• DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    American Taliban.

    Simple as that.

    Domestic terrorists who typically look unkempt and dirty, attempting to oppress others.

    American Taliban.

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      At the speed at which this is happening, there won’t be, and I’m not joking.

      No one is coming to save us.

      Arm up. Train. Help everyone you can arm up and train. Form networks and use encrypted messaging apps to communicate.

      I’m not going to pretend like I know how this will play out, but the one thing I know is that our federal government has been captured by literal fascists and they’re going to dial this up to 11 and see what happens. Maybe they simply don’t have enough national support to really pull it off. Maybe they do. I do know that you don’t want to be unprepared if they do.

      It can happen here. We never thought we’d be where are are right now. But we are.

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      Yeah, if trumples is still around by the next election they will try for a 3rd term with all the fun times that will bring.

      But if he’s dead/has been trundled off to a gar gar home (he’s 99.5% of the way there anyway), then I think they’ll have a hard time of it.

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      I see it more as a step towards banning a ton of content they don’t like by claiming they are porn, or porn-adjacent (for example any LGBTQ+ content)

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        It was literally outlined as this in Project2025, ban porn then define speech you want to suppress (primarily LGBT but also women’s health) as porn.

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    Freedom of speech that we like and have previously approved in writing and in triplicate. Subject to terms, conditions, feelings, and whims.

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    As a relatively recent country (by European standards), USA did not go through the Middle Age. I guess this is it. Enjoy the public burnings of heretics.

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      Presumably there were some native Americans in that part of the world by that point in time. I wonder what they were doing.

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        I’m sure they were not killing each other over imaginary friends, or debating whether mammary glands should banned.

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    They’re banning explicit manga AND erotica? Gooners, you gotta rise up and save the Michigan fujoshis and fudanshi!

    In all seriousness, the real reason is clear, conservatives love telling on themselves:

    Schriver’s bill also has a transphobic component. If adopted into law, the act includes prohibitions on material that “includes a disconnection between biology and gender by an individual of one biological sex imitating, depicting, or representing himself or herself to be of the other biological sex.”

    Someone in the Michigan legislature got caught being too into femboys or something similarly stupid, probably.