• TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    I will never understand how we came to a point in history where people just bent over for a compulsively lying billionaire fascist to rape to death what was left of their democracy.

    It never made a goddamned bit of sense for trump to get more than 10% of votes. And yet here we are. Even if he loses (which he somehow might fucking not) he won’t let it go and will be filing pointless lawsuits and whipping morons into violent frenzies for months to come.

    I feel certain that depression rates have risen due to Trump. For years in therapy I talked about him and it’s literally only gotten much worse since then.

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      16 days ago

      Now you know why Washington warned us about political parties. The OG was right about them:

      " However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion. "- George Washington

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        16 days ago

        He damn sure was right. Every time I’ve ever suggested parties should go away, someone dismisses that with a comment like “people need a platform to rally around”.

        The only thing trump supporters all agree on is the racism and the only thing Harris voters are 100% aligned in is avoiding trump. So I don’t think the idea ever was to give people something to “rally around”.

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          16 days ago

          The only thing trump supporters all agree on is the racism

          Hey now… they have the misogyny, xenophobia, homophobia, and transphobia too!