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[–] SunshineJogger@feddit.org 71 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

A vivid and possibly accurate description.

I still think he is planted there to do as much damage as possible before he expires. Which would mean he is doing it all on purpose.... Which then again would have to make him smarter than I give him credit for

[–] OminousOrange@lemmy.ca 9 points 16 hours ago

Could be both planted and so inept that he believes he got there on his own accord and is doing a great job.

[–] Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Even Space Nazi’s “unwoke” AI Grok says Krasnov is a Russian agent with over 80% certainty.

[–] BearGun@ttrpg.network 9 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

It's an LLM, why are we putting any weight into anything it says?

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

It will literally say that if everyone else is. The opposite of a fact bot.

[–] Trihilis@ani.social 20 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah I agree. There has to be a bigger plan than this. In 40 years our children will see documentaties about the republicans pulling the biggest power grab ever and using idiots like Trump to actieve it. It's not Trump playing chess here, he's just a pawn. There are people behind the scènes pulling the strings.

If what currently is happening is really just throwing tantrums without having a plan then I feel sorry for how dumb most of america had become.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 10 points 15 hours ago (2 children)
[–] RippleEffect@lemm.ee 3 points 9 hours ago

Obligatory fuck Putin.

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I think this is more from Silicon Valley, destroy the country to make way for the Butterfly Revolution and corporate city states with CEO kings at the top. If we don’t stop it we’ll be in a techno feudalist dystopia

[–] Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 9 hours ago

"Adam something" did a great video on it. The Trump presidency is marked by fascism, incompetence and technocrats. It's multipronged

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

In 40 years our children will see documentaties about the republicans pulling the biggest power grab ever and using idiots like Trump to actieve it.

It's optimistic that they'll even have documentaries to watch (and that they'd be historically accurate and truthful).

[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 13 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Or he's betting that if people get desperate enough they will allow an absolute dictatorship.

[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 25 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Or he’s betting that if people get desperate enough they will allow an absolute dictatorship.

  • He is setting tariffs on his own, a power designated solely to Congress by the Constitution.

  • He is having masked police kidnap people off the streets without warrants and shipping them to an overseas gulag without trial or even charges.

  • He is illegally refusing to distribute money allocated by Congress to certain states in order to punish them for not doing his bidding.

  • And when the courts have ordered him to stop doing the above, he has willfully ignored those court orders with no repercussions.

Exactly what more needs to happen for this to be a dictatorship?

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 6 points 10 hours ago

Suspending elections.

We have never missed an election in nearly 250 years of existence, even during the Civil War. If he does that, then America no longer exists, and we have no obligation to pay taxes, respect the laws, pay our debts, etc., and most especially acknowledge the government.

It is every man for himself.

[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 10 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Firing judges who resist him

Dissolution of Congress

Deployment of military on US soil to control citizens.

Alteration or abandonment of the Constitution.

You're right we are definitely on the spectrum of dictatorship, but it can get much much worse.

[–] Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 6 points 13 hours ago

And I think it will get worse