[–] 20 points 3 months ago

He's a wannabe tyrant who would absolutely put you to death for this comment should he have actually successfully stolen power and ended democracy. He's going to try again and the Republican party is ready and willing to stand by him for fear they might finally lose all the power they had only ever been afforded due to gerrymandering and the inherently undemocratic senate.

We're going to watch Republicans attempt to implement the Turkey playbook and they might just pull it off. An end to democracy as we know it.

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  • [–] 20 points 4 months ago*

    Fun story - as a kid my backyard in-ground pool would occasionally get these grapefruit sized ant rafts. No idea why or how they would do it, but somehow they'd find themselves floating around in there. And if you don't look too closely it just looks like a dead leaf that landed in the pool.

    Dove in one hot summer day. Came up for air. Facefull of ants. Never again.

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  • [–] 26 points 4 months ago

    Conservatives used to crow about how they're the "party of fiscal responsibility" whilst simultaneously blowing up the deficit on completely unhinged endeavors every time they got into power.

    They still do, but they used to, too.

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