• bigfondue@lemmy.world
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      21 days ago

      The veneer of respectability is gone. 250 years of slavery, 100 of segregation, COINTELPRO, overthrowing democratically elected governments across Latin America, the Red Scare, ‘Regime Change’, the Patriot Act etc. This has always been an authoritarian country controlled by the wealthy. Trump just stopped pretending to be anything else.

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        20 days ago

        This post deserves more attention. It’s disappointing how short people’s memory is and how few can see the bigger picture. It didn’t start with Trump and it’s not going to end with him. I like to think of this administration like a comic relief that’s not very funny.

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      21 days ago

      The current regime is just the next step in authoritarian fascism from the Trump era. Democrats should have arrested and exposed all the criminals but they prefer neoliberal economics and performative actions over justice.

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      21 days ago

      What’s new is that an American politician uses all the dirty tricks on the US itself instead of a country on the other side of the globe.