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‘Maybe we should go after you’ Trump threatens ABC reporter asking about free speech
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2025
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I always assumed America would swiftly deal with a racist fascist criminal megalomaniac.
Boy was I wrong.
This nation is WEAK.
The USA is distracted with treats. It's economy is the imperial core of the planet. That fact affords Trump some time before the masses realize what's going on.
Remember that the Nazis made the economy temporarily better for the in-group. They actually allowed socialist benefits for the German workforce before clamping down on that during WWII.
Trump isn't making the economy better for anyone though. He's screwing everyone over, and channeling that hate towards anything else but him and his base.
Just as we've seen with Charlie Kirk's murder and Candace Owen's conspiracy theory to blame it all on Israel, the Right can fracture very easily. I don't think this Admin will make it to the height of the Nazis. Their own incompetence and marriage to the rich will sew the seeds of their demise. Of course, anti-fascists throwing wrenches in things doesn't hurt either.
This is what I keep expecting, but there has been minimal pushback on all the horrible economic policies and somehow the economy is mostly shrugging it off.
To be fair, we're not really sure what the economy is doing because Trump rejects any reports from his Admin that show the economy in a bad light.
We're back to COVID level unemployment, iirc.
Edit: we also haven't seen the full extent of the impact that deportation of undocumented immigrants will have on the economy.
Well instead of dealing with their fascist problem after WWII, they decided to repress (and sometimes kill) the most reliable antifascists - the leftists.
That said some countries that objectively did purge their fasists seem to still have that problem today. Perhaps the theory that capitalism creates fascism as it declines predicts this.
Are you referring to purging facists after Nazi Germany fell?
Haha no, they didn't purge shit. I'm referring for example to the Russian Communist Party of the USSR killing people. And I'm not attaching a moral value on the methods, just looking at it as objective removal of fascist people and then observing modern day Russia. I think there are other similar examples. I imagine Hungary also purged any fascist they could smell ubder the commie rule, haven't checked, and yet here we are today.
Capitalism creates an environment of fear and danger and promotes of level of individual responsibility that alienates people from everyone else. Even people who are well off today are afraid of losing advantages and being hung out to dry by the very same uncaring system they keep supporting.
It's not that cut and dry. There is a lot of overlap between capitalism and communism.
I never said the solution was full-blown communism. God, have the barest capability of nuance.
You clearly aren’t smoking responsibly if you genuinely believe that to be true.
You don't understand Marx or Lenin if you don't understand their belief in the relationship between capitalism and communism.
My point was that there's more nuance than just "capitalism always causes social fragmentation"
Ok, help me understand it then.
Go on...
We also literally imported their scientists
Not just their scientists.
Look up operation bloodstone.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Bloodstone
After directly inspiring their eugenics efforts.
Well, I guess the Soviet Union didn't really help there.
Why would they deal with racists? USA as a whole never stopped being racist.
True but name a country that has
edit: cool, downvotes and not one answer. like being on reddit again
Turns out conservatives were just waiting for one evil and horrible enough all along.
And the Democrats... Jesus Christ are they useless. They roll over at the very sound of a stiff breeze.
just no one is gonna be there like for Luigi, if we Americans had any balls he'd either be out of jail or someone broke him out, no balls, especially if you're a dumb fuck Republican, hey trump imma shit on your grave you orange POS, come get me, boom shaka laka
We should all get together and shit on that orange fuck's grave when he's good and dead.
I'd call America a nation of bitches, but bitches have a backbone.