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70 sats \ 8 replies \ @kepford 5 Mar \ on: Trump Isn't An Authoritarian, right? Politics_And_Law
Trump is an authoritarian. So was Biden. So was Obama. So was Bush. Blah, blah, blah.
I have no problem with people calling him out on stuff, but so few of them call anyone else out on the same stuff.
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117 sats \ 5 replies \ @siggy47 OP 5 Mar
Personally, I feel like this gets to me because all the other guys you named never did anything I agreed with. Trump drives me nuts because I really like more than half the things he is doing, but sometimes he scares the shit out of me.
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159 sats \ 2 replies \ @SimpleStacker 5 Mar
As much as I hate the "Trump is Hitler" crap, I do assign a non-zero probability to Trump actually being Hitler.
There's probably something deep, historical, and cyclical about people pining for a strongman when existing leadership is completely failed
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96 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 OP 5 Mar
Exactly. I hate it too, then I see shit like this.
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30 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 5 Mar
100%.
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36 sats \ 0 replies \ @398ja 5 Mar
Yes, this is terrible, I have not read the article, and am ignorant about the context, but I suspect it has to do with the anti-Israel protests in the US universities?
Personally, I have only one single item in my Trump wishlist: de-escalation and withdrawal from Ukraine. Anything else (MAHA, DEI, DOGE etc) is just a bonus...
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36 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 5 Mar
Yeah, I feel ya. I feel that too. I feel it when I'm around die hard supporters.
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36 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 5 Mar
What bugs me most about the opposition to Trump is that almost 100% of the people that say the typical things against him are clueless about previous administrations authoritarianism. Its not like I'm talking about Bush either. I'm talking about FDR and Lincoln. The truth is people don't like what is being done. They are fine with jack booted thugs enforcing THEIR will on the people. Until we can drop that mentality it will be back and forth between these two terrible teams.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 5 Mar
Its not that Trump is great. He's not. Its that those that oppose him are so terrible at it. They aren't sending their best. It is pathetic that Trump's opponents such so much.
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