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Martin68

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38. I dictatorship affects every aspect of life every day. It always uses a secret police and encourages neighbors and

Sun May 4, 2025, 12:32 PM

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family to inform on each other. What actually happens in many cases is that people with grudges falsely accuse their neighbors of crimes to get them jailed (or worse).

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Putin May Have Been Wrong About Destroying America's Democracy. [View all] gab13by13 May 3 OP

Everything drumpf touches, dies biophile May 3 #1

Yes this is what I cannot understand Dem4life1970 May 3 #10

One of the worst humans...pure evil and profoundly stupid. Really bad combination. pnwest May 3 #30

But at least he destroyed the USA. Which has been his primary long term goal. Irish_Dem May 3 #2

Yup, gab13by13 May 3 #3

Yes it has been a cluster-F all the way around. Irish_Dem May 3 #4

Great post. I like it a LOT! calimary May 3 #5

Sen. Schumer will be fine in four years. Most of the wealthy will be. OldBaldy1701E May 3 #6

Ditto the Obamas, the Clintons, the rest of them... displacedvermoter May 3 #29

Schumer's plan to let the GOP show who they are would have LiberalArkie May 4 #37

Hear hear! Spot on Gab -- as usual. KPN May 3 #7

NFW did T💩p win all seven swing states. He cheated and bragged about it, before and after the election. OMGWTF May 3 #23

We will rebuild the US. Linda ladeewolf May 3 #12

At great expense and some damage is long term or permanent. Irish_Dem May 3 #13

Lessons can be very expensive. Linda ladeewolf May 3 #16

Yes this will be a very steep and difficult learning curve. Irish_Dem May 3 #17

Shitler has proven that laws don't matter. He just does whatever he wants because even though the SCOTUS OMGWTF May 3 #24

"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue." Marcuse May 3 #20

In Your Heart..You Know Even a Stopped Clock is Right Twice-A-Day TearsOfDaClowned May 3 #33

In your brain you know he's nuts. Marcuse May 4 #39

The trend over the last 20 years or so has been rightward around the world... Wounded Bear May 3 #8

I saw where most Brits wish they were still part of the EU. I always thought Brexit was Putin's doing. OMGWTF May 3 #25

They want to rule the world because they are weird, greedy, sociopathic men. Marcuse May 4 #40

Good, and hopeful point. NNadir May 3 #9

I wish we could ship all the MAGAts to the dictatorships that they so admire. love_katz May 3 #11

I wish the "Rapture" was a real thing and these annoying Talibangelical jerkholes would leave us TF alone. OMGWTF May 3 #26

Oops, looks like Putin's grand plan to rule the world PatSeg May 3 #14

We need a wartime consigliere!!! Pesky1 May 3 #15

I keep saying this, and I will continue to say it until it changes. The US is not a dictatorship. Trump is trying his Martin68 May 3 #18

I worked with a woman from the former Czechosolvakia who was once gifted a subscription to OMGWTF May 3 #27

I dictatorship affects every aspect of life every day. It always uses a secret police and encourages neighbors and Martin68 May 4 #38

K&R, Do Town Halls. c-rational May 3 #19

I thought the same thing this morning BaronChocula May 3 #21

WAKE UP AMERICA! Blue Owl May 3 #22

I heard Macron of France is thinking of holding an election applegrove May 3 #28

Germany declared AFT a fascist organization. Clouds Passing May 3 #31

Wow, great unintended consequences. ananda May 3 #32

I'm hoping that the others stay "woke" and that we can join them. live love laugh May 3 #34

Still pretty weird how russia went from communist to right-wing dicator mdbl May 3 #35

Profound malaise May 3 #36