• @ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
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    Britain is very politically authoritarian and having a single hierarchy has been their preference for a thousand years. They also have a surveillance state to rival any other authoritarian government and a press that is strongly discouraged from rocking the boat. Those poor Islanders are used to thinking like sheep because it’s how they were raised.

      • The most foundational concept to America is economic exploitation and cut throat entrepreneurship. Selfishness is more foundational to American conservatives than the church or the state. Trump was openly a selfish asshole. One would think that open disregard for others would disqualify someone from the highest elected office, but the right thought otherwise. Being a bully meant that Trump was strong. A lack of empathy isn’t a vice, but a virtue.

      • @Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml
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        As trite as it is to point out, that he was going up against an infamous neoliberal. Repuglicans don’t win elections, their opponents lose.

    • davel [he/him]
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      On a cold winter’s eve at Piccadilly Circus I got felt up & shook down by bobbies on the most ridiculous pretext. I don’t know if they had a drug bust quota to meet or were simply bored.