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History Will Not Treat Those Sleepwalking Through This Crisis Well (www.techdirt.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat to c/politics@beehaw.org

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[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I mean all kinds of things can have an effect. A lot of totalitarian regimes were overthrown starting from a way worse position than "Trump and Musk are in the White House and a lot of people are doing what they say." But also, the US is sleeping right now, and a lot of what it takes is just a shitload of people to be on your side. Right now they are not.

Of course that can change.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

That's the thing: what is happening right now, is doing so at the behest of We The People - who shouldn't be wanting it to happen, but nevertheless, they DO.

I heard that Nixon's impeachment was similar. Before it happened people absolutely refused to believe it. Then when all the stuff came out, they were shocked, but they believed what the news media has said.

Since that time, the game has changed... people heard the facts about Trump, and refused to believe it or refused to care if they did. So long as the libs are sufficiently PWNed, it doesn't matter what else happens: we will continue to shoot ourselves in (previously) vital organs, just for spite.

Exactly as the people funding conservative media sources seem to want to happen...