On how the coming shortages are set to damage the governments already low popularity

  • MagicShel@lemmy.zip
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    18 hours ago

    We’re showing the world what voting for conservatives means. Sometimes a person’s country’s purpose in life is to be an object lesson.

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      12 hours ago

      object lesson.

      abject

      adjective
      (of something bad) experienced or present to the maximum degree.
      (of a situation or condition) extremely unpleasant and degrading.
      (of a person or their behaviour) completely without pride or dignity; self-abasing.

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        10 hours ago

        Not sure why you’re putting a definition of abject here? Are you saying that they should have said abject instead of object? That would mean something different.

        object lesson
        noun
        something that serves as a practical example of a principle or abstract idea
        Examples of object lesson in a Sentence
        His life story is an object lesson in how not to run a business.

    • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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      16 hours ago

      I mean we were already more conservative than most Western countries. There was pretty much no other outcome than becoming more authoritarian if the right won. Trump is just doing what would’ve taken any other GOP President a few years or decades even.

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      17 hours ago

      The silver lining for the world, honestly. Maybe this will be the singular time in American history we can learn. Or maybe this is a death spiral.