• bazus1@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    [security contractors joined by officers hailing from across the federal government] converged for a mission dubbed “Operation Diligent Valor,” authorized under Executive Order 13933, purportedly to apprehend “anarchists and left-wing extremists” who’d been driven by Floyd’s murder to target U.S. monuments commemorating slave owners and Confederate traitors — dangerous individuals, Trump said, advancing a “fringe ideology” painting the U.S. government as “fundamentally unjust.”

    Irony is dead.

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      My p-doc is from Vietnam and went on an unsolicited rant on how you should never trust the government. Trump is literally the inverse of sanity.

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        At this point, the people who like him aren’t looking for sanity. They’re looking for their daily Two Minutes Hate.

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          …that actually makes a disturbing amount of sense. a very disturbing amount of sense.

          I’m gonna go smoke a joint