We all knew shit was gonna hit the fan when Trump won his second term, but this, I don’t think anyone saw this coming.

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    What an odd choice to put in a screenshot of text that is impossible to read.

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    I did. Lots of people did. Remember when we called him Hitler? That wasn’t for no reason.

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    Nope, I saw much worse coming. Barbarity of the sentence aside, he’s still convicted and sentenced to die.

    I honestly thought by this point we’d be executing political dissidents on live TV.

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      Give them time. They have two more years to go.

      I’m interested in what they’re going to use as their Reichstag Fire.

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        After the midterms get rigged (ICE at polling stations, a multinational mercenary group at USPS warehouses, Trump supporters in election certification offices, etc.), some leftist accelerationist expecting to get killed anyway will probably provide a Reichstag Fire. The Trump administration will have national security agencies look the other way like the Bush administration did with the warnings about 9/11, and voilá, the current amount of surveillance will “be insufficient to stop the threat from within”.

        As for the specific terrorist attack they’ll let slip through the net - I don’t know. Maybe let the white house get bombed so all of it will need to be rebuilt in a grander style. Maybe let the VP get assassinated so some unelected billionaire puppet can take his place and take over when Trump croaks. Maybe there are few enough terrorists that they’ll let most plans through, or maybe they’ll do a false flag to have full control.

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          All we can say for sure is that Americans won’t do shit to stop it.

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            At this point French children are showing Americans how better to fight government.

            I’ve got huge Fremdscham from watching Americans hold their quarterly “No Kings” outdoor barbecue party oh yeah and a little protesting too when comparing them, and I can’t stress this enough!, to French children.

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            We could start considering that urban planning in America has always been aimed at making protesting almost impossible. That and most people being one paycheck away from homelessness.

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              Bread and circuses, people don’t want to risk anything for change. Revolution isn’t meant to be safe, it’s meant to make a better future.

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          Sure he is. We can see him leaving in real time. Those bruises on his hands? Those cankles? His weird way of standing? His inability to walk properly? The very obvious signs of increasing dementia?

          He’s dying before our eyes.

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            If he wast such a narcissist, he’d probably be putting don jr in power now. But I don’t know if the cult will fall for that.

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            So when he’s dead what, we get JD vans for another 10 years or 20, or however many they decide they’re gonna stay in office?

            Hopefully you’re right, and it ends with him, but I don’t think so.

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              I didn’t say “it” ends with him. I said he’s ending.

              Vance won’t get the crazed following that Trump got, though. They’ll have to find someone else besides the couch fucker.

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                Sorry, you’re right.

                Him, not it.

                Honestly I think we’ll be taken out by a superpower before 29. Hope I’m wrong though.

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                  The only superpower left doesn’t really tend to “take out” opposition. It just outlasts the everloving fuck out of it.

                  The USA will happily take itself out in as slow and painful a way as possible until it effectively dissolves.

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    I don’t think anyone saw this coming.

    Personally I saw a lot of this coming before his first term ended.

    This is mostly because I was still in high school back then. If I was older, I’m guessing I would have seen it coming even as far back as 1800s.

    It was never really hidden or anything. Pretty much all you had to do was pay attention. And get a little lucky to avoid getting completely brainwashed, I guess.

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      The only thing that was unexpected for me was that they elected him Twice tbh. But then again, it’s America, so i guess that one is on me

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        There’s statistical data that suggests that the last election was manipulated.

        No surprise.

        I’ve been expecting something like this since Obama left office, honestly, and it’s really a real-time demonstration at how the political doors swing both ways, and by that I mean we had Obama and then Trump, biden almost doesn’t count because he’s practically a Republican anyway, but then we had Trump again, and after that the swing, the door’s gonna swing real hard the other way. I’m concerned for what will happen next.

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      Trump executed more people than any president except for FDR. And FDR served 3 full terms and a large number of those executed were Nazi saboteurs during ww2.

      Trump executed more people in his last 6 months in office than all post ww2 presidents combined I believe.

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        I mean, yeah.

        What I’m saying is that the current state of the US was foreseeable back in the 1800s, not that it’s been constantly in place since the 1800s.

        Although a lot of the current issues Americans face have always been there. Just to lesser degrees, on smaller scales, and often externalized.

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      The US is also trying to export their madness to the rest of the world. I feel sorry for us normal Europeans that might get our own right wing loons thanks to America not being able to contain theirs.

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        Fascism finds fertile ground in wealth inequality and rural stagnation caused by our economic system. It’s easy to blame the US but it’s a global issue.

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          It is and you have to have the fertile land to get something to grow for sure.

          The difference in this brave new era is Musk, Vance, Rubio etc are happy to turn up and say their bullshit to our faces, openly promote and fund it etc. There is no operating in the shadows anymore and they are using the levers of the US government to kneecap their former allies due to how over integrated we became.

          Certainly it’s better that we all realise where the US is now and where it’s heading. Hopefully the rest of us can change course.

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      I don’t. They decided to sleepwalk their way into this. I knew what was coming for the USA in a single visit to Houston in 1999. I could hear the jackboots marching in lockstep from just around the corner down the block. Americans of my acquaintance, when I expressed that nervousness, told me I was being “alarmist” … and kept telling me that as the post-9/11 phase started with the not even slightly ominous-sounding “Department of Homeland Security”, the “PATRIOT Act”, the explosion of racism when a black president was elected, the whole Tea Party fiasco, etc. etc. etc.

      Now the same people who went for a nice stroll in their sleep are waking up to what they let grow all around them.

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        As an American… you’re right. It’s been hell living my life here in a lot of ways because the vast majority of people here are basically zombies. I’m honestly just rooting for us to fail at this point, and it’s coming up rapidly. The inflation, debt, and unchecked fraud of Wall Street will get us in the end. I’d be surprised if we didn’t have a fairly major economic crash within the next 10 years.

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    I saw this and more coming … in 1999. (That was the year I decided I would never willingly set foot on US soil ever again.)

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    The only surprising thing about this is that they didn’t rent out a football stadium to sell tickets to the execution. How benevolent to livestream it.

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    Just another day in trumpistan, Americans here will somehow still attempt to deflect everything about their dogshit failed state

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    Every time I see this meme format, I’m reminded of a beloved snack in Japan.