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Again, is anyone here, on Lemmy, surprised by this shit?
Yes, America lives under democracy, however, did you ever stop to consider that business operates under authoritarianism? So we take someone who is aggressively capitalistic, has run and owned several businesses, even had a TV show that's known for the phrase "you're fired", and put them in charge. Then we're surprised when this person who has basically been head of several authoritarian businesses, starts acting like an authoritarian regime?
I don't think so Tim.
None of this is surprising to me in the least.
And people voted for this.
People been voting for this every election since this slave colony was stolen.
"Hybrid regime" is the best phrase to describe the US right now.
Not a total dictatorship, yet, but very authoritarian, but somehow just not authoritarian enough for someone to be granted political asylum in, say, the EU, but nevertheless, very authoritarian.
I wonder at what point the EU would actually take this regime seriously and start granting asylum.
In fairness, it does seem like the kind of extreme that would come up in a video game. You'd at least expect some subtlety in real life, rather than outright drapes with the guy's face on, and a positive word slapped on.
Like putting his business logo up.
This isn't about you. The left leaning folks fail so hard at politics because you all think you're the main character. As if you're the last stop on the information path. All this crazy stuff that happens gets consumed by you and then stops. We're suppose to do stuff with this information not just kill it after we have a quick view of it. So saying "is anyone surprised" misses the point here. It's not about information for you or others personally. The point isn't to inform just so you're aware. Its so you do something with it.