• foodandart@lemmy.zip
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      1 month ago

      NGL, it’s been this way since J. Edgar Hoover was running the FBI. Nothing new at all in this.

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        1 month ago

        Not so fast. The MAGA Era is distinctly different. J Edgar was one guy on a power trip. But MAGA has every red state government publicly and shamelessly gerrymandering districts and purging voter rolls. Trump has CEOs bending the knee and gifting gold statues.

        The “always has been” meme is funny but it seriously downplays how bad things have gotten in the past 10 years. Do you see how it’s kind of a “both sides” style dismissal?