By Professor Marc Murphy of the Brandeis School of Law

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[–] 244 points 1 year ago (6 children)

2016 was worse for America than 9/11.

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  • [–] 173 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    Yes. Trump's failure during Covid was killing a 9/11's worth of Americans weekly.

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

    Jr Bush/ Cheney laid an awful lot of the groundwork for Trunk One’s malevolence

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    [–] 149 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Mr. President, a second presidency just hit the south tower.

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

    The pathway to authoritarianism is lined with people telling you to stop overreacting

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I hope as fuck that everyone who said that eventually realize they were warned, and take some humility into the future

    Maybe, maybe, break Cassandra's curse. At least for a little bit

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yea, and then they’ll say “never forget” and build a monument and a museum. And then everyone forgets 2 generations later. Just look at Israel, the families there still materially experience the lingering effects of genocide yet they continue to perpetrate another one.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    That is the unfortunate reality of it. I wish I could say that I hope it will be different this time but..

    About the one hope I have is that during the next iteration we overhaul society's systems to so solidly work for the average person that it helps counteract this cycle, but it's hard to stay optimistic for sure

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    [–] 107 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    I've never seen anything in the US more complicit towards fascism and autocracy than the US media. They reported NOTHING negative about Trump for months? Why? Fairness? But Kamala got fucked every headline ''Job Numbers trending up, but are the numbers too soft because of Harris? " type of bullshit.

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    [–] 90 points 1 year ago

    Needs an update:

    Now of course the "Rule of Law" is already destroyed and the plane should be headed for the 2nd one...

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  • [–] 50 points 1 year ago (1 child)
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    [–] 49 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Just need a 2nd plane labelled "republican traitor filth".

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    [–] 43 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I do think that Trump's first administration was fascist-lite. He had set precedence that future politicians will do. However, his second term has now gone full fascist and it is no longer "setting precedence", but making breakthrough and ripping apart the very heart of democracy and what it means to be human.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Kick a narcissist out of your home and tell them you don’t want them anymore, and if they manage to get back in, you won’t ever forget you crossed them.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    The media called his second run a "revenge tour", and they weren't fucking wrong. Trump's only objective this time around is to stick it to the people who held him back the first time. First his old cabinet, then career civil servants, then judges, and eventually, the rest of us.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Cheetos can't melt steel beams.

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    [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    Uhhhh get this human generated slop out of here!

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    I mean... I'm from the US myself and this is extremely true

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