• Archangel1313@lemmy.ca
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    5 days ago

    I can’t understand how any of these idiots expected anything different from Trump. How could they possibly not see all of this coming, a mile away?

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      These people are completely incapable of reading subtext.

      Or text for that matter. They only saw the headline ”Make America Great Again” and went for it.

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        What subtext? It was clear what these assholes were about. And even if it wasn’t, they were warned a gazillion times by literally everybody else.

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          Saying that he will end war while also praising Putin and Bibi.

          Or that ” enemies from within” means people who disagree with him.

          Or when he says he understands tariffs more than anyone else, he probably don’t.

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      They DID see it coming, but they thought they were part of the in-group that wouldn’t be affected. A disturbingly large number of us Americans are A-OK with fascism because they think they’ll reap the benefits with none of the downside. We love punishment when it happens to The Other.

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        Susan Sontag was asked what she had learned from the Holocaust, and she said that 10% of any population is cruel, no matter what, and that 10% is merciful, no matter what, and that the remaining 80% could be  moved in either direction” —Kurt Vonnegut