• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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    4 days ago

    I’m sorry, but that sounds like copium to me. Why would this fascist authoritarian regime be less successful than all of the other big fascist authoritarian regimes in history? They don’t care about the law.

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      I instinctively downvoted this because ‘copium’ is one of those load words that carries distain without engagement. Why? Because they usually are unsuccessful. They usually fizzle out. Some authoritarian regimes achieve weight and have a war, but that’s not always the case. UKs govt was borderline insane for, like, 8 years and that’s kinda mellowed now. France has had its flirtations, but it never really stuck. And ultimately I’m an optimist. And the word ‘copium’ is just short hand for ‘optimists are naive and wrong’ which… feels unwarranted to me

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        3 days ago

        I’m sorry, but I feel that optimism, in this case, is both naïve and wrong.

        That is not a word I generally throw freely around.

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          Yeah well fair play. I think you’re cynical, wrong, and actively increasing the probability of your unwanted outcome coming to pass by your language, so I guess we both just very strongly disagree with each other. But at least we can do it politely so at least there’s some hope.

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            3 days ago

            I am, without a doubt, cynical. I will happily accept that label. And I hope for everyone’s sake that I am wrong.

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      4 days ago

      They already had to drop Gaetz as a nominee. Likely because too many R senators said nah.

      While I’m not going to say this will happen with all the other crazy proposals. If some Copium helps us get through the next 2 years minimum, and we can stay in the fight, maybe we can hold on to this place.

      Even fentanyl works on pain for a while, let’s just hope the country isn’t in hospice yet.