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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

I’d like to know this too. We all know the issues with the current regime. It’s clearly the worst in our lifetime.

But some of these issues may not have been apparent before the internet, before constant news. There may be different corruption, different rubber stamps and hiding of corruption, crime, and incompetence. We like to think previous presidents had some shame some ethics some standards, but did they really or was it just easier to hide

As far as I can tell the current administration has cemented their place in history, with the sheer maliciousness and negative impact on the country and even the world. A Term which will live in infamy. Standing far below every other administration

…. But will history agree?

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 hours ago

Lets be honest with ourselves, too, we are talking about slavers, white supremacists, ruling class, etc. etc.

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 68 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Like an order of magnitude worse?

  • No sitting president before him has been a convicted felon.
  • No sitting president before him has been involved in the sheer volume of sexual scandals from assault to cheating to being implicated in possible pedophilia.
  • No sitting president before him has refused to return literally boxes and boxes of classified documents which he kept as trophies (or possibly as items for sale) while storing them in extremely inappropriate ways. (This is extremely different from Biden, btw, who promptly returned a few accidentally retained documents. Trump was playing shell games with them, repeatedly swearing he had returned them all while doing things like loading them on planes to move to other locations, etc.)
  • No sitting president before him has attempted to overthrow the government when they lost an election.
  • The level of bribery and corruption in his administration is off the charts.
  • The number of lies he tells has always been off the charts. ("I've never heard of Project 2025!" while having given a speech to its members and now following its plans to dismantle the federal government.)
  • His department heads have all been picked to dismantle the departments they're in. (Project 2025 again)

And then of course there is the christofascism angle, which is extremely disturbing because he definitely plans to never leave power again. He's currently trying hard to normalize use of military force against US citizens so he can seize control of the elections to make sure they go his way.

[–] Ambiance6195@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Whoa you're gonna scare people with those facts!

[–] Fyrnyx@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 7 hours ago

Facts? What are those?

There are 75 Million brain-washed idiots out there who we know, that can give a shit less about facts. Those people voted Trump in in hopes he'll - get this - lower egg prices. Now I know that's part of the reason but it was a large part. The same egg prices Trump would later tell everyone to shut up about, for real.

[–] kmartburrito@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago

If Wikipedia had balls

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The Fallacy of the Beard

Get your opponent to concede a point by burdening them with defining a strict threshold. Break their claim into smaller and smaller components and keep zooming in until you are looking at such tiny things that their original claims seem overblown.

This man has a beard! Does he? Yes clearly! 20mm hair on chin!

Would he have a beard I mean an actual beard if it was 5mm? No that's just stubble! Where does it become a beard, at 10mm? I guess!

So a man with 9mm hair has stubble? Yes! And he grows one measly millimeter of chin hair in on one of the hairs and BAM WHOA he has a beard now?

Edit: Not calling your question out as disingenuous, but trying to prevent it being abused.

[–] TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website -2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

America were always (at least since Carter, 2nd world war ? Not American I probably forgot my president) colonialist in their exterior politics… now they’re facist about it.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Do you smell toast?