this post was submitted on 18 Nov 2024
561 points (98.1% liked)

A Boring Dystopia

9769 readers
830 users here now

Pictures, Videos, Articles showing just how boring it is to live in a dystopic society, or with signs of a dystopic society.

Rules (Subject to Change)

--Be a Decent Human Being

--Posting news articles: include the source name and exact title from article in your post title

--Posts must have something to do with the topic

--Zero tolerance for Racism/Sexism/Ableism/etc.

--No NSFW content

--Abide by the rules of lemmy.world

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

To declare a "National Emergency", he probably needs a cause. How does American law deal with those "National Emergency" situations? Does he need some proof? Does he need confirmation from somewhere?

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago (5 children)
load more comments (5 replies)
[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Gee, I wonder what the solution will be if other countries wont take our undesirables.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] inv3r510n@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He’s not going to succeed at his goals unless he essentially suspends the constitution. Which I wouldn’t put past him necessarily but for now these headlines are pretty sensational.

Everybody is protected by the fifth amendment regardless of citizenship status or if they are here “legally” or not. We’re all entitled to due process and freedom from unreasonable search and seizure so long as we’re standing on American soil. Running after families just minding their business and demanding papers please is far fetched. Going after already established criminals however is a lot easier and low hanging fruit. And I’m not talking about people who’s only crime is being here illegally, I’m talking about people who are that + another crime. And sorry but I don’t feel sympathy for those people who make life harder for everyone else…

Even if they do go after everyone they don’t have the infrastructure in place to process people. The highest deportations happened under Obama (take that, hysterical pissing in their pants liberals) at 230k a year and the system was barely functioning and is further backlogged now than ever. How the fuck is trump gonna manage to deport a million a year?

He’s full of hot air. Hell deport criminals and claim a win.

[–] KinglyWeevil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I would be honestly less concerned if I thought the administration would be successful in deporting people. I think you're relying heavily on "due process" here, when the reality is they can just accuse you of a crime, deny you bail, and then hold you pretty much indefinitely. You let the ones who can get lawyers out and you've pretty effectively filtered the population for wealth.

The Nazi death camps started as temporary internment camps with the intent to deport Jews eventually.

Then they just ended up with a whole bunch of people in camps with nowhere to send them and were like, "well, we might as well get some work out of some and kill the rest" and it sort of escalated from there.

Which with their "camps for the mentally ill, homeless, and drug addicted" and "deportation emergency" sounds alarmingly similar.

[–] inv3r510n@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

First sentence: unless he suspends the constitution

I’m not saying the rhetoric isn’t concerning, I’m saying he doesn’t have the machine set up to make it happen. Could it happen? Absolutely.

[–] m_f@midwest.social 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wrong community. This dystopia is about get real interesting, real fast 😬

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] FatTony@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Well at least we're getting close to a somewhat interesting dystopia. /s

[–] dorumon@lemm.ee 11 points 1 day ago

Please deport me harder orange man.

[–] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 39 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You can't beat Trump's brand of fascism with spineless morally flexible subservient people. People are going to have to fight back do what they can. Dems are already rolling over in advance and some are going to fight with what resources they have. It is going to be rough.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 30 points 1 day ago

The dems are the wimpy kids who internalized being nice to their bullies will somehow earn them respect and show they are the better people. In reality their abusers only hold them in even more contempt and spit at them at every turn.

Dear, dear. What has the world come to?

load more comments
view more: next ›