• @Placebonickname@lemmy.world
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    Maybe it’s because I’m just very sensitive to these sorts of issues but when somebody fires a black man because they think he’s “woke”, it makes me believe that they didn’t fire him because he was woke. They fired him because he was black.

    2nd. Is Trump just out there firing the people that will stand up to him ? If yes, we are in for a world of pain, this may not be how dictators are made, but it’s how they sustain their power 

    • @Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
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      Is Trump just out there firing the people that will stand up to him ?

      How is this even a question? Yes, of course that’s what he’s doing. He’s literally following the playbook right wing think tanks wrote before the election. They’ve stated openly that this is all part of their plan. Purge the government of everyone but loyalists, and then act with impunity because the people whose job is to act as a check on executive power will rubber stamp everything.

      God, Americans should be panicking right now and you’re all just sleepwalking into this.

    • @moshankey@lemmy.world
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      344 months ago

      You are not wrong on either. This is exactly how a dictatorship begins. I only hope that the American public can see this for what it is. But I doubt it. Literacy is not a strong point.

      • @Placebonickname@lemmy.world
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        124 months ago

        I’m still hoping that James Bond like character from the British government will take him out for us, but that might just be because I’m in the middle of a James Bond movie marathon

      • @MagicShel@lemmy.zip
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        54 months ago

        The issue is I think enough of us want that. A “benevolent” dictator. They are already too lost and I think the only possible education will be difficult, painful, and generational in length.

        • @jaxxed@lemmy.ml
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          24 months ago

          My evaluation is that a small percentage of Americans want a dictatorship, and a large percentage don’t but are not aware that the steps are being taken, because they think that the institutions of their government are immutable.

    • @GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works
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      124 months ago

      Donald Trump has no fucking clue what is going on other than what is being whispered in his ear by the people who are orchastrating this whole thing.

      • @Kayday@lemmy.world
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        44 months ago

        Exactly why I keep saying in other threads that this problem doesn’t die with Trump. The damage is done, and the whisperers just need a new puppet once Trump kicks the bucket.