• @[email protected]
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    1028 days ago

    The difference is that Trump also abolished the rule of law. It’s law and order without the law, and without the order.

    • @[email protected]
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      328 days ago

      Trump blatantly abolished the rule of law. It’s not like rich people payed for their crimes before he was elected, they just don’t have to do all the PR work to cover it up anymore.

  • Kindness is Punk
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    Hey, that’s not true, they will also defend defund schools and social programs to make sure they have a devoted voter base!

  • Sal
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    1228 days ago

    Republicans realized they couldn’t make people vote for them anymore after being homophobic and pro-corporate became bad optics, so they latched on to demonizing trans people to achieve the same thing they were achieving for decades, and people still fell for it.

  • @[email protected]
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    228 days ago

    Trump has done more to accelerate the decline of western imperialism in 6 months than in the last 2 decades at LEAST

  • @[email protected]
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    1928 days ago

    Makes sense. The public no longer blindly supports this kind of shit like they used to…so authoritarian tactics are now required to keep getting away with doing it.

      • @[email protected]
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        728 days ago

        That doesn’t explain why the majority of MAGA voters are actually upset about this. What most people fail to account for, is that a ton of people who voted for Trump, were lied to about what he was planning on doing, and they were simply too gullible to look any deeper than the narrative they were fed.

        Yes, they are stupid. But they aren’t necessarily as evil as the ones that voted for Trump because they wanted stuff like this to happen. That’s a much smaller demographic than people think.

        • @[email protected]
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          Also as many have pointed out myself included, propaganda is a hell of a power multiplayer for support. Plenty of decent folks have been propagandized for sometimes decades or generations, this means that as a baseline their perception of reality is warped at best absolutely rat fucked at worst. As someone who broke out of that particular spiral due to my own historical literacy and my abject fucking hatred for most so called authorities, well it’s a rather hard thing to free oneself from especially in say rural Idaho or Arizona for example.

          The upside is that propaganda only really works when people don’t think they are being propagandized to, this means that if the propagandists push back too much their control will snap. It’s a lot like religious conversation the easiest way to convert someone is subtly, I should know I somehow made a fucked up synchronous thing from my kins folk traditions and Norse neo-patanism and converted myself to it.

        • @[email protected]
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          327 days ago

          I have a really tough time telling the difference because malicious people often pretend to just be stupid cultists.

      • Muad'dib
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        128 days ago

        That’s because they control who gets to be part of the voting population

    • Pennomi
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      I wonder why the public doesn’t support this policy. Wasn’t it successful last time we tried it? /s

      • haui
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        It kinda was. It managed to move a lot of money from the poor people to the rich people. Thats why theyre doing it again.

    • haui
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      128 days ago

      Capitalist playbook 101. thats exactly what happened in germany back in 1910s and 20s.

  • Diplomjodler
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    1228 days ago

    Twenty years ago the Republicans didn’t work hard to destroy their country. Neither did they take orders from Moscow. Things have definitely changed.

    • goferking (he/him)
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      They’ve been trying to destroy the country since after the partys switched.

      20 years ago it was bush and Cheney working hard at it.

    • @[email protected]
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      127 days ago

      Please. If you really think the US Russia connection is new then you really haven’t been paying attention.

    • @[email protected]
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      527 days ago

      Neither did they take orders from Moscow.

      Yeah, they took orders from Saudi Arabia. They still do, they’ve just added additional petro-state puppet masters.