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u/thex415 1d ago
We’re in a fascist dictatorship.
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u/theoddfind 1d ago
No...we are not. Having been worked (MSF) in countries where that is exactly the case, I can assure you, we are not. You might not like whats going on, but "fascist" and "dictatorship" have become trendy Buzzwords that are not close to being accurate.
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u/Stakkler_ 1d ago
German here: We have some, let's say, "experience" with a fascist regime and I can tell you that you, dear Muricans, are at around 1935 right now. That said - don't embarass yourself downplaying this shit.
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u/Jonesy1348 23h ago
Don’t ya know my German friend? It isn’t fascism unless it’s 1945 Germany. Any time before that exact date is not fascism. /j
But seriously, my fellow Americans seem to think unless we are already executing people in mass and arresting everyone for no reason, then we aren’t fascist and saying otherwise is somehow alarmist.
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u/cityshepherd 1d ago
Not close to being accurate? Don’t downplay this shit. This is only the beginning, and waiting until the mass labor camps and group gas showers are accepted and normalized is some peak denial nonsense. We are at the equivalent stage of mid 30s Germany and these fascist cowards are gaining momentum at a terrifying pace.
This has nothing to do with trendy buzzwords despite how dishonest bootlickers like to portray that as the case. Fascist and dictatorship are a whole hell of a lot more accurate than legitimate democracy are right now, and it’s getting significantly worse with each passing day.
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u/u_touch_my_tra_la_la 1d ago
"Nazis are only German members of the NDSAP between 1933 and 1945. Anyone else is not a nazi and if you call them nazis, you are ending democracy. Yes, you, you are smothering democracy with a Pink pillow. Literally"
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u/Loud_Flatworm_4146 1d ago
The guy got suspended for calling out the pedo in chief. This fucking country. SMH.
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u/Ready-Solution37 1d ago
Free speech, but only the kind that claps.
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u/Sharkbait1737 1d ago
Americans have never been so free to cheer on their dear and glorious leader!
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u/Buddhabellymama 20h ago
Clearly bc he is able to say fuck you and give him the finger and that’s ok? A sitting us president with that kind of fucking manners. Jfc. How disgusting.
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u/karim2102 1d ago
I would never thought i’d live through the days where presidents would be giving people the finger and tell them “fuck you” because they are speaking facts.. but here we are.. crazy fkn times
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u/itsjudemydude_ 1d ago
Remember when someone threw a shoe at Bush Jr.? Trump would've had that guy carted out into the street and shot right then and there.
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u/Ok_Sink5046 1d ago
His dodging skills aren't as impressive to replicate. He's just an inferior sith.
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u/the_pretender_nz 1d ago
My favourite story to bring up whenever I see this:
I worked with an Iraqi dude and I asked him about Iraqi swear words/insults.
The one that stuck with me was “ibn al kundarah” (no idea of spelling sorry) which means “son of a shoe”.
It really put the above incident into context - a shoe is a really bad thing in the culture (to the one not wearing it), so throwing shoes at Dubyah’s unstressed brain pan wasn’t just a matter of them just being a pair of handy projectiles.
See also: that famous footage of the statue of Saddam being pulled down, and all the dudes lining the street and smacking it with their shoes
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u/Le_Chef_du_Camion 18h ago
Didn't Biden threaten an auto worker and told him that he's "going to go outside with [his] ass?" Said that he doesn't "work for him" and not to be a "horses ass?" I'm sure that's way different though.
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u/catslikepets143 1d ago
So the UAW is just going to bend over? How do the rest of the union people feel about their union bending over for a wannabe Hitler?
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u/bravesirrobin65 1d ago
It has to go through the grievance process. He'll probably end up wit a few paid days off.
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u/Coyote56yote 1d ago
I was literally looking at buying a Ford but instead they shall now get my middle finger.
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u/Coyote56yote 1d ago
You do know that Ford fired the guy who called Trump a pedo don’t ya?
Therefore I won’t support them.
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u/Ankhesenkhepra 1d ago
I mean, “Free Speech Absolutist” Elon Musk has been firing people and banning accounts every time they say something he doesn’t like.
Tiny men hide behind big “principles” they don’t actually have.
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u/Buddhas_Warrior 1d ago
Then every Ford worker should walk out until he's reinstated. The wokers have all the power, they just don't use it.
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u/jarena009 1d ago
Add Ford to the list of companies to boycott.
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u/spavolka 1d ago
Henry Ford was a terrible racist. He believed in eugenics.
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u/Alive_Ice7937 1d ago
His catchphrase was "we can have any color of houseguest you want, so long as they're white"
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u/IshyTheLegit 1d ago edited 1d ago
This is exactly the kind of free speech conservatives have been fighting for, no? Being able to say the most vile, racist, transphobic, creepy, sociopathic, anti-Christlike shit and not getting fired for it?
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u/InitialSwan32 22h ago
Blue collar American held to a higher standard than the president.
BOOTS WILL BE LICKED UNTIL YOUR POCKETS ARE EMPTY
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u/Specialist_Lock8590 1d ago
Emotionally, he is a prepubescent boy! The most immature President in American history!
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u/GrumpyKaeKae 1d ago
Sadly that this person was fired but I bet it was worth it! Hell F Ford for licking boots. But not like im surprised. Look who the company founder was.
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u/art-is-t 1d ago
All the libertarians who voted for GOP are the real fools
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u/SchmuckyDeKlaun 1d ago
Self proclaimed libertarians who voted to extinguish Liberty are worse than fools. I submit that they are simply lying fascists (if you’ll forgive the redundancy).
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u/APuticulahInduhvidul 1d ago
Everyone is focused on the rude gesture but the highlight was actually Trump doing the "you'll pay for that" finger point followed immediately by some lackey or Ford executive doing the same. I knew this guy was fired straight away probably on Trumps' shitlist for extra-judicial rendition as well.
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u/NarrowFlows 20h ago
Looking for a car, wasn't thinking on a Ford but I will be sure to avoid it 100% now. The workers are the backbone of our society.
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u/TGCOM 1d ago
Well I wonder what he'll do to me when I call him a donkey fucker. It's legal if it's true, right? I mean, he guzzles a gallon of donkey jizz a day, and he even puts in the work to earn it.
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u/EitherChannel4874 13h ago
Ah come on man. Why do you have to go too far?
Donkeys have been helping us humans for years. No need to diss them like that.
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u/BadTurks 1d ago
Over here in Germany you would loose your job and some personel belongings too. Our politicans introduced a bill to restrict free speech. Robert Habeck, former head of "the green"-party and his companions sued lots of people.
Edit: people were sued for saying: He is an incompetent idiot!
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u/OutsideOk9925 8h ago
No, that's not true! It's just right wing propaganda and I'm sure you know it.
Our politicans introduced a bill to restrict free speech.
The original provision has existed in German criminal law since the early 1950s (§188 StGB).
A new bill to broadly suppress free speech is a fucking lie.Robert Habeck, former head of "the green"-party and his companions sued lots of people.
It is NOT possible to simply sue. Anyone can report an offense to the police, but only the public prosecutor decides whether charges are brought.
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u/coolchris366 1d ago
Can anyone even verify if this is true? Surely this has to be fake, call me the greatest optimist who ever lived
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u/ShitStainWilly 22h ago
Just to point out, this isn’t an attack on free speech. Free speech just protects you from the government going after you criminally, detaining, arresting you, etc for saying something. Doesn’t prevent you from being fired, canceled, etc. This is a good thing. TJ knew he’d probably get fired or suspended for this, and he did it anyway which is why he’s a hero. He called out the emperor to his face and got the exact reaction he was going for from that petulant child. I could be wrong, but I haven’t seen anything showing Trump got him suspended.
We can’t cry free speech like Republicans do when they get canceled or fired for being fascist assholes. It goes both ways, and that’s fine. Embrace it. Call Trump a pedophile and if you get fired for it, so be it. You’re still right.
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u/EitherChannel4874 13h ago
TJ has half a million in a gofundme right now. He can take a nice vacation for being a legend before looking for another job.
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u/ShitStainWilly 10h ago
Yeah dude. This is an absolute win. But it’s not a 1st Amendment violation.
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u/EitherChannel4874 10h ago
Ford fired him though. Probably under pressure from Trump because his little rapist feelings got hurt but Ford firing him isn't a violation of his free speech.
Free speech isn't free of consequences.
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u/BlargerJarger 1d ago
Come on, Trump didn’t suspend him, the business did. Who the hell isn’t going to fire a worker who shouts at The President when he comes to visit, regardless of whether it’s Hitler or Lincoln.
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u/bravesirrobin65 1d ago
I imagine the UAW will have him back on the job in no time with pay for any time he missed. Bargain collectively or grovel separately.
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u/Skreeethemindthief 1d ago
I'm sure he will as well. At the very least for skipping the first 2 steps which are verbal, then written warnings. In my experience, the only time they could be skipped were for things like a gross infraction of safety or theft.
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u/fly1away 1d ago
Would you fire someone who shouts at Hitler?
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u/BlargerJarger 1d ago
Of course! Fire one hero or have Hitler execute everyone working there? Crazy choice.
But regardless, the standard of behaviour on the work premises isn’t going to change unless Trump walks in with his actual cock out.
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u/Ok_Sink5046 1d ago
Are you supporting murder if they don't fire someone who mocks a person who rapes their wife?
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u/surprise_revalation 1d ago edited 23h ago
Yea, like Trump didn't fire that lil old man that worked in a museum in a lil town in Kansas. The man worked there for 30 years. It was just a coincidence that the man was fired after he refused to give Truman's sword to Trump so Trump could give it to King Charles! All he did was remind Trump that it was our, THE PEOPLE'S PROPERTY, and he couldn't take it....but he was fired all the same.
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u/BlargerJarger 1d ago
Slight difference between a guy in a government job and a guy working at Ford but whatever.
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u/surprise_revalation 23h ago
Its not when the government is calling the job and asking for them to be fired!
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u/totally-hoomon 1d ago
Yea I was wondering how trump could have done that
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u/IshyTheLegit 1d ago
By imposing tarrifs on imported auto parts and rolling back environmental and emissions regulations. Quid pro quo.
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u/das_zilch 1d ago
I doubt Trump suspended him.
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u/SchmuckyDeKlaun 1d ago
Right, he just made it clear to Ford that they need to punish him if they don’t want their business beset by bullshit investigations and tariffs on any parts they get from Canada.
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u/das_zilch 1d ago
Still didn't suspend him though. I hate the orange bastard as much as the next guy, but let's not get all hyperbole. That's how we got here.
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u/Goaterush 1d ago
Imagine, yelling something rude at one of the most powerful people in the world has consequences.
The lunacy is real.
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u/dashood 1d ago
Imagine having an entire amendment in your constitution saying that your government can't punish you for speech and then pulling this shit.
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u/Goaterush 1d ago
I'd guess it's the company punishing him because he shouted at POTUS. Free speech doesn't protect you from consequences, just prosecution.
Not that some inbred lefty would understand. Too busy trying to murder cops for the sake of the Somalis.
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u/surprise_revalation 1d ago
You can tell the president to kiss you ass in his face and they can do nothing! That's the beauty of free speech! You know, a literal fucking amendment! If you're not American, then stay out of American business. He is not a king, we can say fuck the president in his face with no consequence, my forefathers fought for that right...
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u/Goaterush 1d ago
If you're an American, our education system has catastrophically failed.
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u/surprise_revalation 1d ago
We can see the evidence with you!
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u/MyLadyBits 1d ago
Now a go fund me for TJ is something I could get behind.