If you really want to stop fascism, you have to stop it from taking root. The problem is that people think the root is "random bad guy appears out of nowhere and brings about fascism". To truly prevent fascism from taking root, you need to starve it of supporters. Those supporters start with the obscenely wealthy afraid of losing their wealth who fund fascists who then promise the desperate masses relief from whatever ails them. A huge component of that is inequity, largely driven by economic warfare waged by the obscenely wealthy.
52Hate to tell you, with our military in their hands, it would be a fascist reign of darkness only guerilla insurgency could address over a long course of time if at all. We spend more on our military industrial death machine than the next 9 nations combined. It would be slaughter. As an example, there are 12 nuclear powered aircraft carriers on Earth, 11 of which are ours.
The rest of the world vs. Fascist US would be the end of civilization, because fascists would have no qualms using every apocalyptic tool in our arsenal, preferring the world end to losing control of it.
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43Unfortunately I don't think we'll ever learn from history in this way ESPECIALLY when propaganda is so rampant. There not only is no consensus on what our reality actually is, there's no extreme moment where people are compelled to take action until after it's too late. Everything else is just viewed as "politics as usual."
Everything has a veneer of legitimacy, there's just enough wiggle room to paint anything as "not worth rioting over" and so we'll all be agitated until the moment comes when we can use hindsight to say "yep, we were on the road to fascism and now it's actually here." There weren't any bodies before they took over, but there sure as hell will be after.
If we can all sit here while "Judge" Cannon literally acts as a member of Trumps legal defense team, then there isn't anything else short of actually murdering people that will get us off our seats. We all watched Jan 6th happen and as far as I know NO ONE from the general public went to go try to stop it or fight them. We had plenty of warnings as they were all talking about it on Facebook and whatever. That's them literally trying to take over the government and we (me included) just sat here.
24This is right, but VERY abridged
1French will land in Florida?
1Say no to the MAGA fascists and yes to the Gaza genocide supporting fascists!
-3No offense, but just because someone fought against Hitler, doesn’t guarantee that they would vote against the Republican Party. My mom’s dad fought in the Army during WW2. He loved to give my older sister lectures about how she shouldn’t date any immigrants that weren’t European, and told her never to date other races. My mom was surprised by his lecture (it happened out of nowhere at a family dinner). She asked, “what about _____ (me)?” He looked at me, and then muttered something about blood types and how it didn’t matter who I dated. I guess he wanted to share with us that he didn’t want my older sister making babies for other races. Most of the countries he named in his list of “don’t date these people” were countries that were not our ally in WW2, so I can understand his concerns about my older sister ever dating their citizens. Good ol’ grandpa! 🤷♀️
-5I hate to break it to you, but the US military has never been antifascist. The US didn't oppose Nazi Germany and Kokutai Japan because they were fascist - the US opposed them because they were colonialist rivals.
Here's the thing about antifascists - antifascists don't have to be ordered to take up arms against fascists.
-15Don't try to suggest that the anti fascists of today even remotely resemble the men that landed on those beaches, my grandad being one of them.
Some of them may have only been teenagers but they certainly weren't slacktivists too scared to show their fucking faces.
Edit: Okay, apparently not praising antifa as war heroes makes me a fascist. Thanks for the enlightening arguments, everyone.
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