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Think this is effectively where the US stops pretending democracy is still a thing

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago

Fascism can always be beaten, it's just a matter of how hard it will be to beat, and how many people will support said fascism, and how many people are willing to fight it

So far the US is letting it get really fucking bad and people simply don't seem to care at all.

There are thousands of protesters. Thousands. Sometimes even hundreds, wow wow wow...

WHERE ARE THE MILLIONS OF PROTESTERS SHUTTING DOWN THE COUNTRY?

I just don't get it, I really don't. These are the same brain wheezers that keep on going about bringing democracy to Afghanistan (in the form of bombs, of course, the American way) yet when their president declares himself king, crickets and cheers