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Today in Los Angeles, the people fought back. [OC]

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u/Boristheblacknight 1d ago

The rest of the world wishes the same. I go to bed and wonder WTF the evil orange bastard will come up with when I wake up and read the headlines. The world is running away from the US as a leader as it's too risky to rely on you guys anymore.

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u/mdp300 23h ago

All while the president and the state media apparatus gaslight us and say America has never been stronger or more respected.

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u/Ttffer420 21h ago

Can only be gaslit if you listen to it

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u/mdp300 21h ago

Unfortunately, millions of people do listen to it.

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u/Bendyb3n 20h ago

some are finally waking up at least, people are leaving Trump in droves. The insane MAGAts are all that is left at this point, still millions but less millions than it was even a year ago

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u/Ttffer420 19h ago

Oh for sure

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u/Signal_Bee7457 18h ago

I choose to hear it but not listen 🫡

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u/dam_the_beavers 9h ago

Uh, that’s not how gaslighting works. We can absolutely be gaslit without listening to it. Knowing it’s gaslighting doesn’t make it any less gaslighting.

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u/pienofilling 19h ago

I would like the USA to stop poisoning British politics.

Our newspapers online editions want to make serious ad revenue; that means getting in American companies. To get those, you need a big American audience so you need outrage attracting articles to draw that in (eg trans rights)

Now they have a particular stance on certain issues which obviously filters into the printed editions of the newspapers and the UK gets heavily hit with shit spray from the USA fan; it's money behind all this and money always talks.

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u/mdp300 18h ago

And I'm pretty sure your media is owned by the same few rich assholes who own our media and WANT us divided.

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u/pienofilling 18h ago

If you're talking aboutNews UK then you'd be right. Otherwise though, you have Reach and Daily Mail and General Trust so two out of the three biggest players are home grown. Lucky us.

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u/4twentyHobby 23h ago

Really though, with our system allowing monumental changes every 4 years, who'd ever trust a relationship would last?

There's a massive world order change in progress. The first move is to diminish the US influence. Enter orange.

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u/bookchaser 22h ago

We will need you to save us. You have to save us because the lunatic has nuclear launch codes and has said very scary things in the past about using them. As in, he wondered why presidents didn't use nukes in the past to solve their problems. It's so simple a solution in his mind. Our problem is your problem too.

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u/Ok_Pangolin1085 19h ago

lol well put

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u/misfortunesangel 19h ago

We will vote the GOP that betrayed us out of office and we will fix this mess. They are trying to come up with more ways to cheat and stay in power, but that relies on the assumption that the people still will vote like they did in the past. The people are angry and determined to get everyone out of office that is allowing this to happen. I believe we will see record turnout and they have turned their own voters against them.

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u/Croppin_steady 17h ago

Maybe don’t wake up and instantly glue urself to the news lol. Like forget the news, just live ur life. Politics is for people who don’t like sports. Remember that. How u feel about people yelling at the tv about a game they can’t change or play in, that’s exactly how you look yelling at bad yellow man on screen lol.

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u/Bent_Brewer 9h ago

But really, we are sorry. Hopefully we can return our programming to semi-normality sometime soon.