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Toni Brayer's avatar

I too have numb fingers from typing STOP. I’m not worried about retaliation (I’m too small) but if I was powerful with a platform I would definitely be in the vocal resistance, would not kowtow to Mar Lago and would be leading the charge. I can understand why billionaires dont want to give money to the Dems at this time. They are disorganized and have lost their way. But that’s a completely different thing than kissing the ring and conspiring with the evil that is going on in plain light. I can’t get Hitler Germany out of my mind. It’s happening here.

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Inside Outrance's avatar

As evidenced by the likely confirmation of Ka$h despite y'know actual fucking perjury, Trump's mendacity has really brought to light how very little most Republicans, elected or otherwise, seem to care about the truth. This is absolutely something we're going to have to tackle if we're ever able to excise the cancer that is the MAGA movement from this country.

I don't know if I can think of a solution for it, but in their vaguely solarpunk-ish novel, Gamechanger, LX Beckett puts forward a gamified system where society has pretty much given up on privacy, or at least strongly disincentivizes lying or anything reminiscent of trolling, in a backlash to our present moment. It's an interesting read if nothing else.

Also, I know comparing MAGA to Nazis and Trump to Hitler is incredibly overdone, but if you look at the summation for the prosecution by Robert Jackson in the Nuremburg trials, he really does a good job highlighting how "[l]ying has always been a highly approved Nazi technique" and "Hitler in Mein Kampf advocated mendacity as a policy," before outlining how you basically couldn't trust those fucks as far as you could throw them.

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