Donald Trump’s authoritarian drift in his second term places the country on a par with Hungary or Turkey, according to a ranking by Sweden’s V-Dem Institute
yup. at least my entire life. fun thing is, i learned how to become an oligarch. i’m poor as fuck and am a local oligarch simply because i learned that the town’s historical society, not city council decides shit. so i started going to the historical society’s meetings and joined (a good quarter of the society worked with me running the homeless shelters and social services so i was more than welcome). now i have a major voice in how my town is run, just gotta show up once a month.
fun thing, membership is free. you just have to show up. but no one does, so we decide what the town’s history is going to be.
Losing?
Yeah the country has been an oligarchy for a lot longer than most people realize
yup. at least my entire life. fun thing is, i learned how to become an oligarch. i’m poor as fuck and am a local oligarch simply because i learned that the town’s historical society, not city council decides shit. so i started going to the historical society’s meetings and joined (a good quarter of the society worked with me running the homeless shelters and social services so i was more than welcome). now i have a major voice in how my town is run, just gotta show up once a month.
fun thing, membership is free. you just have to show up. but no one does, so we decide what the town’s history is going to be.
The headline and article all use past tense. Its lost.