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    17 hours ago

    American capitalism has safefguards.

    clearly not. if a fascist can just come and take them off, they werent safeguards in the first place.

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      6 hours ago

      That’s not how that works tho. Safeguards can fail, they’re not foolproof. That’s like saying this railing on a balcony isn’t a safeguard to protect people from falling because that guy just came at it and knocked it down with a sledgehammer.

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        54 minutes ago

        if it was Obama (still not a leftist but treated as such), would they have let him get away with rape like trump did? would he get away with an attempted coup? or with all the lies trump says constantly without effective scrutiny from institutions?