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[–] 167 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Saw this coming when he decided to eliminate bad weather by not reporting it.

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  • [–] 137 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It's crazy how close to full on authoritarianism the US has become in only 7 months.

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

    Stay tuned. It's going to get much worse before the American people actually do something about it.

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  • [–] 49 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Americans were like that during the Bush years. Illegal wars, torture, inept cronyism.

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    I kind of excused some of that due to societal PTSD from 9/11 but in retrospect around half of Americans just fucking suck.

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

    One could see how bloodthirsty they were as soon as they saw the opportunity to have extrajudicial punishment and the opportunity to kill a lot of brown people.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    societal PTSD from 9/11

    I feel 9/11 was less of a "we were struck by the ravages of war" and more of a "how dare they shoot back" event. If it was like the bombing of London by the Nazis, that makes most people reluctant to go to war instead of making war popular.

    I mean, who looks at 9/11 and says "we want more of this"? Apparently most Americans?

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    This is not even close to the same thing as the Bush years.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    This post deserves more attention. It's disappointing how short people's memory is and how few can see the bigger picture. It didn't start with Trump and it's not going to end with him. I like to think of this administration like a comic relief that's not very funny.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    The current regime is just the next step in authoritarian fascism from the Trump era. Democrats should have arrested and exposed all the criminals but they prefer neoliberal economics and performative actions over justice.

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

    republicans are dumber than dogshit, I swear.

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago

    Fucking pathetic... that's what those who see strength in that turd are.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    if you don't allow X.com because of content tracking that is not an article but a long list of twitter garbage blocked

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)
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    I think it says something interesting that the American criticism of an American dictator put in place by corporatism is talking about that time America helped one its corporations conquer South American countries.

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

    By firing him, trump ironically directly decreased the number of employment

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    ... but they're gonna need to get 2 jobs to make up the money for whatever they were doing for "the government", so net positive jobs!!! <>

    /s

    Go see The Naked Gun. It'll at least have you laughing at something meant to be funny!

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    The bellends own words "... replaced with someone much more competent and qualified. Important numbers like this must be fair and accurate, they can’t be manipulated for political purposes". There is tragedy that we need social media to call out his misleading the public.

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

    I'm confused -- if he knew Trump was going to be so mad, why didn't he just release better numbers? That's how it used to work in the USSR and plenty of people were able to keep their government jobs.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    It’s probably tied up with the Epstein files and who is in them. A diversion.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    How long before this and similar sites for rational and civilised discours are "banned" in the US.?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Oddly, bananas seem to be one of the few items relatively untouched by inflation.

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    [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Sorry to disappoint but that name is already taken. Lithuania is banana republic.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Let's see what kind of creature he puts in her place to only bring favorable to Trump news.

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