• DdCno1@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    Remember when he was widely being portrayed as the intelligent version of Trump we should all be afraid of?

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      10 months ago

      I admit I fell for some of that. Thought he could be a more dangerous version. Didn’t realize when he got in front of people he has the charisma of a rock and a brain not much better.

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        10 months ago

        We can’t keep relying on the fascists being cartoonishly bad politicians. Trump’s cheese brain and buffoonishness hurt him, Desantis’s completely alien personality hurt him, but these limitations have just been happenstance. The fascist movement is ready and willing and out in the open, and sooner or later they’re going to find someone who doesn’t have these ancillary flaws. There are plenty of smooth talking sociopaths out there who can feign human emotion and string together complete sentences while being a generic white guy under the age of retirement, we’re just lucky they haven’t risen to the top yet, because we’re kind of squeaking by already.

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        That disney thing made me feel a lot more comfortable. It feels like Trump would have his cult ralley and possibly hurt disney’s valuation somehow. Everyone either laughed or tried to get people to look away. Competent fascist, indeed.

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      So, he was able to make Florida pretty awful for non cis het people; he actually cared to forward the culture war and people get hurt in war. I became less afraid of him as a candidate when Disney stripped the power from the board he took over and he very obviously with his dick in a vise opted to tighten the vice.

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      He tried being just as stubborn and mean as Trump but it didn’t work out for him. Everyone who tries copying Trump fails.