3w ago

This is what fascism looks like

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You aint see nothing yet. Wait till the Trumps celebrates 20 years of absolute control over your country and then we'll talk. Americans chose fascism, explicitly.
- No, of the people that voted, a slim majority voted for fascism. I think that is an important distinction that will have consequences.
  
  "people that voted" is not a thing. you can't absolve the American people from this. 86 million people did not vote. in a two party system that's not a vote for neither; it's a vote for "I'm fine with both". so around 160 million people were A-OK with explicit fascism. that's a huge majority.
  
  I want to believe but I am forced to question the character of US citizens. I apologize if this offends and I would love to be proven wrong.
  Why would I expect the "good people" in the US who "didn't vote for authoritarianism" to suddenly grow a spine and a social conscience if all the evidence for decades shows they can't even take political action to protect their school children? This is unfathomable for someone in another country where just one mass slaughter of innocents would unify an outraged nation into decisive action. I think even the "good guys" might be more broken than you realize. There is no greater call on any parent than to defend their own offspring. If they can't do that can they really be expected to defend the rights of others?
  I hope for your sake you can all reclaim your humanity. It is never too late.
  
  By that metric Hitler was not voted into office either. It doesn't matter that not literally every single person in the country voted for him, what matters is that it was enough to a achieve power, and the opposing forces allowed it to happen.
  
  A slim majority is still a majority. It was basically half your country that chose this, or even more if you consider those that didn’t vote were ok with this as well.
- His kids will have to lead the parade, there’s no way that sentient Big Mac is going to last another 20 years.
  
  Y'know, I used to agree on this, but in the era of deepfakes I half wonder if we'd have body-double Trumps leading the country for the next several decades. Like a stupider version of the "Putin Body Double" theory.
  It's not like there isn't days and days worth of video and audio to train the AI on.
- Americans chose fascism, explicitly.
  They choose fascism every four years. But this is tacky fascism, which liberals can't stand.
  There's a good and proper way to take over the courts. Trump has violated the norms. He's making liberal democracy look bad. Unforgivable.
  
  Well you won, the liberals are owned. Now you have a pedophile dictatos and a nazi running your country. But man, you did show those libs!! Palestine is so god damn proud of you right now!!!!

Finally! We can get Eileen Cannon off the Bench!
- Eileen *Qanon
- monkey's paw: Cannon on the SC.

"He who saves his country does not violate any law"?! The man is truly insane... not even meant as an insult at this point, just a freaking fact.

Toe the line or walk the plank. Totally normal, right?

I think using more words to describe what is happening would help. I'm not sure everyone really understands what fascism is. Maybe mix it up a little?
authoritarianism
trump and musk are dictators
monarchy
feudelism
- Need to #'Muricanize it more
  Tyranny
  Redcoats
  "That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security." -Preamble to the US Declaration of Independence
  
  Can you sing it for me?
  🎶 "We the people..."
- A literal Machiavellian princely state.
  One of the reasons Elon and his Dark Enlightenment techbros think everyone is stupid is because they can say things like "we want to break everything up into city states dominated by the local billionaires" and people still think DOGE is a reference to a fucking dog and not:
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doge_of_Venice
  
  THANK YOU. This has been on my mind since DOGE was first brought up.
  
  The Venetian doge crossed my mind as well thanks to Assassin's Creed.
- What is Facism? Article - The Conversation
  
  That is a great way to support it, but will people take the time to link it or explain it?

I cant help but notice that those who claim to reject this are still Republicans who vote Republican and endorse Republicans.
- Small steps.
  
  Democrats have proudly stood up and said "the DNC doesnt represent my values, I am a Republican now!" The favor is never returned.

Trump gonna ban pasta as well?
- Will have to cut down all the spaghetti trees.
- Is it an activist carb?

Oh great, so the "co-equal" legislative is no longer being useless. It's being less than useless, actively undermining the judicial branch for the benefit of the executive.

The process to impeach judges requires a two-thirds vote in the Senate, right?
So basically not happening that route.
They're likely to attempt other means, but those means won't have the notion of legality that impeachment has at least
- The process to impeach judges requires a two-thirds vote in the Senate, right?
  Idk. Maybe. Or maybe it just requires an EO and a visit from the DOGE Department. Who can say anymore?
- Either way they will sew doubt through propoganda for the populous's view of the judicial branch and the executive branch will use it as a means to ignore their rulings further and cement the fact that the branches no longer can hold each other in check.

Elon waving rhe american flag is sadistic
- Waving a specific 14 flags.

Oh, 14 US flags?
- Well he probably wanted 88 but couldn't pay attention long enough.

sic semper tyrannis

The nation fell by emoji. It's not worth it.

I have zero interest in hearing about “activist judges” from the party that gamed the system to stack the Supreme Court with literal activists rather than serious jurists.

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