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[–] 149 points 1 year ago (23 children)

It's not news. My personal date for the start of dictatorship in the United Stated is March 14, 2025: that's the first instance of Trump and his henchmen disobeying a court decision.

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  • [–] 103 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I think it was earlier, when the supreme Court ruled that the president could do what he wanted as long as it was part of his duties and THEY get to decide what is part of his duties.

    Yes I did say duty. Grow up.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Imagine not being able to distinguish between the words duty and doody.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Well I couldn't write doody, it wouldn't make sense written. Plus I kind of think the kind of people that laugh at the word doodie, may NOT know the difference. Anyway, don't rain on my parade. Trying to lighten the mood.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Apologies for raining on your parade, I was just engaging in a bit of transatlantic ribbing.

    (We also don't use the word doody/doodie, so I don't know what it looks like written.)

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  • [–] 54 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    IMO it's the day he took power the second time.

    As he said plainly, "I'll be a dictator from day one". And then millions of Americans looked at his record, looked at all the crimes he'd been found guilty of, considered his promise, and voted for him anyway.

    Real Darwin Award shit.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    What amazes me is that no one says he cheated to win like he did the first time. I would be very surprised if we couldn't find some trace years later that we didn't notice.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It's just kind of a pointless thing to be mad about at this point, but it was definitely talked about.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    That's because MAGA claimed Biden cheated for so long and so loudly that people were tired of hearing it and wanted to show they were better than the MAGAs.

    As always they accused their opponent of what they were going to do themselves, and it continues to work for them.

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I would trace it back to September 11, 2001 at least. Specifically, the highly authoritarian response to that. There's a direct line from what the US government started doing then to what they're doing now.

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