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It's interesting that this regime is already behaving as if the dictatorship it clearly aspires to has already been established. They obviously feel quite confident about their cause.
Well, they can afford to be, because it doesn't look as if they have anything to fear in the way of consequences. Every day, I read alarming reports about abuse of power, open corruption, systematic racism, absurd policies that run counter to the interests of US citizens, blatant disregard for the law, and the involvement of high-ranking government officials in prostitution and pedophilia. But I never read anything that would suggest that those responsible are being held accountable.
I therefore assume that the establishment of a dictatorship à la Russia is already so far advanced that it won't be prevented - and by that I mean a transformation of the plutocracy that has long been the norm in the US into an unvarnished autocracy, including all the associated methods of repression, in other words, the transformation of the US into a full-blown dictatorship.
Fake it til you make it.
If they see no consequences to their actions, it only makes them bolder to go more extreme.
Unitary Executive Theory has been on the table since Nixon. To say "we're not already living in a dictatorship", you really need to squeeze your eyes shut, stay perfectly in your lane, and not ask why we have the largest prison population on earth.
Well, obviously, the Russians are naturally predisposed to being ruled with an iron fist, because they have bad genes. Once the American people have been cleansed of the social rot, we're going to see the kind of Liberty and Freedom that our Founding Fathers could only dream of.
Or, at least, that's what Steven Miller and Steve Bannon and the last half dozen Joe Rogan guests have told me.
With this comment, you are simply stating that you are incapable of engaging in rational discussion.
Not op but lol, wut?
Lemmy is really full of angry people recently who are projecting their problems onto others. It's very odd.
The real question is whether they have the momentum to keep it going. Even the MAGA types are getting tired of the impacts these decisions have on their lives. Yes, a group of bros got in power and took over, but they are falling fairly flat at each attempt. In the end, most of what they have done is symbolic. We will get back to some sense of normalcy soon enough.
I'd say what was passed under the name "big beautiful bill" is sadly more than just symbolic and the deportation of thousands upon thousands of foreigners is not either.