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Song Sohee - Not a Dream youtube.com/watch?v=Zbo7...

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Trump is the living embodiment of “But what’s in it for me?”

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My thoughts on the woman who voted Trump then lost her job: Spending time complaining people are judging her isn’t that strategically useful either. Let’s just stop making her the main character.

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Imagine for a second…

submitted 13 hours ago • 69 comments

I honestly have no idea what America needs to do now.

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Trump can get away with bad mouthing America because in the MAGA mind patriotism is about saying America used to be great. Saying it’s worse now than it used to be is even more patriotic. Basically they conflate reactionary politics with patriotism.

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This is a fascinating, disturbing, and complicated piece from @nberlat.bsky.social. Martin Niemöller Was an Antisemite www.everythingishorrible.net/p/martin-nie...

submitted 11 days ago • 16 comments

tl;dr Trump is a con-artist and the right-wing media gives him a steady supply of marks.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Trump wraps himself in the flag but also tells everyone he’s different, not a politician but a success in business. This appeals to two overlapping groups - a) bigots who want to turn back the clock, and b) people who believe in the American dream but don’t believe it’s working and think he will..

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Gonna say it again - the Trump debacle shows a huge chunk of the right don’t believe their own rhetoric and never have. Freedom, limited government, the constitution, the rule of law, free markets, fiscal responsibility, family values, decency - it all goes out the window.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Part of Trump’s success is winning over the arsehole vote, the kind of people who think their own problems are a national emergency, but everyone else should shut up and stop whining. We saw them during the Obamacare debate, then the pandemic completely broke them.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Totally. I remember during Trump 1 a bunch of 2A types on Twitter posing with their guns saying they were ready to defend America from tyranny… by fighting for Donald Trump against antifa, or whoever was the latest target of right wing conspiracy theories.

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The government asked people to make sacrifices to help each other in an extraordinary circumstance and it completely broke some people

submitted 21 days ago • 122 comments

The thing about Trump is he barely pretends to pretend. He’s like “We’re going to lower your grocery prices, nudge nudge, wink wink” then later it’s “Did I say lower grocery prices? I meant invade Canada.”

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

What’s happening in the US now is how it starts. The distinction between the government and the party is removed, loyalists are given impunity, and the leader assumes power he doesn’t have to identify blockers to be removed. It’s happening now.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Because like all authoritarians, Trump sees the government as an extension of himself. So anything it does is either a personal favour to his friends, or punishment to his enemies.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Basically, the country’s been taken over by a bunch of internet trolls and podcasters who thought running the government would be as easy as complaining about it.

submitted 31 days ago • 224 comments

Today is Steph Catley Day (observed) in Australia.

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