We have spent the last centuries running the trolley problem with 100 kids getting raped by a powerful man vs. one powerful man losing a position, and the trolley rarely, if ever, gets moved to swerve from the kids.

Mirrored here for when that gets taken down: archive.org/details/3mam...

Phil's upload got nuked.

This one is still up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIm6...

The GOP also fights to get votes thrown out, there have been lawsuits upon lawsuits about it. Part of living under fascism is suppression of dissidents. We’ve seen how Trump treats media, are we really surprised when mainstream sources bow to him?

A lot of us have two or three jobs and are working more than 40 hours a week. We also only have two parties, which has disillusioned A LOT of folks. Our lack of education/emphasis on critical thinking also means a lot of people don’t really understand what they’re voting for + fall for propaganda

So many people are in survival mode and it’s hard to make that time. Maybe after work they have to take care of their kids, maybe they’re trying to figure out how to make what little food they have stretch. Not everywhere has early voting.

All of our media is owned by the people he is helping— billionaires. Of course they aren’t calling him out. As for people being “lazy,” I implore you to look into American voting laws. Election Day is a Tuesday and ends at 7pm. Many people are working during that time + it’s not a federal holiday

There are a lot of factors that feed into an authoritarian rise. After all, we can study how and why H!tler gained power and understand the social and economic reasons, but we need to remember that not all Germans were Naz!s and not all Americans are fascist

I also suspect that even if he had lost, it wouldn’t have been respected because it wasn’t last time and they had four more years to plan. We also have poor education and this critical thinking and literacy. We have a history of fascism/imperialism that we do not talk about either. We were primed

Remember, there was almost certainly Russian collusion the first time and Elon Musk has made some… suspicious comments this time. Our states are gerrymandered + voter suppressed. Also, a significant portion of our country did not vote. Trump won the majority of VOTERS, not inhabitants