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[-] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 14 hours ago

Funny newspaper treating this like a normal election. If Trump wins the election, democracy and the very idea of future elections are under threat.

[-] dontgooglefinderscult@lemmings.world -3 points 13 hours ago

You've said that every election since Carter lost.

[-] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I've said what? How do you know what I've said since before I was born?

You, as the collective you, have said every election that democracy is on the line. Every single one, some large contingency of neoliberals pulls out ol' reliable and claims their opponent will end democracy. Trump and Clinton's camps both did it. Kerry did it, Obama, fucking Clinton(penis) v Dole had that messaging. It's worse than crying wolf, it shows a ridiculous misunderstanding of what is allowed by the rulers of the country. The rich have no interest in a dictatorship, and they set the rules. The current oligarchy wherein both candidates essentially do the same thing is by far the most profitable arrangement, so it will continue.

[-] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Every single one, some large contingency of neoliberals pulls out ol’ reliable and claims their opponent will end democracy.

No, most have said that other elections are important, because voting is important and people need to get out to vote in order for their voice to be heard.

Now that Trump has broadcasted his racism, bigotry, hatred, and a thousand other things that would single-handedly end a campaign, including raping his wife, raping a 14-year-old, giving top secret info to Putin which got federal agents killed, hoarding boxes and boxes of top secret documents, and sooo many fucking other things that would take 20 pages to list. Now that he's broadcasted all of that, and the propaganda networks that his base watch has filtered everything so well that none of his base actually give a shit, the GOP now has no reason to hide behind their real goals: dismantle government so absolutely that nobody would ever be able to repair it again.

If Trump is elected, it would not take long for that Reichstag fire event to happen that would solidify their position in power.

The rich have no interest in a dictatorship, and they set the rules.

“I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.” -- Grover Norquist

The rich don't want a dictatorship. They want anarcho-capitalism, a corporatocracy, a kleptocracy, or any sort of similar concept that would give corporations ultimate power to do whatever the fuck they want, despite the objections or ignorance of the people. That sorta kinda isn't a democracy.

Or they'll still settle on a dictatorship, as long as they get to pull the strings in enough directions.

The current oligarchy wherein both candidates essentially do the same thing is by far the most profitable arrangement, so it will continue.

That's a nice false equivalency you got there. BSABSVR, ammirite?

There's only one side that consistently pushes their agenda for the rich and powerful.

If Trump wins, all issues will be under threat. The USA is dead if it happens.

[-] beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 day ago

Trump gave the names of CIA agents to Putin & then a bunch of them got killed. TRAITOR.

[-] SoylentBlake@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago

At the start of COVID, besides stealing supplies from "blue" cities, under gunpoint right off the docks, Trump sent 3 testing machines to Putin. When we ALREADY didn't have enough.

He delayed doing anything about it, publically saying, paraphrasing, "it seems like a problem for the blue cities" and didn't lift a finger until people in the south started dropping like flies

Over average deaths during that time frame are an order of magnitude higher than the actual reported COVID numbers - That is the only metric that matters. And beyond not helping Americans, he actively stifled help from reaching us

No SINGLE person in our history is responsible for as many deaths as Trump is, due to his hindering relief. He is the biggest killer of Americans the world has ever seen. Putin definitely got his money's worth.

And he sold our nuclear tech to the Saudi's. Wtf else would Kuschner have received 2Billion USD for?

[-] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

Is issue one "the USA"?

[-] eran_morad@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Orange traitor would probably give away Alaska.

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

And not to the indigenous people of that region 😔

[-] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

A lot more than 11 issues.

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