How can anyone support such petty, hateful, people? I just don’t get it.

  • merdaverse@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Cannot tolerate empathy in the upcoming purges. Hopefully their training will be useful in other ways.

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    Not American here. Could someone explain what kneeling during protest or during the national anthem or things like that mean?

    I’ve read it in a lot of news and I always have a hard time figuring out what the meaning of kneeling in that context is.

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      It’s a show of solidarity with a cause. Colin Kapernick started doing it during the national anthem to protest police brutality.

      These agents that were fired were likely exercising their 1st amendment right of free speech to express their support for racial justice.

      That they are being fired for supporting racial justice speaks volumes about the scared white people at the helm of the USA.

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    “You’re fired!”

    “On what grounds, sir?”

    “Showing respect and having decency. There’s no place for either in this agency.”

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    Organized crime owns America.

    Whitney Webb is is right.

    Its not far fetched at all…

    the American lifestyle keeps people naive on purpose. I said American but in truth all this shit is bigger than America. It’s most of the 1st worlds and they are prepping for a new world ownership.

    Its like nations aren’t nations anymore… They are a product or a tool. The nations made people stupid and naive and the people that understand chaos on a higher level get to use the people of the nation for their own agendas. It’s like the regular people are product. It’s like regular citizens are farm animals. …cattle. and all the individuallity and fake freedom of consumerism was our feed. And it doesn’t matter if you were successful enough to become a politician or FBI agent or CIA… If you made it to those successful positions it still doesn’t mean you’re not getting used and played out. The corruption of evil is deeply intertwined in every single aspect of life and sub cultures, from the streets to the mainstream. It’s easier to just buy shit and consume, or submit to the false dreams of what is considered “success” then it is to admit that’s reality.

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      This is so beyond flakes. This is the fascist purge of the “disloyal” before a full on dictatorship…

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    How?

    1. acknowledge the genocide would have continued under either party, regardless. Don’t educate yourself that no country holds sway over another - it’s working so well with Russia, NK, Iran, Cuba, etc. and that no one person flips a country’s policies on a dime.

    2. latch on to one statement that one candidate said in a political setting that triggers an issue you think you can signal, so you can turf over your own personal biases about that candidate

    3. ignore the proven track record of revenge, pettiness, narcissism of the other candidate. I’m gonna leave out any attempts at insurrection, association with pedophiles, corscion, intimidation and gross negligence in his business and personal interests

    4. either sit it out your vote, or vote in protest because you didn’t prefer either candidate and the parties owe it to you, to present you with blatantly palatable choices, never mind that one is obviously going to destroy the country

    5. act surprised that a candidate you didn’t want rises to the highest office in the land, then proceed to double down on the above when everything cones crashing doen around you.

    6. Do everything except 1)

    That’s how.

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      No country holds sway over another - that’s gotta be most moronic ape shit i have red in a long time so thanks.

      I hope you are a U.S. citizen

  • Maeve@kbin.earth
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    How can anyone support such petty, hateful, people? I just don’t get it.

    They are hateful and petty people themselves.

    The FBI has fired agents who were photographed kneeling at a protest in Washington that followed the 2020 death One helped oversee investigations into the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. Another served as acting director in the early days of the Trump administration and resisted Justice Department demands to supply the names of agents who investigated Jan. 6. A third was incorrectly rumored on social media to have participated in the investigation into Trump’s retention of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. A lawsuit filed last week by three of the fired agents alleged that Patel understood the firings were “likely illegal” but had to carry them out because he was ordered to do so by the White House. Patel has denied taking orders from the White House on whom to fire and has said anyone who has been fired failed to meet bureau standards.

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    Just a single sliver of indirectly-related memory-paraphrased context which may hopefully be helpful:

    I worked for the U.S. government from 2010-2018. In my new-hire handbook, government employees and contractors were directed to not portray a political alignment while working in an official capacity (say, while wearing a uniform or other identifying clothing, while using a government vehicle, etc) regardless of political party. We were allowed normal civilian rights if presenting as a civilian. Some form of administrative action was mentioned if this rule was broken, presumably up to and including termination of employment.

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    Are these two events even related? The kneeling happened 5 years ago and the article says it was around 20 agents let go. Says they were also reassigned last spring, which was under Biden.

    Why were they all let go?

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    You think they should be trying to reduce the amount of hate, but their goal is to increase the amount of hate. I agree with you. Reducing the amount of hate is key to a stable society.

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    Pulling the, “Colin Kaepernick” play huh?

    Embarrassing! Freedom of speech but only for, “THEE not ME” strategy… lovely!

    America is crumbling, we can’t even make it past 250 years, savages are ruling the country!

    Time to “throw our tea” in the ocean and protest!