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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 52 points 8 months ago (4 children)

It doesn't even make sense in context at all. It's so painfully obviously a move intended to harm out of sheer vindictiveness. Food stamps aren't even connected to the issue they are claiming fraud over. They are raging about people using funds for day cares that don't serve children... so the response is to take food out of children's mouths? It's so fucking stupid and so transparently intentionally evil.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 23 points 8 months ago

See? They don't need a plausible excuse for anything they do. And people think they're waiting fir an excuse to impose martial law

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I mean, that's entirely how it makes sense.

Trump is a literally demented mad man, acting out of vindictive spite.

He's the mad king.

Him, and his supporters, want people to suffer and die.

The cruelty is the point.

They're just evil, its... just ... more clear now?

As if it wasn't somehow clear enough before?

They're an existential threat to everyone who isn't them, and even a to great majority of their own.

They need to be put down, like the traitors they are.


Here, here you go:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=8SYmgOM1kHc

The infinitely lamer version of Hans Landa comes to Minnesota, to disappear some poor woman doing DoorDash, who just barely escaped being nabbed ... her husband and kid got caught, but she forced her way into the house, to hide.

This is Anne Frank, USA, 2026, except Anne speaks Spanish.

There is no complexity in evaluating the overall morality of this situation.

These people are Nazis.

Never Again means Never Again.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

I mean, it doesn’t make sense to start an expensive investigation over some random streamers bs, nor does it make sense to blame an immigrant community when the known nd prosecuted fraud was lead by white people and victimized that community, but here we are.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

This is about trying to punish the parts of the country that didn't vote for the selfish little whiny-ass titty baby in the White House.

That's what these invasions are about and it's what starving children is about. The thin-skinned little diaper boy is butthurt that they didn't support him in enough numbers, so it's about punishing them. Even if it's children that weren't even born by November 2024.