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[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Trump and Co. are gambling that they can achieve dictatorship before the violence and other shit starts.

Putin smiles in Moscow. Chaos and violence in America is his win. It's also his win if the US slides into dictatorship and the US population shrugs and goes along quietly.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

this is sort of like how the options we're being presented right now are either civil war or genocide.

too many people are choosing wrong simply because they think a third choice exists

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

if he plays by putins book, he better eliminate his non-loyalist supporters quickly, either by jailing them or sending them to a foreign prison, or they will turn on him quick.

[–] iknowitwheniseeit 3 points 3 days ago

The Republicans spent the last 8 years purging their ranks of non-MAGA members. This part is done.