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minus-squaredaddycool@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up41arrow-down1·2 days agoI have always wondered about this sort of thing. Powerful people are only powerful because people choose to obey them.
minus-squareBubbaonthebeach@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·2 days agoNot even obey. Many people willingly follow along mostly because they think someone they don’t like will get hurt. Trump isn’t destoying the US on his own. He is being aided by a large portion of the conservative population.
minus-squaredrunkpostdisaster@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 day agoThenUS basically has a nation wide grooming campaign tonget boys to join the military. You’re not wrong, but the problem is deeper then that.
minus-squaregwl [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zonecakelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·1 day agoI mean that’s gross oversimplification, they also use violence of the state to force what they want
minus-squaredaddycool@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 day agoTo use violence, they still need someone to carry that out.
minus-squaregwl [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zonecakelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoThose people don’t need to believe in it though, there’s plenty of people who will do violence for the sake of violence
minus-squareMalica@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 days agoChoice is the wrong word, it’s rarely an honest choice
I have always wondered about this sort of thing. Powerful people are only powerful because people choose to obey them.
Not even obey. Many people willingly follow along mostly because they think someone they don’t like will get hurt. Trump isn’t destoying the US on his own. He is being aided by a large portion of the conservative population.
ThenUS basically has a nation wide grooming campaign tonget boys to join the military. You’re not wrong, but the problem is deeper then that.
I mean that’s gross oversimplification, they also use violence of the state to force what they want
To use violence, they still need someone to carry that out.
Those people don’t need to believe in it though, there’s plenty of people who will do violence for the sake of violence
Choice is the wrong word, it’s rarely an honest choice