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When Trump does something, the party that controls House, Senate and Supreme court follows his marching orders, the richest and most influential individuals act as his lieutenants, almost half of the country agree with it, and the other half doesn't resist or strike, then YES! THE US DOES THE THING!
The Nazis didn't have 100% popular support in Germany. They didn't have 50% active supporters. They had 10% party membership, even though non-members couldn't enter a career in many fields, were harassed by authorities, and lots of people were entered into the party automatically.
Still, it was NAZI GERMANY.
AND.. within Nazi Germany, were real Germans who stood against Nazism, however they could..
there are a few books on that, "An Honorable Defeat" is one I've heard-of.
Oversimplification is anti-survival: it is just another ideology/prejudice/"religion".
The US, the official US, is now Trump's property, & Trump ( CURRENTLY ) is Putin's property, & Musk's.
I expect Trump to have a minor aneurism/stroke or something, which will remove empathy from him, completely.
( he's fighting that personality-conversion, in my view )
But no matter how psychopathic/machiavellian/nihilist/sadistic the official US becomes, there's good people there.
( remember that biblical thing, can't remember who it was, perhaps Abraham,
who argued with G-D, that if there are good people there, then don't destroy the place?
I think he was doing the wrong-selectivity: he should have been demanding that they, the good people,
be spared the destruction that G-D was about to toss on the evil..
& if it was the Sodom & Gomorrah story,
then as I've pointed-out before, if the angels visiting the good guy who lived there had been female angels,
& the gang-rapers trying to get in had been intending heterosexual-rape,
that would not, in any way, whatsoever, have made their intent non-evil.
It wasn't their sexual-orientation, it was the gang-raping-angels, that made it abomination.
Anyways, back to the original message : )
Back on reddit I was permabanned from some communities, simply for posting in specific-other communities.
The Problem(tm) I had with that?
I'd been commenting in those other communities specifically to counter the abuse they were heaping on somebody.
So, I got judged to be one-of-the-abusers because of the venue I'd spoken in, which I'd spoken-in only to counter its abuse..
I've been gaslit all my life, & am fed-up with it.
Differentiate correctly, & don't abuse the innocent, is one of the rules-of-life I live by, now.
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