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aaroninsf ◴[02 Jul 25 22:01 UTC] No.44449308[source]▶
The current administration is not merely racists, autocratic, and hell bent on insuring all wealth is held by the oligarch class,

it is also engaged in the most venal, short-sighted, and destructive assault on the basic functions of governance and civil society I can imagine.

I don't care what one's view is on the appropriate scale and role of federal governance, some operations are best and only accomplished at that level,

and this short of bullshit is not just a disservice to, it is an attack on the citizenry.

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janice1999 ◴[02 Jul 25 22:07 UTC] No.44449362[source]▶
Destroying federal governance seems on point for people who read Yarvin and want to rule feudal micro-states as techno-kings.
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amarcheschi ◴[02 Jul 25 22:14 UTC] No.44449412[source]▶
I guess they see themselves as high officers in those states. I fail to understand how someone could read about living in a dictatorship and go "yeah, I would like to live like that"
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andrekandre ◴[02 Jul 25 23:02 UTC] No.44449739[source]▶

  > I fail to understand how someone could read about living in a dictatorship and go "yeah, I would like to live like that"
fwiw there are religious people who read about the great kings in the bible and wish they had one of those today, and they vote (not endorsing, just sharing my experience)
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padjo ◴[02 Jul 25 23:12 UTC] No.44449805[source]▶
There are also religious people who look forward to the coming of the “end times”. They also vote.
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cess11 ◴[03 Jul 25 07:39 UTC] No.44452591{3}[source]▶
More importantly, US oligarchs are religious. Mostly evangelical, mormon or some postmodern derivative, like Thiel, Yarvin, Musk and their ilk.

In the US, even people who aren't very religious in practice still harbour religious beliefs like the state of Israel being a divine entity. I.e. like Ted Cruz, who knows some english biblical phrases but isn't religious enough to stop himself from playing golf with the pharaoh, and yet strongly holds on to the antisemitic zionist belief that jews must move to the state of Israel and eradicate their neighbours.

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1. phatskat ◴[04 Jul 25 17:47 UTC] No.44466495{4}[source]▶
I think Cruz is likely a lot more religious than he puts out only because his brand of religion is, or at least was, too extreme for a lot of people. His father is a fundamentalist leader a la Handmaid’s Tale, which should have been a lot more worrying a lot sooner for a lot more people.