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An authoritarian typically keeps the military and police well-fed, or alternatively allows them to rob the plebs as they see fit. Otherwise bad things may happen to the emperor.

Unfortunately, Trump is likely to kick the bucket before he sees any blowback of that.

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Avicenna@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
yea he did trash all those science fundings for a reason and part of it is to pay his own policing force aka ICE

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- Raiderkev@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Also because science is woke and/ or gay. I believe it says so in the executive order.
  
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  - Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    And that’s because Trump is a Russian shill and Russia promised to bring down America in this exact way, a half a century ago.
    
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    Raiderkev@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Almost like we should have listened to this guy.
    
    youtu.be/Z1EA2ohrt5Q
    
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  - Avicenna@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    except the words are not allowed so they are also reducted from the executive order
    
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