Mastodawn

Absolutely wild to see people online telling others to become *more individually responsible for their own food safety* when regulations are dismantled, instead of, you know, fighting to not dismantle food safety regulations.

There is a sickness in the USian psyche, and that sickness is the assumption that everything must be solved through independent effort. We leave so much potential unused and waste so much time and energy when we take communal solutions off the table every goddamn time.

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Ultra Verified 5d ago

@drahardja

Destroying trust is a critical part in establishing an authoritarian dictatorship.

Making people fear, be uncertain, doubt the future, these aren't bugs of the #Republican agenda, they're full on features.

It is deliberate. A concerted effort to disassemble civilization from the inside out.

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Havyhh2

@drahardja @Ultraverified ....what you say is right. So, US voters showed, when give an obvious choice of electing a criminal charlatan+chronic liar or a sitting VP in a hugely successful administration+lawyer, it can't even get that right. Unlikely can find a way out of this...fascist tools used by the MAGA are so obvious, even to the apathetic, that not realizing they're being lied to, swindled, is a pretty hearty indictment of continued delusion & stupidity.