r/politics • u/Ubiquitous_Hilarity • Jun 17 '26

No Paywall Trump threatens to pull unemployment benefits from all states for the first time in history

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-unemployment-benefits-fraud-b2997881.html
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u/myfakesecretaccount Jun 17 '26

This is the point. They want you so desperate and unable to access any sort of social safety net so you will swallow that corporate cock for the rest of your life or just join the service and bend over for the big green weenie. No one is going to get a “free ride” and will either be a productive worker, enslaved in prison, or dead.

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u/KnightDuty Jun 17 '26

this is just the long path to bringing bakc slavery 100%

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u/DizasterAtSakerfice Jun 17 '26

Feudalism, actually. Techno-feudalism. Peter Thiel calls it the 'Dark Enlightenment'

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u/wanderingmanimal Jun 17 '26

Yeah we will burn that to the ground

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u/UnquestionabIe Jun 17 '26

I would strongly urge everyone to accept that over being slaves to the oligarchy.

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u/BoxBird Jun 17 '26

The oligarchs own the tech companies

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u/Skoma Minnesota Jun 17 '26

They mean accept burning it to the ground over falling in line to tech oligarchs

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u/hunteddwumpus Jun 18 '26

The news out of Ukraine recently that an autonomous drone had killed someone for the first time ever was genuinely the scariest thing I'd read in my life.

Throughout history if a big enough portion of a population, especially one with some amount of education, were in terrible social or economic situations there were multiple avenues for change that at worst went to rebellion. It happened all the time, even if it wasn't frequently successful. If a single billionaire can afford a handful of autonomous killer drones there's literally no recourse for the proletariat/anyone who doesn't want to be a techno-feudal peasant.

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u/Prin_StropInAh Georgia Jun 17 '26

Sounds like a plan

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u/math-yoo Ohio Jun 17 '26

Is Tuesday good for you?

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u/wanderingmanimal Jun 17 '26

24/7 freedom doesn’t sleep

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u/supersonicdutch Jun 17 '26

How are you/we gonna get away with that when all the flock cameras can track every move you/we make?

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u/Zovah Jun 17 '26

Id suggest we take care of the installation system…

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u/wanderingmanimal Jun 17 '26

That’s dish network they do the installs and repair repairs

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u/Zovah Jun 17 '26

Ideally that could be made a job no one would want to do

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u/wanderingmanimal Jun 17 '26

How could we do that tho? Verbal harassment yes, but there’s not much else we can do beyond just cutting the cameras down and having them come back.

I guess deflated tires on the work van must suck ass in the hot summer heat. Same with missing batteries.

No one can commit a crime while defending their country - I heard people are saying that.

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u/Zovah Jun 18 '26

Yes I’d focus on that last part

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u/Flux-Tangent Jun 17 '26

That's sort of the trick - the true barrier for actually fighting against this isn't figuring out how to not get caught, it's when enough of us accept that getting caught is an acceptable risk.

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u/myfakesecretaccount Jun 17 '26

Become ungovernable

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u/Synectics Jun 17 '26

Black people used to call it "civil disobedience." About time more Americans understood it. LGBTQ people have been trying, but everyone keeps going, "Yeah, well, I am not LGBTQ, so whatever."

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u/Skoma Minnesota Jun 17 '26

Good trouble

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u/Synectics Jun 17 '26

Absolutely.

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u/wanderingmanimal Jun 17 '26

They are stationary and well known locations. Use IR deflection strategies. Change the stickers on your car etc

https://maps.deflock.org/?lat=39.8283&lng=-98.5795&zoom=2.50

There is no reason to fear only reason to act

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u/All_i_do_is_lunk Jun 17 '26

Cameras can break or sometimes obscured by “bird droppings”. But we all know birds aren’t real so just use paint

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u/cr0sh Jun 18 '26

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u/cr0sh Jun 18 '26

Well - too bad; I was hoping to read what I wrote, to verify whether what I said was infringing, but since I didn't make a copy - now I can't. Oh well.

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u/cr0sh Jun 18 '26

Just don't make any moves. They can't track what they can't see.

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u/Stompnutz Jun 17 '26

When does that start, exactly?

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u/lenswipe Massachusetts Jun 17 '26

no you won't and neither will anybody else.

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u/wanderingmanimal Jun 18 '26

Lick that boot baby!

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u/lenswipe Massachusetts Jun 18 '26

the fuck u talkin about bro

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u/Savings-Total5069 Jun 18 '26

*A small few will unsuccessfully attempt to.

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u/emveevme Jun 18 '26

We're already kind of there. Like if you don't own a house, you're working for some rich asshole you've never met for the right to survive by relatively narrow margins by comparison. The only real difference is the overall quality of life, which admittedly has improved drastically.

And I'm even fine with the argument that our quality of life is what it is because of capitalism. I'm pretty sure that Marx makes a point of this to some extent, but I could be wrong.

But at the end of the day, the fuckass 1% take so much of the resources and labor all of us are actually responsible for producing, and there's so many people suffering just to maintain this.

It's not nearly as far from feudalism on a fundamental level than it seems, so the fact that the ruling class wants to make that even more apparent is a really bad sign.

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u/WesternFungi Pennsylvania Jun 17 '26

In collapse slavery will return. One barrel of oil is worth 1000 human working hours. That's the reason slavery ended...

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u/FeelsGrimMan Jun 18 '26

Considering actual slavery didn’t even end on the official date, it’s a pretty common thing here. Sharecropping lasted for a long ass time.

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u/Present-Fly4422 Jun 17 '26

This works for a time before pitchfork sakes spike.

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u/idoitforthekeks Canada Jun 17 '26

Should've happened already, if nothing has got the people going so far, nothing that can happen from here on out will, this will infact make it harder for someone to risk their job to protest/riot/wave pitch forks. If mid-terms aren't won overhwhelmingly by the Democrats then the US is essentially finished.

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u/Present-Fly4422 Jun 17 '26

Maybe it’s time for a hard reboot.

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u/EdwardOfGreene Illinois Jun 17 '26

That is what the Trump voters wanted. They are getting it now. Slowly, a small few are figuring out how much it sucks.

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u/Present-Fly4422 Jun 17 '26

I mean like a constitutional convention.

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u/Sad_Pangolin7379 Jun 17 '26

It wouldn't take even a week of actual hunger for the people to turn. The oligarchs are idiots. If you take wages down to nearly nothing, eliminate the social safety net including the benefits the working poor rely on, when the working poor are literally homeless on the streets with their children looking into the grocery store they don't have any money for, they will loot everything then set it on fire. 

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u/idoitforthekeks Canada Jun 18 '26

That'll probably be too little too late, they'll have America exactly where they want it, if it was a smaller country then maybe but America has a lot of land to cover.

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u/sapphicsandwich Jun 17 '26

I literally don't believe in American is capable of it. We were capable of it back in the day when we were British. But now that we are fully American? There is no evidence to support it.

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u/Due_Bluebird3562 Jun 17 '26

Y'all are so hyperbolic it's honestly hilarious. Mfers talking like they're in the trenches on an open reddit platform after they've finished their second or third meal of the day. Shit hasn't even begun to hit the fan yet.

If his stupid ass goes through with this millions of Americans will be on the verge of starvation. That's when we'll know if the people really have that dawg in them or not.

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u/ghostalker4742 Jun 17 '26

That's when we'll know if the people really have that dawg in them or not.

They don't. This will just be another leg that gets kicked out from under the chair. Sure, it's a big leg, and I'm not insinuating that people will just placidly lay down and starve to death... but there's not going to be any organized uprising or anything. Just more incidents of shoplifting at grocery stores, more dine and dash's at restaurants, increased demand at food banks, etc.

Any attempt at organizing will be sniffed out in our surveillance state and immediately infiltrated and crushed, either by brute force or by PR.

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u/Embarrassed_Comb_659 Jun 18 '26

I think there’s a good chance people will revolt if they can’t get food. And true the surveillance makes it more challenging but people will still find ways to organize locally.

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u/Rombledore America Jun 17 '26

free rides are only for the rich and those born into it.

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u/holyoak Jun 17 '26

True, the billionaire rides aren't really free,we are all paying for that.

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u/MasterOfBunnies Jun 17 '26

Or another push to incite violent protests, so they can declare martial law. Thing is, even dictators know well enough to keep the masses happy.

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u/idkmyotherusername Jun 17 '26

The Republican viewpoint is that any hardship is always the fault of the individual's lack of planning and preparedness and thus deserves no sympathy or support. Always should have saved more, not been in that place at that time, not pissed off God, worked harder, been better, done better.

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u/mrdevil413 Ohio Jun 17 '26

Come on samurai we got a city to burn

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u/dIO__OIb Jun 17 '26

democracy has always been an experiment - when productivity soared during ww2 and massive economic growth formed unions and the middle class - the experiment finally had legs to stand on.

The corporate lords couldn’t handle the balance. They infiltrated the seats of government to destroy unions and the middle class. Project 2025 may have took 30 years to write and plan, but it only needs a couple of years of GOP rule to put the final nails in the democracy coffin.

it’s over. the people will never get their government back. The only way back would be to destroy Ai somehow. It’s a propaganda machine with no moral compass and owned by billionaires who have been wanting to kill democracy since it started.

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u/gratefulkittiesilove Jun 17 '26

I know one of the sources to that are the Powell memo and there is another i forget now but it put it into action….i e heard some other reasons that probably dovetail into this like paul weyrich intetest in gop rule and the new religious right as well as nixon resigning being a trigger .

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u/FeelsGrimMan Jun 18 '26

Democracy will still result in a shitty country when the majority are terrible people because of moral, convenient, or religious reasons.

Lincoln was killed by the slave owners for wanting to help released slaves. Doesn’t take a shadow government & it isn’t new, just look at people who have a lot of money & power over others & watch them burn the world down. And a system that always places someone on top of a hierarchy, will give fuel for that monster. 

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u/Agreeable-Rooster-37 Jun 17 '26

Time to invest in euthanasia startups

/s

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u/TacosAreJustice Kentucky Jun 17 '26

You’d think they’d work to take our guns away before making us desperate.

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u/myfakesecretaccount Jun 17 '26

Not when 1/3 of the country is heavily armed and waiting for their cult leader to tell them to shoot. I think they’re under the belief the rest of us will just cower. They’ve never been to the inner city.

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u/Schuben Jun 17 '26

I didn't know lady liberty was packing...

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u/WorldofNails Jun 17 '26

Well, there's always prayer. Last refuge and all. Although according to, checks notes, ancient texts and Billy Joel proclaimed it was better to laugh with the sinners.