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Trumpism is a cult. Plain and simple. This is cult behavior.

I realize that’s very dismissive, but in this case I think that’s a good thing. You could spend years debunking their every claim, anti-fact, and bad faith argument–and there’s a time and a place for those discussions–but there’s no need to burden your mind with the mountain of their nonsense. You don’t have to read the whole Time Cube page to determine that its author isn’t worth listening to for astrophysical insights.

I don’t see how that makes the headline hyperbolic. His speech is increasing mirroring Hitler, and people aren’t paying attention, because his speeches aren’t demanding the world’s attention.

Woah there chief! Lemme tell everyone a little story…

Back when I was on Reddit, I followed any and all Trump news (and especially Jan 6 investigation news) on an unhealthily regular basis. These kinds of Eeyore comments were extremely common and usually voted up to pepper through the top ⅓ of all the ‘best’ comments. It got so bad that some subreddits explicitly banned them, though it didn’t really end the practice.

Then Russia invaded Ukraine. All the disparaging comments ceased immediately. The frequency absolutely fell off a cliff, because all those comments were being served up to us by Russian bots. Russia wants nothing more than to further destabilize the US as well as any other democratic institution.

I’m not saying this comment right here is a Russian bot, but it’s definitely doing a Russian bot’s job by trying to undermine any confidence we might have in the concepts of justice or democracy.

The reasoning behind banning abortion is that a very small fetus is actually a full person. That makes abortion murder, and even though something like 20% of pregnancies naturally end in a miscarriage, now every one of them is a potential DIY abortion i.e. murder, so they now must be investigated as such.

As for the racism aspect, well, it’s just a sad fact that laws are–in general–applied more stringently and punished more severely for minorities. Of course these new laws would only be no exception.

Where there’s smoke, there’s… mirrors.

Dude was compromised by Borat. I wouldn’t be surprised to see him on a street corner holding a cardboard sign that says, “will do treason for Scotch.”

Coffee salute!