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What kind of society have we become when charlatans on social media have good people willing to risk (Original Post) Swede Sep 2021 OP
The turmoiled one Putin planned when he gained control of the GOP. blm Sep 2021 #1
Putin is a genius, an evil one, but a genius all the same. Irish_Dem Sep 2021 #2
Voltaire said it... Wounded Bear Sep 2021 #3
I disagree with one point USAFRetired_Liberal Sep 2021 #4
Agree. They have the capacity to be much better people, Hortensis Sep 2021 #6
you just described the 1 magat in my life. mopinko Sep 2021 #8
We need to reverse the Trump Effect on America. dweller Sep 2021 #5
Bringing simmering cruelty to a boil is the tRump effect. Hortensis Sep 2021 #7

Irish_Dem

(46,501 posts)
2. Putin is a genius, an evil one, but a genius all the same.
Sun Sep 12, 2021, 10:37 AM
Sep 2021

Chaos, division, a civil war taking over the US.

Wounded Bear

(58,598 posts)
3. Voltaire said it...
Sun Sep 12, 2021, 10:44 AM
Sep 2021


And the real problem is how they can convince people that what they are doing is not an "atrocity."

USAFRetired_Liberal

(4,167 posts)
4. I disagree with one point
Sun Sep 12, 2021, 10:54 AM
Sep 2021

Most of those people aren’t good people, and that’s why the charlatans are able to do what they do….those so called good people want to believe in that stuff

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
6. Agree. They have the capacity to be much better people,
Sun Sep 12, 2021, 11:05 AM
Sep 2021

and many are in some facets of their lives, but in this era they were wooed to, and chose, the dark side. Weak to poor character, terrible judgement.

mopinko

(69,995 posts)
8. you just described the 1 magat in my life.
Sun Sep 12, 2021, 11:15 AM
Sep 2021

collects warm coats and goes out on sub-zero night to pass them out to the homeless.
went bernie bro, then down the rabbit hole.

eta, also smart person who made some dumb choices and now blames 'the system' for his woes.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
7. Bringing simmering cruelty to a boil is the tRump effect.
Sun Sep 12, 2021, 11:09 AM
Sep 2021

It was always there among those prone to it. The Republicans had been bringing it out nationally, using it to power their growing sedition, for decades while tRump mostly confined himself to embarrassing spectacles in NY.

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