• SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    Mark my words, the military will overthrow local government, someplace. The administration will declare the city “failed,” and appoint a private corporation to govern.

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      13 hours ago

      This already sort of happened in Texas where the state claimed that cities like Houston had “failed school systems” then appointed right wing toadies to run the district. In several schools they eliminated libraries, replacing them with Discipline Centers. They also make life hell for teachers or just fire them outright and replace them with unqualified ideologues.

      The Republicans will definitely use that same process to deprive state and local governments of their autonomy.

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      22 hours ago

      A corporation? California will be renamed, “Kirkland” or “Wal-World”, and we’ll all have to get new drivers licenses.

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        19 hours ago

        Walt Disney would be fucking fuming right about now. Had he just lived 70 years later, he could’ve had his privately owned “Disney-State”