Man, how can someone be the president of the united states and still be SUCH A FUCKING LOSER. May history shit all over the Trump name.
Any people of color or other marginalized groups or minority populations reading this really, really need to share this on your community’s social media and get it visible within your cultural space instead of just sighing at Lemmy posts that won’t make it out of our bubble here.
Trump secured a large vote from black and latino people because everyone’s attention spans are so fried that people basically filter everything they see to distill it to just what they want to see. (Even before the algorithm distills this further.)
So what we had were a lot of people who didn’t get the memo that Trump and Republicans broadly suckle at the heart of racism and hate to power their machine. They just heard messages about “returning to traditional values” and pictured their parent’s lives when they were growing up and got exploited by the ol’ “nostalgia” hack. A lot of people of color come from communities that have held onto tradition for a long time as a survival tool, and there are a lot of conservative values that line up with that kind of tradition, so people, desperate for meaning and leadership, thought that a vote for Trump would restore that nostalgic feeling of “when men were men and women were women” and all the dumb shit we say to justify our hard lives.
Nostalgia is a tool of fascism. Stop being nostalgic, start beating that shit with a hammer when people bring it up.
Your life wasn’t better when you were little. Your parents were miserable. Life was hard, you were just little and stupid and thought everything was amazing.
Fee-fee days? Hubba hubba!
White supremacist trash
For next year, the days chosen seem to fall in line with the Trump administration’s “America-first” policies.
A journalist self-censored ‘racist’ to the regime-approved synonym “America-first”.
There’s no way to connect this to other policies except ‘shitting on black people in the most petty way possible’.
Hey, at least they put it in quotes, the way this adimiatration works they’d probably deport the reporter for saying he was racist.
God damn that’s blatant. Hey journalist, what about MLK Day is not “America-first”?
Jesus the racism is thick in here
Ackshully, it’s racist against white people to celebrate holidays dedicated to black people!
/s
Gotta throw some red meat to the base every few days to keep his polls up.
Imagine being so racist that you’d rather stick it to black people than do something nice for free.
Arkansas had made Robert E Lee Day the same as MLK Day. He has zero connection to the date, it was just out of spite.
But did they at least make it free to enter parks on Robert e Lee day?
I mean it’s gross at the start but I’m more appalled at willing to pay to be racist.
Republicans have an inherent belief that everything is zero-sum. If someone is getting something discounted, then they must be losing something or paying extra in exchange.
Conversely, if a minority is losing out, then you are WINNING!
I imagine that all racists are like that
No need imagining… they are
This is actually why a lot of public schools are so poorly funded now. Back in the civil rights era, white families who could afford it sent their kids to private schools after desegregation, where their schools could still be segregated (because they didn’t receive federal funds). The white people who couldn’t send their kids off to private or religious schools decided that “if we have to share space with black folk, we’ll just drag our formerly-white schools down to the level that black schools were at”. Cue a generation or two growing up with poorly-funded schools and it turns rapidly into a tradition - “we’ve always had low taxes from the school district, why do we need to increase it half a mill”.
He’s just so petty.
Just to clarify… if you voted for Trump, you support racist agendas, which in turn, make you racist…. That’s my Ted talk for today.
Trump is a byproduct of US politics and capitalism, supporting either supports this racist agenda
“Americans allow Trump admin to remove MLK day, Juneteenth from National Parks fee-free days”
Black folks that voted for him and Republicans all I have to say is, 😂😂😂😂😂
Perfectly on-brand: He got what he needed, so now fuck you.
Fellow citizens, how will you celebrate Trump’s birthday?
Hopefully he won’t see another
We aren’t so lucky. They keep treating him every month so he lives like a zombie. I bet if his presidency ends, he dies within a year.
If he gets a permanent secret service detail for life I’m sure he can figure out how to keep his healthcare. I suspect he’ll either get the “Luigi treatment”, or we will watch him dissolve into prion goo over the next 10 years
Honestly he needs to be luigied before his term is up if we want to see the change we need.
I honestly think that if that were to happen we would end up in a much worse situation. He would become a martyr and the republicans who are starting to see the light would go rage blind.
It definitely wouldn’t be an ideal situation, but a situation that needs to happen sooner than later. It’s not a matter of if it’s going to happen, but when… we have been groomed to get to this point and if it goes further, it will be worse. Sometimes you have to rip the bandaid off to dress the wound properly.
I disagree that this is the way forward. I want to see criminal prosecutions. If that results in violence so be it. I won’t support violence, though.
That said, I’m supremely disappointed in the willingness of democrats to persue impeachments and prosecutions.
While it’s possible that violence is required to solve our current problems, I still hold hope that we can solve things another way.
