• WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      The irony is that corporate America and wealthy individuals have been doing this for several decades, and you’re acting like it just started! 50 years of neoliberalism created the conditions for fascism to succeed.

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        Yes, but we’d be playing ourselves for fools if we didn’t admit that this time it’s different.

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          I’d say the only thing that’s different is the volume and blatantness of the corruption. Selling out the country for profit is always criminal, and it’s so bad they don’t even need to hide it anymore; decades of legalized corruption, putting corporations first, and zero consequences created the conditions for Trump to go mask off .

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      2 months ago

      On the cheap, too, considering Trump’s campaign raised a fraction of Harris’s…

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        Got the discount because of massive leverage over Trump - unless he won the election, he was eventually going to face serious criminal charges. Now he stands a good chance of getting off entirely scott free.