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[–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

Is your goal that we should just.. not say this is illegal? Not argue that it's not okay? Literally fold and accept fascism?

Because that seems to be the narrative you're pushing, which is the polar opposite of constructive in this situation.

Super weird and suspect that every thread seems to be full of people saying this is normal. That this is just how it is, that it's been going on forever, and that anyone who has an issue with it is being unrealistic. Really, really weird. Almost like they're cryptofascists.

HMMMMMMMM.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Cracks me the fuck up the rest of the world thinks this now.

This has been the case since Bush passed Citizens United and it was even happening before that. RIP Rosenbergs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Not every bad law is fascism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

I would say only in a vacuum.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's called "disappearing someone" and it was something that was supposedly done by dictators and tyrants.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Like today's USA.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What may have been the largest organized protests in American history were just a few days back, the president has record-breakingly low approval, even his own party's talking heads are turning against him. If you're not going to be satisfied by anything short of armed uprising then at least be brave enough to say as much, but pretending that Americans just don't see anything wrong and aren't doing anything is an act of wilful and blatant ignorance.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I wouldn't rest on your laurels just yet. You'll know when you've begun to turn the tide because the beast will lash out. The restraint we are seeing right now just means they've got a whole lot more in the tank.

You dont have to look further than last October to see this same type of hubris play out. Kamala had momentum and there was 100% a point where if the vote happend then she would have won. For what ever reason they backed off on the "weird" stuff and started rolling out the neocons. The DNC is going to fuck you and you wont even see it coming.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You're only proving that you don't actually have any idea what's going on here, acting like we're resting on our laurels because there was a big protest. Nobody here is thinking "Yeah we made ourselves heard, job's done!" Nobody here says the fight is won, but you're out here acting like nothing is being done at all.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

No. Im pushing like I've been pushing for the last 8 years. Grow up.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

There's gotta be ~~criminals~~ non-ICE who exploit this. Like it must be so easy now for ransomers to kidnap somebody.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Call your rep - demand Israel pay reparations for attacks.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (10 children)

I mean America is a fascist regime. And you know who support fascism? Fascists. So I guess most fascists are kinda OK with what's happening.

That's not denial, that's full endorsement.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There are still people here who still make the excuse that Harris is just as bad as Trump, you guys are fucked as a country

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (5 children)

You always like to claim people say that, but no one ever says that. They said they wouldnt vote for anyone in any party who supports genocide. You twist it around to be the words you prefer. I call that lying, but to each their own.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

That guy is saying it: https://lemmy.world/post/31562244/17770374

(Or actually, they are saying Harris is worse.)

I have heard the same stance often enough to definitely be able to say, "no one ever says that" is not correct. There are more than enough idiots who do say that.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Meanwhile their vote or lack thereof directly empowered someone who actively encourages it, they just don't want to take responsibility for that part.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It would not have been a problem if you had ranked choice voting.

https://fairvote.org/

If Musk sets up his own party that would split the conservative vote so the Republicans would finally be open to ranked choice. Would probably require ⅔ majority in Congress.

But Dems might be too hungry for temporary power to support such a much needed fix.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (6 children)

Ranked choice is nice, but why not just have an actually democratic system with coalitions? No need for a single winner.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (3 children)

How long will people

The Gestapo could be hauling them away in cuffs and putting them away in camps and some will just go "why is this happening to me? there must be some mistake"

Anyone who is still on the fence is either only tuned into propaganda or is incapable of reasoning.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago (18 children)

What strikes me about the covid epidemic was how obedient people were. It showed that it was possible to shut down whole societies on a global scale. It was a real crisis that provided an unexpected opportunity for mass propaganda. Political strategists surely took notice. It must have looked possible then to submit a whole population into fascism and that's what we're seeing now. Real power is with the people though. It lays dormant and it merely needs to be awakened by a timely spark.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

They’re following a playbook that is about 100 years old though. This is nothing like Covid.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 day ago (14 children)

If you see Ice agents covering their faces, call 911 and report a masked man with a gun.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 children)

funny how you never hear from the "cold dead hands" guys when tyranny actually happens

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