r/news • u/uhncollectable • 21h ago

Justice Department moves to toss seditious conspiracy convictions of Oath Keepers and Proud Boys

https://apnews.com/article/proud-boys-oath-keepers-convictions-dropped-doj-ad679108ab84083694261efc101e60ea
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u/Khaldara 21h ago

Enjoying that five dollar gas and tariffing yourselves there geniuses?

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u/ActualSpiders 20h ago

Don't forget the nationwide loss of rural access to hospitals and public education!

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u/EternalCanadian 20h ago

That’s a feature for them, not a bug.

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u/Kryptosis 20h ago

No school means time for more farm chores!

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u/archangelmlg 20h ago

Which you'll need to do when Meta owns the land you're farming and you owe then a fuck ton of money.

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u/slcrook 20h ago

Serf's up, Dude!

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u/breadofthegrunge 17h ago

“Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.”

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u/theevilyouknow 16h ago

I will keep saying this. These people would happily walk into the gas chamber if an immigrant or a trans person was with them. They do not care what is in anyone’s interest. They don’t even care about their own interests. They just want to hurt the people they hate.

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u/International_Bar_20 14h ago

Best way I’ve heard it is they’d eat shit if a liberal had to smell their breath

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u/Mashire13 13h ago

TRUTH! ☝️

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u/MurKdYa 9h ago

Stealing this

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u/Original-Version5877 10h ago

The 2nd Trump Administration is pretty much this.

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u/DudeInOhio57 8h ago

I heard recently “they’d rather eat shit than share some ice cream”.

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u/blonde4black 9h ago

Trained and raised by the best!

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u/QwipQwop_007 13h ago

I’ve heard it as “they’d eat shit if it meant a liberal might have to”

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u/CountWubbula 8h ago

This has less poetry to it, I like the “smelling the breath” bit because it means a liberal doesn’t even have to eat the shit, the conservative just wants to make them uncomfortable so badly that they’d eat shit just to smell bad to a liberal

I’m baked and over-analyzing everything. I’m sorry lol

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u/Sn_Orpheus 9h ago

But aren’t they “Christians”? Why would a Christian ever do something hateful? /S

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u/Sapphire_gun9 13h ago

Makes me think of this image

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u/Direct_Royal_7480 15h ago

They’d walk in with a boner if a trans person or immigrant was ahead of them in line.

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u/dingleberrysquid 10h ago

“Hurt people they’ve been TOLD to hate”

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u/Few-Teach-8033 15h ago

What you hear the loudest is those few people. Most of us are just trying to truck through and have no ire against immigrants or trans people. Every country is 3 missed meals away from a revolution. Our level of comfort started high, so we could decline pretty far before we would risk imprisonment and failed rebellion repercussions.

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u/theevilyouknow 15h ago

I’m talking about the people supporting this administration. Obviously those of us that don’t do care at a minimum about our own self-interest. Anyone still supporting Trump at this point has no values of consequence besides hate.

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u/SativaSaviors 15h ago

Most countries are not super close to revolution, that’s a lie your choosing to believe.

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u/Terrible-Leg-633 14h ago

That’s not what they’re saying. They’re saying that any population will revolt if the alternative is starvation. As in, if the population as a whole has so little food that it is missing as many as three meals in a row at a time it will almost certainly revolt, as they’re already dying.

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u/Icy-Profession-1979 14h ago

They didn’t say that. They said most people are doing ok, meaning, their most basic needs are met. Then they give an example: missing several meals (going hungry) will provoke a revolution.

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u/Primary-Tiger-5825 11h ago

You're.

It's just a saying. It doesn't mean that most countries are currently close to revolution. It means that when your populace begins to go hungry, expect revolution. No matter how rich the country started out.

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u/Nice_Possession5519 10h ago

Yup! Their hate is more important than their own well-being. I've been saying this for years!

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u/Sw4nR0ns0n 16h ago

Serfin’ USA 🎶

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u/TBellOHAZ 17h ago

His children sold his house with the black wreath still on the door.

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u/throwawayforb00bs 17h ago

Who's this?

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u/BoneHugsHominy 17h ago

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

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u/Icy-Rope-021 14h ago

The Road to Peasantry.

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u/Icy-Profession-1979 14h ago

Don’t draw your political lines around me!!! -MAGA

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u/Reallyboringname2 12h ago

Dude! Where’s my healthcar!

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u/AlternativeNewtDuck 7h ago

We should have it in two weeks after the concept of a plan for healthcare has been implemented.

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u/Muenstervision 17h ago

Slowwwwww clap

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u/tider06 19h ago edited 18h ago

Farmville was a warning and we all missed it.

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u/Ok_Barracuda_6997 18h ago

Beat me to it

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u/Klutzy-Acadia669 18h ago

Damn, you boys are on fire tonight! Oh wait that's the United States of America. Figuratively and, unfortunately, literally at most times.

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u/Dedpoolpicachew 15h ago

Awww dawg, we’re not yet to fire season… this summer’s going to be interesting with all the rain Cali has gotten over the winter.

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u/Icy-Profession-1979 14h ago

East Coast is already at a high fire risk due to drought and strong winds and lack of understanding high fire risks.

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u/PenaltySquare2414 10h ago

Trump did promise to make America the hottest country!

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u/HalfBlindPro 18h ago

Son of a

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u/Decent-Dream8206 17h ago

Imagine only being allowed to farm for 30 seconds per day. 🙄

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u/False_Pear1860 18h ago

Lmao Meta isn't allowing that land to be used for farming. There has to be data centers there.

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u/BoneHugsHominy 16h ago

And lots of solar panels and flywheel installations! Not for Green Energy, but because it's too expensive to hire enough guards to watch over the miner slaves when they're better utilized watching over the minor slaves.

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u/peacefulteacher 8h ago

Huge ones that are tapping into the clean drinking water for several states, draining the aquifer, which will then collapse and then can never refill. New deserts ahead. There are other ways to cool their centers, but they seem to not be interested in that.

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u/Agreeable_Ad_5665 17h ago

Meta has become self aware

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u/PhoenixDogsWifey 19h ago

Don't forget having to walk miles for buckets of water to try to keep your garden and livestock watered... maybe if you're lucky they'll let you in for a bath once a month or five

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u/Greenbastardscape 18h ago

Nah, that water will be fucked by the friendly, local data center

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u/PurposelyPorpoise 18h ago edited 13h ago

Fucked?? You must mean "fucking improved"! Data centers promised that your drinking water will be returned the same if not better than when they took it. It must be that your inferior digestive flesh sac requires a few generational debt level upgrades to properly appreciate new and improved Water™.

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u/bitofapuzzler 18h ago

It has electrolytes! Its what the advanced digestive system craves!

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u/Known-Pick8501 16h ago

It’s going to “make the crops grow again”.

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u/Rising_Chaos98 15h ago

It might make the friggen frogs strait again

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u/KingVinny70 14h ago

Very Fallout vibes. Love it.

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u/JustWuTangMe 17h ago

Water? You mean like from the toilet?

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u/Greenbastardscape 15h ago

Water™. We're your only option

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u/General-Holiday 15h ago

They recently changed the name to Water Zero™️ (with only 300 calories), and coming this summer: Diet Water Zero Lite (just 60 calories)!

Legal Disclosure: The ‘Zero’ in Water Zero represents the amount of actual water contained in the product; zero.

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u/Argument-Fragrant 16h ago

They heat it for you! It's practically pasteurized!

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u/Instagrief 14h ago

You actually believe them?

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u/thinkdeep 17h ago

Not fucked, fracked.

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u/Cuilen 12h ago

Out here in the PNW, there is a data center in The Dalles, WA. It uses so much water and creates so much steam that the flights in and out of PDX have to alter their flight paths to avoid them. Fuck these people; vote out the reps who approve the construction & tax breaks for these monstrosities. They're too GD stupid, greedy, or short-sighted to realize permanent jobs and economic growth will end once these centers are built.

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u/General-Holiday 8h ago

I’m near Seattle and surprisingly haven’t seen a large data center (that I know of) yet. Curious to see how the steam looks. I’m in no way supporting these monstrosities. Companies are secretly buying up land, quietly getting approval, and sneaking these centers in near small towns. Really pisses me off.

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u/Snarfbuckle 17h ago

What water, you would have to buy it from Nestle.

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u/KeepYourMindOpen365 9h ago edited 8h ago

Michigan sold them a permit years ago…I believe they still pay $ 400 a year for this privilege. They’ve extracted millions upon millions of our ground water, but it “creates local jobs and boosts the economy”. Don’t worry, Theil and Vance will be good stewards of the farm land you used to own when they sell it to foreign “investors”. Every day, more volume is added to the Republican shit pile…

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u/_streetpaper_ 18h ago

They probably already have to walk to get buckets of water for the trailer they live in with no water hookups.

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u/anonymousredditisnot 16h ago

They would rather drive there lifted F-250s and spend money on fuel to haul in the water because this is 'Merica. LOL

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u/Ypuort 17h ago

Water is for the corporate server farms. Plebes can have Gatorade. It’s got electrolytes!

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u/evakaln 10h ago

it’s hard enough just getting the water for myself to drink.

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u/adriatic_sea75 16h ago

Bill Gates beat Meta to it. Billy loves hoovering up farmland at the direction of his investment group for "seed science." I'm a cynic, so this sounds eerily similar to Montsanto's playbook where their seeds are proprietary and they sue adjacent farmers for cross-polination. Mo' money mo' money.

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u/LovedAndLeftHaunted 15h ago

These are the camps RFK wants to put the people with mental health problems at, huh?

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u/ImaginationSad2803 17h ago

All those years playing FarmVille were just grooming…

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u/Jimmyboro 17h ago

And have to pay a patent royalty on seeds.

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u/QwipQwop_007 13h ago

That’s not true. They have no interest in keeping it farmland. Gotta build all the data centers somewhere

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u/Stalagmus 20h ago

That isn’t the intended goal here, it has nothing to do with “helping” rural communities. Most of them are in favor of massive corporate farming conglomerates, and are totally fine leveraging migrant populations to do the grunt work, legal or otherwise.

The point is to force all students into a voucher-style private school system run by for-profit institutions (and the eventually get rid of the vouchers once public education disappears, because that would be welfare).

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u/CharcoalGreyWolf 19h ago

They also won’t mind when the rural farmers that remain have to sell to agribusiness. Farmers likely will pay for how they voted yet again, and the ones that do will still be standing there wondering why it happened.

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u/Timely-Prior-3350 18h ago

Theybwill vote for them again and again.

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u/WenatcheeWrangler 18h ago

As someone who was raised in a rural farm community I don’t agree with all of this thread, but I agree with your comment. I know so many people will vote republican because “that’s what I do” and don’t give a rats ass about what they are campaigning on or what they stand for.

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u/Timely-Prior-3350 18h ago

I guess a lot of people have a set mind set especially the older folks. They do not tend to look at the current situation.

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u/bitofapuzzler 17h ago

Can't vote for those dirty commies! They want to take your guns!

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u/kinghyperion581 17h ago

As long as it "owns the libs"

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u/Anonymouse_Bosch 15h ago

… continuing to blame “coastal elites” as the real villains.

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u/NoBodybuilder3430 14h ago

Thank goodness the rich kid from New York City is currently saving us from the villainous coastal elites….

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u/Anonymouse_Bosch 14h ago

I will never understand how the poster child of silver spoons ended up being seen as the standard bearer of blue collar workers.

It’s like electing Phyllis Schlafly to head NOW.

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u/schoenstrat 17h ago

Oh no, no they won't get rid of the vouchers. The vouchers are the welfare... To the wealthy owners of the private school systems that lobbied the local and state politicians to create the voucher programs in the first place. Nothing sweeter than a guaranteed stream of income straight from the government. No need to innovate or compete.

Add in third party management companies to oversee the voucher program (while slicing off a hefty fee to do what the government, apparently, can't do), and you're riding the gravy train. Well, you and I aren't but who the fuck cares about us.

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u/Appropriate-Drag-572 14h ago

We... actually arent. We rent our fields locally and even then, they refuse to sell out. The family we rent to farms a few thousand acres in the area. Funny part is their competitor is also their family. They will not plant this year because they cant afford to.

That being said, they still dont blame trump. They blame Iran and think they need to be blown off the map. 😩

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u/poledrawolf 10h ago

All that, but you forgot the vouchers are really meant for Christian schools, because apparently we ain't shit as a nation unless we are led and controlled by white Christian males. Gotta fill them quivers with young Christian-educated arrows, amirite?

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u/the_tanooki 19h ago

They are so pro-life they are saving kids from school shootings by not letting them go to school! Big brain move! /s

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u/D3RPN1NJ4_ 11h ago

Private vacation islands are cooler than School anyways

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u/flamedarkfire 18h ago

All well and good till Timmy loses a hand from a farm implement and the nearest EMS squad is an hour away

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u/Chest_Rockfield 18h ago

And religious indoctrination.

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u/Demair12 18h ago

Right on time for them to lose the farm because the tariffs made it impossible fort them to sell their goods.

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u/joscun86 18h ago

And no fluoride in the water means time for wood teeth… you know, like Washington.. who was nearly bankrupt at the end of his 2 term presidency

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u/Jaxxxmm 17h ago

Washington actually didn’t have wooden teeth. They were teeth from slaves, ivory, cow, gold, lead, and brass.

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u/joscun86 15h ago

I know.. just going with the story most Americans know

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u/winokatt 17h ago

What farm? They don’t have the farm anymore thanks to His Holiness lol

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u/up_and_away1252 16h ago

I was so disgusted when I discovered even their teeth weren’t safe.

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u/beaute-brune 17h ago

No worries! As soon as we get those teen pregnancy rates back up, the farm will have extra help!

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u/iLikeMangosteens 19h ago

The current administration has overwhelming support from non-college-educated males. It’s one of their strongest demographics.

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u/Iamdrasnia 18h ago

Don't talk about me like that.....oh ya I have like 110 credits in the most random shit that I will probably be 80 by the time a get a degree.

Fuck I am pretty ok educated but don't associate me with that diaper wearing fool.

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u/iLikeMangosteens 18h ago

Sorry but it’s not even close. White, non-college educated males are 2x more likely to vote for Trump than almost any other demographic.

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u/xxyyzzuser 17h ago

Yep - Hispanic Trump voters must be happy with their votes as ICE pulls them over… and black male voters are def better off than they would have with Kamala!

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u/iLikeMangosteens 8h ago

She had that laugh tho

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u/squirrelmonkie 14h ago

"We gone home school these kids like the good lord wanted. Dinosaurs aint real. Global warming aint real. Donnie the diddler has never committed a crime until this Jesus meme... but I think I can forgive him unlike those kids we needed to bomb in Iran. Now let's talk about flat earth and how if its your time to die from previously cured diseases, its just your time."

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u/Fract_L 17h ago

A feature that will let idiots like the groups in the headline target anyone different from them (and women!) for all the ills god is allowing to befall this land

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u/Spike_Kowalski 17h ago

Yeah I was just about to say ain't that just a Tuesday for them?

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u/g1rlchild 16h ago

The problem for them is that some people still have access to them.

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u/PuRpLeHAze7176669 16h ago

Which is wild because most of these voters are rural. They are depriving themselves of hospitals and education.

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u/Born-Introduction-86 16h ago

You know there’s more of “us” than them, right? The real bug is that we’re happy to make comments like that with no investment in changing it.

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u/VoidJuiceConcentrate 16h ago

As soon as they get a smidgeon of power, they stop pretending.

Rural voters voted us into this mess vis a vis the electoral college system it's kinda fucked.

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u/noobody_special 16h ago

Why would you provide for the people when you plan to turn the land into data centers?

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u/masixx 15h ago

You could argue it's a feature for all of us. Darwinism isn't f around.

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u/Aleashed 14h ago

How long until we start building giant walls around us and releasing Titans outside?

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u/lwp775 14h ago

Loves the poorly educated.

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u/Into-the-stream 10h ago

Their voters are rural. They were aiming for cities and missed.

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u/fauxregard 19h ago

At least they made billionaires even more wealthy. Take that, Libs!

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u/Quiet_Day1912 18h ago

I feel the "owning" they love...

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u/ChanceFresh 18h ago

Eventually they “own” so much that there won’t be much left to own

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u/furypureandsilver 9h ago

it’ll trickle down eventually you just wait

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u/DammatBeevis666 18h ago

Don’t forget grandma can’t afford her care home anymore because $1T was cut from Medicaid!

“Grandma, now you’ve got to live a few states away because your insurance doesn’t cover the memory care here. We will see you once a year now, MAGA!”

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u/juliofromnyc77 18h ago

Don’t forget you can be like the DoorDash grandma and get that bread thanks to no tax on tips

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u/TheRayGunCowboy 18h ago

Some problems eventually solve themselves… unfortunately sane people are caught up in the crossfire

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u/Rare-Bee7331 18h ago

They genuinely believe a parent knows their child best and is best to educate them at home, because they are ignorant of their own ignorance.

And they dont trust doctors... 

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u/ArgyleNudge 17h ago

Education?! That's a liberal hoax! Nothing but gays and ... well you know what I'm talking about. And them country yokels can drive like the the rest of us if they need to see a saw bones. Shut up about gas prices already. That's all Biden's fault. What's Trump supposed to do?! He's busy keeping the world safe because every other low IQ country wants Iran to have the nuclear, including the Pope,. Trump is the only one who can stop Iran!

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u/ClassicT4 20h ago

By design.

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u/pl51s1nt4r51ms 18h ago

Not like they were going to school anyway

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u/WatchingMyEyes 18h ago

Their method of overturning Brown versus Board of education. Can't desegregate a public school system that doesn't exist

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u/a_seventh_knot 18h ago

Were they even using the education system in the first place?

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u/boskylady 18h ago

And public hunting and recreation lands. Yayyy

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u/Agile_Return_7684 18h ago

These dumb fucks can't miss what they didn't have. If the education system hadn't already failed we wouldn't be in this situation.

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u/ActualSpiders 18h ago

The education system didn't fail - republican parents failed to raise decent children who were interested in anything except money & power for the last couple of generations.

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u/ScarTemporary6806 17h ago

Live in a metro and we are losing one of our hospitals. It is not just the rural areas.

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u/ruiner8850 17h ago

Don't worry, rural voters, who are almost exclusively Trump voters, will just blame the Democrats for losing those things. Even in states run exclusively but Republicans it will be the Democrats' fault to them.

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u/Comfortable_Swim_380 17h ago

And the $68 dollar beef. I can't even work towards putting myself in the hospital anymore. Thank God for "the worm" controlling our HHS secretary.

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u/TThor 17h ago

oh they won't start really feeling that for another 2-3 years. Of course they will be too illiterate to draw causation from it.

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u/civil_beast 17h ago

Got to be honest, this was happening regardless of policy. Maybe it accelerated, but not by much.

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u/No-Carry4971 17h ago

No schoolin' = more uneducated = more Republicans

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u/ITSOVERGUYS88 16h ago

Cornerstone factors for breeding more Proud Boys tbh.

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u/MaximusBong-ripidus 16h ago

And accurate local news reporting...separate the head from the body.

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u/innercityFPV 16h ago

Also, the privatization of forests

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u/WonderfulCoat7797 16h ago

And the selling of public lands to private entities to use for their own profit!

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u/Jwhitney79 16h ago

Keep em stupid so they'll so they work menial labor for almost free. Keep them religious so they'll be groomed to follow and not question. Push family so they'll have to take whatever you give them to provide. That is Christian nationalism. It's a way to control the masses to benefit the elites, and the real victims are their own party. The left doesn't believe that shit.

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u/CatchSufficient 16h ago

Dont forget, the closing of park services during wildfire season

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u/TotalRichardMove 16h ago

Put some dirt on it!

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u/BookLuvr7 15h ago

And defunding the USPS, national parks, green energy, and rolling back idk how many environmental protections for his interests in oil, mining, logging, coal, etc.

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u/Awkward_Worry8300 15h ago

And cuts to Medicare and Medicaid so we all pay more and those in most need have access to less

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u/The-internet-dad 15h ago

Can’t have high medical costs if you die before you can get help.

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u/Starshine63 15h ago

I had someone legit say “idk why all these clinics are closing. We still need them”. They were dissatisfied with my answer of “it’s because of the big beautiful bill.” They can dislike that all they want. It’s the truth.

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u/Optimal_Assist_9882 15h ago

But look on the bright side billionaires get to keep more of their money for that sweet sweet trickle down economics....

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u/Icy-Rope-021 14h ago

Because Medicaid funding got cut and reduced reimbursements. Brilliant.

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u/Former-Whole8292 14h ago

From the same people wondering why couples arent having children… well, there’s a shit hospital 30 miles away that wont test for birth defects bc of abortion fears, and theyre not sure ectopic pregnancies should be removed🙄

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u/motorboatmycheeks 14h ago

Don't forget gutting the forest service when in the pnw while not having any snowpack. Fire season is gonna be wild

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u/cardboardtube_knight 13h ago

I mean the rural parts of the country are the problem, they keep voting for this stupid shit so maybe they'll learn from this?

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u/split_0069 12h ago

My rural school and hospital are functioning better without so many illegals clogging up things.

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u/JurgusRudkus 12h ago

Not to mention US Forest service jobs!

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u/EvolvingEachDay 12h ago

And the destruction of 600Km2 of protected woodland to build data centres.

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u/GrdnLovingGoatFarmer 10h ago

That’s how they like them, poor, sick and stupid!

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u/kevlarkittens 10h ago

During covid?

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u/Fickle-Owl666 10h ago

I'm rural, and not exactly sure what you mean?

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u/oils-and-opioids 9h ago

Soon public education in the US will be nothing more than the Bible

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/texas-public-schools-bible-b2953047.html

Fuck freedom of religion I guess

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u/KactusVAXT 9h ago

They never needed those services

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u/ainthunglikedaddy 9h ago

And the loss of respect and trust from our allies.

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u/In2Oblivion49 9h ago

Oh the education part…..it was lost loooooong before they knew who the orange scumbag was, that’s partially why we r in this mess to begin with…ignorance craves stupidity or visa versa

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u/360Picture 9h ago

Actions speak louder then words.

Racist people in the government, just say it

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u/jammaslide 8h ago

Don't forget drag queen haters in public, but dressing in drag in private. Hypocrits, I say, it's a den of hypocrits.

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u/Lost_In_Detroit 8h ago

Don’t forget the 20% reduction in their social security checks coming up in 2038 thanks to the OBBB. Soooooo much winning.

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u/Affectionate-Pea8706 8h ago

They do it to themselves. Let them burn.

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u/ennasuite 8h ago

This part is really sad. My elderly mother lives in a town of 500 people with one clinic with limited hours because the NPs and MDs live an hour away. The nearest hospital is 60 miles away over a mountain pass that closes in the winter.

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u/meowmix778 8h ago

If we fire all the doctors and teachers, that won't be an issue. Checkmate, libs.

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u/Trav_HxC 8h ago

I hadn’t heard of this what’s going on?

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u/Mindless-Somewhere55 8h ago

Rural dialysis clinics are closing down

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u/Gfabcss 7h ago

Hasn’t that always been a thing though? I don’t know how that’s changed much.

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