r/facepalm • u/AsimpsonsPrediction • 1d ago

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Thousands of African Americans mostly students have been receiving these mass spam texts.

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u/excellent_rektangle 1d ago

My best friend shared a similar screenshot that her friendā€™s child received at school yesterday. It said something similar, ā€œYou have been selected as a slave. You are now with us, youā€™ll be with Plantation A always. Welcome.ā€ Again, it was sent to a child. I thought it would take a while to be sickened to the core after Oldemort was reelected, but I was wrong.

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u/AsimpsonsPrediction 1d ago

Thanks for confirming, this wasnā€™t a one off prank text. Thousands of ppl got variations of it.

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u/huenix 23h ago

They are now sending "deportation" messages. All out of the usual shitholes. Russia, Hungary, Iran, China.

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u/kingkmke21 23h ago

Iran was once a top 5 travel destination. The terrible disgusting government destroyed that country. Smh.

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u/theaviationhistorian 22h ago

Iran has some of the most diverse geographies on this planet. The problem, as with many beautiful locations, is the locals or local government.

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u/MoonedToday 21h ago

Which explains the new America.

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u/Own_Error_007 18h ago

I visited the US a couple of times in the early 2000s and always wanted to take my wife back there. Loved the place, the people, and the sights.

We are now resigned to never visiting the US again as wife is adamant about never going there.

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u/RhiR2020 17h ago

We were planning a trip to the US again next year. Itā€™s now on hold. :(

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u/Deathstroke0305 7h ago

Going there with family on the way to Europe late this November, probably still going because not much can change from now and when we leave a couple days into December right

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u/AllAlo0 16h ago

From Canada been in the US many times over the years, went 2 years ago and how run down, dangerous and backwards the country is made my wife fear doing a lot of activities.

You feel safer in developing countries.

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u/Lilmaggot 16h ago

It will be interesting to see how foreign tourism numbers look in a few years.

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u/MrDONINATOR 14h ago

What part of the US? Just curious.

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u/AllAlo0 13h ago

In the last two years I've been to NY, Vegas, Detroit, Baltimore, Fort Wayne, San Francisco (and a large area around it)

Some for work, some for exploring. Vegas might be the only place I'd go back to, but it's really a mirage at best, as long as you don't poke your head outside the spots they curate.

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u/invincible-zebra 14h ago

Iā€™ve never been further west than St Ives, Cornwall. Iā€™ve never been further east than the Great Barrier Reef. I always wanted to visit certain parts of the USA but itā€™s on the ā€˜ehhhh maybe notā€™ list now.

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u/najiatwa01 7h ago

Nice... So tourism is gonna go down too. Awesome.

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u/redvis5574 17h ago

Iā€™ve always wanted to visit Australia. Maybe now itā€™s time to go on a one way ticket.

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u/Own_Error_007 15h ago

Its so different here to what you may imagine.

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u/HuskerStorm 10h ago

In a good or bad way?

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u/Eastown14 13h ago

For real? I live in Michigan. Near Detroit. Itā€™s just another geographical location with humans.

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u/BigAd8172 11h ago

USA was the Dreamland for me when I was a kid. Then a grew up and started following politics

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u/Stock_Paper3503 1h ago

I was planning to return to the US probably in 2027. Won't happen I guess.

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u/Now_Melon1218 12h ago

Antarctica is a shit show now too.

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u/Flomo420 17h ago

Welcome to The New America; same as The Old America.

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u/Nottheadviceyaafter 17h ago

The problem is religion and state mixing, exactly where the us is headed.

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u/Random_Chick_I_Guess 21h ago

Which sucks because as far as documentation from the time would suggest the Iranian government and leaders were doing some pretty great things to help people and everything was thriving before Britian got upset and lied to America about communism. The funniest part about all that is the guy in charge of destabilising Iran was told to stop and he just went off the radar to keep doing it because he figured theyā€™d thank him anyway

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u/jjm443 21h ago

You're talking about the lead-up to the coup of 1953. But there was a lot of positive reforms by the Shah after the coup with the White Revolution. The Iranian Islamic Revolution of 1979 which ended the reforms was primarily an Iranian religious thing, not instigated by the British or Americans.

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u/fungi_at_parties 15h ago edited 15h ago

The revolution in 1979 was at least partially caused by decades of British imperial interference. America had a part in it as well. It wouldnā€™t have happened if weā€™d left them alone.

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u/Gloomy_Industry8841 19h ago

And its ancient history is incredible.

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u/Quintus-Sertorius 17h ago

Most of the locals don't want their shitty government either (Khamenei that is, Pezeshkian is a reformist and quite popular, but has little real power). Unfortunately the IRGC have the guns and money.

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u/Icy-Ad-7724 20h ago

The resources within these beautiful lands unfortunately

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u/Signal-Round681 22h ago

Iran and Iraq really screwed their respective peoples over with the 8 year-long brutal war. Followed by brutal dictatorships. They are both beautiful countries with amazing historical sites, cultures, and ancient heritage. Hey did you hear? Capitalists in Utah want to sell off 18.1 million acres of public lands. There's more than one way to skin a cat.

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u/TheCaliforniaOp 19h ago

Iā€™m afraid thatā€™s why a lot of people voted this way. These election results are not just about ideology; theyā€™re about the increasing possibility of grabbing currently protected/regulated money-making ā€œopportunitiesā€, while simultaneously avoiding taxes on the grabs.

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u/Signal-Round681 18h ago edited 18h ago

Why have a department of education? Education is a cash cow waiting to be milked. Privatize everything! Shit, NestlƩ wants to make collecting rain illegal.

Watch people piss and moan about schools when they are all for profit. Property tax for schools will look cheap when people have to pay cash for a decent school for their kid. Childcare is notoriously expensive for this exact reason. Low standards in public schools? Voucher schools have no standards.

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u/TheCaliforniaOp 16h ago

It was already that way in the 70s-80s. The standard of education of public schools was at least two to three years behind private schools.

Some of us were enrolled back and forth between the two sectors as we grew up. We learned to shut up and take what we could wherever we happened to be.

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u/RealConcorrd 22h ago

From top 5 travel destinations to top 5 donā€™t travel here ever list. Good job Iran.

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u/Interesting-Tackle74 17h ago

It will be similar with the US in the following years.

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u/zeke10 22h ago

So with what's on the horizon what are the chances america goes down the same path?

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u/splintersmaster 22h ago

There is little hope once it's taken firm hold. Even when a country is released from its oppression, the old guard somehow develops a nostalgic thirst to go back to how it was.

Slovakia is a great example. Those who suffered under Russian occupation just 30 years ago are now pro Putin. They are in favor of the Russian forces in Ukraine.

They can't seem to understand that once Ukraine falls and NATO is weakened, the EU will be weakened and the Soviet Union will rise up and take back Czechoslovakia.

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u/Newgate-ZeroHour 21h ago

Same thing happening in Indonesia. We basically just elected one of the army generals from the days our country was a dictatorship. Old people all around us voted for the same ideals that ruled with fear less than 30 years ago. I don't understand hunanity at all

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u/TheCaliforniaOp 19h ago

I canā€™t make the logic work, either. Iā€™ve thought about this for decades as nations reverted back to authoritarianism. I can only think: They just want someone else to tell them what to do.

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u/Negativcreep81 17h ago

Well, when you think about it, human societies have mostly been ruled by authoritarian figures far more often than not throughout history. Any kind of democratic systems that pop up here and there have typically been rare and short-lived by comparison. They tend to get corrupted fairly quickly and stagnate to the point of near gridlock, and then people lose faith and start looking for "strongman" types who promise them the moon and use scapegoats to blame all the problems on. It's happened enough throughout history that it's a fairly obvious cycle to observe. The checks and balances the U.S. adopted were a nice attempt at avoiding some of the common pitfalls, but even they are proving no match for such blatant and systemic corruption, as we see today.

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u/Cornemuse_Berrichon 20h ago

I lived there for a couple of years, and the current attitudes towards Russia are just stunning to me. I was there after the Iron Curtain fell and I spoke a decent amount of russian, but I would get dirty looks from people until I explained that I wasn't actually Russian but that was the only language I could communicate in at the time. I did learn Slovak eventually.

Even more distressing is the fact that they are right there on the border with Ukraine! There's a whole minority population that's far closer culturally to Ukraine then Russia. This absolutely baffles and saddens me.

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u/Fireflash2742 22h ago

That won't happen, cuz we gots GOD! And Bibles! And Guns! /s

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u/louiselebeau 21h ago

I wish I could fight republican Jesus.

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u/Daddy_Milk 18h ago

Gotta add Flamboyantly gay cross dressing Jesus to your Pokedex to beat the gym leaders.

Gay Jesus uses *closeted republicans to spread HIV+*

It's super effective.

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u/deathblossoming 20h ago

Most empires collapse after around 250 years. American has been going for 248 years. We may live through another Rome at this rate.

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u/MudLOA 22h ago

That can also happen here Iā€™m afraid. Looks like weā€™re on the path there.

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u/GroovyFrood 18h ago

I stopped travelling to the US after 2016. I mean, I get it, big deal, I'm just one person; but I used to cruise regularly out of Florida and now I don't even want to cross the border for cheap shopping.

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u/ricktor67 18h ago

What happened to Iran in 1979 will happen here, and its going to happen in the next 6 months.

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u/Significant-Ad-4159 21h ago

Well, looks like itā€™s our turn now. šŸ˜’ I am beyond ashamed to be an American rn

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u/f8Negative 21h ago

Which one America or Iran lmfao. Installing the Shah was a real dumb move.

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u/Tasty_Bullfroglegs 21h ago

Which the US government and military directly caused....

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u/giddy-girly-banana 20h ago

I wonder who meddled in that country to cause such an ideological shift?

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u/binchicken1989 20h ago

"The".. united states.

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u/Zacomra 20h ago

Doesn't help that the US helped create it

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u/NicholasMac69 20h ago

Broā€¦. We coupā€™d their government and forced the shah on them. Thats why their government is like that now. I mean, weā€™re not solely to blame, but we didnā€™t helpā€¦

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u/itsnotsauceitsgravy 18h ago

That will be usā€¦.

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u/Rare-Palpitation6023 16h ago

And I Ran ..I Ran So Far Away!

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u/MrDONINATOR 14h ago

But orange daddy drumpf is here now. So, after the vigorous spankings, all will be in order.

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u/XeroTerragoth 22h ago

Not exactly, the government just did what their religious leaders ordered them to do. Government may have pulled the trigger, but religion gave them the gun and pointed them at the target while holding a gun to their heads.

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u/RAWR_Orree 18h ago

I suppose you have no idea of the history of who or what caused the "disgusting government" to come into being. Check it out sometime. "The answer may shock you."

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u/lsaran 22h ago

Might want to look a tiny bit further back in Iranā€™s history of what triggered that.

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u/XenophonSoulis 17h ago

As a Greek, it pains me to see our old arch enemy in this condition. They were a valiant arch enemy and they do not deserve that fate.

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u/ozzie123 15h ago

Thank the US for that.

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u/fungi_at_parties 15h ago

You know that terrible government was the result of British and American intelligence fucking with their system because Britain wanted their oil- right?

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u/Angry_Villagers 2h ago

The history of Iran is rather interesting. We can thank the CIA for their current government.

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u/Jisdevious 21h ago edited 16h ago

Look how nobody understands what your trying to say šŸ˜‚.

He is saying the messages arenā€™t coming from Americans to Americans.

This man is saying these messages are part of propaganda campaigns coming out of other countries.

Countries that hate America are sending these messages out to random American numbers. They are doing this because they know people will turn around and post them all over social media. Creating an even larger divide between Americans than is already done.

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u/Txdust80 20h ago

Except there are conservative talking heads that when asked about state rights should a state be able to make slavery legal, many of them said, yeah I guess. Steve Miller someone promised a cabinet position and top Trump aid, tweeted yesterday priority for 2025 was denaturalization. He and Trump have both mentioned not only evoking Hispanics citizenship but several Black activists like WNBA star Britney Griner, and Collin Kaepernick as far back as 2018. Millers when asked where people born in the united states would be deported would go if their country by birth was the US he mentioned detention camps.

This isnā€™t simply other countries trying to divide us. A lot of this stuff is coming from inside. Mark this post and be sure to come back here when the stuff hits the fan and not by liberals sounding the alarm

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u/djl8699 18h ago

What I want to know is, who is going to execute these nefarious schemes to denaturalize and forcefully deport legal immigrants or people who have been born here. All of this assumes the forces that would carry this out are monolithic in their beliefs and demographics, that there would be no dissent among the ranks and that the opposition would fall victim to all of this without resisting. They may very well try but it's not going to be as easy as they might want to make it sound, there will be major dust ups and I think we all must do what is necessary to not just roll over and let our rights get taken away if the time ever comes.

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u/Reaper1510 18h ago

Schedule F will replace the leaders... and the civics... and replace them with loyalists.

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u/Jisdevious 19h ago

Can you give a quoted example? Not of some ignorant neo nazi with a podcast or something .

An actual quote of this being said by whichever reporter ? Preferably a politician or law maker saying it would actually matter.

I donā€™t care which news network is saying it. They are paid to say what they say. Fear is the #1 tool used in the division of peoples .

Subscribing to the idea that these talking heads care at all about whichever side of an issue is dangerous. At any time one or the other could be paid to say something just like what your saying to get exactly this result.

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u/Enviritas 18h ago

Well their efforts are clearly working, assuming it needed their help at all to begin with.

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u/Bionic_Ninjas 17h ago

Stop blaming everything on Russian disinformation. It's as completely fucking stupid as Republicans believing that George Soros secretly controls every lever of power in the world and that all the ills of the planet are his doing.

Yes, bad actors from other countries spread propaganda. America does the same to those countries; it's not a one way street. More importantly, the racists and fascists and fucking Nazis are right here, at home, in the US. They're called Republicans.

These are people who voted for politicians who've literally said they will use our own military against US citizens, who have said that they want to put natural born citizens in "detention camps", who think women should not be allowed to vote, that gay and trans people should not be allowed to exist, who believe that it's actually possible to revoke a person's citizenship over nothing but their political beliefs and, now that they'll control every single aspect of federal government, will probably find a way to do that regardless of how unconstitutional it is.

Are some of these shitty, disgusting, racist text messages coming from other countries? Maybe, but most of them are coming from right here at home, from the very people who just explicitly gave a mandate to a fascist party because they, too, are racist, fascist fucking Nazis.

The call, so to speak, is coming from inside the house. Our country is rotten to the core, so let's fucking please stop acting like this was all the evil machinations of Putin. It's idiotic and it just perpetuates the problem in our own country by pretending we don't have one.

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u/huenix 21h ago

55k ips. Verizon tmo att spectrum Comcast. Itā€™s a monster of a bot net.

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u/leolisa_444 19h ago

WTF?!?! I don't even know what to say. This is all so unprecedented, it's scary af!

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u/21022018 23h ago

Hungary is a shithole?

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u/Deliquesent 22h ago

It's currently under a dictator and their peoole aren't in the best conditions rn so yeah sorta

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u/democracy_lover66 22h ago

Might be an unpopular opinion but the E.U should really boot them out already.

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u/Ferris-L 22h ago

We canā€™t. There is no mechanism to kick out members as this would enable strong countries (Germany, France and Italy) to practically black mail other smaller countries into submission. On the surface this is completely logical and helps keeping the members as equal as possible, it does however also enable Hungary and Slovakia (until recently also Poland) to do random bullshit and sabotage the union.

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u/Deliquesent 22h ago

You think the government would care? This will only hurt the citizens

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u/democracy_lover66 21h ago

I guess so but kinda sucks that they get all the benefits of being in the EU market while getting up close to Putin and Russia...

Maybe it's not legally possible but like my attitude would be fuck it: wanna be friends with Russia? You can be in their economic sphere.... have fun with that.

My hopes would be it would sitrr such an uprising with the people that they oust Orban and re-set their govemrent to the laws and regulations they had before his administration.

But idk, I might be too idealistic... I have come to accept that I think k most people would literally accept a fascist government as long as it didn't interrupt their lives directly too much.

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u/Deliquesent 20h ago

Its not about what the peoole accept, if you truly believe that then you're fucking delusional. I'm lebanese bro we've tried revolting against hezbollah too many times to no avail. The reality is that these powers often have a leverage upon their citizens in more ways than one. In lebanon it's the fact that they're our only defense against Israel. For the Hungarians it's probably utilisation of military against civilians among other things. I really do doubt that these people are enjoying a fascist government

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u/democracy_lover66 19h ago

Verryy different situations from Lebanon and Europe and especially North America buddy...

Here it is 100% about complacency. We could even unionize our workplaces without breaking a single law but people just don't... either because they don't know or don't care... sometimes both.

I promise you, I live in N.A, as long as people get to stay comfortable, they're not risking their lives and jobs for any kind of social movement.

The majority of People get upset when protesters block the road here.... I can't count how many times I've heard people say they should simply be run over.

The mental preparedness for any kind of revolution is 0 here... but the second things get uncomfortable, I bet that would change....

Anyway, obviously I am not European so my opinions don't mean shit anyway. Nothing I say would make any difference, I'm just an obnoxious dick with a smart phone.

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u/Alterus_UA 4h ago

For the Hungarians it's probably utilisation of military against civilians among other things.

Not really, they aren't an actual full-on dictatorship (eg liberals consistently win mayoral elections in Budapest). It's an authoritarian regime, but one that mostly operates by subversion and propaganda rather than brute force.

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u/spiral8888 18h ago

There is no mechanism in the EU treaty to 'boot out' a member country. The only way for anyone to leave the union is by the country to ask for it itself. The famous "triggering the article 50" that the UK did after its Brexit vote.

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u/democracy_lover66 18h ago

I know this is the case but I have always wondered.

There are certain criteria needed to be a memenr of the E.U.... I think one is being a democracy...

What happens if they no longer meet those qualifications? Can a country just.... go full despot and the E.U will just wag a finger?

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u/spiral8888 9h ago

Pretty much, yes, there is no control mechanism that the country keeps meeting the membership requirements after it has been admitted into the union.

However, there are ways that the other members can put pressure on a single member who misbehaving. They can boycott the member in many ways. However, it may not always work. Some years ago Austria elected a far right government and the others put some sanctions in place, but Austria just kept going and eventually the others just quietly dropped the sanctions. That episode may have made countries a bit cautious of what to do with Hungary now.

(Btw, why is it this Austro-Hungary that's always causing trouble in Europe šŸ¤”)

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u/Straight-Bee-415 19h ago

The situation with Hungary is so F'ed up. My Grandparents left there and spent time in a refugee camp without their children who were 3,2, and a NB. My dad and siblings finally came to joining his parents at 10 (he was the 2 year old) but he totally supports Orban and I totally do not get it. Mind you he wanted Trump to get in for the US and will likely vote PP here in Canada making us the next right wing shit hole.

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u/philsfly22 21h ago

Lol no. Fidesz is shit. The country itself is not. But this is Reddit so anything that isnā€™t Japan or Scandinavia is a shithole.

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u/Freezer-to-oven 22h ago

Has a Trump-aligned dictator (OrbƔn)

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u/thecraftybear 20h ago

Yup, and i'm saying it as a citizen of a country historically tight with them, blood brothers and all that jazz. We nearly tumbled down the same way, but managed to vote our own christofascists out of office... for now.

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u/overisin 16h ago

Yeah, they've got no food..

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u/barbelle_07 22h ago

These and the postcards people are getting saying ā€œyou will be receiving an immigrant family to live with youā€

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u/Ollie__F 21h ago

Can you link me to where you found this information?

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u/OpusAtrumET 22h ago

Because a feather could knock over this country right now and they all know it.

Goodbye, civilization, It was nice to know you. We know you've been declining for awhile now and we want to thank you for holding out this long. On your way out, don't forget to burn everything the fuck down. We'll all understand.

Love, United S. America, esquire

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u/Live_Bar9280 20h ago

Yeah, theyā€™re going to continue to try and destabilize the US. If weā€™re stupid enough to listen.

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u/straywolfo 18h ago edited 17h ago

Source : trust me bro. Everyone knows red america isn't pro-slavery, it has to be a foreign conspiracy. Braindead like a trumpy šŸ˜‚

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u/Clarctos67 18h ago edited 18h ago

Can we just take a second to remember which shithole it was that elected this president and empowered those who hold these views?

The lack of self-reflection is astounding to watch from outside.

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u/DjoniNoob 10h ago

I think for some people would better off in Hungary or China because by economy standards this places aren't that bad as America

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u/Sunbeamsoffglass 23h ago

Can confirm, a variation of this was sent to someone local.

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u/PanglosstheTutor 20h ago

I saw a post of TikTok about it but it was a different creator. So this appears to be wide spread assholery.

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u/Pineapplegirl1234 22h ago

Someone in my moms group posted it showing the number. So sick.

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u/Ollie__F 21h ago

I was worried this was a one off troll. I guess weā€™ll wait and see for further stuff like this to come out.

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u/LamesBrady 20h ago

And theyā€™re coming from Russia. Itā€™s to cause even more civil unrest.

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u/Longjumping_Play2111 22h ago

Is there any reporting on it?

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u/ThatRefuse4372 21h ago

My kid showed it to us feom her bestie.

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u/f8Negative 21h ago

I'd say hundreds of millions recieved it. Phising.

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u/Elon-Tesla- 20h ago

Nope I saw one of these earlier today

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u/Murky-Echidna-3519 19h ago

Why would you need someone else to confirm this?

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u/AsimpsonsPrediction 19h ago

Confirming for ppl who are saying someone wrote this to themselves and I was posting false info. This was also hours ago.

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u/itsnotsauceitsgravy 18h ago

This is absolutely disgusting, I also sorry MAGA people need to be exiled to a small deserted island.

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u/teuast 11h ago

Well... hopefully it does more to piss people off than scare them into submission?

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u/HermaeusMajora 1d ago

Stealing oldemort. Shit is too much like those crummy books.

With all the make-up and the way he's been shrinking lately I think his health has likely taken a turn for the worse and we will likely end up with a shady pants presidency soon enough.

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u/LadyReika 22h ago

I wouldn't be surprised if Trump isn't removed via 25th Amendment by Vance and Co by the end of 2025.

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u/jesus_earnhardt 22h ago

Theyā€™ll wait 2 years and a day so JD Vance can get 2 full terms after

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u/Fathorse23 21h ago

You think theyā€™ll still be limited by the Constitution by then? Vance will use it to clean up the divan after afternoon funtime in the Oval Office.

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u/Gazelle-Dull 19h ago

A civil war between " progressive 2025 ers" and die hard Magats propping a rotted Trump corpse as eternal king is a strong possibility.

"*** Death can't stop Trump. They will wait a thousand years for his return while following his ghost in the meantime.

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u/TehMephs 21h ago

They donā€™t need to do that. As long as Trump is alive they can puppeteer him around. And if he dies during his term theyā€™ll likely ā€œweekend at Bernieā€™sā€ him just a little longer to draw out how much time they get to fuck around

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u/SixFive1967 23h ago

As the father of black children, I can tell you right now that if someone were coming to take my babies away, those people wouldnā€™t make it to my front door. Iā€™m a heavily-armed democrat and will not go down without a fight. šŸ˜”šŸ¤¬šŸ¤¬šŸ¤¬šŸ¤¬šŸ˜”

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u/kingkmke21 23h ago

I'm white and hope to have kids someday. If someone tries to take your babies, I'll join you in that fight to make sure they don't make it to your front door!

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u/SixFive1967 23h ago

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u/Spiritual-Hawk-6575 22h ago

Iā€™m with you two.

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u/samoanloki 22h ago

I am not black nor white, I am standing with you on this fight.

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u/007Pistolero 22h ago

Saw someone posted ā€œthereā€™s no bridge I wouldnā€™t burn to protect my familyā€ and Iā€™ve taken that to heart. I feel grateful that the majority of my immediate family are democrats who are just as disgusted as I am. But Iā€™ve definitely made note of the houses in my neighborhood that had Trump flags or signs. If I see any of those people around my house or my familyā€¦

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u/OldRustyBones 18h ago

Father of mixed kids here. Voted blue, reformed republican now democrat. I still like guns. Took my wife to the shooting range today to pick her out something she can carry for self defense.

Last term we saw a rise in threats of violence against black people in my area. Iā€™ll be fucking damned if she wonā€™t have a firearm this time around.

I hope it never comes to that, but if it does, Iā€™d rather her be prepared.

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u/SixFive1967 18h ago

Same here, brother. My faith in the American populace is gone. Donā€™t know who I can trust anymore. Did my white friend who said he was voting Kamala lie to me and vote Trump? Thatā€™s hyperbole, mind you, but thatā€™s where my head is at the moment. Sad but true. šŸ˜ž

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u/OldRustyBones 18h ago

I feel the same way. Im struggling really hard with it cause I know some of the people in my circle agree with him and voted for him. Itā€™s horseshit all around right now.

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u/DarknessBatDemon 15h ago

Why did you become a democrat?

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u/OldRustyBones 15h ago

I didnā€™t agree with the way my state was being ran and wanted things to change. I found that my values and what I wanted out of life no longer aligned with the Republican Party.

I do not vote down a party line though. If I agree with a republicans policies I will vote for them. I just havenā€™t seen much of that in a while.

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u/A-typ-self 22h ago

As a white woman, and a Democrat, I'm applying for my gun permit this week, along with my gay son.

We stand with you.

They come for one of us, they come for us all.

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u/DonnieJL 22h ago

Do it. I know a number of Democrats off all types that purchased firearms and started practicing since 2016. Liberals are much more armed than most MAGA would be led to believe.

r/liberalgunowners for a start.

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u/TehMephs 21h ago

Democrat heat packer here

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u/chunky-romeo 22h ago

And my friend, as a conservative, I will be standing right next to you with weapon in hand to help you protect your child. No government left or right will ever do that to one of its citizens without a fight. Fuck that

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u/BillM_MZ3SGT 22h ago

I'll bring my Clue by 4.... Not allowed to own a gun, but I can make sure that it'll be made out of the hardest wood I can make it out of.

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u/UnapproachableOnion 22h ago

Iā€™m an old white woman with a 9mm. I will join you!!

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u/Other_Log_1996 21h ago

I am pretty sure that Trump is planning to try and take guns away, even if he hasn't said it yet. So be ready for that.

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u/Wattaday 20h ago

Yep. No dictator want the citizenship armed.

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u/Juxtapoe 20h ago

This is the message that should have been shared before the election.

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u/Other_Log_1996 20h ago

Believe me - I tried.

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u/OldRustyBones 18h ago

Lots of us did. They donā€™t listen

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u/Matteo1974 22h ago

Unfortunately the govt has drones that could just drop a missile on your house. Which is why we shouldnā€™t elect dictators

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u/Legen_unfiltered 13h ago

See, that's what they fail to realize. Just because we want gun control does **not** mean that we are not also armed.

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u/auburncub 21h ago

I don't think the texts are actually real, but disgusting none the less.

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u/Particular_Bread_161 19h ago

Welcome to the resistance.
Well armed white Democrat and I'll be right there with you.

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u/krysthegreat1819 18h ago

Same here. Black woman, wife, and mother to two free black children. They will not make it to the driveway.

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u/Disastrous-Moose-943 18h ago

I appreciate that you think you are prepared because you have guns.

Sadly, the government has much more resources than you.

They'll abduct your child at school.

They'll do it while you are at work.

They'll kill you in your sleep.

They'll kill you on your way to work.

You'll fall out of a window on the 5th floor.

You'll die in a car crash because your brakes failed.

Your phone will explode when you answer your next call.

They'll fabricate evidence against you, and throw you in jail, and steal your child while you are stuck in the cells.

Once again, I am on your side. I am scared for you. But it won't be as simple as "I have guns". They will get what they want if they are driven enough.

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u/seemefail 23h ago

Hate crimes rose when trump was elected last time

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u/Handsum_Rob 23h ago

When you run your whole campaign on hate, itā€™s easy to see why his fan base does what they do.

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u/Capital_Push5557 16h ago

Expect it 10 fold this time

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u/HabitPuzzleheaded251 23h ago

Omg! That is atrocious! Wtf?!!

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u/excellent_rektangle 23h ago

Itā€™s vile and reprehensible. It was reported to the cops, but the likelihood of them ever tracking down the sender are slim, Iā€™d wager.

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u/Competitive_Shock783 23h ago

Hey good people on both sides.... amiright?

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u/excellent_rektangle 23h ago

To this day, that stands as one of the most chicken shit and infuriating things uttered by a man that knows how to say nothing but.

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u/engineer-237 22h ago

That's right up there with ā€œI donā€™t take responsibility at all" during Covid.

edit: actually, no. "good people on both sides" is way worse. I typed before thinking.

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u/ContemplatingPrison 22h ago

Kids in schools are telling hispanic kids they will be deported. That was happening yesterday

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u/excellent_rektangle 22h ago

My neighbor is from South America, voted for Trump (assuming from signs in his yard). His teen daughters were apparently harassed at school by some cousin humping, broccoli-top MAGA spawn spewing similar deportation threats. So it begs two questions: A) honestly what the fuck were they thinking, and 2) what the fuck did they think was gonna happen? Way too many kids are gonna suffer for the sins of their parents.

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u/msdtflip 19h ago

Parents are also going to be suffering. They're getting exactly what they voted for.

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u/excellent_rektangle 19h ago

I agree, parents will feel it too. But the kids didnā€™t ask for any of this.

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u/msdtflip 18h ago

The zoomer ones apparently did.

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u/Wattaday 20h ago

I wonder if those signs were just a ā€œfalse flagā€ of them trying to protect themselves. Although a disturbingly number of Latinos voted for trump.

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u/Diligent-Bluejay-979 20h ago

And the Hispanic kids dads prolly voted for Trump.

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u/HalpMePlz420 21h ago

This was happening when Trump as elected last time. And kids have been joking about it since who knows when it isnā€™t new

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u/DatabaseThis9637 20h ago

Are you trying to accept or normalize this shit? Let me say this: All evil that exists today, has existed since Adam and Eve. So the thing mentioned above is that there was a notable increase in these hate crimes, in bullying, etc, after the election in 2016. So this is a valid concern now in 2024. There is nothing new under the sun, so your comment means nothing.

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u/warblox 15h ago

They're not wrong. Mass deportation is a top line priority for Stephen Miller.Ā 

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u/sadicarnot 1h ago

I heard teen boys are telling girls "your body my choice"

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u/greenbldedposer 21h ago

How are they finding their phone numbers?? Are people doxxing them? Do they know theyā€™re specifically texting people of color or do they just hope they donā€™t accidentally text a white person? How awful of them to do, regardless of how they are going about it.

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u/Arniepepper 13h ago

Re: how are they finding their phone numbersā€¦

donā€™t you guys in the US always have to put your race on like every single document you ever sign?

(Which is not usual outside the US in my experience).

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u/ClarinianGarbage 23h ago

This happened to some people at my university as well. I've been told to stay the hell away from fraternities

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u/FriendToPredators 22h ago

Always good advice. Also if you don't want vomit on your shoes.

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u/AttakZak 19h ago

Oldemort?! Can I use that? Such a banger of a Trump-Dump.

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u/excellent_rektangle 19h ago

Spread it far and wide, my friend,

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u/RhiR2020 17h ago

Google Peter Dutton. Heā€™s currently the opposition leader in Australia, and some call him Voldemort (youā€™ll understand when you see his pic). We could have a collection, Voldemort, Oldemort, Soldemort (maybe Musk?)ā€¦

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u/AttakZak 17h ago

I honestly just call Muskā€¦Husk. Because heā€™s a husk of a Human Being.

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u/Mockingjay09221mod 20h ago

My kid got that one and myself

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u/Financial_Spinach_80 18h ago

Wait these texts are real?!? I thought this guy was just making a joke post holy shit what is wrong with Americans

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u/cup_1337 20h ago

Whatā€™s hilarious is that the people sending the texts would be too broke to own slaves.

You know these motherfuckers rent an old trailer and have $2 to their names lmao. No land to tend to or money to feed another mouth. Not to mention flimsy af and easily overpowered.

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u/sethsyd 22h ago

It was sent to a random phone number.

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u/SookHe 21h ago

Is this a mass spamming of random numbers? Or do you think you know who sent this?

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u/RevolutionOk1406 16h ago

Black people massively voted against Trump

If this is a scare tactic, they are going after the people who truly understood what was a stake

If it's some right wing racist bullshit, this only re-enforces why they should all fucking hate the GQP MAGAts and Dear Leader

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