A few weeks in and Trump has essentially:
- Full control of the (federal part of the) legislative branch.
- Gutted the executive branch through DOGE and EOs.
- Practically DDOSed the judicial branch.
- Purged and replaced possibly disloyal military leadership.
- Taken exploratory steps on declaring military law.
- Made very thinly veiled threats of invasion towards several countries, two of which are currently allied with him.
- Wiped out more than a century of foreign policy gains in a week (which is honestly somewhat impressive, in a fucked up kind of way).
Americans, if you ever wondered how the rise of the Nazi dictatorship looked like from the inside of Germany, wonder no more, it looked kind of like this.
Not really, although I’m quite sure people have wrote about if you care to search. The “Fediverse” communities on many instances would be a place to ask. The underlying protocol is called ActivityPub, which would already give an insight into what is available to the broader network (which includes Mastodon and other services), but if you want to get down to it you can spin up a Lemmy instance and see what you get.
Votes specifically are even publicly visible on some Lemmy frontends, like Piefed and Mbin I think.
I’m just saying consider anything you post on Lemmy specifically or on the broader Fediverse in general part of the public record, for better or for worse.
P.S.: including DMs, they aren’t encrypted.
Heh, well I’ll certainly have to be more careful moving forward. But I’ve been leaving my previous posts up as I know Canada allows asylum claims so long as I have proof of such things. I really hope it doesn’t come to that. But I feel like deleting what I’ve said might also put me at risk.