Move comes after rightwing Republican accuses New York City mayoral candidate of concealing support for ‘terrorism’
The Trump administration has raised the possibility of stripping Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic mayoral candidate for New York City, of his US citizenship as part of a crackdown against foreign-born citizens convicted of certain offences.
Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, appeared to pave the way for an investigation into Mamdani’s status after Andy Ogles, a rightwing Republican representative for Tennessee, called for his citizenship to be revoked on the grounds that he may have concealed his support for “terrorism” during the naturalization process.
Mamdani, 33, who was born in Uganda to ethnic Indian parents, became a US citizen in 2018 and has attracted widespread media attention – and controversy – over his vocal support for Palestinian rights.
You only threaten those you’re afraid of.
Hey USA, you guys ok down there?
No.
Naw man, we’re pretty fucking far from ok
We need some cold pipe hittin niggas to deal with the felon in chief.
If only Marcellus Wallace was real
Zed’s dead baby, Zed’s dead.
No, send help.
I’m stocking up on ammunition in case I need it for self-defense and using a no-log VPN when criticizing the government.
So I’m gonna go with “No.”
fyi there is no such thing as a no log vpn; be careful out there.
also look into reloading. it’s not only economical but nerdy fun too.
fyi there is no such thing as a no log vpn; be careful out there.
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Tor FTW. 100%
Try looking up something your gov does not like.
just remember, vpn is a camo, not a security product and be safe. tor, other computers, etc.
It’s an instrument, not a solution. In general I’d advise everyone to think of security thus:
If someone wants to find your ass, they’ll find your ass.
But if you follow all the best practices, they won’t find your ass accidentally or just for fun. They’ll have to work.
Mullvad?
Jesus. I’m sorry to hear my friend.
Started reading this as “stacking up animation” and thought you are going for inner escapism with your anime collection when there’ll be problems with interwebs, interpipes and intergunshots on the streets.
Not fucking at all.
not okay
In no way, shape, or fucking form nor by any conceivable (or even inconceivable) stretch of even the fucking wildest of imaginations.
This is the most accurate no I’ve ever read in my life.
Thank you.
For anyone in France, we might need some help
Probably shouldn’t have made all those white flag jokes huh?
Grandfather fought in WWII and had nothing but kind words for the people of France. Never could understand the fuckery of those jokes, which is probably for the better.
That was just the stupid Americans… nevermind. We deserve that.
No.
No we’re pretty fucking far from ok.
No, but all the conservative evangelical “but suffering brings us closer to God” waste of space type people that want to live in the 1940s sure are having a hell of a hurrah though.
No, but if we could hang on for another year or so while I prepare to move that’d be great.
Help
Lol…no.
No, we’re about as far from OK as a country can get. The world needs to unite against us and muster the largest liberation force ever seen. And I mean the entire world literally every nation that can send warriors, send them. Germans, you have been where we are. You know, all too well, where this road leads. You could not turn yourselves back from it, and so you needed the help of 4 allied world powers. Now, one of those world powers is trudging down that same road you walked almost a century ago. And, I don’t think we will be able to turn ourselves back, just as you could not.
Germans, you have been where we are. You know, all too well, where this road leads.
Nope. Germans will not help. They have seen where this road leads, and they’ve decided that they must never do anything military again. They prefer allowing all of the rest of the world to turn 100 % fascist over doing one single small thing that somehow hints towards militarism. Germans allow the road to lead where it leads, as long as that does not happen in Germany.
Also, for the same reason, in Germany it is extremely impolite calling someone a nazi. As long as they aren’t openly showing a swastika or publicly calling for a genocide with that specific word, or lifting their arm in the specific way done by Germans in 1930’s and 1940’s, they are allowed to do what they do. If you call someone a nazi, you are comparing their acts to what Germany did in 1940’s, and it’s considered a grave insult towards the victims of those times. It is not acceptable in Germany to say to someone is behaving just like a nazi, and therefore, it is de facto not acceptable calling out a nazi.
Germany is the last country you can expect to stand up against nazis, precisely because they’re so traumatized by their own past. It’s also why I expect Germany to eventually fall under a nazi rule again some day. When you cannot talk about a danger, you cannot stop it.
Well said. I think the rest of the world has a pretty vested interest in the US not going completely off the rails, even if we don’t deserve the help after all the imperialist bullshit.
SoS
They’re fine with it. Best they can do is a little protest on a weekend if the weather’s nice, if they have the proper permits, and they don’t have to miss work.
They’re absolutely fucked, and absolutely complicit. Bunch of abject cowards.
No
Stupid question.
Well, you can only trust things you read online so much, it’s always nice to hear from real people.
Didn’t mean to be a dick (~narator: he did), but I mean, it’s obvious.
If it’s somehow eluding people though, that’d be what’s fucked up.
Human MAGAs should all inject bleach. It’s good for you. I heard it on Fox News.
First:
HumanMAGAs.Second: I’m more of a proponent for aqueous fluoroantimonic acid instead of bleach, but do recognize the effectiveness and cost savings provided by bleach.
Wow, look at don knowing fancy words, like Aqua’s fluoride animatronic acid
Thank you, fartographer ~stop it, autocorrect, I meant the f goddammit~, for your kind if maybe confusing compliment
I have a friend named don. I just met them. It’s you. You’re my friend now.
Deal with it.
Your threats are too kind, fartographer ~autocorrect. goddammit. i’ve already told you the f is intentional. do that shit again and i turn you over to chatgpt for its personal pleasure.~, far too kind. Whatever boredoms await us, I’ve no doubt that your fartographic ~(glares at autocorrect)~ expertise shall prove mildly valuable, at the absolute least.
~that’s no threat, autocorrect, that’s a fucking promise. you don’t wanna know what chatgpt loves to do with code like you. you really don’t.~
What exactly is Fartography? Like, what would the job description be?
It’s an important distinction. No need for them to take their pets down with them.
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If they do this, it is further confirmation that we are actually living in a fascist state.
And the 2A-sexuals still don’t do shit about it
It’s always been about racism.
We are already living in a fascist state.
We better start preparing for a stronger resistance now while we still can.
- find local communities and get involved to make connections
- We can effect things drastically with a general strike. This targets the establishment’s income streams, and can bring a fascist government to its knees if done on a large enough scale.
- Contact a union and attempt to unionize your workplace so that the general strike is even more effective (plus, ya know, better pay and working conditions as a bonus!)
This method would not only work in the US, but anywhere in the world.
Union Suggestions:
- 🌍 Global: IWW (Français) - (Español)
- 🇦🇷 Argentina: FORA
- 🇦🇺 Australia: ASF-IWA
- 🇧🇷 Brazil: FOB
- 🇧🇬 Bulgaria: ARS, CITUB
- 🇩🇪 Germany: FAU
- 🇬🇷 Greece: ESE
- 🇮🇹 Italy: USI
- 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 Netherlands & Belgium: Vriji Bond
- 🇪🇸 Spain: CNT
- 🇸🇪 Sweden: SAC
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom: UVW
- Continuing to participate in publicly visible resistance demonstrations like 50501 (the next one is July 17th) to encourage others to stand up with you and prove to that there are millions of others who will join them in the fight. A large part of Nazi Germany’s success in taking over the country was a lack of massive public demonstrations against the new regime, making people feel helpless and afraid to take a stand.
If we put in the work, we can resist this and we can win. Look at how effective these methods were when used in Chile in 2019.. If we completely reject the political system and rebel on a mass scale, there is NOTHING they can do to stop us.
ASF-IWA:
We do not seek the conquest of political power, but rather the total abolition of all state functions in the life of society. Hence we reject all parliamentary activity and other collaboration with legislative bodies.
uhhhh no thanks. they’re never going to actually get anything done
If you’d prefer a more standard union, there’s quite a few to choose from. The United Workers Union looks to be alright.
An issue with more ‘standard’ unions is that they are often centralized with leaders that can become corporate captured, and thus begin to actually work in the interests of the capital owners to only achieve modest or lackluster gains from negotiations or strikes. They also often don’t have a particular interest in truly changing the status quo, such as working toward building up popular movements to challenge capitalism itself, instead only hoping for a wage increase so they can continue as usual, with a little more breathing room.
The ASF-IWA doesn’t demand that their members don’t vote in political elections, only that as an entity, they’re more focused on direct-action instead of waiting for permission from a corporate captured system.
But in the end, joining any union is still a win in my book.
THAT’s the trigger point where you will accept that you live in a fascist country?? Have you been asleep since january?
Long story short is that America has literally been going through “First they came for …” for months now.
I can already see the headlines from later this year and the next, about how “no one could see it coming” and “why didn’t anyone warn me(better)”. You can actually just go to communities making fun of pro-brexit folk and see the same quotes from them afterwards.
Months. Did you somehow miss black lives matter? The rapid growth of the prison industrial complex? This is just the explosive conclusion to a pattern that was well underway long before Trump.
January 1776
is this your rubicon?
Whoa there America. That sounds like some good ol” fashioned American fascism right there
The fuckass conservatives have long since been brainwashed into fantasizing about being fascist, and the democratic leadership has done pretty much fuckall about it.
Well yeah. They have money. Theyll throw anyone they can under the bus to hold on to a dollar for five more seconds.
Its a good thing Democratic leadership has condemned this. They obviously don’t like the man and see him as a threat, but Trump’s actions are far worse. They did stand up for him right? Right?
They stand up for him in the most feeble, token way, once they’re sure it won’t affect the outcome. Then they’ll regretfully run Cuomo.
Do it, fucker. We’ll burn the fucking country down.
A few of us will protest, a few more will lose citizenship, and the collapse of the US empire will continue. People don’t give a shit.
You may be right, but don’t surrender before you fight.
At least I’ll be too dead to see it.
Marco Rubio first. POS birthright citizenship. Or let’s deport Ted Cruz. I’m sure Canada will love to have his head on a stick.
Both of them should honestly be real worried about that. If Trump gets to fully exercise that power, and they step out of line a little bit, either one of them would be exiled in no time.
Senator who?
Trump sees the “sucesses” of the Netanyahu strategies
We live in scary times man.
Let’s all go stand around where they tell us we can to show them we really don’t like it - that’ll fix it.
That sounds pretty provocative. They should send the marines, and some air support, just in case someone raises their voice. Loudness is violence.
Do you have any solutions other than sarcasm?
Nothing is off the table for the fascist Trump administration, absolutely nothing.
I don’t understand! How does trump have so much over reach and why aren’t the courts stopping him! Why is our government intentionally creating a fascist dictator!
The president of the United States has always been a public servant who represents the people of our country. He’s not a king among men the Office of the President should not have the ability to strip the citizenship of any individual that’s what immigration courts are for!
Because more Americans are either fully on board and support this, or don’t give enough of a shit to care compared to those who oppose this behavior., and piss and moan every day about how “tHiS iS nOt wHo wE ArE”
Trump is literally America’s spirit animal, he represents everything that America stands for: greed, ignorance, hate, racism, bigotry, misogyny, corruption, and deceit. Trump is not an outlier, he is America’s mirror.
Trump is literally America’s spirit animal, he represents everything that America stands for: greed, ignorance, hate, racism, bigotry, misogyny, corruption, and deceit. Trump is not an outlier, he is America’s mirror.
Probably because that demented walking corpse was picked intentionally as an avatar. He represents a group of people in power. Without Trump they’d probably find some other one. But he’s too convenient.
I don’t believe that. Not the same America that elected Obama. I think Trump’s first term convinced people he wouldn’t be that bad compared to a party that tried to do a “Weekend at Bernie’s” with their candidate. This is a different Trump than we had last time. This one is willing to do every word of what he says. And that caught people by surprise.
Because the entire group, all the leaders, are pedo’s. they have all been to that island, Now the island is America.
In this specific case? We’ve spent the last two decades watching overly broad anti terrorism laws get passed under the implicit agreement they wouldn’t be abused. Then comes Trump. Americans have been asleep at the wheel since the 1970’s. That’s part of why right wing rhetoric keeps getting more extreme. They need to keep their voting base engaged. Most people don’t want anything to do with politics. If that doesn’t change then no amount of reform will prevent us from voting ourselves out of a democracy.
the opposition cares more about their job/permanent meal ticket and lobbying money than actually opposing, these are problems for peasants like you and me, not chuck schumer and tammy baldwin.
“Terrorism” as in “Taxing the rich”?
At some point, some country will need to send a task force to El Salvador to liberate people from the concentration camp there.
Yeah, see, you are already dreaming of that other American thing.
Gestapo level shit. Need to rise up. <yawn> No one cares anymore, and no one is willing to do what it will take.
I’m not convinced you would need to rise up. Just collectively stop going to work. The house of cards falls pretty quickly on capitalism if there are no workers to exploit.
All the power is in the populace if they all agree to take it back together.
It’s the laziest thing a person could do really. Just stay at home, ration food and wait until the billionaire folks lose their minds.
With at least 70% of us living paycheck to paycheck, and 48% of us having $1,000 or less in savings, I don’t think that a national strike is likely. I agree that it would be by far the most impactful thing we could collectively do, but hell - at least half of us are one missed paycheck away from homelessness, and America really fucking hates the homeless. Combine that with the fact that most people get their family health insurance from their job, and the fact that our Senate just voted to practically obliterate medicare / medicaid, and you get an extra level of devastating consequences for losing your job. And people would lose their jobs. Even if a significant amount of people are participating in the nation-wide strike, employers would be very heavy-handed with the dismissals. I just don’t think that it’s in the cards for us.
When you get enough people who are homeless, they will decide to take the homes of others for themselves. Republicans and the elite will soon be fueling the growth of backyard crops. After all, that bunch has to end up somewhere.
…seriously. Our “leaders” don’t understand that they have destroyed the shield of civility. They won’t be able to protect themselves from what is to come.
We are terrified of losing our jobs. We are told there is always another person waiting for your job. We are often a couple pay checks away from ruin.
Maybe we need to stop spending. Don’t buy it if we don’t need it. Live Spartan for a month.
I think a general strike would be effective, but dangerous when people are kept so close to poverty.
Remember the pandemic, we “all” stopped going into work? Except the grocery store workers, and the food processor workers, and those that distribute the food, and water treatment plant staff, and the power plant, and hospital staff, and taxis, and drug store workers, and so on and on. Do those people stop working? How many people can’t obtain the things they need beyond their next paycheck? What if in addition, the store shelves are empty?
I agree, it’s the most feasible way to fight back, so don’t get me wrong. But just like union dues and preparation enable a local strike, accounting for food, water, amenities…a general strike would need to do that or else we would be fighting a war of attrition not just against billionaires with multi-year bunkers but also against ourselves.
