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Ongoing US GOP Debacle Thread: Seditious Republicans march toward authoritarianism

Yeah. I don’t think Nike has any US athletes in their 20s on par with what Tiger, Lebron, and Serena were at that stage. Embracing activism helps with the 18-25 market.
 
Colonel Angus said:
Like "hope and change" and "if you like your doctor...", amirite?
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I was thinking more like "federal dollars to train obsolete skill sets for jobs of the future" and "single-payer removes unnecessary financial burden from the poor and middle class" and "pollution is making you sick we need to regulate that shit" and "it's not religious freedom to deny services and access to gay people" and "supply side is a long con perpetuated by the ownership class to siphon wealth upward" and "gun regs save lives is backed by solid data" among other truths you people don't like to hear.
 
WakeandBake said:
I was thinking more like "federal dollars to train obsolete skill sets for jobs of the future" and "single-payer removes unnecessary financial burden from the poor and middle class" and "pollution is making you sick we need to regulate that shit" and "it's not religious freedom to deny services and access to gay people" and "supply side is a long con perpetuated by the ownership class to siphon wealth upward" and "gun regs save lives is backed by solid data" among other truths you people don't like to hear.
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no one has any athletes to compare with the three of the GOAT athletes of their respective games
 
This is a long read, but worthwhile. It describes the decline of democracy and rise of autocracy and single-party states in Poland and Hungary. There are many similarities and shared dynamics between what happened in those countries and what is happening right now in America. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/poland-polarization/568324/

In truth, the argument about who gets to rule is never over, particularly in an era when people have rejected aristocracy, and no longer believe that leadership is inherited at birth or that the ruling class is endorsed by God. Some of us, in Europe and North America, have settled on the idea that various forms of democratic and economic competition are the fairest alternative to inherited or ordained power.

But we should not have been surprised—I should not have been surprised—when the principles of meritocracy and competition were challenged. Democracy and free markets can produce unsatisfying outcomes, after all, especially when badly regulated, or when nobody trusts the regulators, or when people are entering the contest from very different starting points. Sooner or later, the losers of the competition were always going to challenge the value of the competition itself.

More to the point, the principles of competition, even when they encourage talent and create upward mobility, don’t necessarily answer deeper questions about national identity, or satisfy the human desire to belong to a moral community. The authoritarian state, or even the semi-authoritarian state—the one-party state, the illiberal state—offers that promise: that the nation will be ruled by the best people, the deserving people, the members of the party, the believers in the Medium-Size Lie. It may be that democracy has to be bent or business corrupted or court systems wrecked in order to achieve that state. But if you believe that you are one of those deserving people, you will do it.
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WFFaithful said:
Thomas is promoting diversity, so why did they put the white caps on him? The caps should be on the NRA.
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Keep in mind these are conservatives. To them, the only reason for diversity is to show liberals you're not racist.
 
Deacon923 said:
This is a long read, but worthwhile. It describes the decline of democracy and rise of autocracy and single-party states in Poland and Hungary. There are many similarities and shared dynamics between what happened in those countries and what is happening right now in America. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/poland-polarization/568324/
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Pretty sure that article could have been titled "The Ballad of SailorDeac".

What isn't included there is the slow collapse of those countries under authoritarianism and what it means for their long term futures. Every 15 minutes someone leaves Hungary, the vast majority of them young, working age. That is creating an extremely bleak future, which then cycles back to even further backing for authoritarian policies
 
WakeandBake said:
I was thinking more like "federal dollars to train obsolete skill sets for jobs of the future" and "single-payer removes unnecessary financial burden from the poor and middle class" and "pollution is making you sick we need to regulate that shit" and "it's not religious freedom to deny services and access to gay people" and "supply side is a long con perpetuated by the ownership class to siphon wealth upward" and "gun regs save lives is backed by solid data" among other truths you people don't like to hear.
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Great post. As you said, though, most Trumpites don't want to listen to any of that reality. Instead, they just want their old factory and mining jobs back, for gay and transgender people to just disappear, and for America to become whiter, less diverse, and more rural again, like it was 35 or 50 years ago. Trump tells them he'll do all that somehow, and so they gladly follow along, like they're trailing the pied piper. God forbid anyone tells them otherwise.
 
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