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cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/36033796

Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

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[–] absentbird@lemmy.world 46 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

That's one of the few silver linings of fascism, it always ends. It's inherently unstable.

[–] IzzyJ@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago

But it'll kill me first so I'd really prefer to just stop it now by any means necessary, including the things I'm not allowed to say

[–] TheFinn@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's never had modern resources before

[–] Sentau@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Neither did the people fighting fascism.

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Unfortunately there's not really a good historical example of fascism being stopped once they have the power of the pulpit without the help of foreign intervention.

[–] BussyGyatt@feddit.org 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I've heard that before but I only have an american public education. If I actually looked for historical examples, I wonder what I would find?

I mean, it's a bit difficult to look for historical examples of something not happening. However the opposite is fairly easy, off the top of my head the most well known examples of fascist governments being brought down are the Nazi, Vichy France, imperial Japan, and Mussolini's Italy.

[–] ThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.website 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The entirety of ww2, Spain transitioned out of fascism relatively peacefully too

[–] hilljack26301@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago

Stroessner in Paraguay

[–] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Good news is that there’s Putin, who fight in the Ukraine against their fascist regime, I’m sure he would love to annex US too. /s

Sad that the /s is absolutely required now a days .

[–] Grandslamdalf@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Nuclear weapons have the same silver lining! What a coincidence!