Originally Posted By u/projectsmith At 2025-08-27 06:34:01 PM | Source


  • Saleh@feddit.org
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    17 hours ago

    The moment when your 15 years old highschool presentation “The US president - A democratically elected dictator?” stop being edgy and becomes foreshadowing.

  • sfbing@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    I would note that those three quotes are more reminiscent of Mussolini to me than they are of Hitler. I wonder if Trump knows what happened to Il Dice?

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    14 hours ago

    I’ve been making my exit plans since the election was announced. It’s a slow burn, since I’d be the last of the population targeted (white male) until they tie my identity to my reddit username and go through all the mean things I’ve said about president Doofus.

  • varnia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    18 hours ago

    The next time US Americans complain that people in other countries should rise up against dictatorships, just look at the current situation: the political opposition is sitting quietly, waiting for it all to blow over, while showing little concern about minorities being terrorized and expelled by ICE, or about Israel carrying out genocide and annexing Gaza and the West Bank, or Ukrain being sacrificed…

    Major civil protests? Missing or not visible. He isn’t even facing legal trouble despite openly breaking laws left and right.

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    22 hours ago

    Civil war has already started. Only one side is fighting. They are winning with no opposition at all.

    Americans are too afraid to even general strike. We have already surrendered.

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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      14 hours ago

      Of course they are afraid, armed National guards have taken over cities, and people know damned well that no one was held responsible for the murders at Kent State.

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      21 hours ago

      In the history books it started 6. january. War usually means use of deadly weapons so I would call this a takeover.

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        16 hours ago

        This is more cleaning up than a coup. I feel like we’ll probably continue the current path towards a bloodless transition.

        As a result, I just think we’ll be electing Republicans for the foreseeable future. With the occasional purge of elected officials who stray too far from the executive branch.

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      21 hours ago

      The one about congress salary seems like a bad idea. I want people from very poor districts to be able to afford a place to live in Washington DC and at home, and I’d prefer if they didn’t need to be independently wealthy and/or taking bribes to do so.

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        19 hours ago

        a flat salary and then a bonus based on the increase in expendable income divided by inflation somehow? ie they get a bonus for the real-world improvement in their district

        • arrow74@lemmy.zip
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          14 hours ago

          Still will only encourage the independently wealthy to run. If you’re from a rural district in Arkansas you’ll never be able to change the local economy enough to afford a room in a DC apartment.