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jleyank ◴[] No.44611189[source]
It's really depressing how the US system seems to have existed "on belief". Once somebody set out to damage or destroy it, away it went. Pretty much without a whimper.

As I recall, the system was set up with 3 branches of government in tension. Obviously, that was naive.

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ivape ◴[] No.44611300[source]
It's really depressing how the US system seems to have existed "on belief".

Word up.

Most people that ever lived, lived under some authoritarian or unjust rule. Some lived in a full terror state. Americans are just so lucky and take so much for granted. One can ponder, “what was the moment it all happened?” - there wasn’t a moment. It’s a total frog boiling in water situation. We’ve been boiling. Taste the water, it’s frog soup. Given that this admin has 3 more years, it’ll be frog bone broth once the bones melt.

It is so fucking crazy that if you actually let the unintellectual border-line savage illiterates fulfill their chaotic fantasies that you truly do get a backward bumble fuck country. Anyway, I’m going back to my regular programming of watching Mexican farmers jump from buildings to their death as they run from ICE, and my president sell scam crypto and sneakers and shit.

Shout out to the American Dream.

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patcon ◴[] No.44611387[source]
> the unintellectual border-line savage illiterates fulfill their chaotic fantasies that you truly do get a backward bumble fuck country

it's ok if you don't have energy to understand otherwise rn, but please know that there's more to it than this. to understand is the only way out that's not total war.

and yes, i'm angry too.

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jfengel ◴[] No.44611480[source]
I don't understand. And as far as the can tell, the only thing preventing total war is the belief that it might be possible to fix it next year.

And no matter who wins, the other side will be convinced it was by cheating. And that has no alternative but total war.

I have looked long and hard for an alternative but I'm not seeing one.

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1. CalRobert ◴[] No.44613167[source]
Peaceful secession perhaps? Long shot but it seems like the least distasteful outcome.