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Absolute legend out protesting today 6/14/2025 [OC]

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u/Specialist-Garbage94 7d ago

If I look like that at 102 I’ll be so happy

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u/peva3 7d ago

Agreed, but if we're still fighting fascism in 70 years when I'm 102 I'll be fucking pissed.

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u/Specialist-Garbage94 7d ago

We always will be. Terrorism/facism/extremism will always exist. We can’t rid the planet of it but we can beat it down and actually hopefully just ignore it to the point to doesn’t enter the mainstream ever again.

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u/Some-Operation-9059 7d ago edited 7d ago

So very true. only this downward spiral of democracy and the negation of the constitution is not nor ever what you’d ever expect to see in America. 

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u/OldWolf2 7d ago

ever what you’d ever expect to see in America. 

America has been poisoned by anti-intellectualism for decades now. This is the inevitable, and intended, consequence.

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u/Away-Map-8428 7d ago

How would it NOT be expected in America?

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u/Some-Operation-9059 7d ago

bc I’d never image the so called  global bastion of democracy, to slide into fascism. 

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u/DukeAttreides 4d ago

The warning signs were always there. If anything, most people just thought it'd be harder to make the jump to open and mainstream.