Saw this coming when he decided to eliminate bad weather by not reporting it.
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And eliminate COVID-19 by not reporting it.
And when he tried to eliminate the Epstein story by having him killed
You hear about him getting rid of the NTSB because it made his military and FAA look bad.
I might be a traveler from thr future, only time will tell.
It's crazy how close to full on authoritarianism the US has become in only 7 months.
It’s not all that crazy since they had a carefully designed scheme all planned out in Project 2025. People acted like that was some kind of conspiracy theory, but they literally printed it up. 🤬
Stay tuned. It's going to get much worse before the American people actually do something about it.
Trumps approval rating is in the low 40s. Almost half this country are cheering it on.
Even then I doubt Americans will do much. We’re not a smart bunch.
You say that as if even if they were, they could do anything about it.
There were a ton of smart citizens in Germany in the 1930s.
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Americans were like that during the Bush years. Illegal wars, torture, inept cronyism.
I kind of excused some of that due to societal PTSD from 9/11 but in retrospect around half of Americans just fucking suck.
One could see how bloodthirsty they were as soon as they saw the opportunity to have extrajudicial punishment and the opportunity to kill a lot of brown people.
i was in college in utah. people at there were openly talking in the lunchroom about how excited they were to kill muslims. every time i'd challenge that narrative dozens of people would shout it down. it was disgusting.
societal PTSD from 9/11
I feel 9/11 was less of a "we were struck by the ravages of war" and more of a "how dare they shoot back" event. If it was like the bombing of London by the Nazis, that makes most people reluctant to go to war instead of making war popular.
I mean, who looks at 9/11 and says "we want more of this"? Apparently most Americans?
It was revenge for making Americans feel vulnerable. Two oceans and the world's strongest military made Americans feel safe from the world (and the effects of U.S. policies toward it). Even national humiliations like losing the Vietnam War were things that happened "out there." Domestic resistance to the invasion of Iraq often took the form of "Why Iraq when we should be going after the people responsible for 9/11 instead?" Resistance to the invasion of Afghanistan was much more muted for this reason. It was only later that everyone was always against both wars.
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This is not even close to the same thing as the Bush years.
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.
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.
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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The bellends own words "... replaced with someone much more competent and qualified. Important numbers like this must be fair and accurate, they can’t be manipulated for political purposes". There is tragedy that we need social media to call out his misleading the public.
republicans are dumber than dogshit, I swear.
it's not dumb, it's just textbook fascism, this is straight out of Mussolini's playbook
The voters are dumb as dirt though.
The fascist supporters aren't a monolith. Yes many are dumb, but too many are aware and actively like the evil. Some are "smart" but are low information and still vote straight R like they used to, some are deeply in the cult (and just need to be silenced as much as possible, because they're too far gone to help), some are openly fascist, etc.
Fascist States of Murikka
Fascist States of Amerikkka
How long before this and similar sites for rational and civilised discours are "banned" in the US.?
Fucking pathetic... that's what those who see strength in that turd are.
I think it says something interesting that the American criticism of an American dictator put in place by corporatism is talking about that time America helped one its corporations conquer South American countries.
I'm confused -- if he knew Trump was going to be so mad, why didn't he just release better numbers? That's how it used to work in the USSR and plenty of people were able to keep their government jobs.
Because you can't just make up the numbers, everyone has to lie a little bit at every step or you get endless whistleblowers
It takes time to build that kind of administrative understanding
He's done it with the Epstein files...
Oddly, bananas seem to be one of the few items relatively untouched by inflation.
And it makes sense that the US is turning into a Banana Republic itself, considering the Banana Republics were a result of American corporations and the US government using their power to undermine democracy in those countries.
From wikipedia:
A banana republic is a country with an economy of state capitalism, where the country is operated as a private commercial enterprise for the exclusive profit of the ruling class. Typically, a banana republic has a society of extremely stratified social classes, usually a large impoverished working class and a ruling class plutocracy, composed of the business, political, and military elites.The ruling class controls the primary sector of the economy by exploiting labor.
Sounds pretty familiar
How it happened in Guatemala:
During the 1950s, the United Fruit Company sought to convince the governments of U.S. presidents Harry S. Truman (1945–1953) and Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953–1961) that the popular, elected government of President Jacobo Árbenz of Guatemala was secretly pro-Soviet for having expropriated unused "fruit company lands" to landless peasants. In the Cold War (1945–1991) context of the proactive anti-communist politics exemplified by U.S. senator Joseph McCarthy in the years 1947–1957, geo-political concerns about the security of the Western Hemisphere facilitated Eisenhower's ordering and authorising Operation Success. It was a 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état by means of which the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency deposed the democratically elected government of Árbenz and installed the pro-business government of Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas (1954–1957), which lasted for three years until his assassination by a presidential guard.[2][19]
secretly pro-Soviet
Ah that chronic brain worm hasn't gone away... It is super handy to have a general purpose all-evil evidence-free adversary to blame everything on.
They've gone up quite a bit in my corner of the US. They used to be 30 cents a pound and now they're 53 cents per pound for the same product at the same store in the last few months.
Hm, you're right, they're 69 Canada cents/lbs and they used to be half that. I only buy two at a time so like I don't notice. They're still affordable in absolute terms, right?
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if you don't allow X.com because of content tracking that is not an article but a long list of twitter garbage blocked
Don’t like that they’re saying you’re a bad dictator? Fire them!
By firing him, trump ironically directly decreased the number of employment
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It’s probably tied up with the Epstein files and who is in them. A diversion.
Sorry to disappoint but that name is already taken. Lithuania is banana republic.
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