• @MegaUltraChicken
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    184 hours ago

    And he had a bunch of people telling him no along the way. I don’t know why people aren’t getting this. There. Are. No. Guard. Rails. This. Time.

    He already tried a bunch of the shit people are saying he would never do. Now he can do them. Good fucking job.

    • @[email protected]
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      -23 hours ago

      There are guard rails, but their nature is different.

      They can control every single major position in the federal government. Doesn’t matter, because they’re all working at cross purposes. See, fascism gives the appearance of a united front because it rallies around a singular leader, but it’s not. Everyone below that leader is trying to stab each other in the back in order to be in the good graces of the leader.

      That alone would tie them in knots of their own creation, but it’s possible to exploit it further. Publicize the consequences far and wide. Getting Trump to yell at his own staff isn’t difficult, and he’ll fire them and replace them with someone even dumber. With Congress being close to split, It’s even possible cabinet positions empty out with no replacements for the rest of the Administration.

      • @WoodScientist
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        42 hours ago

        See, fascism gives the appearance of a united front because it rallies around a singular leader, but it’s not. Everyone below that leader is trying to stab each other in the back in order to be in the good graces of the leader.

        That Nazis were actually very incompetent at governing. It didn’t stop them from committing the Holocaust.

        • @[email protected]
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          12 hours ago

          Yes, that’s true. But their system is not our system. We have opportunities to exploit. History does not have to repeat itself.