This stuff happens in movies and history class, not in real life, and definitely not in America. Besides, if it were really happening and actually bad, the good guys would show up and stop it.
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There are no blackouts, there's no draft, and everyone's 401k is still fine. Why would the average middle-class white person care?
aug 26, 2025, 10:58 pm • 5 0 • view
The 401ks are really doing well?
aug 27, 2025, 12:28 pm • 0 0 • view
American exceptionalism is the worst
aug 26, 2025, 10:59 pm • 2 0 • view
I think that’s why people couldn’t be bothered to enthusiastically back “not Trump” they didn’t think he’d do what he promised out loud.
aug 27, 2025, 4:03 am • 1 0 • view
Or they might have to get off their butts and do something
aug 26, 2025, 11:14 pm • 0 0 • view
This is the same dynamic that played out in 2021, when educated Americans, people in journalism, academia, and politics, refused to accept what January 6 implied: that someone had actively tried to overthrow democracy. So they told themselves it was just riled-up MAGA rubes, and looked away.
aug 26, 2025, 11:07 pm • 113 14 • view
This is exactly what happened. The press are the most guilty, because they should know better and covered for these monsters of deceit.
aug 27, 2025, 4:30 am • 2 0 • view
Right, who brought the bear spray? Why the secret meetings Jan 5th? Why did Pence refuse to get in the car?
sep 1, 2025, 1:51 am • 0 0 • view
US elites told a comforting, false story: only Trump was guilty; he "instigated" his followers. Even though the followers had to be prodded and subsidized to get to DC. Though Trump's allies in Congress knew to delay the count. Though the doors at the Capitol were breached in eerie synchronicity.
aug 26, 2025, 11:12 pm • 51 3 • view
Liz Cheney will rot in hell for essentially saying it was off limits for congress to investigate the Republican Party that made the insurrection possible and instead had to focus entirely on Trump's actions alone.
aug 27, 2025, 12:13 am • 1 0 • view
And, they're back.
aug 26, 2025, 11:22 pm • 1 0 • view
Though it's standard all over the world for would-be autocrats to run astroturfed "uprisings" with useful idiots steered by organizers. And Trump's own inner circle had run those kind of events - in Ukraine. But... not in the US, the pundits said. It can't happen here! We are special! But we aren't.
aug 26, 2025, 11:17 pm • 39 1 • view
Absolutely. This was a massive failure by the “serious” people. They basically all closed their eyes and pretended it was the 90’s again.
aug 27, 2025, 12:02 am • 3 0 • view
Terminal American Exceptionalism Brain
aug 27, 2025, 12:24 pm • 6 0 • view