return2ozma to News · 7 months agoNewsom brands Trump a ‘dictator’ after National Guard deployedwww.semafor.comexternal-linkmessage-square55linkfedilinkarrow-up1728arrow-down15cross-posted to: politics
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minus-squareWhiskyTangoFoxtrotlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·7 months agoNormally in a democracy you’d expect the voters to keep the politicians from violating those unwritten rules, but Americans gonna American.
minus-squareuuldika@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 months agodictators are distressingly popular. nobody likes checks and balances when they’re holding your guy back from giving the bad guys a well-deserved beating.
minus-squareWhiskyTangoFoxtrotlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 months agoAnd the prevalence of guillotine-posting here shows that that attitude transcends political affiliation.
Normally in a democracy you’d expect the voters to keep the politicians from violating those unwritten rules, but Americans gonna American.
dictators are distressingly popular. nobody likes checks and balances when they’re holding your guy back from giving the bad guys a well-deserved beating.
And the prevalence of guillotine-posting here shows that that attitude transcends political affiliation.
Guillotine is the check against this shit.