• phutatorius@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    the US is going to make a run at taking over the world

    I hope that’s not meant to imply that the US is a monolith. This is the US government hijacked by dictator Trump. The American people have not been asked, and have no representation in the current criminal regime.

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      Nope, we haven’t been asked at all, but Hitler didn’t ask Germany if they wanted to take over the world before he tried either. Just because I’m against what my country is doing doesn’t exempt me from the deserved hatred the rest of the world must feel towards us.

      Hell, there’s a nonzero chance that the last election was completely rigged, Trump didn’t win a damn thing, and he was simply installed to do this grizzly work by the rich men who want to own everything. We don’t have a mechanism in place to reel the bastards in. Militarization on our own soil has begun to squash resistance, they’ve just decorated it as immigration control. Shit, our cops have had armored vehicles and such for decades.

      I’m not convinced it’s hopeless, but only because I’ve read too many books where the “good guys” win. A third of my country has never read a book voluntarily. Here we are.

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      That’s not entirely fair to say. Trump is certainly a critical component in all this, but absolutely none of it would be possible without the Republican party being so eagerly complicit. They let him make the big, loud, unfavorable moves and support those moves as quietly as they can.

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        The Republican Party has always been full of Republicans. The reason that someone like Taco was able to walk into the place, slap his name on the place, and do even worse things than they were doing before is no accident.

        When people in the Republican Party pine for the party of “true conservatives” and pretend they don’t understand what happened to their party, they are obviously ignoring decades of history, including the work of hate radio and Faux News.