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Know how the “far left” is telling us to not vote this year?
Ever wonder why that is?
The far left tells you to vote and organize.
Russian bots tell you to protest from your living room.
Oh lmao they plan on doing another J6 before the election. He can't help but blurt it out.
FBI if you fuckball clowns are listening THIS TIME...DO SOMETHING
They won't. They'll probably march with maga, you know, being cops and all.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Hall_Putsch
The Nazis didn't get it right the first time either.
Don't let the right wing's clown act get your guard down.
"Ukraine, I unfriend you!"
“We really like russia! We really, really like them!”
What really keeps me up at night is wondering what's next? What comes after tRump? Is there an end in sight? Will these Maga morons keep getting dumber/more extreme? I think so.
Seems like it's almost time to kill Nazis again like ww2
The great flaw in the fascist plans leading to WW2 wasn't a military error.
It was not being America or Russia.
They're looking to fix those oversights.
Don't forget, the goal of Hitler was a united Europe. Now that Europe is united, it's turning far right in most countries. Hitler just had the formula all backwards. Now with Russia being a dictatorial regime and Trump being a Putin lover, Biden is the one to stop the US from being a Russian puppet state. This world is so fucked up right now. Putin wants to restore the Soviet Union and the American Republicans are all for it.
It won’t matter if Trump wins. Plans to become a dictator aside, he’s going to help Netanyahu eradicate Palestine while withdrawing support from Ukraine, Taiwan, and the Philippines in the name of isolationism.
He’s going to start WWIII by letting Putin and Xi do whatever they want.
After tRump is gone there will be an endless supply of copycat wannabe dictators trying to one up the sHitler himself.
You don’t even need to look too far ahead in future or debate hypotheticals - just look at the language and demeanor of many of republican candidates like Kari Lame, Marge Traitor, Lauren Gropert, that Nazi guy running for NC governor, and many many more to list here.
The real problem is when these MAGA morons get smarter and more extreme.
when these MAGA morons get *smarter*
Wouldn’t they just stop being maga morons?
Depends on how they progress. Smart doesn't necessarily mean good.
They all act like morons, but especially for the ones on top, it becomes a question of whether they came into power by being just the right type of stupid; or are they just good at behaving like an idiot because that's an effective way to manipulate actual idiots?
We have a tendency to be dismissive of them as -just- being stupid, but every time we give them the village-idiot pass, we're making their strategy that much more successful.
Look at the harm Trump has caused - he wouldn't get away with a tenth of what he's done if he acted competently.
...honestly it's basically the Darth Jar Jar fan theory - you can get away with doing all kinds of evil if you just act like an idiot while you do it.
No. They won't. The United States has always had a taste for authoritarianism. There's a burning desire for people that serve in these not so United States, and everyone thinks that they deserve to be served and don't give two shits about their fellow Americans. It isn't stupidity that guides these people. It's assholery, and the desire to lord it over other people. Don't ascribe to incompetence what should be ascribed properly to malice where MAGA is concerned.
The MAGA morons are the tools used by the far right leaders to get their way. Many of them are just terrified due to an intense ignorance and if they got smarter we might actually be doing ok.
if they got smarter we might actually be doing ok.
Or we could remove the financial incentives in our political system. That'd be a good start and a lot more likely to happen than making people smarter. Let's not try to change people, let's instead stop monied interests' ability to mass manipulate people with fear into voting against their own interests.
Well that’s the thing, the base would be smart enough to elect those who would actually want to do those things instead of the current gaggle of goons.
There is no end if our government doesn't start taking these christian nationalists as a serious threat. Not to worry, three generations as a theocracy will rip this entire nation to threads.