I find it strange that people were dumb enough to vote for it.
this post was submitted on 25 Nov 2024
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It's a pretty classic recipe by now.
Make voters scared and angry by identifying lots of issues (cost of living, security) that are affecting their lives. Shift anger and blame to external group (China, migrants, LGBTQ+). Propose easy and quick solutions that only vaguely work on a surface level (deportation, tariffs, government efficiency) but voters are too angry to think critically by now, take it at face value and vote for false solutions.
Next step once elected is to start dismantle media scrutiny to control the narrative, capture democratic institutions so everything becomes biased against your politician opponents and start to change laws governing elections to consolidate your power.
It's happening in other places too. Countering this seems hard for other parties. So far it seems to be waiting until the mess being made with the quick and easy solution becomes too big and the other side comes in to clean it up, then getting blamed not everything is fixed and the cycle repeats.
Yeah but the price of eggs tho.
That’s gonna be my copypasta response to any and all Trump related bullshit over the next four years.
“You voted for this.”
It's not like there is a manual on slowing down bad changes or causing trouble for a government body or anything
O wait
https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/SimpleSabotage.pdf
A party that runs on norms and expectations of how they and the system are supposed to work are hoping that if they do it all right the new owners will feel inspired to keep the game running too until they can get back into power.
It's not all that surprising.
A party of complicit fucking simpletons …
ftfy
TBF so far I’m reading they haven’t even begun the “peaceful transfer” due to the lack of signing paperwork.
Well we tried our best... can we try our worst now?
because we apparently forgot syndicalism and socialism exist.
More people wanted change and now they are going to receive it. Democracy worked.
My only problem with FAFO is that they FA but we're all going to FO.
People forgot Change is a vector quanity not a scalar.
Why are leftists so toothless? I really wish leftists would take more extreme stances and push for meaningful change.
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Lib Jan 6 would be so funny. Please do it.
Lib Jan 6 is just what's currently happening: asking the Trump transition team politely to sign the necessary paperwork before granting access to top secret information.
That's the amount of actual resistance we can ever expect from the "institutions are sacred, people are only important if they donate at least $5000 per election season" Dem leadership.
That last paragraph sent me lmao.
Yeah, just throw a can of gasoline in the fire, watching it explode and burn up everything sounds like a fucking good time.