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Project 2025 will rob people of their lives.
The thing to remember about Project 2025 is that it has a 180 day execution window. This stuff will happen so fast it'll make your head spin.
Honestly, that 180 day window thing is nominal. The execution of all of that will take way longer with all of the litigation that would happen, and it'll take a couple of years to get it all enacted (slow at first then accelerating as more gets enacted).
Personally, I'd prefer if it were fast. The sudden change would wake people up, and cause way more civil unrest. If it's slow, we end up as frogs slowly boiling. Fewer people will protest or cause issues if things unfold slowly. It's the idea of the frog in the boiling water. If the changes are swift, there's a higher chance of ordinary people taking notice and fighting to reverse them.
It's the idea of the frog in the boiling water.
The water is already 208 degrees man. This country is the montage in the opening scenes of a dystopian film as it is.
Crumbling infrastructure. Natural disasters. Civil unrest. Disease. Tense international relations. Food costs escalating, and only to get worse due to changing climate.
Except in the experiment that coined the phrase, the frogs jumped out. We ain't jumping. We're acting more like crabs in a bucket.
The water is already 208 degrees man.
Not wrong.
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First USA privatizes the army. Then China offers to pay triple if the private army turns against the USA and Xi calmly claims the White House.
Xi could cut out the middleman and just buy Congress. They are already privatised.
Unfortunately, the modern US Congress only accepts payment in Bitcoin.
Troops... Or, as Trump calls them, "suckers".
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Republicans hate the soldiers
They always have. Conservatives wave a flag and think they “love the troops”, then vote everyone possible to make their lives awful.
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I'm all for cutting military spending, but this is not the spot to cut. Stop ordering Jets nobody wants, Armored Personnel Carriers that don't safely meet the role, and bullshit other places that spend when they are unneeded. Soldier benefits are necessary.
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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...
I think the intent here is to make sure army vets understand voting for the trumpet is not in their best interest.
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.
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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.
Yeah. I was trying my best to not spiral into the worst case.
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We already have “prisoners with jobs” (slaves) in America. Don’t try and act like America isn’t already a racist shithole.
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Lol, good luck with that "revolution" when the military deserts en masse.
Half the fun of fascism is deflecting the blame for your miserable policies on your favorite scapegoat.
The military will march to war to end the Woke that stole their benefits
They have the Gravy SEALs.
So?
-Patriotic Republicans!
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