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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Donald is merely the next logical step in the rot of America. He's not doing anything that previous presidents haven't done. He's just not making excuses or trying to generate PR cover for it. The only innovation here is presentation and carelessness.

That people think any of this is new demonstrates just how little people know of their own history in this country.

Joe Biden and his predecessors enthusiastically supported genocide in Gaza by guaranteeing the regular delivery of WMD's. Obama dropped 20,000 tons of bombs just in the last year of his presidency, and was making war in 7 countries simultaneously. (Probably more, 7 is just the number we can confirm.) Bush legalized torture, warrantless wiretapping and tracking (specifically targeting religious minorities), ushered in the era of daily school shootings, and normalized bailouts for his golf buddies on Wall Street. Clinton hollowed out the poor and middle class with his trade policies, cut the social safety net wholesale, made it legal to discriminate against gays, and was fucking interns on the Resolute Desk. Reagan did pretty much any evil thing you can imagine, whether arms dealing with America's enemies or letting AIDS ravage a whole generation of young men for Jesus.

Guys, we elect motherfuckers. It's what we do. The problem here is that every successive president has made things worse and consolidated more and more power in the Executive Branch, to the detriment of all but the 1%, and they basically never roll back the negative policies of their predecessors, instead doubling-down on them or ignoring and allowing them to be normalized.

Twice we almost had real change, with Sanders and Perot, but we were too stupid to vote for it (in Perot's case) and the Dems rigged the primaries (in Sanders' case) and now it's institutionally impossible to get anyone with any intention of changing things fundamentally into the Oval Office.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He's not doing anything that previous presidents haven't done.

????

[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

They said HE'S NOT DOING ANYTHING THAT PREVIOUS PRESIDENTS HAVEN'T DONE

[–] despoticruin@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't think you are giving Gore enough credit. Had that election not been stolen we would be in a vastly different spot I think.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I vehemently disagree.

Gore was just as beholden to the Epstein Class as Clinton, Bush, or Reagan. He would have been a disaster too.

[–] Oisteink@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Elect him once, shame on him. elect him twice, shame on them.

[–] zeroblood@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Really elect him once shame on them, that was some dumb shit.

[–] YoureHotCupCake@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

But could you imagine if we had a woman in charge? It would have been the end of the world, just like when the black man was in charge /s.

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[–] AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago

Fascism is capitalism in decay. The neoliberals in the democratic establishment and their presidential failures share at least 50% of the blame. But it's the same all over the west, Europe is not that far behind.

Trump could only be successful as he is and safe with a country like the USA existing. Allowing generational wealth, backroom dealings, stiffing contractors, and just being a menace to society at large. This is before you consider all the truly heinous stuff.

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

It's exactly what Bernie the Rat tries to do when covering for the genocider state.
Invariably he talks about 'the Netanyahu government', when that goes away they will be the perfect democracy again.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Viva la revolución ✊🏼🇦🇱

[–] boaratio@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] wpb@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm up for both. But from the way I see folks talk about other candidates, it is clear that a lot of people think doing only one of these is enough. The moment you have even a smidge of criticism about other candidates (usually criticism which is aimed precisely at the fact that the candidate seems to have no interest whatsoever in changing America), you're met with "OH SO YOU LIKE TRUMP[1], HUH?".

[1] you can replace him with dr Oz, Collins, mcCain, Romney, and so on and so forth

[–] K1nsey6@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Swapping out the shade of fascism that sits in the halls of government accomplish nothing

[–] brownsugga@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Hot take alert

[–] minorkeys@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 month ago

So they're both wrong?

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