• Brodysseus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 day ago

      Imo its more nuanced than that.

      If there was only the popular vote, which makes more sense than electorate fuckery, we would have avoided round 1 in 2016.

      The system of political choice is really broken in the US, that was just one example. None of us chose the political system we use, we are presented with limited and similar options for representation every two years in a first past the post vote.

      I agree that we failed to prevent this, but the system is kind of rigged

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          21 hours ago

          It really isn’t. The Jewish people did not willingly help Hitler. To lump them together with him is wrong.

          That’s exactly what’s going on here when you assert that every American wanted what’s going on right now.

          Trump is attacking half of America on a daily basis right now, and he’s dismantling centuries of progress. To see every American as complicit is dehumanizing and, quite frankly, very nationalistic. Nationalism was a very strong compenent of Hitler’s success.

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            19 hours ago

            If 10% more voters showed up it being somewhat rigged wouldn’t have mattered.

            Even though the media is owned by billionaires, if people talked about this shit and resisted aristocratic bullshit, it wouldn’t have mattered, the monarchists would have been held back. Too late now, resistance is the last hope for democracy.

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              20 hours ago

              They are a group that opposes Trump, just as the Jewish people opposed Hitler.

              What possible benefit are you creating by lumping people together like this? What goal are you achieving by applying the sins of America’s corrupt leadership to anyone and everyone who was simply born on American soil, and currently resides here?

              I can tell you that as an American, Trump wants this. You can take that, or you can leave it, but either way I assure you he supports your message here. If he gets his internal enemies fighting his external enemies, then that’s a win-win situation for him.