• Grandwolf319
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    2 days ago

    So, if my history knowledge serves me well, the first thing a populist dictator does is to get rid of the people who brought them into power, I guess we are there now.

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      I honestly don’t think Trump is a dictator, he’s too self serving and too old.

      Musk though… He’s full of himself, yeah, but more ideologically driven. I’m way more worried about him.

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        Yeah exactly, he infiltrated maga’s nationalism to implement his own neoliberal ideas.

        Now there is a clash, and usually in America the one doing the bribing gets their way.

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          To add, I think he’s in probably one of the best places to enact his nonsense. Direct line to trump with virtually no accountability. If he sticks around it’ll be incredibly dangerous regardless.

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        Why would being self serving and old disqualify him from being a dictator?

        He’s behavior so far seems consistent with dictatorship. Disregarding laws, undermining democracy, promising protection for those who fall in line and retribution for those who don’t, surrounding himself with yes-men… and I could go on for a while