@capnthommo @anneapplebaum.bsky.social Oh, I know. I'm one of those people. 🙂
But if a little "tough love" from the world is what it takes to knock some sense into not just the MAGA people, but the non-voters and the too-ideologically-pure-to-vote-for-a-Democrat people… so be it.
There have to be consequences for some people to learn.
The rest of us, well… we'll understand. We know you know not all Americans are the same, even if as a country we need collective correction.
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And it's not just about wounded national pride. The USA is a country building concentration camps for its own people and random tourists picked up by a lawless state-sponsored death squad. The war is following the same pattern of attacks on civilians that the USA's partner in war crime has been pursuing relentlessly in Gaza.
Why would we help these people even if they were being polite to us?
@petealexharris @anneapplebaum.bsky.social You don’t, and it speaks well of you that you won’t.
We need to learn that there is a cost to this sort of thing. That fascism is a losing ideology.
The worry is... if impeached successfully, would Vance be even worse??
America needs to radically rethink its democracy, is these modern times.
@gsymon @anneapplebaum.bsky.social
At least Vance isn't sundowning and is capable of thinking strategically when it comes to Commander in Chief responsibilities.
He certainly could be worse on the domestic front by bringing slightly more competent people into the regime, but he doesn't present the same threat to the political future of GOP elected officials, so he would be unlikely to be able to push legislation through a 1 or 2 seat majority House nor brow beat electeds in GOP run states.
We not only remember the behavior of the American president of today, we remember much more. We just ignored it for decades because the pursuit of greatness the US took for many decades. But now, that goodwill was annihilated.
Now we remember the fascism of the McCarthy era, the racism of ... all the times, the lack of a contemporary codified law system, the condemnation of mathematics and logic, the social discrepacies, the lack of progressive political concepts, the nationalist and isolationist tendencies.
And last but not least that the American people put the symbol of the Italian fascist movement on the front of the Licoln Memorial in the same year Mussolini became Duce.
The USofA were and are a deeply fascist and racist country.
Looking back something despicable like MAGA and the election of a demagouge is only the anticipatable consequence.
We stop not remembering. No more deference, no more humble greeting. It's now the age of the one finger salute. #FUUS
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