• blattrules@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    In a functioning society, there should be a huge political backlash just from him dragging us into this war. I’m going to be extremely surprised if I ever see a huge backlash to anything Trump has done though; he’s skated through his whole, privileged life without any consequences to his shitty decisions and now has a cult behind him to prop up his shitty decisions that are directly affecting us every day. I don’t think it’s ever going to sink in to his supporters, but I hope I’m wrong.

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      4 days ago

      bush didn’t get any backlash for afghanistan and iraq; nor did obama for libya and ukraine.

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          4 days ago

          bush was voted in for a second term after starting those forever wars; americans don’t care about foreign policy.

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            America has not been a democracy that counts votes accurately in federal elections.

            It’s unknown who would have won, had that been the case, certainly not the two people running.

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              America has not been a democracy that counts votes accurately in federal elections.

              the wildest part is that they have this in writing in most states; they officially won’t count mail in ballots of the election day results aren’t within a certain percentage of each other.

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                These things drive me crazy ; mostly because most people who are politically active blithely ignore that

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                  1 day ago

                  i think that they disregard it because they lack the context to understand why it matters.