• orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts
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      And the people yelling “come and take it” while waving “don’t tread on me” flags voted the tyrants in.

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      “don’t tread on me” in the streets, “please step on me daddy trump” in the sheets

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        The funniest common combination I see on cars is the Gadsden flag (don’t tread on me) and the thin blue line flag (support for cops). I don’t know how to read that any other way than “I support cops targeting those people.”

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      There’s a DLC for Assassin’s Creed III called The Tyranny of King Washington, exploring an alternate reality with a corrupt president. Not so wild a theory now

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          Trump is still an anomaly. It’s been bad, but this is something else entirely. He is simultaneously the dumbest, most evil, and most corrupt President, and it’s not even close.

          He commits new acts worse than Watergate multiple times a week.

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            Maybe I do need to read up on US Presidential history, but as my knowledge stands right now I’d say that, aside from only two or three presidents, every leadership has been progressive in some form. Every one except Trump and a couple others has objectively improved something for the majority of the public. Mr. Orange is, if anything, proof of de-evolution.

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          Neo-liberalism has brought us here, it’s designed to slowly ratchet us toward another authoritarian state. Because you cannot dare mar the sanctity of the “Free Market” you have to sacrifice at its altar everything else.