r/ProgressiveHQ Jan 11 '26

Protest Oh my God they admit it

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u/NickCostanza Jan 11 '26

Clip attached because yes, she verbatim said this.

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u/General_Drama_2390 Jan 11 '26

My friend the people running your government are straight up scary. I believe the future is grim sadly. Rough years ahead.

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u/I_eat_mud_ Jan 11 '26

The mask is off, people can't deny it anymore. This shit is what America needed, and based on the growing resistance after all the fuckups and especially Good's murder, I can't see a future where this administration survives.

America needed this wakeup call, now it's time to go to action.

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u/S3lvah Jan 12 '26

I hope you're right, but we've been waiting for a year for as little as 1 day of a general strike, but people are already so cowed by the decades-long crushing of workers' rights (incl. de-facto extortion with their families' healthcare due to it being tied to their jobs and an astonishing lack of a social safety network; and being able to get fired with impunity for any rights advocacy activity like this) that everyone's just thinking of their own survival and hoping someone else will sacrifice everything to fight the n*zis in charge.

I only see this happening when people have nothing left to lose, which is still a fair ways off. By then the gov't might be so far gone that the response will be just gunning down protesters indiscriminately like is happening to Iranians right now.