• themeatbridge
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    2826 days ago

    Mmmm no. Donald Trump is the inevitable result of malignant conservative “ideology.” He hasn’t split the country in two, he’s exploited the pathological narcissism that humans use to justify selfish and self-destructive governance.

    • Zeppo
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      425 days ago

      I agree. He gets way too much credit. He simply exemplifies the modern Republican attitudes of being racist, misogynistic and greedy assholes in the tradition of Rush Limbaugh and dozens of other pundits and politicians.

    • @[email protected]
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      225 days ago

      He’s also the result of pathetic neoliberal Democrats having no idea how to seriously counter toxic populism the way FDR did.

  • Nougat
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    1126 days ago

    Blaming “craziness” and “Trump” is wrong. Every single fascist has agency. Every single fascist is responsible for themselves.

    No fucking excuses.

    • ekZepp
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      226 days ago

      So it was antisemitism, then Hitler pop up.

  • @[email protected]
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    125 days ago

    The Merriam-Webster dictionary, America’s oldest, defines a mad person as…

    You gotta be fucking kidding me.