• Rhaedas@fedia.io
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      2 months ago

      I don’t think it has to be Trump. Look at the people behind him helping all this happen, and enough Americans seem to be okay with this direction. The loss of Trump at some point will be a bump in the road, but I don’t think he’s crucial to a continued authoritarian path now that we’re apparently accelerating that way.

      • Paragone@lemmy.worldOP
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        2 months ago

        I believe he gets to rule for about 7/2 years ( 1 of the natural-human-life-cycles is 7y, btw ), then some replacement steps-in…

        & no, I don’t think there is going to be any “president”, shortly: it’ll be “LORD”, not “president”, that all are required to address him as, or be butchered.

        The rules are being cancerously-butchered, as systematically as possible, as quickly as possible, & humankind’s sleepwalking into the trap, willingly…

        Once the rules tipping-point is crossed, then butchery goes live, & the nazis become mild-mannered picnickers, by comparison, unfortunately…

        I tried warning people in the US armed forces, before 2001-09-11, that “will obey any LEGAL order” doesn’t prevent one from becoming evil’s tool, when the law itself gets rewritten to BE evil, but … they didn’t understand.

        People are plastic, in morality: most will form to the context they’re in, obviously, as going counter to it is violently-dangerous…


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    • Mugita Sokio@lemmy.today
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      18 days ago

      That should be impossible according to the US Constitution. I don’t think we even had a good constitution at that, as it’s nothing more than a Catholic theocratic autocracy, and has been since 1776.