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I think you're underestimating the damage he's done and will do. semi-permanent changes: - complete radicalisation of an entire congressional party against fu

I think you're underestimating the damage he's done and will do. semi-permanent changes: - complete radicalisation of an entire congressional party against functional democracy - complete politicisation of the entire federal government - normalisation of just straight up lying to the Senate in confirmation hearings (RFK on everything, Patel on q anon) - normalisation of just straight up lying during campaigns (no idea what Project 2025 is!) - making it clear to every single ally of the US that the US cannot be trusted to not be a complete cock - normalisation of pardoning thousands of criminals who did crimes on TV in your favour - normalisation of Congress and the top level courts being completely and utterly unwilling to lift a finger to stop autocratic exercise of powers by the president maybe the next president won't be a sociopath, but the above will still be true and maybe the one after will be.

monkeyfun 2y ago
The lying is the most incomprehensible to me. I actually had a conversation with a family member about RFK's lies (including lies about Bernie Sanders! Which everyone around seemingly tried to suppress him from defending himself on!). To give an example of what the process felt like with another case I made the mistake of talking about (makes a better story than just the pure lies of the rfk conversation, where said family member just lied constantly and started making things up about bernie sanders): - elon musk probably didn't do a nazi salute multiple times - and if he did it was misinterpreted - no i don't want to see the videos - and i don't care anyway For context btw, this family member literally had their grandparents suffer under nazi occupation in ww2. It's also wild that this family member has already actively been harmed by trump's policies including the forced RTO, and literally just ignores it. They just ignore painful examples when they're brought up, or claim it's all part of trump's plan and the only way it could possible have been done. Yes, as if it was just an inevitable occurrence like a natural disaster and thus not trump's fault.
- moogly 2y ago
  The real mind-virus.

monkeyfun 2y ago

The lying is the most incomprehensible to me. I actually had a conversation with a family member about RFK's lies (including lies about Bernie Sanders! Which everyone around seemingly tried to suppress him from defending himself on!). To give an example of what the process felt like with another case I made the mistake of talking about (makes a better story than just the pure lies of the rfk conversation, where said family member just lied constantly and started making things up about bernie sanders): - elon musk probably didn't do a nazi salute multiple times - and if he did it was misinterpreted - no i don't want to see the videos - and i don't care anyway For context btw, this family member literally had their grandparents suffer under nazi occupation in ww2. It's also wild that this family member has already actively been harmed by trump's policies including the forced RTO, and literally just ignores it. They just ignore painful examples when they're brought up, or claim it's all part of trump's plan and the only way it could possible have been done. Yes, as if it was just an inevitable occurrence like a natural disaster and thus not trump's fault.

moogly 2y ago
The real mind-virus.