Minneapolis showed that the sundowning pedophile wanna be dictator can be kicked to the curb. There will be some incredibly difficult moments we experience, but people are waking up to the power we have when we stand together.
Eastern_Bet678 on
How about we ask – is the US upholding democracy?
All of the activity is around tearing down democracy. The Republican controlled executive, legislative, and to some extent judicial (hi SCOTUS), branches are hammering on every democratic lever that exists to break it.
AceofKnaves44 on
This is not how a democracy functions.
dblan9 on
That’s like asking in May of 1912 if the Titanic is going to sink.
AcanthisittaNo6653 on
It’s been a year, where have you been?
Angstrom_Wither on
Maybe this is sacrilege to say, but Terry Gross has, over the years, become the voice of ineffectual liberalism. That specific Menshevik strain of „wait and see“ Democrats sits right along side this kind of media apparatus where people with calm voices talk about existential issues in the calm, even tone that they use to share bland recipes.
NPR, despite having every reason to pull out all the stops as they’re being attacked and gutted, maliciously, chooses instead of have the dulcet tones of Terry Gross ask, in kind of a roundabout way, if the thing everyone can see happening is really happening.
NPR is less public radio and more a „keep calm and carry on“ broadcast in the face of people who actually want you or someone you know dead.
MuddVader on
We’re already there, but they’re lightly playing within certain boundaries because they know they don’t have the sort of support they need to full on come out and say it and begin to act with absolute impunity. They need to convince the loyal that this is business as usual and push the line further and further until the people are all broken and fall in line with their will.
The problem with that is the people may never be broken, and opposition rises in response to their behaviors instead of cowering like they’d hoped.
The supreme court may be disappointing, more oft than not, but the rest of the Judicial branch has done a helluva job resisting this metamorphosis. Without all those federal judges taking a stand we wouldn’t have made it this long.
restore_democracy on
The US is in a dictatorship. Are you not paying attention?
mosen66 on
Heading…?
Ihavenolifes on
We went from flirting with idea to know having an open relationship with it. We can break it up before it goes long term commitment but we have to act now.
Wrongallalong on
There goal is to make us feel hopeless and defeated so that we don’t fight back. Never give up without a fight. Check the comment history of the defeatest bots with their low effort responses.
returnofthecursed on
I’m slightly optimistic that the worst result can still be averted, that we can cling to the brink and pull ourselves back up. But there’s a weird intrusive thought related to this, one I’ve had for a while now.
If we manage to weather the storm, how many people will say (and start to believe) that we weren’t actually on the brink?
„Trump’s in jail now, you were over-reacting. We don’t need to change anything. It failed this time and it will fail next time.“
It worries me a little.
pile_of_fish on
We arent there. 2026 is an inflection point. The heritage-tech cabal definitely want to end democracy. Popular resistance short of civil war is not doomed, however. The best comparison to our current situation. Might be Ukraine right before the Maidan. Hell, we even have putin playing roughly the same role.
simplepimple2025 on
Does a bear shit in the woods? Does a senile pedo president shit in his pants?
salcorrea on
Americans are about to find out in 10 months…
For now, let’s pretend that a man with a $100 billion private army and all the crimes already committed will be gracious enough to permit an election and face the prospect of jail time.
marshallaw215 on
Fuck no
Look at our brothers and sisters in Minneapolis
Acceptable-Cream6179 on
Yes BUT it can be stopped. Blue wave in the mid terms and remove that pedophile out of the White House!
LatterTarget7 on
When you have the president violating the constitution, targeting political opponents, an armed militia detaining/killing/harassing citizens and his associates wanting armed guards at the polls I think it’s already there
ilikestatic on
My biggest concern right now is what Trump will do when he’s backed into a corner. Everything seems to be falling apart around him and it looks like Republicans could get obliterated in the midterms.
Trump has to know this would be a disaster for him, and he would be facing impeachment and possibly criminal prosecution.
What would he be willing to do in order to stop it? What about all those other Republicans in the Epstein files? What lengths would they go to in order to save themselves?
CapableAd9294 on
The Epstein files make it pretty clear that the men who committed these crimes are surrounded by weak men who enabled it and covered for them. Continue to do business with them. Allowed them in their circles. Just like the Republican Congress is doing. Accepting it. The president won reelection in an unheard of multiple swing state ticket splitting which everyone pretended was normal. And now he’s unleashed armed masked thugs that are disappearing people. Including children. 2300 court cases so far of illegal detainment. Those are just the ones with resources. He refused to leave peacefully last time. We are way past dictatorship. Feels like a full on civil war to me.
sloowshooter on
We’ve already arrived.
MinimumApricot365 on
It has been a dictatorship for over a year now.
rufusanddash on
The problem is sure you can say Trump is a dictator, but what happens when Dems take over?
Are the needs of the people going to instantly be represented? Are our tax dollars being spent in a way that a representative democracy for the people would spend them?
We’re a dictatorship because the ruling elites dictate how our lives play out. Passing the torch without destroying the oligopoly is not getting at the root of the problem.
The system has been a race to the bottom for decades and is incapable of being steered towards a democracy without being fundamentally dismantled
friendly-sam on
Until Trump leaves office, I feel like we are already in a dictatorship.
MyFirstCarWasA_Vega on
Wow. That this is even still being discussed as a „possibility“ blows anyone’s mind who has their eyes open and sees what is going on.
The easier question is, „What action has Trump taken or directed to be taken, in the past 6 months, that is not intended to assist him in becoming a full fledged dictator running America?“
If you have to even THINK about this answer for a few seconds, you have your answer. And for the vast majority of people, there is NOTHING they can come up with to answer that question.
Ok_Record_9908 on
If it smells like shit it usually is shit. We’re already a dictatorship. That ship has sailed.
I_Enjoy_Beer on
Bit late to be asking this fuckin‘ question, don’t ya think?
Sharp-Mountain1841 on
Heading??? Where the fuck have you been for the past year?
Steveonthetoast on
Heading? Wake the fuck up
mankowonameru on
Well we sure as shit ain’t heading into a progressive democracy.
Terrible_Lift on
*The Revolution WILL be Televised*
xGray3 on
ITT: People commenting on the headline instead of the actual conversation (the headline is decieving – the interviewee doesn’t hesitate to state plainly that the US is already under a dictatorship and that the only question that remains is whether the people will wrest back control before it entrenches itself).
NotTheRightHDMIPort on
Here’s the problem we have to deal with and a reality that I want to be clear about.
If somehow we blunt a Dictatorship it does not mean we are going right back to a Democracy.
There isnt a panacea or a magical cure all for this mess. The power has already been given. The power is there. It can ebb and flow however we choose to have it but we need to stop fooling ourselves.
The US is done. We dont like each other and our government just cant function anymore.
The right answer is a fundamental rewrite of the US Constitution.
The moderate answer is a peaceful separation.
The extreme answer is taking the power that is given and using it to its full extent to reshape and redo.
Im_Ashe_Man on
It’s already here.
AINonsense on
This headline must be from a year ago.
Yet. It was.
And it arrived.
And it’s a total mess of corruption, spite, and dumbass insane fuckery, presided over by a spoiled imbecile infant in 24hr tantrum drive.
Reasonable-Leg-2002 on
Yeah, it’s kinda over. We may get over the dictatorship hump or not, but we won’t regain the good life we used to have here, as global leader in culture, finance, alliances, opportunity.. Trump flushed that all away
redditknees on
Heading into? It is, you just don’t see it yet.
One of the most chilling things about Germany sliding into dictatorship is that there wasn’t a big flashing sign that said “DICTATORSHIP STARTS HERE.”
For a while, everything still looked normal. Elections still existed. Courts were still open. Newspapers still hit the stands. People went to work, complained about politicians, worried about rent, argued about sports. If you were an average person, daily life didn’t suddenly feel apocalyptic.
What changed first wasn’t the law, it was who the law applied to.
At the beginning, repression was aimed very selectively. Communists were arrested. Then social democrats. Then journalists and organizers. If you weren’t part of those groups, it was easy to tell yourself this was about restoring order or dealing with “dangerous extremists.” Emergency powers were framed as temporary. Violence was framed as necessary. Each step felt justifiable in isolation.
The real shift happened quietly, in the atmosphere. People stopped speaking freely in public. Conversations lowered in volume or died mid-sentence. You learned which opinions were safe to share at work and which ones weren’t worth the risk. Nobody had to explain the rules, fear taught them for free.
By the time most people realized dissent was no longer tolerated, there was nothing left to push back with. Opposition parties were gone. Independent media was dismantled or absorbed. Courts still existed, but no longer protected anyone in practice. Calling it a dictatorship at that point was almost beside the point. The outcome was already locked in.
That’s the part history tends to undersell: authoritarianism doesn’t usually arrive as chaos. It arrives as continuity. Life doesn’t immediately collapse. It just gets narrower. And by the time people broadly agree that something is deeply wrong, “normal” has already been quietly rewritten.
aintnochallahbackgrl on
We’re already in a dictatorship. We just havent quite hit totalitarianism.
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Brother we are fully submerged in the bullshit
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Minneapolis showed that the sundowning pedophile wanna be dictator can be kicked to the curb. There will be some incredibly difficult moments we experience, but people are waking up to the power we have when we stand together.
How about we ask – is the US upholding democracy?
All of the activity is around tearing down democracy. The Republican controlled executive, legislative, and to some extent judicial (hi SCOTUS), branches are hammering on every democratic lever that exists to break it.
This is not how a democracy functions.
That’s like asking in May of 1912 if the Titanic is going to sink.
It’s been a year, where have you been?
Maybe this is sacrilege to say, but Terry Gross has, over the years, become the voice of ineffectual liberalism. That specific Menshevik strain of „wait and see“ Democrats sits right along side this kind of media apparatus where people with calm voices talk about existential issues in the calm, even tone that they use to share bland recipes.
NPR, despite having every reason to pull out all the stops as they’re being attacked and gutted, maliciously, chooses instead of have the dulcet tones of Terry Gross ask, in kind of a roundabout way, if the thing everyone can see happening is really happening.
NPR is less public radio and more a „keep calm and carry on“ broadcast in the face of people who actually want you or someone you know dead.
We’re already there, but they’re lightly playing within certain boundaries because they know they don’t have the sort of support they need to full on come out and say it and begin to act with absolute impunity. They need to convince the loyal that this is business as usual and push the line further and further until the people are all broken and fall in line with their will.
The problem with that is the people may never be broken, and opposition rises in response to their behaviors instead of cowering like they’d hoped.
The supreme court may be disappointing, more oft than not, but the rest of the Judicial branch has done a helluva job resisting this metamorphosis. Without all those federal judges taking a stand we wouldn’t have made it this long.
The US is in a dictatorship. Are you not paying attention?
Heading…?
We went from flirting with idea to know having an open relationship with it. We can break it up before it goes long term commitment but we have to act now.
There goal is to make us feel hopeless and defeated so that we don’t fight back. Never give up without a fight. Check the comment history of the defeatest bots with their low effort responses.
I’m slightly optimistic that the worst result can still be averted, that we can cling to the brink and pull ourselves back up. But there’s a weird intrusive thought related to this, one I’ve had for a while now.
If we manage to weather the storm, how many people will say (and start to believe) that we weren’t actually on the brink?
„Trump’s in jail now, you were over-reacting. We don’t need to change anything. It failed this time and it will fail next time.“
It worries me a little.
We arent there. 2026 is an inflection point. The heritage-tech cabal definitely want to end democracy. Popular resistance short of civil war is not doomed, however. The best comparison to our current situation. Might be Ukraine right before the Maidan. Hell, we even have putin playing roughly the same role.
Does a bear shit in the woods? Does a senile pedo president shit in his pants?
Americans are about to find out in 10 months…
For now, let’s pretend that a man with a $100 billion private army and all the crimes already committed will be gracious enough to permit an election and face the prospect of jail time.
Fuck no
Look at our brothers and sisters in Minneapolis
Yes BUT it can be stopped. Blue wave in the mid terms and remove that pedophile out of the White House!
When you have the president violating the constitution, targeting political opponents, an armed militia detaining/killing/harassing citizens and his associates wanting armed guards at the polls I think it’s already there
My biggest concern right now is what Trump will do when he’s backed into a corner. Everything seems to be falling apart around him and it looks like Republicans could get obliterated in the midterms.
Trump has to know this would be a disaster for him, and he would be facing impeachment and possibly criminal prosecution.
What would he be willing to do in order to stop it? What about all those other Republicans in the Epstein files? What lengths would they go to in order to save themselves?
The Epstein files make it pretty clear that the men who committed these crimes are surrounded by weak men who enabled it and covered for them. Continue to do business with them. Allowed them in their circles. Just like the Republican Congress is doing. Accepting it. The president won reelection in an unheard of multiple swing state ticket splitting which everyone pretended was normal. And now he’s unleashed armed masked thugs that are disappearing people. Including children. 2300 court cases so far of illegal detainment. Those are just the ones with resources. He refused to leave peacefully last time. We are way past dictatorship. Feels like a full on civil war to me.
We’ve already arrived.
It has been a dictatorship for over a year now.
The problem is sure you can say Trump is a dictator, but what happens when Dems take over?
Are the needs of the people going to instantly be represented? Are our tax dollars being spent in a way that a representative democracy for the people would spend them?
We’re a dictatorship because the ruling elites dictate how our lives play out. Passing the torch without destroying the oligopoly is not getting at the root of the problem.
The system has been a race to the bottom for decades and is incapable of being steered towards a democracy without being fundamentally dismantled
Until Trump leaves office, I feel like we are already in a dictatorship.
Wow. That this is even still being discussed as a „possibility“ blows anyone’s mind who has their eyes open and sees what is going on.
The easier question is, „What action has Trump taken or directed to be taken, in the past 6 months, that is not intended to assist him in becoming a full fledged dictator running America?“
If you have to even THINK about this answer for a few seconds, you have your answer. And for the vast majority of people, there is NOTHING they can come up with to answer that question.
If it smells like shit it usually is shit. We’re already a dictatorship. That ship has sailed.
Bit late to be asking this fuckin‘ question, don’t ya think?
Heading??? Where the fuck have you been for the past year?
Heading? Wake the fuck up
Well we sure as shit ain’t heading into a progressive democracy.
*The Revolution WILL be Televised*
ITT: People commenting on the headline instead of the actual conversation (the headline is decieving – the interviewee doesn’t hesitate to state plainly that the US is already under a dictatorship and that the only question that remains is whether the people will wrest back control before it entrenches itself).
Here’s the problem we have to deal with and a reality that I want to be clear about.
If somehow we blunt a Dictatorship it does not mean we are going right back to a Democracy.
There isnt a panacea or a magical cure all for this mess. The power has already been given. The power is there. It can ebb and flow however we choose to have it but we need to stop fooling ourselves.
The US is done. We dont like each other and our government just cant function anymore.
The right answer is a fundamental rewrite of the US Constitution.
The moderate answer is a peaceful separation.
The extreme answer is taking the power that is given and using it to its full extent to reshape and redo.
It’s already here.
This headline must be from a year ago.
Yet. It was.
And it arrived.
And it’s a total mess of corruption, spite, and dumbass insane fuckery, presided over by a spoiled imbecile infant in 24hr tantrum drive.
Yeah, it’s kinda over. We may get over the dictatorship hump or not, but we won’t regain the good life we used to have here, as global leader in culture, finance, alliances, opportunity.. Trump flushed that all away
Heading into? It is, you just don’t see it yet.
One of the most chilling things about Germany sliding into dictatorship is that there wasn’t a big flashing sign that said “DICTATORSHIP STARTS HERE.”
For a while, everything still looked normal. Elections still existed. Courts were still open. Newspapers still hit the stands. People went to work, complained about politicians, worried about rent, argued about sports. If you were an average person, daily life didn’t suddenly feel apocalyptic.
What changed first wasn’t the law, it was who the law applied to.
At the beginning, repression was aimed very selectively. Communists were arrested. Then social democrats. Then journalists and organizers. If you weren’t part of those groups, it was easy to tell yourself this was about restoring order or dealing with “dangerous extremists.” Emergency powers were framed as temporary. Violence was framed as necessary. Each step felt justifiable in isolation.
The real shift happened quietly, in the atmosphere. People stopped speaking freely in public. Conversations lowered in volume or died mid-sentence. You learned which opinions were safe to share at work and which ones weren’t worth the risk. Nobody had to explain the rules, fear taught them for free.
By the time most people realized dissent was no longer tolerated, there was nothing left to push back with. Opposition parties were gone. Independent media was dismantled or absorbed. Courts still existed, but no longer protected anyone in practice. Calling it a dictatorship at that point was almost beside the point. The outcome was already locked in.
That’s the part history tends to undersell: authoritarianism doesn’t usually arrive as chaos. It arrives as continuity. Life doesn’t immediately collapse. It just gets narrower. And by the time people broadly agree that something is deeply wrong, “normal” has already been quietly rewritten.
We’re already in a dictatorship. We just havent quite hit totalitarianism.