• WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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      This is literally what most mass murdering dictators in history have always done. When you kill all of the honest, qualified messengers, you end up with yes men who reinforce your own stupidity and ignorance.

      Stalin and Mao caused famines that killed millions because they believed industrialization and agricultural output were what they dictated and was reported to them, instead of what was reality; not to mention all the innocent peasants they murdered because they were clearly saboteurs for failing dear leader.

      Hitler killed 50+ million believing his military could defeat all of Europe and the US because nobody told him that was dumb af. Same with Japan.

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    I mean, Americans wanted their government to be “run like a business” and anyone has ever had a real jobs knows that priority one at work is sucking up to management and never even hinting that the boss might be wrong…

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    we really are too fucking stupid to live. they’ve neurolyzed our entire memory of Bush Jr and now we just let them do this shit

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    Sign of a good leader: kill the messenger so the news won’t spread. In this day and age, that’s basically impossible to do. The cat is out of the bag you dolt, and you keep firing the people that could help make things better. Pretty obvious what the plan is by this point…

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      He isn’t trying to make things better. You either agree with Trump or you are out, and he has or is deploying the military to prevent protest.

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    I wouldn’t be surprised if the fucking idiot made an appearance explaining that the department was summoning disasters.