President Donald Trump ranted on Truth Social that teaching about America's history of slavery is unacceptable. "The Museums throughout Washington, but all over the Country are, essentially, the last remaining segment of 'WOKE.' The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL, where everything discussed is how ho...
  • WanderWisley@lemmy.world
    29·
    2 days ago

    The trump museum needs to be filled with the Epstein files and all his felonies and bankruptcies and tweets and…

  • Azal@pawb.socialEnglish
    17·
    2 days ago

    Ah look, the continuation of proving that we lost the Civil War 160 years later. This is one of the major tenets of the Lost Cause myth of the confederacy.

    I’m sure I’m going to get banned somewhere by constantly saying this because some conservative snowflake is going to cry I said nasty things about traitors from a century ago, but one of the top 10 worst things the US did for the long run was not publicly hang every confederate officer and instead let them go around and let them cry that they were being bullied for states rights enslaving people.

  • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works
    182·
    3 days ago

    This Country cannot be WOKE, because WOKE IS BROKE. We have the ‘HOTTEST’ Country in the World, and we want people to talk about it, including in our Museums

    This man is the president of the United States.

    • Cort@lemmy.world
      42·
      3 days ago

      No, that’s too stupid, even for him, to be a direct quo . . . No he actually said it

    • phutatorius@lemmy.zip
      9·
      2 days ago

      We have the ‘HOTTEST’ Country in the World

      The climate crisis is making it ‘HOTTER’ but it’s still not the hottest.

    • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      2 days ago

      It might be time to admit that the Union is over. 200+ years is not a bad stretch for a nation. But when the very nature of its culture and structure allows this kind of “representation” to lead it, we need to all admit that it’s not just a wee lil’ fracture we need to fix, the whole thing is shattered and laying in a pool of blood.

      I for one am going to be seeking citizenship in the Cascadian States, hopefully we will have enough money and naval bases to defend against the Bezos Collective’s drones and the Muksavites should they ever set aside their feud long enough to mount a proper offensive.

    • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      This man is the president of the United States.

      Yup. Pretty bleak reminder that our culture is rotten to the core.

    • waddle_dee@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 days ago

      What kills me about this is, Sunny just had an episode where they constantly said, “Go woke, go broke”. We live in a sitcom.

    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
      4·
      2 days ago

      I wouldn’t doubt it simply due to my inherent biases and opinions, but apparently it’s a pretty murky happening to confidently designate it as “fact.”

      https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/mar/28/facebook-posts/heres-whats-known-about-fred-trumps-arrest-after-k/

      Apparently there were a lot of bystanders and citizens arrested for “not dispersing” during a parade staged by the Klan, and Fred Trump was amongst those detained, but we don’t know what side he was on, as it turned into a bit of a free-for-all. (We’re of course, free to make educated guesses, based on evident values held by that family.)

      This however, of course, does not change the fact that regardless of that event, his son is an always-lying, child-raping, diaper-shitting, Hitler-adoring, woman-abusing, worker-exploiting, barely-human, war-mongering, fascist waste of homo-sapien DNA who won’t own up to the existence of thorough records of those activities.

  • selkiesidhe@sh.itjust.works
    15·
    2 days ago

    The Pedo Party really wants to make slavery a thing again…

    Capitalism and trickle-down is the closest they’re getting, they want that last step to being able to physically OWN people.

    🖕🤬🖕

    • FuckFascism@lemmy.world
      52·
      2 days ago

      We should take away capitalism and trickle-down. Socialism is the only viable option I can see.

      • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
        2·
        2 days ago

        The funniest part is how, if we snapped our fingers and were a socialist nation tomorrow, I bet the vast majority of holdouts with a few remaining brain cells would be saying things like

        “Woah, I don’t have to pay most of my income to insurance companies? My brother who got fired isn’t gonna be instantly thrown out on the street? Where’s THIS been all my life?”

        • FuckFascism@lemmy.world
          21·
          2 days ago

          Yep I think another problem is so many people don’t even realize what socialism really is thanks to years of propaganda.

  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    71·
    3 days ago

    Complains about a history museum not focusing enough on the future… It’s whole purpose is to tell the story of the past leading up till now. If he wants to know about African Americans in space go to the space and rocket museum or NASA or hell I’m sure the Smithsonian even has exhibits. But what does he expect to see.

    Near 100 years African Americans couldn’t vote, more than 100 years Women couldn’t vote, and decades of voter suppression of both groups after that. Less than 250 years to work with, oppression is going to show up in chunks of it. Especially when 69 million Women could face troubles voting again if the Save Act goes into effect, and already passed Congress. That’s about 20% of our country… Or to put it in terms of comparison, all of the UK, more than the entire population of France or ~210 of the 230 countries in the world.

    • -RJ-@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      3 days ago

      African Americans and Women’s aren’t allowed in space. That would be a DEI hire

    • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      2 days ago

      Only if you haven’t been paying attention and have listened to all the centrists and liberals try to downplay conservatism in America for the last several decades.

      I fucking swear we’re going to be in line for the gas chambers and there’s going to be some smug liberal or centrist behind us going “Look, if Harris had won, we would probably be in the same situation right now, besides it’s probably not going to be as bad as you fearmongers are making it out to be!”

  • Goun@lemmy.ml
    36·
    3 days ago

    Ohhhh snap! I’m literally 100% totally absolutely all completely shocked they’re gonna white wash slavery.

    • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      2 days ago

      I am being told by people every day that I’m being “overreactive” and that I’m “fearmongering” for saying that they’re going to go after gay marriage next, then after that, interracial marriage. (They will attack it under the guise of “protecting the US from terrorists seeking citizenship through marriage,” and millions will buy it.)

      After that, if they are allowed to continue this reign of brain-damage, they will repeal civil rights and start segregation all over again. This sets things up nicely for a return to slave trades using the vast commercial prison complex already profiting from collecting black slaves.

    • Xanthrax@lemmy.world
      16·
      3 days ago

      Dog, have you heard of “black fatigue” recently? Racists are having a “mask off moment,” again, for sure.

      • unconsequential@slrpnk.net
        11·
        3 days ago

        Yeah first time I heard that term I was like “well yeah after consistently fighting for emancipation, civil rights, and combating systemic racism for generations I’d be tired too…” then I learned how and who was using it and I was like woah wtf is this nonsense ?!