Hopefully fax machines, but these things seem incapable of dying.

I’m sorry, Dave…

Do I have to provide this information to Palantir myself, or will the authorities do that for me?

“Yeah, well, you know, that’s just, like, your opinion, man.”

If you cannot identify this line…

“Obviously, you’re not a golfer.”

The US is a failed state. There’s no other way to put it.

There is a Canadian movie called “Beans”, but it’s a drama…

Based on true events, Tracey Deer’s debut feature chronicles the 78-day standoff between two Mohawk communities and government forces in 1990 Quebec.

And of course there’s the documentary about Lemmy Kilmister that is called - lo and behold: “Lemmy”

Oh no, what a sheerstopper! My world is in sheermbles! I guess I should find sheelter somewhere and get in sheerape for the sheerdown!

Yea, these sheernanigans need to stop!

I am certain that this guy will still work very productively with Israel — and very explicitly in the name of combating anti-Semitism. Just like the rest of the US government, who are all blatant Nazis.

I suppose you could call that visionary if you’re an unscrupulous billionaire who has to praise the illegal power games of a psychopath in order to get favors.

Just sold my Nvidia shares — fuck 'em.

Yes, exactly, the entire US administration is made up of people like that. Apart from their terrible character, virtually none of them are even remotely qualified for their positions.

Kristallnacht

I never thought that the absurd baggy pants I wore back in school would ever come back into style because they were truly awful.

But hey, what do I know - now they’re back and so am I … How do you do, fellow kids!?!

Am I obliged to sacrifice my time to correct nonsense? I don’t think so.

Do your own due diligence if you don’t believe me.

I just don’t feel like responding because it would take some effort to refute all of that. I think anyone who does even half a decent amount of research will quickly realize that it’s either simply wrong or cherry picking. It’s pointless anyway to try to convince people who are so entrenched in their opinions.

But hey, it’s good to know that people are impressed just by mentioning a few random sources.

You’d be better off reading the Wikipedia article about Orwell instead of forming an opinion based on random social media comments.

Not sure if we are talking about the same George Orwell here or how you came to the conclusion that he was a “right-wing POS” - he was definitely not.

I wonder what George Orwell would have to say about all this… nvm, he already said everything there is to say.

All good points, but I’m not at all sure that will matter. These things are only relevant if there are still elections.

Here are a few points that suggest to me that Drump is planning to turn the US into a dictatorship where there will be no more elections.

• It is an open secret that Drump is preparing to declare himself president again or again be candidate in a mock-election (Putin regularly gets elected as well), which would be a violation of the Constitution.
• After his last term in office, he already attempted a coup, which, as you say, was not punished as such.
• He is building up a secret police force through (barely) hidden tax increases in the form of ubiquitous tariffs – namely the ICA, which he is staffing exclusively with loyal followers.
• He (and his followers, who cannot hope for impunity via the “the President is king” Supreme Court decision) are already disregarding applicable law and court decisions. It’s unlikely that they would do that in such a manner if they would fear to be prosecuted once a new administration comes along (they would be because what they do is so brazenly illegal).
• He is already persecuting political opponents (such as the judges who convicted the January 6 insurrectionists).
• He openly calls for the persecution of dissidents, including among the civilian population (most recently Bruce Springsteen, for example).
• He has already brought the media (both traditional and, in particular, social media) into line, as evidenced by the completely inadequate coverage of the massive 50501 protests, to name just one example among many.
• Even without the unlimited powers granted to the president by the Supreme Court, the US system is highly vulnerable to a coup by the incumbent government due to the concentration of power in the hands of the president (he is commander-in-chief of the army, can declare a state of emergency and is then also commander of the police and National Guard etc.).

The list goes on – even though Drump has only been in office for six months. If this continues, and I am convinced it will, the government will soon make civil resistance impossible – as in Russia, where by no means everyone is a Putin supporter, but his opponents have been silenced by force.

Of course, I don’t want to paint a picture of doom and gloom, but unfortunately I am honestly convinced that Drump wants to replace what little democracy still exists in the United States with a dictatorship. And he is not even doing it by himself - I think he is just a straw man for the guys pulling the strings (the one percent who all support him).

I completely agree with you except for one thing: I don’t think things will get better – at least not on their own. On the contrary, I think the situation will actually get much worse, because I believe that US institutions have long been infiltrated, as exemplified by the Supreme Court’s absurd ruling that the president is above the law. This has, in my opinion, nothing to do with democracy anymore.

Nevertheless, I wish you all the best and am keeping my fingers crossed for all the good and decent US citizens.

Edit: I’m from Germany and I post things like this because of our history, which is well known in the US too. Don’t do as we did back then, act while you still can!