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orangecrush

(28,705 posts)
Fri Jan 16, 2026, 11:30 AM 4 hrs ago

"What kind of American are you?" (graphic warning)


This is what ICE is going to evolve into if not stopped.

And sooner than most think.


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"What kind of American are you?" (graphic warning) (Original Post) orangecrush 4 hrs ago OP
Schumer and Jeffries gab13by13 3 hrs ago #1
Ya better get your RED HAT Traildogbob 3 hrs ago #2
Orange Pinochet orangecrush 3 hrs ago #3
Spot on Traildogbob 3 hrs ago #4
Squeeze him until the pulp drips out. alfredo 3 hrs ago #5
:) Solly Mack 3 hrs ago #8
Save the Whales! Have you Traildogbob 3 hrs ago #10
Pulp or malaise 3 hrs ago #11
Yeah, I'm scared. orangecrush 3 hrs ago #9
Good god jfz9580m 3 hrs ago #6
"Civil War" orangecrush 3 hrs ago #7
Sounds apolitical jfz9580m 2 hrs ago #12
No overt political statement was needed orangecrush 1 hr ago #13
Man, Jesse Plemons is great at playing a banally evil scumbag. LudwigPastorius 1 hr ago #14

Traildogbob

(12,608 posts)
2. Ya better get your RED HAT
Fri Jan 16, 2026, 11:48 AM
3 hrs ago

Forget about a Passport, get a RED HAT and a MAGA carved into your forehead, Like Pitt did to Natzeeeees.
God be Blessin MurKKKa. The White God.

Traildogbob

(12,608 posts)
10. Save the Whales! Have you
Fri Jan 16, 2026, 12:20 PM
3 hrs ago

Ever seen the people of the Artics slice apart a whale for the blubber to heat their homes and become a food source for them to survive ?
Save The Whales and instead of buying Greenland, let’s Sell trump to them, for a dollar and in return Video them as they fillet him for the blubber to heat their homes for a year. (Not recommended for human consumption) Then feed the scraps to the sled dogs, for their justice of trump killing a litter of puppies 🐶 in front of one of his Epstein victims, (a young male) just for his pleasure to see horror in the child’s eyes.

jfz9580m

(16,624 posts)
6. Good god
Fri Jan 16, 2026, 12:05 PM
3 hrs ago

What movie is that? That’s one creepy clip..
Okay apparently it is that movie “Civil War”…
Man..That was creepy.

orangecrush

(28,705 posts)
7. "Civil War"
Fri Jan 16, 2026, 12:10 PM
3 hrs ago

"Civil War (2024) is a dystopian action-thriller by Alex Garland about a team of journalists traveling across a near-future, fractured United States during a second American civil war, aiming to reach Washington, D.C., to interview the President before rebel forces take the capital. Starring Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny, and Nick Offerman, the film follows the journalists as they navigate battlefields and witness the conflict's brutality, focusing on their journey and experiences rather than the war's political origins."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_War_(film)#:~:text=Civil%20War%20is%20a%202024,London%20later%20in%20the%20year.

jfz9580m

(16,624 posts)
12. Sounds apolitical
Fri Jan 16, 2026, 01:18 PM
2 hrs ago
https://alaskalandmine.com/landmines/what-kind-of-american-are-you-a-review-of-alex-garlands-film-civil-war/

I have always felt that Hollywood like much of the entertainment industry is essentially apolitical.
I sometimes express things in seemingly apolitical terms where I feel the internet can further weaponize any rhetoric on any ongoing wars, religion, racial strife, gender. But I never fail to get the points the most honest type of left makes.

It is more seeing how irl human nature is exploited using the net especially to polarize along those lines while keep corporations and spooks above the fray.

I was sad to see this entirely needless disagreement (imo at least) between some lefties who are mostly on the same side in most material or philosophical senses. They were disagreeing rancorously largely on messaging (or at least that is how I read it..I like all three of them and felt they should join hands to attack Google, Facebook etc over argue ;-/):

https://equalityalec.substack.com/p/conventional-wisdom-and-popularity


That “both sides” stuff is bunk, but communication can backfire and go down pointless avenues that help all these mercernary or mercenary and far right grifters.

I’d roughly say, the best type of left argument is more honest 65-75%of the times in constrast to the average right argument, especially in such a right-shifted society. It is getting people to see that which is hard as these grifters in various kinds of media use emotive messaging to incite everyone and keep people hooked, fearful, anxious well beyond what is useful or necessary in order to be informed/prepared. Hope it goes back to bite them eventually.

I do agree with Garland though about how some people who are vocal and claim it is social concern (e.g.: The Atlantic’s oped writers or that ass David Brooks, Jonathan Haidt 🤮 ) are full of it..
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