• ExtremeDullard@piefed.social
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    7 days ago

    A VP saying something like that only 15 years ago would have been a career-ending move. This being a nonevent today should tell you how far America has slid into fascism.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      The cons now feel empowered by Donvict to say the quiet part out loud. I bet roughly the same amount of people embraced these terrible notions before, however.

      I grew up in the aftermath of Nixon resigning in disgrace, in a deeply red area, and I cannot count how many times I’d hear some butthurt old redneck bitching about how Nixon was given a raw deal by the “Jewish-owned media” and so on.