Comment by shrug_addict on 02/12/2024 at 05:42 UTC

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View submission: What Trump Doesn’t Understand About the Military - Trump doesn’t seem to understand the arrangement that makes the U.S. both democratic and powerful.

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Antifa and BLM labels about to come back in full force! I live in the PNW and have a feeling Trump is going to punish SEA/PDX, more proud boys emboldened. Gonna be rough for a bit probably

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Comment by stormshadowfax at 02/12/2024 at 22:07 UTC

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The fact that there is a culture war and one side claims that being anti-fascist makes you the bad guys is crazy.

Comment by notproudortired at 02/12/2024 at 21:45 UTC

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Pfft. Proud Boys. Break out the glitter cannon.

Comment by littlewhitecatalex at 05/12/2024 at 16:42 UTC*

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Gonna be rough for ~~a bit probably~~ the foreseeable future. Probably the rest of our lives.

Once trump commands that sort of power, what’s to stop him from declaring himself the winner of the next election or passing the presidency to one of his sons? Who will be able to stand up against him?

And before anyone says “checks and balances”, when has ANY branch of the government held trump accountable? The times they’ve tried, he’s been protected by his own party and now that they control the senate and the house and the Supreme Court, I ask again, who would actually stand up to trump?

Regardless of how you feel about his personality or his economic policies, giving ANY president that level of power is a stupid fucking idea and a fast-path to fascism. But this country is too stupid to see beyond “democrat bad. Strongman good.”