• Billiam
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    215 hours ago

    Historically, fascist governments are voted in.

    They’re never voted out.

    • @draneceusrex
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      43 hours ago

      Well, I’m hoping we are a little closer to Franco’s Spain, and things just peeter out once Trump dies.

      • HeadfullofSoup
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        43 hours ago

        Trump gonna die ( kill by it’s masters ) so Vance can get promoted as the perfect puppet to push the US even more into dictatorship using the coup for more violent repression of everyone they dont like

        • @[email protected]
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          22 hours ago

          My bet is Trump gets the 25th amendment treatment just after he passes the 2-year mark of his term. That way, the back half of the term won’t start the timer on Vance’s 2-term limit and the fascists can keep Americans sleepwalking for the next 12 years before we collectively wake up and realize we’re in a dictatorship. I hope I’m wrong but I could easily imagine this plan already having been drawn up.

    • @[email protected]
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      85 hours ago

      This is exactly what has me so horrified. Hitler was stopped as was Mussolini.

      There’s no one strong enough to stop America and with our geographic and strategic locations we’re practically invincible. :(

    • @CitizenKong
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      13 hours ago

      But they can also be ended with protests. See East Germany.

      • Billiam
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        22 hours ago

        Yes, but that was more a case of the government collapsing due to Germans fleeing through Hungary and Austria.

        Besides, I don’t really want to wait 50 years for the GOP to finally wither away.