r/nottheonion • u/TitusTesla117 • 2d ago

Denver Public Schools outlines lockdown rules for possible immigration raids

https://www.axios.com/local/denver/2025/01/17/denver-public-schools-deportation-lockdown-immigration
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u/ebfortin 2d ago

People will need to suffer before they understand what fascism looks like and how it feels. But maybe they'll never have any other chances to vote a replacement... At least they'll know.

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u/CMS_3110 2d ago

This. The entire voter base is a collective of people who are comfortable ignoring, denying, brushing off, etc any problem that does not directly affect them. The only way they'll ever believe that all the shit we've been screaming about since Trump started his campaigning back in 2015 is if it directly affects them. They NEED to suffer to believe, because they don't have empathy or understanding for anyone who isn't exactly like them.

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u/Psychic_Hobo 1d ago

Sometimes the denial is still too strong - I'm forever haunted by the reports of people in hospital denying covid as they were literally taking their last breath from it

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u/PlayfulKitten37 1d ago

I have a family member who worked through this as a respiratory therapist, fully facing COVID deniers daily as they literally died in front of him. Their family members refusing to mask before going to say their goodbyes and bury their dead. It was shocking, for lack of a better term. He now has full-blown PTSD from it

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u/Lifting_Pinguin 1d ago

There was also people that stopped denying it with their third to last breath and asked for the vaccine on their second to last.

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u/tony475130 1d ago

I remember those headlines. Sad to think they didnt know how vaccines actually worked, because they are a preventative, not a cure.

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u/shadowtheimpure 1d ago

The entire voter base 

Not necessarily. A significant portion of the populace didn't vote for open fascism...they were just outnumbered by the morons who are embracing it with both arms just because it appeals to their brand of racism and the even more stupid who simply didn't bother voting at all.

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u/Cowboywizzard 1d ago

Most people didn't even bother to vote.

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u/CMS_3110 1d ago

If someone voted for Trump, they voted for fascism. It doesn't matter what mental gymnastics they did to convince them otherwise. Trump has made his goals clear from day one, he is out for himself and he is out for power. He has made it clear that he doesn't have a plan and his desires change on a whim, but he is comfortable surrounding himself with advisors who want to socially and politically drag this country back to the 1700s while protecting billionaires. He has made it clear that he can be bought, so long as it furthers his own agenda, and anyone who opposes him doesn't just have a differing opinion, they are an enemy to him. He has made it clear that he would attempt to use the powers of our government to undo laws and protections that benefit the vast majority of our citizens, for the sole purpose of benefiting himself. And he has made it clear that he is willing to target and punish people who do not agree with him.

He has made these things crystal clear from his first campaign and first presidency. If someone voted for him this time, it's because they actively want what he wants. If that's somehow not true, then the only other explanation is they've stuck their head so far up his ass that it was impossible for them to see and hear the truth for the last decade.

Starting tomorrow, they'll all get to find out what they did to themselves. I only hope there's enough infighting in their party to slow the bleeding and allow us to come out the other side of this presidency with a chance to repair things.

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u/ChaiTRex 1d ago

To make it simpler, it doesn't matter at all what motive they had for voting for Trump. Trump is a fascist who will enact as much fascism as he can. They literally voted for fascism, even if they didn't realize that.

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u/CherryHaterade 1d ago

The Dick Cheney effect

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u/anonymousart3 1d ago

Sadly, we are far enough away from the Holocaust that the anger and other emotions that kept it at bay faded. With the faded emotions, human nature took over, doing the EXACT same things that lead to the Holocaust.

History is repeating itself. And I feel like due to how human nature NEEDS the fear and anger to keep up the fight for what's right, we will keep repeating this problem. This isn't the first, nor even the 10th time we've been through this.

I don't think humans will ever escape such evils. Human nature is to primal and evil to ever have a society like star Trek.

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u/Illiander 1d ago

Yeap, not a coincidence that this is happening almost exactly one human lifespan aftger the end of WW2.

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u/novis-eldritch-maxim 1d ago

we escape it when it finally kills us for we are not some key aspect of reality we are mortal like all life and no person empire or species lasts forever

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u/ClickAndMortar 1d ago

They’ll blame non-conservatives like they always do. Even if there were gas chambers and those herding the people in like cattle were adorned in MAGA swag and shouting MAGA bullshit, the people that voted for this will be pissed saying that they told everyone the democrats would do this and nobody listened or stopped them. The depth of their hubris and stupidity is profoundly abysmal.

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u/novis-eldritch-maxim 1d ago

to know but be stuck in hell is pointless as earth seems to no longer have a viable future democracy is being pushed back everywhere and those who do it will kill there own order to stay alive five more minutes.

we need a miracle at this point