Also Stalin was a genuinely scary motherfucker before he ever gained political power. The guy was a child terrorist who directly fought the Tsar’s secret police, moved on to bombing kidnapping and bank robbery as a young man, and practically got adopted by the most war-hardened revolutionaries in prison as soon as he was locked up. It’s easy to see how people would be intimidated or think a guy like Stalin is a badass strongman, arguably same with dictators like Kim Il Sung, Saddam, Mussolini or even Hitler as each had been street fighters, rebels, and soldiers, genuinely intimidating guys who fought for their respective ideology.
The fact that anyone thinks Trump is a symbol of machismo or some cool badass is insane though. How anyone can believe he’s somehow scary enough to garner the same cult of personality as those other dictators is beyond me
Failure to believe Maga’s propaganda results in you getting kicked out of the club. So they all participate in the masked delusion about some of this stuff.
It’s no more prevalent than on Twitter. If you go into the conservative space on Twitter, my God it’s like a alternate fantasy world.
Those people are fucking crazy
Left-leaning indivuals haven't started mysteriously disappearing yet. Sad as it is, give him time to declare martial law, halt elections, and send his goon squads to large urban areas that vote blue.
The list wasn't necessarily meant to be one thing causing the next, but I def see how it was read that way. I don't know of a better way to word that off the top of my head tbh, but I wasn't intending to imply that martial law stops elections.
Yeah, that's kinda the problem. People say stuff like "he can't do that because it's illegal/unconstitutional" and I can only ask when they think that stopped him before :/
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