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  • Like Maduro?

  • I have no idea, looking at putin's slow-fascism, it would be fake elections, but trump doesnt have the patience for slow-fascism, they'll just suspend the midterms for starters if nobody stops them.

  • Next term? Conservative? People still haven't realized that the last election was between constitutionalists (yes, e.g. Liz Cheney is a constitutionalist, at least inside the US) and fascists. The fascists won.

  • ...too late for that now...people were warned, there is no going back, the only way out of this is through and if you're lucky you'll have another leader who cares enough about that to make a difference.

  • Ok, he is stupid, but he has figured some things out and perfected ways to move in the world through trial and error with money and time.

  • I don't think tramp knows much about anything at all, he just plays his role, but the blueprint they are "plagiarizing" from history books must be Stephen Miller's or Bannon's or some Heritage Foundation subgroup. But he may be vaguely aware of the power he could have if he ignores all rules (what a genius) and everyone is too afraid to stop him.

  • Did he mean "from other tribes" as in from elsewhere in the world, far enough that their culture is not as concerned with family names as theirs?

  • It's happening too quickly, actually, these bozos do not have the patience nor the discipline, they are following the dictator playbook quite closely, but even putin took decades. If they keep pressing this hard, they are not going to get their fascist takeover, they are going to get a civil war, which is probably more useful to China and russia and will probably drag them and allies in.

  • People act like every lie is just a flesh wound, but if you stab the body of the truth every day, every day will be worse than the previous one.

  • Destination? Pro ceeedin...

  • Meow?

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  • Makes sense.

  • So this is

    a) not going to change anything

    b) not something that could have been used in thousands of other counties at scale to change the final result

  • ya beat me to it

  • What I've learned over time is that it brings out the worst in us, because unlike a live meeting, where there is a danger that you may be ostracized or beaten up, online people have a much less controlled environment for speech. Even the effort of showing up or printing/broadcasting an opinion was reduced to 0.

    And since the user isn't forced to pass a driving exam for how to behave and different communities have different rules, values and objectives, it is easy to feel a contrast without traveling very far, which triggers polarization/victimization rather than an instinct to adapt and grow.

    e.g. normies wouldn't just stumble into an anarchist meeting in real life and start throwing up a fuss, but online it can happen all the time without censorship moderation.

    And all of this before even considering hostile actors that generate, propagate, amplify and target misinformation and disinformation (now with AI insideTM)

    ...it is also easier to be misinterpreted, because every time someone speaks, it is one-to-many and you have no idea who is going to be reading and to misinterpret/coopt/discredit(in a hostile way) your message in ways that you had not antecipated. It is completely different from a live gathering (you don't each yell at the crowd at a time)

  • "'But we are hardworking people, unlike those other immigrants people don't like" 🤡