• Telorand@reddthat.com
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    1 day ago

    He also cracked down on campus protests. Doesn’t really refute my point. Neither Biden nor Kamala would have allowed a position like the one put out by the current spokesperson.

    Disinformation did and does exist, and it’s a real problem. What he did was the incorrect way to go about addressing it, but setting up a group with the goal of trying to fix something that’s actually rotting away people’s epistemic foundations is a far cry from “we get to unilaterally decide when and where you’ve crossed some nebulous line of our choosing.”

    I would have rather been fighting against the Biden admin, right now, than the Trump admin, the latter of which currently has fawning sycophants controlling every branch of government.

    • npe@leminal.space
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      21 hours ago

      In terms of the here and now I largely agree with you. I’m just the kill joy reminding the audience that every president has been complicit in ratcheting the executive power of the office for over a century. Unless that power is curtailed tyranny is inevitable.