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[–] Frank@hexbear.net 43 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It's like a crucible that has burned out all my hope for democrats, as well as all my compassion.

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 50 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It’s like the made up quote of Stalin saying his heart has grown cold after his wife died, but this time it’s actually real. There have been countless wars decades ago, recently ended, and ongoing, but only after the pandemic and the full on wars in Ukraine and Palestine have I seen what it means to be a liberal with my very own eyes. Supporting nazism and genocide with a bright smile.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 40 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We tried so hard for so long to believe in their potential and help them. That's the bitterest thing.

[–] YEP@hexbear.net 35 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I always believed fascist would have to much ick factor aesthetically for liberals to fully embrace it. Seeing the baying crowd at the dnc and the way the delegates mocked protestors outside was one the most chilling thing I've seen.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 34 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I kind of agree with you, in the sense that we should probably stop calling this fascism and instead accept that this is what 21st century liberalism is. There's no better form of liberalism, or less violent form. This is just what liberalism does when it's allowed to fully express itself. What existed for the thirty years after the fall of the ussr was a stunted form that had it's growth curtailed by the need to look good compared to communism. Without communism for contrast it can now grow to it's final form, spread it's wings, and begin hunting for livers. "Democrat" is every bit as cursed and evil a word as "nazi".

[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 22 points 4 months ago

Liberals are just Nazis operating on a longer time scale. All undesirables will be sent into the wood chipper as long as that's kept out of sight and out of mind.

[–] MrPiss@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago

Yeah we can argue what is or isn't fascism definitionally and within the burgerreich but at the end of the day it is evil and it is the actual existing fascism of the world. At a certain point we're splitting hairs on describing a political party that is supporting a genocide and the words don't matter that much. Liberal regimes have been doing this kind of stuff for hundreds of years.

[–] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

No more compassion, no more empathy, no more coddling their precious fuckin feelings. I fully, 100%, whole-heartedly believe Amerika deserves everything that happens to it over the next century; and when these crackers try and press me for not considering the attacks we receive to be worth weeping over, when they try to get uppity over my celebration of settler deaths, I'm going to point right back to these days.

These days, in which white Amerikans showed themselves to be no better than the plantation overseers they descended from. These days, in which Black subjects-of-empire turned their backs on not just their supposed-kinfolk, but a sovereign people currently experiencing exactly what we and the Natives experienced at the hands of the peckerwoods. These days, in which Black subjects-of-empire cooned out and traded all of us for a stepping-stone into white habitus. These Amerikans, these democrats, these peckerwoods are not human to me. I don't wish to share 'humanity' as a categorization with them. I pray they die horrifically.

When I say 'death to Amerika', I mean it with my whole chest, and every iota of air in my lungs. I want these crackers and the coons that lick their boots on crosses from where I-95 starts to where I-10 ends; from sea to shining sea.

[–] miz@hexbear.net 21 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

when Americans are eating grass and weeds to survive I will think of the times in late 1800s California when white settlers would refuse to sell to Chinese immigrant laborers, forcing them to eat grass and weeds to survive