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America must also not go down the road of 1930s Germany.

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People in power really don’t like The myth of decorum, a “polite” society coming to end. People can see how silly it is to say this while being active in an ongoing genocide. There is no unifying with Trump cultists. They are not good people even if they are my fellow countrymen.

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Funny how the powerful have nothing against violence when it’s the military industrial complex (including the Israel extension) killing poor and defenseless civilians in the tens or even hundreds of thousands, but the moment someone tries to assassinate a tyrant, violence is abhorrent.

I would argue that it’s the other way around: the only murder that’s ever acceptable, even beneficial to the common good, is the assassination of a tyrant whom the people cannot get rid of in any other way.

A tyrant such as the Mango Mussolini, future fascist dictator of the United States.

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He means the road that has already existed in American politics for over a hundred years and now resembles a highway.

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Many deep Trump haters here in the comments. Trump derangement syndrome is live and well in many coddled minds. To hate Trump because “The TV told me so” and being spoon fed with the opinion that “Trump is the next Hitler” is such mental gymastics. Look lefties, Trump is not a threat to your woke agenda, he did not drain the swamp in 2017, he hired the swamp. I am sure if he wins in 2024, he will hire the swamp in 2025 again and it will just be four years of fuck all nothing.

Chill the fuck out. Stop spazzing over the fact that there is a chance the flavor of bubble gum that America will be chewing for the next four years is cherry instead of blueberry. In case you have not figured it out, the two parties are basically the same, they serve themselves.

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Trump’s proposals are a direct threat to Democracy.

He wants to fire all non-partiasan government employees and replace them with partisan hacks:

https://apnews.com/article/biden-2024-government-regulations-democrats-6badc3b424b9eff3ba51e0ec35a8d824

He wants to invade Mexico:

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/donald-trump-mexico-military-cartels-war-on-drugs-1234705804/

He wants internment camps and mass deportations:

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-does-not-rule-out-building-detention-camps-mass-deportations-2024-04-30/

He wants a 10% tax on all imports, not realizing it’s US Citizens who will pay it, not foreign countries:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-tariffs-proposal-10-percent-1700-cost-per-us-household/

These are just some of the things he’s directly called for himself, not even getting into the indirect Project 2025 stuff written by former members of his team.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/project-2025-trump-heritage-foundation-what-know-rcna161338

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Many deep Trump haters here in the comments

Otherwise known as sane humans. If you know ANYTHING about Trump and don’t despise him, there’s something seriously wrong with you.

Trump derangement syndrome is live and well in many coddled minds

Yes, the deranged people whose delusional fantasies are coddled by the far right echo chamber loves him. THAT’S the real Trump Derangement Syndrome.

The rest of your screed is like Baghdad Bob telling people that there’s nothing to worry about as tanks fire in the background. Except it’s you calling an impending fascist takeover of the richest and most powerful country in the world business as usual 🤦

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You got so close and yet missed the point. The “swamp” that he hired wants to genocide LGBT people. His regime was responsible for millions of American deaths the last go around. If he gets into office again, that’s going to set fixing the climate back a decade, and by then it will be too late if it isn’t already. We saw how he failed to handle his presidential duties at every level last term, and we can’t risk letting that happen again but this time with the powers of a king. The guy literally said he was going to be a dictator and the SCOTUS made that legal.

To be clear, none of this is to convince you. You are almost undoubtedly a Russian troll or right winger, and I have no desire to engage with you whatsoever. If you ceased to exist I wouldn’t lose a wink of sleep. “Centrists” and “undecideds” don’t exist in America anymore. If you are even considering trump after everything he’s done, you deserve to have your voting rights taken away if not worse.

This next election is the final election that will actually decide the future of America for the next decade or so. Everyone now has a side, and if we can’t get the voter turnout to decide what’s right, then the dice have been rolled and our fate is sealed. So this comment is directed towards those that actually have a functioning brain, but are worried that their vote might not be enough to turn the tides. It doesn’t matter, you should still vote, because this very well might be the last election you get to vote in.

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