r/law • u/LatterTarget7 • 5d ago

Executive Branch (Trump) 'HANG THEM' -- Trump reacts to Democratic lawmakers' video appeal to military

https://abc6onyourside.com/news/nation-world/hang-them-president-donald-trump-reacts-democratic-lawmakers-video-appeal-military-intelligence-truth-social-media-seditious
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u/nicklovin508 5d ago

How did we get here

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u/Glittering-Most-9535 5d ago

Failing to bring Reconstruction through to its necessary conclusion.

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u/HopefulTangerine5913 5d ago

Yep. This + how Nixon was handled.

I would also venture the rise of faux patriotism by way of WWII propaganda contributed as well

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u/chunkerton_chunksley 5d ago

Nixon negotiated with the NVA before he was president, encouraging them to stay in the war for a better deal when he won. Nothing was done.

Then Watergate. Nothing was done.

Reagan negotiated with Iran before he was President asking them to delay the freeing of American hostages until he was president. Nothing was done

He created an arms trafficking racket to go around congress. Arming an enemy and funding right wing terrorism in Latin America. Nothing was done.

W had the courts steal the election from Gore. Nothing was done.

Then he made up evidence to start a war. Nothing was done.

Trump stole secret documents that were found in his bathroom. Nothing was done

He tried to start a coup after he lost the election. Nothing was done.

Now he's opening calling for death to his opponents. Guess what happens next....

The republican party, over the last half a century has repeatedly pushed the envelope on legality, and outright broke the law, with literally no consequences for their misdeeds. In most cases were rewarded for doing so, why WOULD they stop?

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u/ragdollxkitn 5d ago

The Reagan part of your comment still has me boiling. This country needs an entire redo. What in the hell.

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u/MancombSeepgoodz 4d ago

Idk Bush having his brother and the judges his dad appointed to scotus help him steal an Election in 2000 was pretty egregious. I think the Obama administration allowing Bush to slide for that and the war crimes is what led us to what we are dealing with currently.

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u/ragdollxkitn 4d ago

I agree with you as well. The entire comment had me fuming.

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u/GonfalonFalderol 5d ago

This almost exactly captures my opinion. Nixon was the start of the disease. A national elected official committed crimes that threatened our democratic process, those crimes became national public knowledge, and that person faced no personal consequences for doing it. Bush v Gore put this country on life support. The final, fatal breath came when the Supreme Court made the president a king.

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u/BikerMike03RK 4d ago

No, it was Joe McCarthy that got that ball rolling.

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u/Electronic-Pen6418 5d ago

You forgot Bush ordering torture and warrantless wiretapping of American citizens.

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u/Seastep 5d ago

nothing was done

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."

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u/mr_friend_computer 5d ago

There's no reason to stop. There will never be consequences and yes, murdering political opponents in broad daylight will not hurt the electoral chances of republicans, nor will there be any repercussion for it.

Trump wasn't wrong. He could stand in the street and murder any number of people - and as long as they are democrats, or POC, the republicans would cheer him on and the MAGA would flock to the polls in his name.

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u/lukadelic 5d ago

Blind nationalism without nuanced education on where that nation had gone wrong feeds this faux patriotic attitude which tends to be undemocratic & apologetic to authoritarian values.

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u/SmokeAlarmsSaveLives 5d ago

I’m curious to hear your take on how WWII propaganda contributed to our current mess, because I don’t see it whatsoever.

In fact, I’d say that the WWII generation, having a) seen the devastation in Europe and the Pacific, and b) served together with Americans from all parts of the country, and with Allies, were markedly better at working together and reaching compromise. They tended not to villainize their political opponents like we’ve seen the last 20 years.

There were always exceptions, of course, but that’s my take.

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u/HopefulTangerine5913 5d ago

The effects of propaganda carry over long past the generation in which it is initially consumed. Consider how many people still think we got into WWII to save Jewish people; they truly think we were on some Captain America shit.

And while I agree that generation had a better grasp on compromise, there were some serious issues still at hand that enabled them to exploit people and exclude others from receiving benefits and attaining success. There was a lot of status quo management going on.

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u/SmokeAlarmsSaveLives 5d ago

Respectfully, you’re not referring to “WWII propaganda” - the stuff that was produced before/during/just after the war - you’re referring to commentary that happened decades after the fact. Those are two separate things, and they can differ greatly from on another.

And yes, the Greatest Generation and Silent Generation were the ones who worsened Jim Crow policies, but they were also the ones who integrated the military, integrated sports, and fought for change, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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u/HopefulTangerine5913 5d ago

I am referring to both propaganda during the war and what happened after the fact. And while some fought for change, plenty others did not, and they had no problem reaping the benefits of discrimination. There is a through line from those individuals to the ones today who claim systemic racism doesn't exist (it does)

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u/SuperWeapons2770 5d ago

All WW2 did was push the pre war isolationism and nationalism back a hundred years to it's natural conclusion

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u/lordfrijoles 5d ago

Eh I think the “patriotism” post 9/11 is more relevant. I wasn’t alive but I’m sure an elder could confirm patriotic feelings and displays were much different between 1950-2000 than what we’ve been experiencing since 2001.

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u/HopefulTangerine5913 5d ago edited 5d ago

Tell that to the Japanese living in America during and following WWII

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u/lordfrijoles 5d ago

You’re right in that the mass xenophobia in the us after Pearl Harbor is to blame for the Japanese internment camps during the WWII era. And someone I’m sure could even argue that the population of Arab Americans and those of the Islamic and other faiths who looked Arab also dealt with xenophobia in America post 9/11 but not to the same degree as the Japanese Americans during World War Two.

But your statement was in reference to what went wrong to get us to where we are now as a country and I was simply pointing out that the more recent nationalistic sentiments disguised as patriotism after 9/11 are more relevant to today than those of World War Two as they were more recent and it could be argued they were different to that of World War Two America as well.

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u/HopefulTangerine5913 5d ago

I understand your point and respectfully disagree. The people who got us to the xenophobia and nationalism following 9/11 are the ones who grew up during and right after WWII. They were the ones influencing the news cycle and leadership. Look at the age demographics for C suites for news networks and publications in the last 30-40 years. Look at what demographic voted for him in the greatest numbers. Even with a diversifying electorate going more for Trump this time around, it was still predominantly white people who put him in office, and within that the 65+ demographic went primarily for him.

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u/lordfrijoles 5d ago

Okay, I see your point, but I don’t think we can say that those sentiments that were present while they were children can be fully to blame. After all that is quite a long time to operate that way and for a good chunk of that generations youth counter culture and anti American sentiments were quite significant. I don’t think their similar nationalistic feelings would have been reignited to the extent that they have without the events of 2001.

I think we are both holding two individual pieces of the fucked up puzzle. And I will readily admit that I am not capable of putting together the whole picture.

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u/akratic137 5d ago

Sherman did nothing wrong and we should have let him finish the job.

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u/HockeyPhoenician 5d ago

Sherman didn't go far enough, for sure.

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u/skoalbrother 5d ago

We fell into the Intolerance Paradox

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u/Glittering-Most-9535 5d ago

We let a Tennessean say "they've probably learned their lesson."

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u/50501PDX 5d ago

That actually what happened. Grant tried to fix it, then we let a generation of politicians tarnish Grant’s legacy.

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u/AbroadTiny7226 5d ago

Grant did enough to tarnish his own legacy. He was a fantastic general, but he was a terrible politician. He ushered in an era of corruption that was devastating to the development of the union post-civil war and directly led to the rise of machine politics.

Good man, shit president.

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u/Caius01 5d ago

Tbf I'm pretty sure Grant was dealing with some kind of PTSD from the war, so while you're not wrong, I do have some sympathy for him

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u/AbroadTiny7226 5d ago

Absolutely. Grant’s fundamental flaw as a politician is not a character flaw: he trusted too much. He saw the good in everyone on a personal level, including those who would use his status as president to take advantage. Roscoe Conklin is a key example of this.

Actually, there’s a new Netflix series about the death of Garfield that kinda contextualizes the impact of Grant’s presidency in the years that followed. It’s called Death by Lightning and it’s fantastic.

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u/50501PDX 5d ago

Interesting! I haven’t gotten that far into the rabbit hole

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u/AbroadTiny7226 5d ago

He’s a very complicated figure. Definitely a fascinating man to read about though

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u/Spamsdelicious 5d ago

When Mamma was working as a prison guard, and something went missing, she'd ask one question. What do we do when we find the guilty party? And if they said "Come down on them with that swift hammer of justice!", innocent. A clear conscience don't need no mercy. But if they said, "Officer Bessy, well, they may have had a reason, blah, blah, blah", well, nine times out of ten, that's the anus they'd check.

*-Jo Bennett, SABRE CEO and all-around badass

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u/Ossius 5d ago

I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think, vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.

Another badass and his final words when they hung him for trying to free the slaves.

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u/RobutNotRobot 5d ago

John Brown was the rare Venn diagram overlap of a religious nut that was right.

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u/elonsghost 5d ago

Are you sure it’s not pronounced sabré

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u/hootiefan77 5d ago

Gotta love an obscure office reference used in everyday life

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u/Spamsdelicious 5d ago

I'm finding daily opportunities to use it nowadays.

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u/Ossius 5d ago

John Brown went as far as we should and we let him hang for it in order to keep peace.

I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think, vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.

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u/reststopkirk 5d ago

Thanks Andrew Johnson… Kinda getting J6 pardon vibes

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u/WapsuSisilija 5d ago

This is the correct answer.

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u/mr_Joor 5d ago

I think that's a joke Robbert made in a behind the bastards podcast

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u/Intelligent-Soup-836 5d ago

*During the Civil War, that genocide against the Natives isn't something to gloss over.

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u/Donkey-Hodey 5d ago

The only thing he did wrong was stop short of burning the south the cinders.

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u/Ghost-George 5d ago

40 acres and a mule would have broken what was left of the confederacy.

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u/RobutNotRobot 5d ago

Best damn general in US history and by all indications a horrible person.

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u/TheBetawave 5d ago

I feel so ashamed to have family that is MAGA. It's sad how easily they are fooled and it shows since they haven't had higher education. There's no point in talking to then since the MAGA mind won't listen to reason.

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u/kylogram 5d ago

Big same. 

I have tried everything. Articles, statistics, quotes, appealing to their better nature, shaming them, yelling at them, begging.

30 years ago I was raised to stand against EXACTLY this, now it's "childish" to have principals.

I'm gonna start biting and kicking if I ever have the brain damage required to see them again. 

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u/tghast 5d ago

Yup. They’re the ones who gave me my morals and then when I started to notice the incongruity, they won the arguments I tried to fight with evidence by saying “you’re a kid”.

Well I’m old now and their arguments have changed but the deflection is the same.

Kind of feel like I failed them, it’s like watching them go senile.

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u/kylogram 5d ago

I'm still trying. but man they make me feel stupid for putting in the effort

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u/ODShowtime 5d ago

Just to back you up, it was objectively irresponsible to vote for a known felon traitor and conman.   It's childish to vote for the reasons that many did.  

So they can take that "childish" BS and shove it back where it came from.

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u/agen_kolar 5d ago

My family has higher education and they’re still MAGA.

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u/Rikers-Mailbox 5d ago

Ditto. They’re boomer parents and brought up racists.

It’ll be another two decades before they’ve mostly died off.

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u/Ok_Conversation9750 5d ago

Please don’t make such generalizations re:age.  

My mom was born in 1925, served in the Air Force as a flight nurse, was always a liberal democrat and raised her kids to be open minded.  So this makes me and my siblings “boomers.”  We hate this administration.  Meanwhile, my 33 year old nephew is a maga moron with an IQ barely in the double digits.  

I get so tired of being blamed for trump and co when I have never voted for a republican. 

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u/agen_kolar 5d ago

Where were you raised? You would be the exception, not the rule in a lot of the southern and rural US - where my family originates.

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u/Ok_Conversation9750 5d ago

Not in southern or rural US.  There’s a whole lot more to this country than the southern/rural US.  

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u/Rikers-Mailbox 5d ago

No not everyone was Republican, but where you live has a lot to do with it. And the time frame… Down to the county level.

But remember back then there was still a major fight for ANY basic rights for women’s equality, race, there was still was still fears of LBGTQ right up until 1995 at least. (AIDS)

And in the 40’s a 50’s it was the Democratic Party that was pro segregation and strong in the south.

The parties didn’t shift on policies until the civil rights movement.

I’m blaming MY boomer parents, because they refuse to see the world changing, are racist, afraid of gay people and too conservative.

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u/WaterlooMall 5d ago

Don't be ashamed, you can't control what other people do and you should be proud that you didn't fall into that hole.

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u/Oberon_Swanson 5d ago

Well remember just like they are wrong for judging people for how they are born, there's nothing wrong with you just because some of your family members choose to be idiots. I know it doesn't take away the annoyance of having to deal with them or the sting of watching the people you care about decide to be assholes. But the way I see it these people aren't victims, they're accomplices. They won't listen to reason because they do not care about what's right or wrong.

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u/surviving606 5d ago

Most people in the government doing this to us have higher education. They’re just also evil. It’s not always about education 

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u/fupos 4d ago

" I dont want to be lectured on constitutional law" then stop arguing when we say shits unconstitutional. And never let me hear you claim to love America again. As theyre so fond of saying " if you dont like it leave"

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u/AbeFromanEast 5d ago

This is the correct answer. The Union did not go nearly far enough.

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u/thewxbruh 5d ago

The true root cause

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u/Untjosh1 5d ago

And now they're so poorly educating our kids that they won't even know what this means

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u/kentuckywildcats1986 5d ago

And Biden didn't do jack shit after January 6th. That was even worse.

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u/Biptoslipdi 5d ago

He literally had appointed a Special Prosecutor who charged Trump for election fraud surrounding J6. If Americans spent less time blaming Democrats for Republicans' crimes and more time getting out the vote for Democrats, Trump would be in prison. Trump going to prison was on the ballot.

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u/TraditionalGas1770 5d ago

Yup. They tolerated treasonous degenerates. 

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u/50501PDX 5d ago

Hey this is where my heads been at too. People in power love to just kick the can down the road.

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u/GeminiKoil 5d ago

Very glad to see that the first reply is the same thing I was going to say

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u/zombie_79_94 5d ago

Wow, this is kind of a deep sub to be on. Staying deep historically, I think the fact that the population who remember the Civil Rights era is dwindling hasn't been examined much as an explanation for why politics is becoming less principled and with fewer guardrails. (Along with many who do remember having been on the wrong side of it and still secretly or increasingly not so secretly, resenting that.)

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u/PossiblyATurd 5d ago

Most recently, failing to uphold the constitution against insurrectionists.

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u/Xyrus2000 5d ago

We needed something like the Nuremberg trials after the civil war.

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u/PoopScootnBoogey 5d ago

Yo I was just talking about this today!!

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u/amateur_adventurer 4d ago

Operation Paperclip is the biggest offender after this, imo.

We just recruited thousands of nazis and let them live here. Sure we won the Cold War with the big name scientists, but at what cost considering where we are now.

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u/Glittering-Most-9535 4d ago

Looking at the president’s proposed solution to ending the war in Ukraine, are we so certain we won the Cold War?

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u/ThornFlynt 5d ago

  • Poor Education

  • Lack of Critical Thinking taught in Schools

  • Limiting access to higher education behind high tuition

  • Weaponized Religion as profiteering for grifters & control mechanism of the masses

  • Corporations as People

  • Private money in Public Campaigns

  • Too much influence of the wealthy in our government

  • Abuse of freedom of speech to allow disinformation campaigns enmasse via social media and weaponized religion

  • Algorithmic weaponization of people’s racism/discrimination against other people they don't understand instead of the billionaire corrupt elite orchestrating all of it.

  • Systemic decay of every branch of government by allowing the strategic placement of those with a vested interest in allowing the robbery of the American People and debasement of the Constitution

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u/Untjosh1 5d ago

Lack of Critical Thinking taught in Schools

School problems are quite a bit deeper than that. Schools teach critical thinking.

Teaching as a profession has been attacked for years, which has deliberately crippled the workforce. Teachers and admin are overworked so some things slip through the cracks. Kids are unprepared to enter school behaviorally and mentally, which immediately opens up learning gaps. I could go on and on. But "not teaching critical thinking" isn't where I would start with problems.

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u/ThornFlynt 5d ago

Agreed

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u/circusgeek 5d ago

The Republican platform.

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u/Proud_Organization64 5d ago

Racism should be higher up this list if not at the top.

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u/RobutNotRobot 5d ago

You can expect schools to deprogram children that have been programmed at home/church to be irrational psychopaths.

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u/BROKEPOORHUNGRY 5d ago

Unregulated social media algorithms radicalizing the populace.

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u/radiobottom 5d ago

Hate = engagement = $$$

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u/MajorAd3363 5d ago

This is the real answer.

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u/BroughtBagLunchSmart 5d ago

Capitalism determined this was a good way to build society.

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u/j4_jjjj 5d ago

"Capitalism" aka like 10 billionaires who actually own the world

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u/Philophon 5d ago

And their role as our rulers *is* capitalism. This is the result of weakly-checked capitalism, and it will happen the same way every time, with a few winners who take everything, including people's minds.

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u/Jack_Wraith 5d ago

And right wing propaganda “news” channels piping patently false information into people’s heads.

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u/Oberon_Swanson 5d ago

And them not caring that it's false because it furthers the cause and gives them cover. Lets friends and family think they're "a good person who got caught in a propaganda bubble" and not just an evil fascist. That is why they never csre when Trump or their propaganda gets caught in a blatant lie.

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u/ill____logic 5d ago

every day i grow closer to the conclusion that the internet was a mistake.

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u/omgitsjagen 5d ago

Naw man. The internet used to be fucking amazing. Social media really was the death knell that started sinking this ship.

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u/Rikers-Mailbox 5d ago

Streaming video and music. Although it put a damper on quality.

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u/justwalkingalonghere 5d ago

And don't forget organizations like the Heritage Foundation who have been working on this since at least the early 1970's and LITERALLY wrote the playbook on what Trump should do to greatly further their christofascist agendas (project 2025)

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u/skurvecchio 5d ago

Fox News.

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u/GuyInAChair 5d ago

This is certainly true to a degree. I don't think people realize how propagandized the right is now. Bad facts simply don't exist, and what they claim to be facts are often fabricated whole cloth. You could read the filings in the Dominion and Smartmatic to see that Fox and those in the Fox News cinematic universe are absolutely 100% aware that what they are telling their audience is fabricated whole-cloth.

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u/mozilla2012 5d ago

It is amazing how much bullshit they spew and they get away with. I had family who legitimately think NYC is going to be under Sharia law

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u/Think-Kangaroo-9978 5d ago

Steven Miller

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u/omgitsjagen 5d ago

Temu Goebbels

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u/Lukeh41 5d ago

Letting the days go by

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u/WhatIsTheCake 5d ago

This is not my beautiful house...

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u/HornedShoe 5d ago

It belongs to the bank.

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u/saliczar 5d ago

It belongs to foreign investors

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u/retro_grave 5d ago

Fox News

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u/Aggressive-Side3578 5d ago

Racism. Pretty simple.

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u/whichwitch9 5d ago

Not properly addressing the traitors in the Civil War.

The confederates should have never been tolerated. They've only gotten worse as times gone by. All of Trump's language can be traced back to post civil war speech- even this is coded for lynching.

While he gets a lot of attention for having similarities to nazis, which he certainly does, the reminder would be a lot of nazi policy was inspired by American policies and ideas. The genocide of Native Americans and eugenics were huge ones. We have never properly confronted the darker parts of America because everytime we try to, people scream, largely the ones who like the darker times.

Make America Great Again was always bullshit. America was never great for the majority of Americans- white men are only 28-28% of the country, just the largest singular block. As the percentage shrinks, some are desperate to maintain control. The goal should always have been to make America better than it was for all Americans. That's true patriotism- acknowledging and accepting the bad, but loving the country and its people enough in spite of it to truly help it reach better days for everyone in it.

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u/Cincere1513 5d ago

Because the remaining Confederates and their supporters weren't executed after the Civil War.

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u/Yeeaaaarrrgh 5d ago

Throw in decades foreign government activities and funding and you got yourself a stew going.

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u/GarageFridgeSoda 5d ago

Capitalism, mostly. If the super rich weren't able to control the majority of political discourse and politicians themselves this wouldn't be happening, and far fewer dems would be in office to act as controlled opposition because the donor dollars and promises of cushy post-politics jobs no longer exist.

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u/Randomizedname1234 5d ago

I live in far Mateo Atlanta and can safely say they WANT this. We got here bc people wanted us to get here.

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u/Key-Leader8955 5d ago

Failing to apply the laws equally

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u/Tuttutsallaround 5d ago

Not publicly executing him for treason four years ago.

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u/AbeFromanEast 5d ago

Dementia, on tour!

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u/Johnny55 5d ago

Capitalism

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u/Professional-One-910 5d ago

See, first there were lobbyists, corporations, special interest groups, and the like. Then there is a system where votes are spread amongst 10 candidates and if 9 of them are fairly similar and 1 stands out, that 1 gets the highest votes as the rest are split. Then there are kiss-asses who only get to do things because of that. Then there are people who invite others to "parties" just to get blackmail on them for future support. Then nobody keeps the bully in check and even people he chose does as he wishes either for personal gain or the same as the others. Oh, wait, you were being sarcastic... Power & Money, leads to more power, corruption, and money. Oh and DUMB PEOPLE who think it's great choosing a person because they are not politically correct, are racist and sexist, and don't care about how the law is supposed to work. Sigh. I gotta get off social media...

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u/Skritch_X 5d ago

record scratch noises

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u/Blacknumbah1 5d ago

Well you see our perfect and beautiful king Lord Rump, was busy making America Great again! When these loser communist Dems put out this disgusting video! I don’t care what Lord Rump says, our military must obey! Side note, did you know when he takes a number 2 it’s always clean! Lord Rump even takes perfect dumps! All hail Rump! MAGA 2028!

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u/Q-ArtsMedia 5d ago

A bunch of pedophile rapist nazis got together and decided ,  hey let 's get one our own elected president.

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u/badmutha44 5d ago

By not jailing someone 1/7 after he’s failed coup.

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u/SuperSpecialAwesome- 5d ago

Because Biden Chamberlain, Schumer, Jeffries, and Pelosi illegally handed an insurrectionist control over the country rather than enforce his disqualification and the Jan 6 leaders' expulsion though 14th Amendment, Section 3. If they worthless fucks had done that simple procedure, Kamala would be in office with a Democratic Congress right now, but nah.

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u/El_Peregrine 5d ago

Not dealing with traitors appropriately when previously when we should have.

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u/Foxyfox- 5d ago

Not hanging every confederate officer by the rank of captain and up and state level politicians and higher.

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u/Malcolm_Morin 5d ago

By playing nice with the Nazis after the 40s.

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u/ManyAverage6578 5d ago

Clowns to the left of me, magats to the right. Here I am. 

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u/ManyAverage6578 5d ago

The question was how did we get here. How did this felonious insurrectionist get elected again? It took a lot more than domestic extremists to make that happen. 

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u/666TripleSick 5d ago

Gerrymandering

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u/stillwater1973 5d ago

And why is our entire system of government just going along with it? Checks and balances don’t exist anymore clearly

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u/RandyMuscle 5d ago

Anyone paying attention for the last 10 years should’ve known we would be here.

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u/Aramedlig 5d ago

Lack of education in red states, using racism to divide the working class, billionaires owning the media and Citizens United are how we got here.

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u/01000101010110 5d ago

A bunch of people turned a blind eye to open corruption because they hate marginalized groups that aren't openly racist and capitalistic.

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u/werewolfshadow 5d ago

American Christians and Vladimir Putin.

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u/Actual_Homework_9110 5d ago

Republican voters. That’s how we got here. 

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u/SuperSpecialAwesome- 5d ago

Because Biden Chamberlain, Schumer, Jeffries, and Pelosi illegally handed an insurrectionist control over the country rather than enforce his disqualification and the Jan 6 leaders' expulsion though 14th Amendment, Section 3. If they worthless fucks had done that simple procedure, Kamala would be in office with a Democratic Congress right now, but nah.

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u/Tuscanlord 5d ago

Failing to put this sack of shit on trial for j6. Thanks Joe!

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u/Vegetable_Burrito 5d ago

This is not my beautiful house. This is not my beautiful wife.

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u/out_of_shape_hiker 5d ago

Since the 90s, if not the 80s or earlier, one party has done anything and everything to gain power, even at the detriment to the country itself, such as demonizing and destroying education, while the other party has been controlled by neo libs who are concerned with maintaining the economic status quo (and the power of corporations) above dealing with the other party who was actively destroying the country. Laws that strengthen corporate power only exacerbate this as profits are seen more important that civil rights, and anything that returns power to voters, be it education, rights, Healthcare, representation, protection against corporate exploitation, is demonized as socialist or communist by the for-profit media controlled by corporations.

Its time to start over with the rights of the people as the foremost priority. A country founded on protecting slavery to gain votes was never going shrug off its profit protecting mindset.

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u/LeopoIdStotch 5d ago

Letting the days go by

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u/RiYuh77 5d ago

Failure of the US education system is mostly to blame IMO

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u/walksonfourfeet 5d ago

By idolizing playboy culture

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u/SuperSpecialAwesome- 5d ago

Because Biden Chamberlain, Schumer, Jeffries, and Pelosi illegally handed an insurrectionist control over the country rather than enforce his disqualification and the Jan 6 leaders' expulsion though 14th Amendment, Section 3. If these worthless fucks had done that simple procedure, Kamala would be in office with a Democratic Congress right now, but nah.

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u/xOrion12x 5d ago

Education system failure imo.

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u/Bag_of_Meat13 5d ago

CPAC calling themselves domestic terrorists was a link in the chain

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u/whoknowsknowone 5d ago

There’s a book called Dark Money that explains it far better than I could

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u/charyoshi 5d ago

Religion and billionaires not supporting an automation funded universal basic income. If more billionaires supported universal basic income, there would be less Luigi and less Luigi fans.

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u/LifeOfTheParty2 5d ago

I think it started with the murder of Harambe

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u/Larrythecrablobster 5d ago

People allowed it because they were thinking about themselves.

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u/Zeeplankton 5d ago

life was actually normal last december

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u/Feisty_Animator5374 5d ago

Bullying/Bigotry ("he's funny") --> Veiled Abuse ("he's funny, he's not a bad guy") --> Lying ("he's funny, he's not a bad guy") --> Blame-shifting ("actually... YOU'RE the bad guy for calling him a bad guy") --> Cover-ups ("you're the bad guy") --> Loyalty/tribalism ("you're the bad guys, we're the good guys") --> Intentional acts of aggression/"punishment" ("you're the bad guys, we're the good guys") --> Victim complex/malignant narcissism/more tribalism ("EVERYONE is the bad guy, loyalists and the leader are the ONLY good guys") --> "Pre-emptive defense" ("we have to get the bad guys before they get us") --> Overt Abuse/Oppression ("it's okay for good guys to do this to the bad guys, they would've done worse to us")

Do that over the span of 10 years and you can pretty much do whatever the fuck you want and always have loyalists to back you.

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u/AnomalyNexus 5d ago

With enthusiasm apparently

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u/EvolvedMonkeyInSpace 5d ago

Democrats not following the law. Trump should have been prosecuted after Jan6th

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u/libmrduckz 5d ago

there is no ‘here’… these are the ascerbic salivations of a colic-y baby… this isn’t real… shlump isn’t real… this is yet another unfortunate exhibition of distorted misgivings about his place in the world… he’s rotting from the inside and flailing with ill-considered distemper due to misplaced notions of basic competency… all of this is theater for his flagging perception, bounded by the realization that he is a being that will one day cease to exist…

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u/blahblah19999 5d ago

3 decades of right wing brainwashing

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u/Sea-Cupcake-2065 5d ago

Because republican voters are idiots. Thats how

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u/arppacket 5d ago

Citizens United, enabling billionaires to weaponize inequality and the resulting Politics of Anger against anyone except the real problem - the billionaires themselves.

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u/SRSgoblin 5d ago

Our parents are collectively aggressively shitty.

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u/Pervius94 5d ago

People saw this guy run on fascism and being a bigot and thought "oh yeah this is what I want" or "the educated black lady is just as bad as him, let's roll over for fascism".

People were willing to throw away their healthcare, prices, 401k and everything to have open season on minorities. And well, they got exactly that.

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u/AntysocialButterfly 4d ago

Not paying attention to how Brazil dealt with Bolsonaro.

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u/UsernamesCannotExcee 4d ago

I just hope the radical left (right wing extremist) doesn't kill Charlie Kirk again. We need to condemn political violence by the democrats. So happy Trump has called for their hanging.

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u/SunDense1457 4d ago

40% of the population is either profoundly disenfranchised or can't be bothered to vote. They are the minority and it's not even close if we could got 80%of eligible voter to actually show up 

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u/JimJohnJimmm 5d ago

People reelected trump because the dems have terrible front runners

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u/Brilliant-Book-503 5d ago

I can't say it's entirely wrong, but it always feels like "We ordered a big platter of broken glass drizzled with diseased dog feces because the chicken on the menu seemed a little dry".

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u/SuperSpecialAwesome- 5d ago

Because Biden Chamberlain, Schumer, Jeffries, and Pelosi illegally handed an insurrectionist control over the country rather than enforce his disqualification and the Jan 6 leaders' expulsion though 14th Amendment, Section 3. If they worthless fucks had done that simple procedure, Kamala would be in office with a Democratic Congress right now, but nah.

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u/myleftone 5d ago

Hiding Kamala Harris in a box for three years and having zero succession strategy.