• dan1101@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I hope we will be rational again in a couple years. It took trials and decades of divided Germany to mostly fix the scourge of Nazism. We might have to ban all MAGA speech and symbols, which would be an interesting Constitutional challenge.

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      1 day ago

      Buddy…

      Like, you for real think trump leaving office will be as big of a deal as the Nazis losing WW2?

      Shits fucking bad, to an unacceptable level…

      But it’s nowhere near actually nazi bad, even though most of Trump’s admin wants it to be. Like, the reason it was so hard post WW2, is even German children were conscripted into the Nazi military. They were actually fighting in a war, and carried that damage with them after the war

      That alone is a massive difference.

      trump disappearing from American politics will be much closer to GW leaving office than hitler shooting himself.

      By 2030 I fully expect most Republicans to claim they never personally supported trump just like they did after GW left office.

      But all that needs to happen to keep them out of office is not having the only option be a neoliberal. And since neoliberals can’t win fair elections and the current DNC will run fair primaries, we don’t

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        22 hours ago

        I’m not saying MAGA is as bad as Nazi Germany (yet), but the lawbreaking, ethics violations, and constitutional infringements will take many many years to process. It’s been multiple things by so much of the administration every damn day.

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          21 hours ago

          but the lawbreaking, ethics violations, and constitutional infringements will take many many years to process.

          None of that started with trump…

          trump just sucks at hiding it.

          And it’s as easy of a fix as electing a decent president. The reason that used to be hard, was neoliberals controlling the DNC for 30+ years.

          The reason it stopped being hard, is neoliberals don’t control the DNC.

          Like, two years ago people would have said it would take decades to route out the corruption in the NYC mayora office.

          It was actually pretty easy. Mamdani’s big secret is he’s just genuinely trying to fix shit

          That works on a national level as well