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Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social |
I strongly believe that the Trump era ushered in a truly horrific era of general ethical backsliding and nihilism in the US across all fronts, one that we still can’t even entirely wrap our brains around. (And Trump’s grotesquely evil approach to Covid made it even worse).
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Chris Dawe
@ctdawe.bsky.social
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I have a personal theory that this developed hand-in-hand with an abandonment of the concept of meritocracy that came with the Obama presidency.
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Stacy Lu
@moxieluhu.bsky.social
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I completely agree. The damage has been incalculable. Including the loss of life.
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Warren Terra
@warrenterra.bsky.social
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It was amazing how nearly every member of Trump's cabinet was exposed engaging in serious peculation, with most prominent White House staffers also openly violating laws - something unprecedented in recent history, certainly not as public knowledge - and it had almost no apparent consequences.
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@trixienorton.bsky.social
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I love this article written by Rich Herschlag: Trump Changed America's DNA. thebanter.substack.com/p/trump-chan...
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awstiles
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I would say it possibly began in the mid-80s with televangelists with zero morals being propped up by evangelicals (which means conservatives). I literally became an agnostic and changed political parties due to this. We just finally wound up with a national leader in Trump that was the same.
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Lisa Gaufman
@lisares.bsky.social
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We argue in the book that Trump specifically valorized transgression against democratic norms and those effects will be felt for years. He has essentially managed to mainstream Gamergate values from a relatively niche subculture
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Art Demon
@artinshadow.bsky.social
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Everyday I'm more and more convinced that a representative gov't without the fucking fundamental educational infrastructure to ensure the public can actually handle that fucking responsibility was a MASSIVE shitty mistake.
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Henry Cobb
@hcobb.bsky.social
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What part of the straight line from Taft to Trump wasn't telegraphed by the GOP generations ago? Yeah, you didn't pay attention to Ike deporting Americans or all the fun with newt, but didn't you read the history books before they burned them?
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Bruno J. Navarro
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the profiteering by lawmakers on covid funds alone should’ve resulted in prison terms in a functioning society, but alas
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Steve Saideman
@smsaideman.bsky.social
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He changed the permission structure so that it was ok to be racist in public, that it was ok to be xenophobic, hateful, resentful, and miserable to others. And, yes, he encouraged folks to be pro-covid.
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Pwnallthethings
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A huge amount of the unease and, pretty bluntly, madness of the past 8 years are really all just collaterals of what happens when the social contract ruptures. And folks have yet to come to terms with either the fact that's actually what's happened or that what tore it (in the US at least) was Trump
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Jimmy (Ø) Jim (Ø) James
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Trump thwarted and stole from the Blue State public health emergency Covid responses. Then people in my family died from Covid.
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Coach Finstock
@coachfinstock.bsky.social
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Hard agree
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Huh…
@capitalistfool.bsky.social
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Wait until today's children reach adulthood. The hypocrisy they've seen, starting with choosing shooter drills over gun control.
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@pianomover.bsky.social
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In the mid 1980’s I did construction inspection mostly in NYC. Coming from California I was shocked at the assumption that everyone was on the take. That’s the world Trump flourished in and what he’s brought out into the open in the entire country.
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Baltyoriole
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I sometimes stop and think I’m middle aged and may not see the country turn this all around before I pass and it’s very f’ing depressing. But I keep pushing for the kids because they deserve so much better
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Paul Driggere 🦋
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The bastard got my childhood friend killed because of his reckless and fraudulent attitude towards a deadly pandemic. I will never forgive nor forget that, and his untimely death won't faze me one bit. I'd consider it judgement.
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Stephen Nuñez
@socio-steve.bsky.social
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The Age of Atavism (thanks, I hate it)
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Maroon Phoenix
@maroonphoenix.bsky.social
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The grotesquely evil approach to Covid is ongoing but yes.
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Zetsubo
@zetsubo.bsky.social
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What I find hard to understand is the total lack of pushback even in places where these fuckers aren't even in power
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Wade Minter
@wademinter.com
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Yeah, that tracks. It gave people overt permission to be the absolute worst versions of themselves, while simultaneously removing any legal or societal consequences for doing so. Not a great combo in retrospect!
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NeoTiamat
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I disagreed with McCain and Romney on nearly everything, but I did honestly think they tried to be good and moral people within their own ethical frameworks. The modern GOP, on the other hand...
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Sinboy
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I sometimes see people who're like "but the tea party" and yes, it was a precursor, but the Trump era really ripped a lot of masks off and told people in the GOP that not only was being a monster acceptable, but it was desirable.
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brad
@bradiscranky.bsky.social
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and it just cascades. if people around you aren't giving a fuck about you, then why would you about them not to mention making more and more people at the margins constantly hurt, and expanding the margins
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Buttadeus
@thewanderingjew.bsky.social
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John Mulaney's thing of "If there's a horse in the hospital, then I'm going to say the n-word on TV" really gets at it.
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