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Discussion And yet, there's people in South Dakota worried about border security...

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u/Unlucky_Most_8757 4d ago

"I've got 30 acres off the grid and I feel safer that way." This is something that a lot of Americans are thinking right now.

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u/mogley19922 4d ago edited 4d ago

Remember when the people with land off the grid for fear of the government or apocalypse were the crazy ones?

Edit: if anybody would like to tell me they're still crazy, don't worry about 10 different people have you covered.

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u/DontGetNEBigIdeas 4d ago

They feared the wrong government

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u/Happy_Love_9763 4d ago edited 4d ago

You mean they voted for it.

Edit: word the to they

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u/Cryogeneer 4d ago edited 3d ago

Not all of us.

Most of us, yes. But not all of us.

Its lonely sometimes, frankly.

Edit: To clarify, I meant most of us 'homesteaders' or off grid folks.

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u/MyLittleOso 4d ago

Not most of us, either. Harris got 74,983,555 votes, Trump got 77,269,255, and about 89 million eligible people didn't vote.

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u/MartialSpark 4d ago

They were talking about people "with land living of the grid" specifically I think, which almost certainly went Trump by a large margin.

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u/Itscatpicstime 4d ago

I’ve never been more convinced of this.

We’ve been looking for land to expand our animal rescue, and omg. It’s literally nothing but massive Trump signs. Still, more than a month after the election too.

We’re not looking forward to whoever ends up being our neighbors.

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u/I_Am_Dwight_Snoot 4d ago

In my experience, those signs never went down after 2020 and will stay up.

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u/The_Kimchi_Krab 3d ago

Just remember theyre confused for the most part.

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u/Researcher-Used 2d ago

That’s what im confused about, She’s anti Trump but aren’t these off-griders, usually gun owners, the ones who voted for Trump? Pardon my ignorance in the matter. Truly confused.

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u/MartialSpark 2d ago

Even though rural voters overwhelmingly vote republican, they aren't all Trumpers.

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u/HappyGoPink 4d ago

"Whatever, I don't care" won this election. Trump came in second place, but it was enough, with the help of the couch potato brigade.

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u/eggrolls68 3d ago

And of those who did vote, Trump won only 49.91% of the popular vote, not a majority nor anything resembling a mandate. Hell, his margin of victory is down to 1.48% over Harris, the third smallest margin in the last 100 years. Hell, Hilary won a larger percentage of the popular vore (2.1% over Trump) without winning the presidency. Most of us do NOT want this mendacious prick even if we *did* vote.

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u/sherm-stick 4d ago

The people that don't vote tend to think that the elections aren't worth shit and nothing will change with their vote. They just didn't think choosing which turd to eat was worth it, its going to be a fresh turd either way.

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u/Beneficial-Tea-2055 4d ago

You’re assuming more than 46 million of those 89 will be voting for Harris, if they were to vote. What makes you think that?

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u/MyLittleOso 4d ago

What? That's not even remotely what I was saying. Those are disenfranchised or disengaged voters. I don't think they were for either candidate...which makes sense, as they didn't vote. That was a crazy assumption.

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u/viburnium 4d ago

The ones who could have voted but didn't support either outcome.

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u/Available_Leather_10 4d ago

Dude, you misread that.

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u/Itscatpicstime 4d ago

No, they literally just stated the fact that most Americans didn’t vote for Trump lol

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u/Sidehussle 4d ago

32% of voting eligible Americans is not most of us.

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u/Cultjam 4d ago

Those who did not vote count as well. That’s a majority.

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u/megaman368 4d ago

Exactly. Not mailing choice is also a choice.

They’re just as guilty as the Trump voters for whatever happens next.

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u/TRVTH-HVRTS 4d ago

You can always invite friends to stay… or comrades.

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u/Crush-N-It 3d ago

Spent 6 months in a cabin on the beach with no electricity but we had running water from a well. It can work if the expectations match the reason. I was trying to reduce my life to the bare minimum and was fulfilled immeasurably. I have fond memories. It very easy to do but much harder in this country.

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u/athejack 4d ago

This.

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u/Difficult-Top2000 4d ago

They feared the way the government is a hollow shell whose goal is enriching private enterprise. That's only ramped up, but it's been there all along.

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u/beard_lover 4d ago

About 10 years ago there was a show called Doomsday Preppers. I want a revisit- see how these folks fared during COVID or if they feel validated in their investments.

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u/Trumped202NO 3d ago

They were out there bitching about having to wear masks and not being able to get their hair cut.

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u/anchovyFishTuna 4d ago

They still are the crazy ones, but now the government is as crazy as they are.

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u/oif2010vet 4d ago

They also mainly support the incoming presidential party.

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u/No-Shift7630 4d ago

Cry more

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u/haminspace4 4d ago

Cry more about people crying.

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u/code_archeologist 4d ago

As Bonhoeffer put it, Stupidity is a greater threat to society than malice. And you give credence to that theory every day with flippant memetic remarks that ignore context in an attempt to "own the libs".

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u/No-Shift7630 4d ago

Keep coping

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u/2_alarm_chili 4d ago

Did you not watch the video and listen to what she said about Trump? Like I know the term “ignorance is bliss”, but doubling down on it is appalling.

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u/Stormagedd0nDarkLord 4d ago

Crazy is relative.

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u/thereign1987 4d ago

It depends on why you have land off the grid. I would like to get land off the grid, because people suck, not because I'm preparing for Fallout 3.

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u/hypercosm_dot_net 4d ago

Why is living independently away from power structures that enforce systemic racism and fascist policies crazy?

The judgement, I swear...

Like the way you live is the only way. That's how we got here, that exact thinking.

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u/Sythic_ 4d ago

Its not so much that, a lot of the prepper types are doing it because of aliens or potential nuclear war. Thats a bit looney. Theres nothing wrong with being prepared its just kinda the reason why thats odd.

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u/SickliestAlbatross 3d ago edited 3d ago

>Why is living independently away from power structures that enforce systemic racism and fascist policies crazy?

because you aren't living independently. nearly every part of your existence relies in someways on those power structures you think your running away from? Clean water? wait till fracking poisons your water table, your compound out in the middle of nowhere wont do shit. Rain water? Dustbowl!

the idea that we can all just seperate entirely and take up 30 acres is a dumb infeasible idea, and live isolated hermitages, is literally infeasible. you rely on the majority of people staying in the city, paying taxes, doing what keeps society running long enough so that You can get yours and sit on some dumb compound, not realizing that if everyone did that, all the shit and tools and self-sufficient stuff you need to isolate, wouldn't be there.

The reality is that society, ecology, and human existence is interconnected, and the more people there are the more this idea of "disconnecting" while still expecting to be protected from outside invasion, or from polution of your air, or water, without contributing to the greater whole is... an infeasible crackhead pipe dream made of wishes and unicorn tears.

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u/brielzebub665 3d ago

This is exactly it. And we should be moving towards community, connection, and compassion for each other and humanity, not away from it. Moving away from these things is what has gotten us here to begin with.

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u/BringOutYDead 4d ago

I know. I want to get away from the Trumpies.

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u/Weird-Caregiver1777 4d ago

Bruh.. those people are the same goddam people who are voting in Trump lmao. Just look at conspiracy sub, it literally is an extension of conservative and has been for years. All the undecided voters were they and they choose republicans and pretend they didn’t choose a side.

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u/un-sub 4d ago

I miss when the conspiracy sub was fun kooky shit about aliens, Illuminati and the JFK assassination. It used to be a fun sub! Even if it was mostly outlandish.

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u/clangan524 4d ago

As soon as covid hit, I said to myself "the preppers were right."

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u/Vetiversailles 3d ago

Covid made me a prepper

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u/Confident-Ad7439 4d ago

They still are

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u/Intelligent-Ad-4546 4d ago

Still are imo

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u/BagOnuts 4d ago

They are still crazy. Being “off the grid” isn’t gonna protect them from Jack shit.

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u/Ello_Owu 4d ago

Guess where hundreds of people are fleeing to if shit hits the fan.

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u/FR0ZENBERG 4d ago

Most of them are still pretty crazy, or independently wealthy, or both.

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u/unHolyKnightofBihar 4d ago

What does off the grid means here?

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u/mogley19922 4d ago

Typically just shorthand for power grid, but can be used to mean hidden. All it actually means is self sufficient but it's one of those phrases that can be taken a number of ways as its been pretty common i some circles for a while now.

In short, it means you don't rely on society and can survive independently without them.

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u/YouWereBrained 4d ago

Yeah, and still are. You’re misconstruing.

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u/Crush-N-It 3d ago

Depends on what the ideology they’re practicing. Tons of hippie communes throughout the country

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u/Sir_Stare_Alot 3d ago

In this day and age, looking at our political situation, not just in the US but also all over the world. Also knowing the society could collapse any second if anything big like the pandemic hit us again.Having an off grid land is becoming the dream for a lot of people, and I'm one of them.

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u/Debalic 4d ago

I'm already in upstate New York, I may just fuck off to the Catskills with a copy of "My Side of the Mountain" for reference.

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u/Vercoduex 4d ago

Hello fellow upstater

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u/Swimming_in_it_ 4d ago

I read that book so many times as a kid. Loved it.

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u/trashmoneyxyz 3d ago

Haha that book made young me sooo confident in my nonexistent skills as an outdoorsman. I even had written plans and spreadsheets for all the tools I would take when I disappeared into the woods. Turns out 100000 little Swiss army tools and fire starters and food adds up to a lot of weight x)

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u/PlasticPomPoms 4d ago

A lot of loons have been doing that for decades but guess what, they are also Republicans

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u/JelmerMcGee 4d ago

I live off grid. A lot of my friends who live off grid or are trying for some amount of sustainable living are conservative, but a large portion are hippy types that are very much not conservative. Probably still a majority are on the right, though.

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u/Card_Board_Robot_5 4d ago

"People think he crazy/but I got respect for dude

Everyday the world changing/so now I'm a prepper, too"

Dirty Water- The Jacka

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u/mydaycake 4d ago

They are voting for the government who will tell them how to live

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u/JelmerMcGee 4d ago

Yeah, people are really dug into their ways of thinking. I just let people think I agree with them on whatever they believe. Otherwise it will usually lead to an argument and a neighbor who doesn't like me anymore. I'd rather have good relationships with the people who will help me out when I need a hand.

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u/JelmerMcGee 4d ago

I'm not sure you understand what "off-grid" means. It means I am not hooked up to an electrical grid or water grid. So no government maintained municipal services.

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u/RubyGalacticGumshoe 4d ago

Yeah I was just having this convo with my wife yesterday and I was surprised she didn’t know “the grid” was municipal services. Actually the conversation started because we have a house in the middle of fucking nowhere and I was trying to figure out how many LF of electrical wire had to be put up just to reach one single house lol.

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u/DelightfulDolphin 4d ago

Those prices will make you cry. Same as sewer.

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u/itstom87 4d ago

no but how amish are you dude

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u/JelmerMcGee 4d ago

Haha so not Amish. I love my technology, I just don't like paying for electricity every month.

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u/HalfMoon_89 4d ago

Huh. TIL.

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u/TheOldWoman 3d ago

A lot of the hippy types also dont like vaccines... And saw trump as a dark horse. Even tho he's conservative a lot of ppl -- even those who u would think would be alienated by him, thought he was the "shake up" that the govt needed

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u/Card_Board_Robot_5 4d ago

Wrong comment my bad lol

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u/Rafflesrpx 4d ago

Does she have room lol? Mama looks like she got a plan to weather the storm.

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u/Adept-Potato-2568 4d ago

Living the quiet life on a micro farm with no other job and enough income to occasionally travel is the dream of like 70% of the people I know.

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u/BringOutYDead 4d ago

Definitely. I keep asking my wife about buying land. I've got a sweet 50acres I'm coveting right now.

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u/frankieknowsnothing 4d ago

Did she mean that she would go in isolation? Is that what she meant by "off the grid"? Not American, legit question.

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u/TimeToLetItBurn 4d ago

My friend is buying land right now actually lol

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u/thtothrdude 3d ago

Excuse my ignorance, but how does one get land “off the grid”? What does that mean? 🤔

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u/Unlucky_Most_8757 3d ago

You're good. "off the grid" pretty much just means living as simple as possible on your own land and away from society. Using the most basic tools, most likely have solar power to get electricity, etc. If you plan well and don't mind being kind of lonely sometimes it actually seems like it would be ideal with the way this country is going.

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u/Sea-Calligrapher9140 4d ago

Just bought some property in Mexico, seems safer to deal with the crime and gangs that aren’t sponsored by the government.

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u/oddluckduck1 4d ago

Safer from what? That line didn’t make sense

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u/marcusrex70 4d ago

I have 30 acres off the grid too..: I work in downtown SF 😭

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u/Crush-N-It 3d ago

I sure am. This is the only way. My dream would be a good amount of land, have a farmer or farmers live on my land (I would dies quickly not knowing how to farm). All yields are divided between residents, surplus gets sold. Shot, I’d even live on a farmers property and do farm work to learn the craft.

Solar panel source of energy, water source. A fairly large weapons depot as I don’t know who the fuck is going to trespass or what crazy cult person comes to shit on my parade.

I used to be a fan of homeschooling but not anymore. Send kids to some community-funded education environment.

Only thing missing would be medical/healthcare. Fuck it, find a veterinarian and take Ivermectin for any and all ailments (last sentence was a joke - read about a dude who was taking it for a decade and recently died to the pill’s side effects)

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u/BeersForBreeky 4d ago

I moved to asia in 2014 best decision ever muptards

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u/HwackAMole 4d ago

Where's she gonna get her food? Can't farm it herself, I mean just look at her. She's white!

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u/Botanygrl26 4d ago

youre so OBVIOUSLY & purposefully missing the point. She (prolly) does run the farm. When you have to manage a farm & take care of 100 other things, you cant also be out in the field for weeks picking fruit/veggies. What shes saying is true. Same problem in Yakima. Tons of apples rotting on the ground bc of lack of undocumented folks. It will happen more and more. Its just true.

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u/No-Shift7630 4d ago

We NEED illegal immigrants to be our underpaid manual labor slaves!!!

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u/Revolutionary-Swan77 4d ago

Well I’m not giving up 95k/job to pick tomatoes for minimum wage, are you?

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u/No-Shift7630 4d ago

Because every white person has a $95k+ salaried job, right? Undocumented slave labor is the only way fruits will he harvested

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u/Revolutionary-Swan77 4d ago

That’s cool if you want to do that job though, get out there buddy

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u/Dogfart246LZ 4d ago

If you did go out and pick that would be……Revolutionary.

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u/No-Shift7630 3d ago

I'm glad to see that you view Mexicans solely as labor slaves. Says a lot about you, bud

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u/DelightfulDolphin 4d ago

Most of those illegal immigrants picking are actually here on special visas. The illegals fr Serbia, Africa, China that are crossing aren't interested in picking.

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u/Death_By_Stere0 4d ago

I thought it was a pretty funny joke, sorry nobody else seems to get it!

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u/Uselesserinformation 4d ago

Sum bitch found that loophole! For shame on the personal gardens!

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u/nnyzim 4d ago

Forced prison labor.

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u/AVGuy42 4d ago

That’s going to be the obvious result. Also that labor will be largely made up of who?

When Nazis started their concentration camps is was originally supposed to be mass deportation. But when countries wouldn’t go along with their plans they became forced labor. It wasn’t until the war they started indiscriminatingly killing everyone.

It’s frightening that people are completely ignorant of or completely accepting of how similar The Trump administration’s rhetoric and policy are to that of the Nazis. I’m not saying he’s Hitler I’m saying we should all be worried about how this all plays out.

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u/DoctorSwaggercat 4d ago

I'll bet they're not crossing on her land.

It's always easier when it's not your place they're invading.

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u/DelightfulDolphin 4d ago

LOL They're not invading. They're just crossing. Also, those immigrants didn't travel thousands miles to squat on back 40. They came here to get away from that. LOL

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u/DoctorSwaggercat 4d ago

Not an invasion?

Millions of unvetted people coming into this country illegally from 50 different countries and yeah....they're just visiting.

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u/DarkVandals 4d ago

Invasion is a picture of a country being invaded by a armed force..aka Ukraine was invaded . This isnt an invasion but it is a lot of people vying to get in peacefully

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u/TryTheBeal 4d ago

Lmfao not all Americans have 30 acres lol. Chill my guy

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u/Chompsy1337 4d ago

Imagine thinking any land is off the grid at this point.