot of minorities. There would be no way out of the shit holes we’re trapped in, and nobody to speak up or fight for us when they start actually shipping us off to “Wellness Farms.”

  • chicken ( chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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    At this point I’m just hoping for reduced federal influence over blue states and measures to help out refugees from the places whose own state governments are working against them.

  • megopie ( megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
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    Those regressive polices many wright off the south for exist in the rest of the country, but in different forms better suited to the context of the area. They come across as particularly brutal and overt to other areas simply because they’re not tailored to be hidden from them.