This is mask-off fascism, which should horrify every US citizen, because it means they think they have already won.
this post was submitted on 28 Mar 2025
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Ahhhh freedom (for the rich and powerful)
Going to the gulags, but in different words.
And if it took you this long to understand this, you're part of the problem.
I agree. I also think it's better late than never. There are always going to be lots of naive people, it's natural. People tend to think things cannot go so wrong, it won't happen here, it won't happen to them... it keeps them functioning. How many of the people seeing the real problems are depressed or have other mental issues? We probably need much more evolution as a species.
I'm assuming you mean "evolution" in the colloquial sense, not the biological one.
Does anyone have a (reliable) (news) source on this?
I appreciate you so much for actually linking actionable steps
Not a Democracy
just to be clear, "school newspaper" for these broken clock brains applies to middle and high school classes on journalism where they publish their efforts
Americans, put that second amendment to good use.
Blame paddle-holding impotent Democrats unwilling to be aggressive and limp-dick Republicans scared of MAGA base. The government is full of dipshits scared of losing power
Replace Democrats with Americans. You have reached the point where doing nothing against it is a form of approval for it.
cowards, the entire lot. and the MAGA base is cowards, too, mark my words
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"ohhhh we can't do anything we're out of majority right now that's why we've done nothing of substance since citizens united passed and made us directly accountable to billionaires"
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Can we stop treating the "national security" and "endangering our troops" takes as if they make sense? Bombing brown people isn't national security.
They aren’t trying the win the minds of people who already agree with them.
There are different words and different views of morality and liberty to different groups. This is speaking to the common sense of the right voters in their own language and values. Loyalty, pride in country over dictators, armed service as personal sacrifice for the greater population.
Reds and blues actually agree on almost everything they just explain it completely differently and fight while agreeing. The politicians however are like cartoons of the farthest views to cover for lobbyists running our government since like 1980.
At the same time using such framing reinforces the very foundations of Fascism in their minds such as the Racism (bombing brown people is fine), Nationalism, Militarism, "Might is right" and so on.
I've lived in a couple of countries, including the UK which also displays a similar mindset to the US, and my conclusion when I saw Brexit up close over there is that the line from the constant cultivation of Nationalism and Delusions of Grandeur amongst the population by pretty much the whole of the Mainstream Media, to Brexit, is pretty direct - people were both Racist against other Europeans and believed Britain would get whatever it wanted from the EU when it left it (hence favored Leave) exactly because during their whole lives they were constantly fed by both politicians and the press a view of Great Britain where the "great" wasn't just a reference to the physical size of their main island.
To me it seems the US suffers from this problem to a larger extent than Britain (for example, Brits aren't made to, in school as kids, constantly repeat the pledge of allegiance), so keeping on reinforcing this, especially in the minds of far right muppets, isn't going to help.
Besides, a lot of the Trump vote seems to have come from people being crushed by the system in the US who were swindled with the far-right siren-song of "blame foreigners", so maybe Democrat figures should be focusing on being "the Party that cares" rather than just carry on playing the strings of Militarism and Nationalism alongside the other guys: being attractive to far-right muppets (i.e. a slightly less Fascist party with some make-believe identitarian bullshit that's still racist as shit - hence perfectly happy with massacring brown people - just with different "worthy identities") isn't exactly delivering a Democrat party that's worth having and what would be real worth it was a party that tries to improve the lives of the many thus attracting voters from amongst the disenfranchised that Trump swindled and is currently busy betraying, and that path doesn't need to blow the far-right dog whistles of Nationalism and Militarism.
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Crazy how anyone is surprised by this. Republicans have always been authoritarian traitors.
Yeah, that's the problem with Republicans, they're not loyal enough to the glorious United States Empire
"Put our troops in danger" while they bomb the shit out of Yemen.
American flag emoji...Freedom...etc.
Bombing an entire apartment building full of civilians to get one guy and his girlfriend. Real heroic shit.
The IDF special.
Yep exactly. The US attacks on Yemen are just a continuation of a long American tradition of bombing the shit out of "lesser" nations.
The US has always been doing war crimes in the middle east. It's just another tally mark on the wall.
Did they post a Musk meme on reddit?
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