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'HANG THEM' -- Trump reacts to Democratic lawmakers' video appeal to military (abc6onyourside.com)
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[–] 136 points 11 months ago (21 children)

The fuck is wrong with Americans?

If any other president had said the things he said over the past couple of months, the country would have exploded and a president either legally or through mass protest removed from office.

What's so special about this orange nutjob?

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  • [–] 30 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    What’s so special about this orange nutjob?

    Nothing, really. He's not doing anything other piece of trash authoritarians haven't done before. And he's not doing it as effectively as many of them did.

    What's special is that we live in a country whose populace is so ignorant and hateful that a high enough percentage of the population supports this basic ass bitch because he says basic ass hateful shit that he has remained protected by them.

    The issue isn't Trump. Our society could have easily kept him just a whiny little rich bitch like all the other whiny little rich bitches. The issue is our society because we didn't.

    Believe me. There is nothing special about this loser.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    There is nothing special about him. Assholes like him are a dime a dozen.

    The real issue is generations of brainwashing and propaganda. On a micro scale we are individuals with free will and personal responsibility. But on a macro scale, when we are looking at the population as a whole, it's so compleatly beyond people just being bad. They are like this because they have been conditioned to be like this. Taught to be like this. Turned into this.

    I'm not saying that people are not responsible for their choices and actions. I am saying that the problem is so widespread that the we need to address the cause and not get stuck at just being mad at and blaming the individual.

    American society now is the result of a fuck ton of social engineering by the wealthy elite trying to extract as much work and money out of the world as possible. We are living in the capitalist dream right now.

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  • [–] 55 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    There have been tons of massive protests, the average American doesn't support this crap and they're doing what they can

    The question should be the fuck is wrong with America's police officers, service members, judges, and lawmakers and other elected officials

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  • [–] 30 points 11 months ago*

    He doesn't care about your protests. He literally created a video of himself shitting on them and declaring himself king. It works in functioning democracies, but walking down the street with a sign will not stop a fascist intent on absolute power.

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  • [–] 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    A country full of stupid, small-minded, selfish, arrogant, angry, racist, misogynists elect a stupid, small-minded, selfish, arrogant, angry, racist, misogynist... How could this have happened?

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  • [–] 15 points 11 months ago

    He has done it so much and gotten away with it, it's been normalized.

    January 6th (aka, the insurrection) should have been a wake up call for everyone. A lot of people don't care about their country or God or whatever else they claim. Many just care about community.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    I think part of the problem is people assume he's going to die soon and so aren't motivated to try and remove him from office. But even if he dies soon, I fear things will get worse. JD Vance is potentially just as bad or worse. And other people involved, like Stephen Miller, could eventually become president if nothing is done to prosecute all the people involved in this clownshow

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    Nothing is a special about the Cheeto Man. He is not a means to some end, as though his specialty is bringing about some change which nobody else could have. Cheeto Man is an end in himself. He’s the result of where we have been headed for a long time. Circumstances were right for a man like Cheeto Man, and now here he is. It’s like when the weather man tells you circumstances are just right for rain — that means it’s probably going to rain.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    My personal theory is that there is just so many people and so much land that one person can care about and that area is about the size and population of the average US state or European country. Once you get to the size of the US or China or Russia or even India it’s too big for people to care. Very few people in NYC give a shit about what is happening in LA on a day to day basis.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    I don’t know if it’s a lack of caring, but the distance certainly makes MEANINGFUL action for most Americans out of reach. Just marching in say Boulder, CO does jack shit in Washington, D.C.

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