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Off to the USSR we go unless Congress gets brave. Sadly I told people who came here from the USSR where I use to work 40 years ago we were heading towards being the USSR, but a bit different.

They said "no way", well here we are, well on our way. Just a different flavor of the same type of thing.

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I get multiple news notifications within minutes of all these things, that’s pretty different than unfettered authoritarianism where people don’t even know it’s happening.

If everyone is aware of what’s going on and we still elect these people, that’s more on us than them no?

I served in the Navy 40 years ago on a nuclear submarine opposed to the Soviet Union so I had an interest in learning about our enemy. People like Stephen Kotkin have said Stalin and those around him were true believers in communism, while the situation in America feels like early Putinism, which was about money and power. But the suppression of those critical of the regime is the same.

it would help if the billionaire / centimillionaire classes decided they didn't like what was going on.

It’d be hectomillionaire, unless you’re referring to people with $10k.

Picomillionaires rise up!

hundredaires in the house!

Centimillionaire was chosen for a reason.

This post could have actually been informative if you'd bothered to elaborate on what that reason is, precisely.

no it's a puzzle. solvable too

who do you think is orchestrating this?

the voters? who get their information from....media conglomerates, which are controlled by....you guessed it

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