• Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk
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    3 days ago

    It wasn’t worse. They’re already at rock bottom. They’re literally lying to everyone and nothing is being done about it.

    I’d wager in two or three years, if nothing is done, the USA will cease to exist as a single, unified sovereign nation. If things keep going the way they’re going, a collapse is inevitable. A country made up with people so viciously opposed to reality cannot survive.

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      It wasn’t worse. They’re already at rock bottom. They’re literally lying to everyone and nothing is being done about it.

      I’m reminded of that Office Space quote that works by analogy: “Every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that’s on the worst day of my life.”

      Every day we’re at rock bottom, and also every day we’re going deeper. They will keep setting a new low until they’re removed from the levers of power.

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        American is attempting to achieve a stupidity singularity … it’s like a black hole of retardation … right now it’s in its red giant phase as it slowly exhausts its democratic fuel and it’s only a matter of time before it suddenly collapses in on itself with the imbalance and crashes into a spectacular concentrated core of complete idiocy that it will suck everything down with it into an infinite level of stupidity.

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      This is the Russian plan. It was never about Trump. It was about payback for break up of the USSR.

      United we stand, divided we fall.

      They’ve made us divided: not MAGA, but the gov’ts abroad who have exported the subversion of a debatable reality. Look at Vladislav Surkov’s strategies and how they are here, in America. You don’t debate your enemy, you debate the notion of truth.

      Trump 1 introduced the term “alternative facts,” and now these people sit in a room talking about an ideology as bad, not a formal group or person.

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        We’ve always been divided. Natives against colonizers. White against black. Slavers against abolitionists. Urban against rural. “Communists” against “real Americans.”

        Unity had always been a lie, a story, an excuse for a slow compromise that keepa the landowners ahead.

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            We aren’t even at “Registered Republican Bathroom Only” levels of division yet. (Incidentally, sundown towns still exist in this country)

            The Civil War never really ended because we never actually dealt with the traitors. We compromised on slavery and now we have more slaves than we ever did when a man could own another man, we just need to throw them in jail first. John Brown was right.

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      You have your timeline wrong. They’re hellbent on stopping the midterms. As soon as protests, civil disobedience, and malicious compliance stop, we are locked into an authoritarian regime. You are here. Now.

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        There is still a far to optimistic view that there will be midterms that will totally change the landscape.

        The current path is clearly leading to the insurrection act being in full force well before midterms, and the midterms themselves will be a fraudulent sham, only to be “allowed” to pacify the common folk.

        The US does not even realize it already has the razzia’s the nazi’s held where people, innocent or not, are forcibly dragged from their homes and shot at in the streets.

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          As soon as Trump won, I knew we were on the trajectory of no more elections.

          They keep telling everyone exactly what they are doing and no one believes them. Trump flat out said this would be the last election for us. And no one believed him except his pending administration.

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              The more sensical approach is what Bernie has to say about it. Good talk with Trevor Noah this week.

              He gets deep on the corporate too. Did you know, at the top, it’s down to 3 equity groups owning everything, including most of our legislators? Blackrock is one of them.

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          It didn’t occur to me that they would lie about the results of the mid terms. It’s like NKs elections with only one option.

          I sincerely hope the smart ones get out to safety in another country.