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Because you now did it to yourself.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (11 children)

He's already dehumanising foreigners (claiming they're all criminals and eating peoples pets) and trying to claim LGBTI are criminals

So, it's not actually a joke. He has already started following the Nazi playbook

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm watching it happen in real time and STILL questioning how it happened. Humans are some stupid motherfuckers. America burned its hand on Trump, and now a disturbing number of Americans are reaching for him again with the same hand, still blistered from the first time.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (14 children)

We need a solution to this, because honestly the US just lost its democracy.

It's 1933.

Any ideas on ways out of this?

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Some of us are still trying to figure out how this happened here. At least in between trying to figure out where and how to flee the country, and shutting down entirely.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The next question now is. Will your neighbors/friends/relatives cooperate with the new SS (ICE)

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I fucking hate our country right now. This country is the dumbest it’s ever been. There are no word as to how stupid this shithole is...

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

I would be more concerned if he were less stupid. Going by his last presidency he'll spend half his time golfing and the rest driving through ineffective "red meat" policies to get attention from his base. Ultimately he's just a pathetic man who craves attention.

What concerns me more is that his destruction of political norms means that someone who is similarly evil - but actually capable - might be able to use him as a template to take power in the future and make America into a dictatorship. Someone like Xi Jinping as opposed to an aging B-list celebrity.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 weeks ago

You should be concerned regardless. He is backed by considerably smarter people whose agenda is way worse than last time. Regardless if Trump pays attention or not the worst people will be unhindered. He isn't even a blocking element to those people taking power because Trump is at worst a rubber stamp and more likely a corpse given his age and lifestyle.

Short version, there isn't even a remote, barely visible silver lining.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

I'm still going to question it. We're literally living through it and I don't understand it.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

You think we're not just as confused how it happened this time?

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

And also, never, EVER tell me again that racists and misogynists are only old people.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

I remember seven years ago. Beautiful IV Reich there with caged migrant kids, white Americans publicly scolding people for speaking Spanish, improvisation all around, xenophobia as a government policy, riots on the streets. A revolution is due.

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