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..... and no one should put all the blame on one man ... he isn't that powerful or persuasive
It's a complicit government that had decided to allow this orange menace to do as he pleases because it benefits some wealthy owners.
It's a lot easier to blame one man because it would remove the complicity of a large organization of people that are driving all this.
- So they just SAY they will build this tower, not they are building it. What's the chances they aren't building shit but told our dumb fuck president this to get this done? I think pretty high. They can strimg him along, because they know he will be gone in four years either by end of presidency or death.
  
  And that is what I don't get. He is so easily wooed by stuff. The UK trade agreement is not great, but he flounts the high tariffs that the importers will have to pay. Someone dangles a picture of something shiny and he jumps. This is so weird
  
  The UK trade deal is great because over here it was basically just reported as "the status quo has been maintained", and then they just moved on to other news items. No one really cares about it.
  Trump was going on and on about how America "has the best beef", and how it's unfair that we won't take it, and this trade deal essentially means that farms will have to follow UK food standards in order to send beef (or whatever) to the UK. Since none of them will, essentially nothing has changed.
  
  Right? Nothing has changed except the tariffs that are still in place and will cost the americans money. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
  
  I mean. Empty promises for things to be paid for by somebody else are kind of his Thing. Walls, Tariffs. It makes perfect sense.
- It's easy to just blame the government. When the reality is there is an entire complicit class of voters voting them in
  
  Agreed. But when critical thinking is systematically being removed from the education system, well, you see what happens.
  
  we do nothing to stop it. we are a cooperative society. if we allow this to happen, then the blame is on all of us.
  
  What about those that have only recently learning about the anti-education trajectory from the Right? Or those that are oblivious but would oppose such trajectory if aware?
  Am I complicit if I don't know it's happening?
  
  if you don't know it's happening, you've had your head in the sand or spent too much time watching tik tok. there are no excuses.
  
  there is also the rest of us who don't do anything to stop him and his regime.
- Blame lies on the judicial branch for not putting him on the chair for his coup attempt and instead telling before elections he can do whatever he wants, legally.
  
  the blame lies on every one of us. we know exactly what is going on, that the government is broken, and yet we do nothing. we are the last guardrails of this democracy. if we don't do something, this is the people's fault.

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