• grte@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    So over half of Americans aren’t concerned with accelerating authoritarianism? Great.

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        9 hours ago

        Yes over half. If nearly half of respondents disapprove, than the other over half either support it or don’t care enough to oppose it, which is to say they aren’t concerned about it.

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      2 days ago

      They will be, when it affects them personally.

      In other words, typical Republican thinking.

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        15 hours ago

        Quote my boss, a Mexican living in southern California.

        “Fuck the Mexicans and fuck la kill them all they deserve it” He has also expressed explicitly that trump has done nothing wrong, and that he will only care if he is personally effected.

        The cast majority of everyone i work with has opinions in line with that. The majority of people I work with are Mexicans.

        It’s been baffling watch them all cheer over the protesters getting shot or arrested. Just because it’s LA and there’s a weird hate boner for LA and San Francisco around here.

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        There’s a meme out there that goes something along the line of “Nothing Ever Happens”. This line of thinking is poison, as it doesn’t take into account incrementalism. The fall into fascism isn’t a single large step, it’s many small steps until one day you’ve realized that you’re no longer in the same place that you were, and that now, you’re lost.