horse_battery_staple

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This would just setup Vance for eternal president though. He doesn't walk away from that.

[–] horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I don't think you understand the command structure of the US Armed forces.

[–] horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

You're absolutely correct.

Rank and file grunts may be gargling nazi balls, but the officer pool are often college educated and will not hand over America to a dictatorship. It'll take a decade just to fire all the officers who won't follow his illegal orders. Another decade to reform into a stazi.

The secret police will be local police forces organized under a Fed Dept probably Homeland or ICE.

[–] horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (6 children)

How is Trump the cure for any of that?

[–] horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So Reagan's two terms and his VPs term had nothing to do with it? The creation of the CNN 24 hour news cycle and the need to fill it had nothing to do with it? Decades of attacking public school budgets had nothing to do with that? Why the focus on Obama? These problems started 30 years before he was elected.

[–] horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Obama didn't start Fox news bro. Obama didn't defund education and get rid of civics classes. Obama didn't cut taxes on the billionaire class and corporations. Obama didn't sell those same billionaires and conglomerates the major news outlets. The voting population in America only know what they're told because they're never taught to think critically. Look at the rise of disinformation regardless of political ideology. Look at the rise in scams.

[–] horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This was my experience in Paris, but not in Nice, even away from the tourist traps like Vizille I was very much encouraged to speak my broken French so I could learn. If they spoke English they'd apoligize for a dropped participle and then pull out a word like pugillistic.

Parisians hate everyone, including the French.

[–] horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You don't have a lot of confidence in five year olds

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