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   Urban Hermit (urban_hermit@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 18:18:38 JST Urban Hermit

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   Let's be completely clear about this.

   The attempt to make you feel like everything is a crisis, there is nothing the government can or will do to help, and you need to vote for a single man who can fix everything - that is a real, world wide conspiracy, to get you to give up democracy and vote for a strongman who will disassemble everything else.

   And that conspiracy is committed by the remains of history's losers.

   People who want to bring back segregation, who want women...

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     Urban Hermit (urban_hermit@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 18:18:36 JST Urban Hermit

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     There are people who still believe in the worst ideas in history. Who have been funding culture wars against social progress and economic justice. People who have given up on trying to convince the masses, trying to convince legislatures, trying to find consensus and compromise. These people have accepted their losses and now they want to dust bin democracy and go the strongman route, one man who can be convinced, influenced, or bought.

     And it starts with making you feel helpless.

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     Urban Hermit (urban_hermit@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 18:18:37 JST Urban Hermit

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     ...who want women pregnant, uneducated, and homebound. People who want to teach children to openly harass gays and other minorities. People who want rich people to rape the land and pollute the sea for every last dime. People who want people of other religions jailed for their beliefs. People who want open minded thinkers to lose their jobs and be ostracized.

     These are the losers, and they know convincing one man of a bad idea is simpler than convincing a dozen courts, and 500 law makers.

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