You know, DOGE, fascist president and corporations dictating what people can do, institutions being ruined, laws being ignored. Is there any way out of that or is it over? Is the USA done?

  • Seleni@lemmy.world
    26·
    4 days ago

    Shoot the dictator and prevent the war? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus from which dictators emerge; shoot one, and there’ll be another one along in a minute. Shoot him too? Why not shoot everyone and invade Poland? In fifty years’, thirty years’, ten years’ time the world will be very nearly back on its old course. History always has a great weight of inertia.

    -Terry Pratchett (Lords and Ladies)

    Been thinking about this quote a lot lately. The fact that Trump is so popular shows that he’s just the symptom of a deeper, possibly terminal disease.

    • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
      7·
      4 days ago

      The fact that Trump is so popular shows that he’s just the symptom of a deeper, possibly terminal disease.

      Capitalism

      • in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        There’s a lot of the “atheist” tech bros that still peasant-brain worship the market with human sacrifices as if it will bear them miracles. I like to tell them “You’re an atheist just like me, except I go one god further.”