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Continue to live my life. The president has much less to do with the daily lives of Americans than the media would lead you to believe. They represent only one of the three branches of government.

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“The Chancellor has much less to do with the daily lives of Germans than the media would lead you to believe.” – Folks who died in concentration camps, probably

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Three branches of government? I’m sure the unilateral executive theory won’t have any problems here and “checks and balances” will happen. /s

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Well since I’ve been very vocally liberal and anti-Trump over the past 8 years or so, I suspect I’ll end up dying in a labor camp.
I don’t have the means to get out of the county beforehand or I’d already be out, and I think there’s effectively no country that’s going to be willing to take political refugees from the United States afterwords, so I’m pretty well fucked.

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If you honestly think the US under Trump is going to put liberals in labor camps despite watching his whole first term flounder on anything that wasn’t already galvinized by the GOPs platform I think you need to watch less sensationalized news.

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I think you’re discrediting that there’s a decent chance that Trump is at least going to try to turn the US into a dictatorship. I’m hoping any attempt will fail, but there’s been weirder successes throughout history

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And I think people who claim Trump is going to put Americans in camps do nothing but polarize the political landscape more than it already is. If you sincerely believe Trump would have the ability to line up political dissedents up in mass and send them to camps, you’ve reached a level of delusion that is unhealthy. Theres no evidence Republicans are going to gain nearly enough seats for a supermajority, so please explain to me how Trump sends democrats to camps. It’s a sensational divisive claim that does nothing but worsen an already shit electoral climate. Its the same level of crazy as claiming Bidens going to take away your guns. Even if thats what he said he wanted, he lacks any way to do so.

The only people actually goin to camps are immigrants and last I checked those are still open and functioning.

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He and the GOP have been shouting their intention to go full dictatorship for months now.

It’s not sensationalized if its from the horse’s mouth.

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and how many political promises come true? come on. use what’s left of your brain, huh?

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My favorite thing about this is somehow Biden has little power as president to materially change things without congress, even when he had a slim majority, but Trumps somehow single handedly gonna put democrats in camps. Its sensational bs thats never going to happen but you can use it to pretend you’re being victimized for being a liberal, you’re not.

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No they haven’t liar

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My concerns are generally not Trump as a person, but rather that his handlers are more organized and prepared. As an individual I think DeSantis is much more concerning, as far as actually implemented policy that is in effect and damaging today, and he’s also going to be around for a long time.

I don’t think liberals are going to labor camps any time soon, but life could be much more difficult for many marginalized groups as conservatives seek out the new boogyman now that abortion doesn’t work as well.

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don’t worry too much buddy, the worst that can happen is your political view gets relentlessly strawmanned, treated as an attack on freedom, and most of the internet will find it acceptable to openly mock, ridicule, and threaten you for your beliefs and overexaggerate the candidate most closely associated with your point of view (whether true or not) as an unstable hateful fascist dictator, as well as adopting the most dramatic persecution complex possible, whining that their election will result in your shunning and death.

Oh wait…

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I had been scrolling through this thread, wondering when I was going to find the dumbest possible post, and I’m thankful that I can stop reading now that I’ve found it.

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I’m glad you can sleep a happy narcissist tonight

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Try not to slip on all that piss you’re constantly wetting yourself with

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Make sure I have enough meds and reach out to friends to make sure they’re safe and are able to get their HRT.

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Same as if Biden wins in 2024.

Or, assuming that one of them has a heart attack or something before then, Nikki Haley or Kamala Harris or whoever.

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Watch Democrats blame people they were actively hostile towards for not enthusiastically waiting for hours in the cold to vote for them.

Then watch the world’s longest-running uninterrupted democracy with the world’s largest military and the world’s largest nuclear arsenal become a fascist dictatorship. Maybe I’ll die quickly and have a chance to be envied.

Fix your messaging, Dems. Pretend he’s a progressive and oppose him.

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Honestly, just point to his examples of government overreach! Heck if Dems really wanted to hurt him, do some overreach that they want to do anyway and make sure that they thank the man, heck say without him this would be impossible and that if we don’t take advantage of it someone else will!

Just go hard on red flag laws, just use those bad boys up on all of their opponents, and say “Trump was awful for a lot of things, but thank god he got some of the strongest anti gun laws on the books in decades, without him, we couldn’t have gone after this dangerous far right militia, he really made this inevitable.”

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Just go hard on red flag laws,

Democrats don’t “go hard” on anything.

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ackchtually russia has the most nukes

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