• Doomsider@lemmy.world
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      9 hours ago

      He is not in charge. The world is a lot more complex than Trumplethinskin supposedly running the US. To be honest, he can’t even run a business unless it is into the ground.

      A better question is who is actually in charge.

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      2 days ago

      Russia + facebook + corporate news media being complicit and owned.

      At least that’s how we got here for the first several years. How it’s still happening is more about the news media, and the absence of it (i.e. Xitter, youtube) I think.

      And let’s not pretend it’s not coming for everyone. Canada - heads up.

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      2 days ago

      Because the alternate reality the right constructed for their part of the population, along with the oligarchs cooperatively capturing the democratic party and turning it into Reek from Game of Thrones.

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      Take it as a warning of how little each of us really understands about the way the world works.