21 points

Stop sucking Trump’s cock, www.washingtonpost.com. There’s nothing inevitable about Trump but lies, treason, and bullshit.

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This is stupid fear-mongering horse s*** that ignores all the steps Americans are taking to fight against Trump being elected, and ignoring that they voted him out 3 years ago.

Stupid b*******.

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you know you can swear on the internet right?

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Some instances run profanity filters.

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You’re on the internet. Censoring yourself makes you look childish. Just cuss. Also, it’s not fear mongering. The GOP has announced their intentions if they win.

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Please point to where the GOP has said they intend on installing a literal dictatorship. Please remember how many executive orders President Biden signed in his first 90 days in office as well.

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Notice no one has actually answered the question, nor have they addressed the EO’s. How do you rule like a dictator in a representative republic? Sign more EO’s than any other pres had prior, totally wiping out everything your predecessor did. Last I checked nothing’s been proven that “TRUMP” caused, ordered, or even suggested your little so called “insurrection”. Saying something doesn’t make it true. But keep trying.

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I remember January 6th insurrection when Trump was in office

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Again? Jesus.

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So go fill your gaping ignorant armchair with another short floppy bamboo pole

That’s just uncalled for

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If you read the article, the author is not saying Trump winning the general election is an inevitability, but that him winning the nomination is inevitable and so is his rise to dictatorship if he wins the general. He never says Trump winning the general is guaranteed, and allows phrases that part as, “he could win the general”. All of those things are true baring unforseen circumstances.

Also, honestly that sentence would have been a lot funnier not censored.

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People took steps against him in 2016 as well. And voting him out previously gives no guarantee of anything.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/

Polling is bullshit, but to the degree that it isn’t, it isn’t looking great. This isn’t some guarantee that Trump will lose. The boomers that vote republican do so EVERY election. The people who vote against them aren’t so reliable in comparison.

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If you’ve ever wondered why no one killed Hitler on his rise to power, now you know.

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The main difference is, in 2023, we know how Hitler rose to power. In 1933, Germans didnt.

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Yeah, but that’s like… almost a 100 years ago. Completely different. SlashEs

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I think that is a bridge too far for many reasons. First off I hate the Cheeto. He is a mudstain on used panties from a crackhead pornstar.

However, we have Hitler in recent history. We have many forms of media that they did not have to see how it’s going with everyone else. And let’s not forget that Hitler was smarter than Trump ever will be.

I don’t glorify Hitler lightly. He was a force that needed to be stopped and so does Trump. But that is were the comparison ends. Nazis became so huge because people were afraid of what would happen to their family if they didn’t. Here we will fight the morons back. Stop giving this man so much power and admiration. He’s a conman. A shitty leader. And a dumbass.

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And let’s not forget that Hitler was smarter than Trump ever will be.

Not really. Hitler’s (supposed) “genius” exists in the same way Trump’s does - as propaganda and nothing else.

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I didn’t call Hitler a genius. I called him smarter than Trump. Trump copies him. He at least (for the most part) came up with the strategies to inspire the changes in Germany. Even though they were shitty as fuck.

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Non English speaker: inevitable means it will happen no matter what. They way i see it, its used wrong here correct? It should maybe have been ‘increasingly realistic’ or maybe ‘increasingly plausible’ but inevitable assumes that voting for someone else won’t stop it from happening

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This is just the usual polarising fear mongering bullshit. Even “increasingly plausible” is a stretch.

Maybe the democratic party should focus more energy trying to understand what is that that makes so many people even considering trump.

When people turn the other side into a one dimensional caricature they just ignore the real world problems that make them lose elections.

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One of the many examples of how English is manipulated and massaged to mean whatever you want it to mean. A more accurate phrase they should have chosen is “increasingly likely”.

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Technically, I’d say “increasingly inevitable” is a meaningless phrase. “Inevitable” is an absolute - an outcome either is, or is not, inevitable. Like they say, “you can’t be a little bit pregnant”, outcomes cannot be a little bit inevitable, or somewhat inevitable, or mostly inevitable, so the degree of inevitability cannot be increasing.

However, I think most native English speakers would not think twice about it, and would read it as something like: “a Trump dictatorship is approaching inevitability.” That’s how I read it, at least.

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The title is a bit clickbaity, but the subtext is that if he is elected, dictatorship is increasingly inevitable.

And the ‘increasingly’ modifier further shows it’s only a potential outcome.

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I agree. I think that if Trump is elected and puts an end to democracy as we know it, but it won’t be a dictatorship of Trump, alone. Trump is but a mortal man. And whoever replaces him will be worse.

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The author isn’t the most self-aware… Robert Kagan was a Republican strategist until 2016, he’s an interventionalist neocon, thinks the GOP “lost it’s way” rather than contributed to this by design.

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As a non American I can’t understand how anyone could vote for Donald twice.

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As a non-American I can’t understand how Bernie wasn’t voted in decades ago.

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3 points

DNC sabotage his campaigns

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If there’s anything the last few years taught the world, stupid people are far more numerous and far more stupid than we thought.

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As a free-thinking human being, I can’t understand how anyone could vote for him once.

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When you see his opponent it becomes easier to understand.

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No, it doesn’t. In any way.

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My in-laws voted for him twice. They are pro-life, and that’s all that matters to them. Otherwise they support progressive policies like single-payer healthcare. But when it comes to abortion, they will vote for a literal anti-Christ to make it illegal. Funny that they are Catholic.

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Your in-laws sound like uninformed rubes.

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They kind of are, no college education and they don’t take the time to self-educate. Their support for single payer healthcare is something that both me and my husband have been working on with them for a while. I don’t think they are completely lost - they never showed the kind of hate I’ve seen from other Trump supporters. So I’ll keep trying.

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So they’re going to vote for the guy that had an abortion?

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Trust me, we’ve tried to reason with them. It’s maddening because they are otherwise mostly reasonable people, just ignorant politically and scientifically.

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If murder was legal, and somebody who was known to have committed murder was running, and you were confident that person would make murder illegal, and you were convinced that their opponent (who may have never committed murder themselves) would actively encourage more murder, maybe even pay poor people to commit murder, which candidate would you vote for?

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People who say they are pro-life will vote for the most pro-death policies, it’s crazy.

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The cruelty is the point.

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Its not funny. Its ludacris.

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21 points

As an American I can’t understand how anyone could vote for him once.

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I was working at this business owner’s home. Smart, genuine, kind guy in his mid-40s with a beautiful “nuclear” family. He said he was going to vote for Trump because his sister in law worked at one his properties and she spoke well of him. That was it. That’s how a seemingly respectable upstanding well-to-do member of the community chose the president of the United States. Or, at worst, that was the reason he felt compelled to tell others.

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People in the US don’t understand what political ideologies are and literally vote for someone based off of “I’d like to have a beer with that guy!”.

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As a Canadian, I can absolutely understand how someone less informed in politics and (rightfully) angry at the political establishment would vote for Trump in 2016 just to flip the bird to Hillary. Americans need to understand why he won to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

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I don’t. What was there to be mad at Hilary about that made people want to vote for a child raping, tax fraud committing, racist crook?

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Americans need to understand why he won to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

It’s been estimated that 13% of Trump’s voters were Obama voters. The degree to which this impacted his victory is debated, but this group is almost invisible in the way Trump is understood in the popular discourse, which is almost entirely determined by… Trump’s own spectacle of rhetoric and the feedback it generates. The degradation of civic institutions and disenfranchisement is a major factor, experiencing this while you’re exposed to political marketing like, Kamala Harris doing a happy and smiley scripted bit where she tells children if they’re “authentic” they will succeed, not only does that not connect with the reality of people’s struggles but it’s a slap in the face to them.

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After seeing how the super delegates worked against Sanders, and how blatantly undemocratic our process of selecting candidates truly is, a lot of people fell into the trap of “fuck it, burn the world down then”. I know a lot of people reacted that way when the Republican party’s obvious rigging of the 2012 nomination worked against Ron Paul even though the votes were tallied in some states that he was the actual victor, but the derailment of his campaign by announcing Mitt Romney as the winner did enough damage…even though the Republican party chairs for several states had to resign due to the obvious false declarations and ignoring of the votes counted in primaries happened.

The real problem is the lack of confidence in our democracy and the rampant apathy that works against constructive progress.

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I apparently have difficulty empathizing with people who aren’t paying attention to what they’re voting for (or against).

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They’ll vote for him a third time. Believe me, folks. *accordion hands*

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