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Biden was an opportunity for the old Republican party to prevail. Instead they rolled out the carpet for MAGA, and now they are rolling it for an authoritarian dictatorship. Frankly, had the democratic stoked more attention, the more bullshit that would have been spun up about them. The root of the problem is that MAGA was getting propped up with control of social networks personality cults and the sort of modern day profile targeting a shitload of money can provide.
The ego and lack of experience of the Hitler Youth coupled with a team small enough to prevent leaks.
If the people who were jumping at any excuse to call out a swamp can’t see it now when it is in plain sight, it is because they don’t want to.
People need to leave their personality cult echo chamber human cattle factory facilitators based in the US.
Expats should expect a “nice” surprise soon enough, courtesy of the candidate they were bubbled into voting. Did you work your entire life in the US to think you could retire somewhere else? Oh you spring child. Hell, fuck that, did you think you could be merely born to an American parent and live out your entire life in some other country as a native citizen? Oh you spring accidental American child.
Hillary is about the only thing you are right in. Who runs a candidate who has been so publicly cuckolded (cuckqueaned to be precise) to such a position of authority? Clinton was literally ran out of the office because of it (of course, history proved it only matters for one party).
Yet, even your last statement is wrong and conspiratorial. They ran Hillary because they considered Trump to be a joke candidate. And in that election, it actually made sense that Trump won because disillusionment with the system pushed people to vote for joke candidates. You are trying to suggest “dem party insiders” “found the worst person possible and talked him into running”.
But big money was trying to push corrupt influence into the US government long before through movements like the Tea Party that preceded MAGA. You aren’t completely wrong, the US should have switched to a representative democracy instead of winner takes all if it wanted reforms long ago. Even in the now propaganda laden Germany its nature as a representative democracy is still helping to prevent the fascists from taking over again. It’s not invincible, but it helps add choice and resistance against fascist tendencies.
There’s nothing great about it. It’s just on a wider, faster, and more unstoppable scale.
People seem to think that what’s happening in the US is just a worse version of the same old cycle. It’s not. There’s a reason Trump is demonizing the democratic allies who call out fascism while praising fascist leaders. There’s a reason he has a problem with voter statistics being anything other than those you would get in dictatorships. There’s a reason he’s suggested that people wouldn’t have to worry about future elections and has passed around the idea of a third term. There’s a reason he’s replacing everyone in government, specially those that will oversee the next elections, with loyalists. There’s a reason he’s pushing people who would be extremely unfit for their positions where it not for their loyalty to him. There’s a reason he’s demonizing any world order that has come from diplomacy, open borders, free speech, and open dialogue. This won’t switch back next election, because by next election your “democracy” will be dead, replaced with a mockery for show as the US becomes increasingly fascist.
Your federal government is no longer the government you pledged to. If you take out all the parts of the ship of Theseus, throw them into the garbage, and build a monument to yourself with completely new parts, it is not the ship of Theseus. Your federal government has more debt than any individual state does. In the EU, the UK was free to leave, but in the US, you’ve been indoctrinated that you must remain united even when what you were remaining united to no longer remains what it was. If you still want to remain a “one Nation under God, indivisible” you are choosing to ignore the “I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands” of the pledge, and you are also choosing to ignore "Thou shalt have no other gods before me. The south starts civil wars to protect the slavery that profits the oligarchs while the north plays submissive while the whole country shifts to fascism. How could the United States of America not be doomed?
Yes, other countries want there to be division within the US. But you know what they want even more? To have their pawn in the presidency. Don’t try to avoid losing a battle to end up losing the war. While the new oligarchs are pledging themselves to Project 2025 for the Dark Enlightenment to extend their influence internationally while they pen us up in our borders, Trump has been promised to become the fascist dictator of a Russianesque faux democracy, and Trump doesn’t mind how shit it gets for everyone else as long as he gets to be its king.
Keep in mind that the Nazis will doxx other Nazis as agent provocateurs if that gives them an excuse to shut down their critics.
No need to burn records when so many have simply accepted their content being removed from visibility without reason or accountability in this day in age.
They actually mean just unborn American children, everyone else is a savage to them.
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Spoken as if it was true Russian troll factory appraised propaganda. This is the sort of message of apathy they want permeating throughout the opposition. The problem isn’t people, the problem starts with you. What are you going to do about it, and why should other people do something you don’t want to work towards? Those people you are calling to revolt, what if they think the same thing you do.
The US thinks it’s special, so it doesn’t seem to think that this scenario is already working out in countries like Turkey, in countries like Hungary, in countries like Belarus … You are not going to get a revolt, if you were that special it would already materialize at the personal level. You will decay into a dictatorship. The people overthrowing your democracy are psychopaths, they are psychopaths that have trained to not give a concern about society, they have lived in positions of affluence where they haven’t had to care or have been burned by it, hell, these psychopaths have even played all the world building and backstabbing sandbox computer games with all their heart that for you were just an amusement and barely a footnote, and they will continue to gaslight your doubts and fears.
They have all the experience, and you, well, if anyone does rebel, it will be done with inexperience and a healthy dose of “well, society deserves this” apathy. At that point, it is just a matter of the will to accept losing for something you believe for versus the practicality of just living on no matter what because at least you live. A lot of people have clearly chosen their side, and it tends to be with “well it was chosen for me” when that’s just projection of what they have already decided to choose. People praise Luigi, people have seen how society unites with Luigi, but they will never be a Luigi.
I can’t believe the US’ first dictator will be this diapered decrepit senile old scammer.
The US is going to screw itself so much, they are basically going to have to go full imperial just to conquer the resources they’ve screwed themselves out of. Huxley? Orwell? Na, Spaceballs.
Her peers cordially shaked hands with them well enough… Nevermind the richest members of the oligarchy who funded and paid respects to their coronation personally.
I don’t think JD Vance is going to care, he’s already receiving more off the only compensation he cares about by sucking up to MAGA and Project 2025. I’m curious what creative excuse they will come up with, since they won’t want to make JD Vance look bad when they ban it.