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Dechardin
@dechardin.bsky.social

Understand - The Billionaire Class can never allow election of Democrats to the WH or majority in Congress. Billionaire “progress” & profits under Trump would be immediately reversed & taxed. Dictatorship must be perpetuated & all that’s left after destroying Fed institutions, courts & the press.

Leif Harmsen
@harmsen.net

It's risky being a dictator; many get killed, often by their own inner circle. So the question is, why don't we kill them more often? We owe them nothing and they have no legitimacy.

GoneCoastal
@gonecoastalms.bsky.social

If the inner circle is loyal it’s hard to get near them but what if someone did, does the country revert to democracy or does another dictator step in? In Trump’s case, he has the appearance of legitimacy because he was “elected”. His assassin would be killed immediately.

Leif Harmsen
@harmsen.net

There is the 4 year time bomb in the US. If he denies his term limit he's fair game. If someone's votes don't add up and they deny the election, they're fair game. Perhaps in the US it will turn out to be suicidal to be dictator; one can only hope.

Leif Harmsen
@harmsen.net

A smart ruling class loves democracy because they can plan for a happy and long retirement. Dictators are notoriously bad at retirement planning, and they live in a state of constant fear. A smart leader wants a robust democratic system for the same reason car drivers want working traffic lights.

bm1977.bsky.social
@bm1977.bsky.social

First, they lie and they cheat. I do not think there is any way Trump “won” legitimately in 2024–between massive Russian interference, Musk’s money and hacking operations, Republican voter suppression and finally a corporate media that boosted him and trashed Biden/Harris at every opportunity.

rktecture
@rktecture.bsky.social

Same reason those people believe in conspiracy theories and organised religion. The real world is chaotic, complex and confusing. Dictators promise a simple, binary model of the world which low IQ sorts find easy to understand and therefore deeply reassuring.

BallPtPenTheif
@ballptpentheif.bsky.social

STEM educations lack critical thinking beyond empirical data. Their lack of education in humanities, philosophy, rhetoric, ethics, political theory, and psychology usually primes them for illogical fallacies in their day-to-day life.

Joy Boy
@honkydgoofy.bsky.social

This STEM hatred is stupid. Most of my colleagues have all of those things and don’t fall into those traps because believe it or not we have to take those classes. We also out earn everyone so we have a higher profile and the rote memorizing dumbasses that exist everywhere get a bright light.

rktecture
@rktecture.bsky.social

In my experience low educated people are vastly more likely to espouse conspiracy theories than people who have completed education to A-level / equivalent standard / gone to university.

Joy Boy
@honkydgoofy.bsky.social

MENSA is a specific association for people with high IQs, generally though the only people that apply only have high intelligence in IQ and none of the other dimensions to intelligence because it’s literally all they got.

Appledawg
@appledawg.bsky.social

In America it’s because of the perversion of Christianity ☝️these white gop Christian’s are fucking evil bastards who use an imaginary enity to control their base of brainwashed followers

UniverseLost
@universelost.bsky.social

Exactly. I was a menace to teachers because I questioned How and Why. They wanted to simplify as "Good vs Evil"... That's not enough. What happened? How did they gain support? Why did their electorate allow it to happen? Lessons we haven't learned.