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[–] [email protected] 216 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I just hope federal services (like applying for a passport) don't become Twitter-only after Trump appoints Elon as Secretary of Enshittification.

[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (29 children)

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I've made a huge mistake breaking my personal rule to avoid all political content and I've regretted that immediately

[–] [email protected] 112 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Thing is, mate.....fascists rarely stay inside their boarders. This is going to be the whole world's problem in about 3 months.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maybe for the rest of our lives, however long that is...

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (2 children)

upside: maybe fashism will kill us all before climate does? yay?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

With the fascist in power they're going to speed up the climate destruction

So maybe the fascist will kill us with the climate

yay?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm glad you guys are looking at the bright side of life 😊

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

🎶 Always look at the bright side of life.... 🎶

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The image shows former U.S. President Donald Trump looking up at the sky, squinting with a slight smile. He is wearing a dark suit with a blue-striped tie, and his face is tilted upward, giving him a look of curiosity or amusement. The background suggests an outdoor setting, likely near a building or structure.

It's so bright I feel it in my retinas.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Tell me about it.

https://lemmy.hacktheplanet.be/pictrs/image/c5f32917-80fc-4f73-9ba2-36da9cd1eeb7.jpeg

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'd rather eat rats and survive inside a hole in the ground in 45⁰C weather than die in a war, but that's just me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Cute rats are more delicious because they are healthier!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

NGL dying due to climate is definitely preferable to dying due to fascist hunting people like me

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

international us policy is very similar between republicans and democrats. you guys are already the whole worlds problem. 🌍🧑‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀

im sorry but trump will be your problem. until the empire decides to turn up the violence dial again that is, which is something both parties do sometimes.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Trump wants adulation, not conquest. Push come to shove you can get him out of the oval office by making him figurehead Emperor, as long as it comes with immunity he'll accept.

On a scale of Mussolini to Hitler, he's like 250% towards Mussolini.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Cute that you think it'll only last for 4 years.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago

4 years if laws and constitution stay the same and are followed.. first term he had people alienated into him who were at least slightly appropriated for their positions, this time people who has nothing to do with their positions are being appointed simply for being loyal to him... Let's see if any of them won't let him do anything drastic within 4 YEARS

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It’s more than 4 years. We just crawled out of Trump inflation and now are going right back in.

Dismantling and breaking is easy. They can do a lot of that in 4 yrs. Building takes decades.

There’s also a global effect. Would Putin have ever attacked Ukraine without a Trump term? How about Israel’s taking self defense into genocide territory?

America leads by example and the last example was an impulsive 3 yo with a giant military force and a dead diplomacy department in the executive branch. There’s permissiveness in that.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago

You mean head of DOGE? Because we live in the timeline where a terminally online edgelord with the brain of a 14yo and the body of a 54yo makes meme government agencies.

Anyway, get your passport now. They're good for ten years, enough to last at least through the tentative end of Trump's circus.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (4 children)

The new online passport process is unbelievably good

They better not ruin it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

oh yah i just renewed using the new process, got my passport back in less than 2 weeks.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Narrator: they ruined it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Ooh, thanks for the reminder! Mine expires next year. Best renew it now before they fuck that up, too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Just tell all your friends to do a passport. It will be ready if shit hits the fan and they must leave the country.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

The fact that this is an actual possibility is absolutely hilarious.