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it is just astonishing that there are apparently ZERO republicans left who will even comment negatively on Trump just destroying the US's military, scientific,
by bananapub 2y ago
it is just astonishing that there are apparently ZERO republicans left who will even comment negatively on Trump just destroying the US's military, scientific, diplomatic and political domination of most of the world.
I've long been a critic of much of US foreign policy and of the patheticness of my country in standing up to them when they're wrong, but this is just an insane incineration of 80 years of structural advantage for the US.
- dudefeliciano 2y agoThey've either been purged or know the consequences of speaking up. The main problem to me, is the growing disinterest and disillusion with democracy. People are retreating in their own bubbles of interest, in which talking about politics is a taboo. We are flooded with news showing the dismantling of systems we took for granted a decade ago. I am not saying that everyone should fight, or protest, or get involved in local politics. It's just that even the little effort/discomfort of talking politics, defending one's position (or even formulating a position), seems too much now. That is the death of democracy.
- bananapub 2y ago> They've either been purged or know the consequences of speaking up. this is the end of the game, if people don't speak up there won't be another opportunity to do so, so while I agree that Trump supporters threatening to murder Republican senators is bad, I also think it's catastrophically bad for Republican senators to be too fucking weak to say anything in such a situation.