This just feels like the weirdest part to me:

> A button within the app allows users to “text President Trump,” which autofills a text bubble reading “Greatest President Ever.”

It feels like something you might see from the government in a banana republic/authoritarian dictatorship.

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netsharc 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Reminds me of the story of a parliament full of apparatchiks clapping their dictator, with no one daring to stop, because it would mean a lack of loyalty, for which they'd be dragged out and shot...

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georgemcbay 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> This just feels like the weirdest part to me:

>> A button within the app allows users to “text President Trump,” which autofills a text bubble reading “Greatest President Ever.”

Have you ever watched any part of any of his cabinet meetings? They are just 3 hours of people telling him how great he is in the most cringiest ways possible, each person trying to one-up the last with the ass kissing. So this autofill doesn't seem weird at all to me.

(I'm not saying its normal, I'm saying its expected).

> It feels like something you might see from the government in a banana republic/authoritarian dictatorship.

Well.. I mean, yeah. That's about where we are.

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		It's not even the authoritarian dictatorship that scares me as much as it is how many regular people with nothing to gain and everything to lose happily and fully support it.

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mrguyorama 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That's because the Trump administration IS a banana republic/authoritarian dictatorship, at least in spirit.

Like, if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, puts people in prison for a 100 years for going to a protest like a duck, it might be a duck!