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Far right leader with distinctive facial features tries to take power by force and fails

Judges are lenient to far right leader and do not give a severe sentence

The incumbent party is attacked by far right leader for "mismanaging the country"

Far right leader takes power democratically due to economic troubles and dissatisfaction with incumbent party

Far right leader eliminates political opposition by removing judges who are not loyal to his agenda

Far right leader appointing loyalists into government positions

Far right leader openly plans to invade neighbours

Far right leader jails "aliens" in concentration camps

Far right leader turns against one of his loyalists in fear that they will overtake him in power/authority

History really does repeat itself...

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[–] MrFappy@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

Like George Lucas says, “it doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.” But yeah, we’ve known this all along, and it’s what get the blood boiling of all of us who are very much against him. It’s as though he is following a playbook derived from history. Like he’s just sitting there with a biography of the toothbrush, and saying “alright, I need my version of the beer hall pusch.” A full third of this country doesn’t seem to see it, and the other two thirds either don’t care, or are protesting en masse at this point to attempt to change to this situation. The orange one doesn’t represent all of America, and the news is coming out that the election was also rigged. So hopefully a great change can be made, because the whole world needs it at this point.

[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 week ago

His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.

https://phdn.org/archives/www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/documents/osssection3pt1.htm

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

But did he ever apply to art school? Checkmate, libruls!

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Well he might have stolen the election so not just like that one leader. But he does admire him.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 5 points 1 week ago

I mean yes, but you're kinda preaching to the choir here.