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kentuck

(113,583 posts)
Mon Apr 28, 2025, 09:29 AM 6 hrs ago

What is the "cruelty potential" of this Administration?

How much cruelty are they capable of administering on the American people?

Are they capable of sending Americans to foreign prisons and gulags?

Are they capable of denying healthcare to our most vulnerable citizens?

Are they capable of instilling fear and anxiety in all our citizens with their threats and actions?

Are they capable of cracking down on protesters with the military or quasi-military units like ICE?

Are they capable of killing Americans by the millions? (Perhaps we should include pandemics?)

Are they capable of letting Americans starve or freeze to death?

What is the limit to their cruelty?

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bucolic_frolic

(50,014 posts)
1. Well yes
Mon Apr 28, 2025, 09:38 AM
6 hrs ago

but I think it's like WWF with rubber sledge hammers all the while telling you the doctor will test your reflexes.

harumph

(2,673 posts)
2. Metes and bounds of the cruelty are dependent on the amount to push back.
Mon Apr 28, 2025, 09:39 AM
6 hrs ago

There are only external limits. Trump et al. do not have internal limits. They cannot be reasoned with by
anything but opposing power or credible threats. No ethos other than raw lust for power guides their actions.

Irish_Dem

(68,794 posts)
5. Yes they are more than capable of all of this.
Mon Apr 28, 2025, 09:45 AM
6 hrs ago

There are no limits to their behavior.
They will do whatever it takes to to gain
Money and power.

OLDMDDEM

(2,468 posts)
6. There is no limit. I even look at my magat portion of my family with less respect and trust.
Mon Apr 28, 2025, 09:45 AM
6 hrs ago

Prairie_Seagull

(4,113 posts)
8. I believe the profit motive now has a outsized seat at the table.
Mon Apr 28, 2025, 09:50 AM
6 hrs ago

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Fascist fucks. One would think that killing or impoverishing your consumers would give them pause.

Silly me.

unblock

(55,037 posts)
9. They have no internal guardrails. No mechanism for self-restraint. Have they *ever* said,
Mon Apr 28, 2025, 10:05 AM
6 hrs ago

"no, we can't do that, that's going too far, that would be wrong."

I can't recall them ever saying that. They always do whatever they can get away with, their only constraints are external.

They're already talking about annexing other countries, kidnapping and exiling and imprisoning u.s. citizens, etc.

This isn't even hitler 1933 anymore, we're getting close to hitler 1937 in many ways. Fortunately, no enabling act yet, but it remains to be seen. Next budget, much of his crap will be normalized hen the republican congress gives him 99% of everything he wants.

kentuck

(113,583 posts)
10. "we're getting close to hitler 1937 in many ways"
Mon Apr 28, 2025, 10:08 AM
5 hrs ago

And the more desperate they become, the more cruelty we will see.

It could happen here?

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