https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/03/a-c ... n-america/
Chanced on this today, and it sounds quite compelling. Can anyone debunk it and reassure me that its obviously wrong?
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Re: Say it isn't so!
Well, it's an opinion piece, not a factual report. But the essence of it seems accurate. The Financial Times has been saying the same thing for the last week, but in slightly more measured and analytical terms. The Guardian, too, but with a bit more arm-waving.
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Re: Say it isn't so!
NomoneyNohoney wrote:https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/03/a-coup-is-in-progress-in-america/
Chanced on this today, and it sounds quite compelling. Can anyone debunk it and reassure me that its obviously wrong?
I read a few sentences. It's very badly written (in more ways than one). I'd stick to reputable journalism if I were you. Eg here's a code of conduct for journalists:
https://www.nuj.org.uk/about-us/rules-a ... nduct.html
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Re: Say it isn't so!
Well, it’s all over Mastodon.
Here’s the rep. for Ohio: https://mastodon.social/@RepShontelBrow ... 3869360434
https://syzito.xyz/@OccuWorld/113944526296232014
and other sites
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/01/senat ... y-systems/
Here’s the rep. for Ohio: https://mastodon.social/@RepShontelBrow ... 3869360434
https://syzito.xyz/@OccuWorld/113944526296232014
and other sites
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/01/senat ... y-systems/
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Re: Say it isn't so!
NomoneyNohoney wrote:https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/03/a-coup-is-in-progress-in-america/
Chanced on this today, and it sounds quite compelling. Can anyone debunk it and reassure me that its obviously wrong?
He has a point, which he could have made with half the words and a quarter the repetitions.
And he forgot the realignment of SCOTUS which ultimately makes all this 'bad' stuff possible.
Is it bad? Time will tell.
Trump and Musk.... will fall out, and anyway Musk has too many distractions. Who's his deputy at DOGE?
Not boring, at any rate.
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Re: Say it isn't so!
All democracies end up as dictatorships.
All dictators end up doing bad things.
The nobility in the UK have just sat around running things in the background for a few centuries waiting for neo-feudalism.
But sometimes one set of nobility gets eradicated by another set of nobility. Trump, Musk etc. - the new nobility? Certainly in the US - perhaps in the UK after Brexit.
We plebs must hope that we do not have too bad a time of it.
All dictators end up doing bad things.
The nobility in the UK have just sat around running things in the background for a few centuries waiting for neo-feudalism.
But sometimes one set of nobility gets eradicated by another set of nobility. Trump, Musk etc. - the new nobility? Certainly in the US - perhaps in the UK after Brexit.
We plebs must hope that we do not have too bad a time of it.
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