• atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    “The president gets expanded powers during an emergency”

    “The president gets to declare what is an emergency”

    Thanks Supreme Court and Congress. Who could have ever guessed that this system would be abused by an authoritarian. 🤷‍♂️

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      3 days ago

      … This is unironically what all the rightwing conspiricists have been afraid of for two+ decades now.

      This is what they thought Clinton, or Obama or somehow the UN or ‘ZOG’ would be able to use as the mechanism to instate tyranny.

      … And now they are doing it themselves, so utterly deluded that they would short cicruit if you tried to explain this to them.

      I grew up in a right wing nutjob household. This is what I was told my whole life, growing up. I was indoctrinated into it, and had to deconvert myself out of it similar how I had to deconvert out of christian extremism.

      These people are perfect hypocrites.

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        Remember Jade Helm? They thought Obama was going to use military exercises to take control of Texas back in 2015 or so. Gov. Shitstain even made some comment lending credence to the theories. Now there’s a president using the military to control parts of Texas and they’re cool with it.

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          3 days ago

          Yep.

          Thats another prime example of them literally doing essentially exactly their paranoid fears.

          Oh howabout FEMA death/concentration camps?

          … Well, FEMA is probably fucking over, but the plan for migrants, suspected migrants, and the homeless… literally is send them all to prison camps, and if we don’t have enough capacity, build more pop up semi permanent structure camps on the outskirts of major cities.

          They became lost, staring into the void, and now are the monsters they dreamed of.

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            2 days ago

            They were worried about those things because they knew what they would do if they had the power.

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              2 days ago

              This exactly. It was their guilty fucking conscious driving their narratives.

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              2 days ago

              Selfish, emotionally immature, fearful idiots believe that everyone else is like them, and is just lying about not being so.

              Therefore, all those ‘other people’ are devious liars who are more crafty then ‘us’, so ‘we’ must outscheme ‘them!’

              … all of this shit is literally scientifically verified.

              The more conservative you are, the more likely your brain make up is to respond out of fear of potential loss, to shut out disconfirming informstion… as opposed to the potential gain of trying or exploring something new, that causes you to confront whether or not you may be wrong.

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                1 day ago

                Yup, and you can make people more conservative by blasting them with propaganda about how scary “the other” is.