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It’s not like any candidate was actually good but they did pick the worst one.

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[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 183 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

It's funny, they say fascism happens in slow motion and no one expects it to actually happen until it's to late.

I really feel like we're watching it happen in America.

Everyone's laughing at Trump's stupidity while the systems to stop fascism are slowly destroyed behind the scenes.

Feels like he's just a distraction from what's actually happening.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 80 points 2 years ago (2 children)

No one's laughing at trump's shit anymore. Anyone with at least a lukewarm iq and even a cursory knowledge of history can see his fascism. It's just the system is rigged to give regressive areas more voting power

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[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 37 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I keep saying it, but no one wants to join my radical and poorly regulated militia so this will be everyone else's fault.

[–] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 6 points 2 years ago

my radical and poorly regulated militia

Talk about fighting fire with fire!

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

It does happen in slow motion, and every single time, some people see it happening. They march and wave their arms shouting FASCISM! whilst their neighbours call them hyperbolic.

If you read contemporaneous accounts, you can feel the frustration.

Or… I thought I could feel the frustration, until recently (eta: if you haven’t read They Thought They Were Free by Milton Mayer, please do as soon as possible). Now it’s doubly frustrating. I keep wracking my brain, wondering what I can do that they didn’t. I can’t stop this, so I keep saying ‘if you were a German in the 1930s, knowing what you know now, what would you do?’

I don’t know the answer to that. I know many Germans saw it coming and couldn’t stop it.

What the fuck can we do? Because it is absolutely coming.

e: oh, and worse, trump isn’t actually the problem. He’ll likely lose, then everyone will high five that we’ve defeated The Problem, but Trump is just their carnival barker. He could die tomorrow and the threat wouldn’t change. There’s a solid fascist movement in the US and elsewhere that will not stop with trump’s defeat. There are thousands of them in high levels of the US government , and they’ll barely miss a beat without trump. He barely matters, and I’m afraid when he loses, the fascist movement behind this will find a wide opening.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] zip@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 years ago

Oooh, neat! Thank you so much for linking this!

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I keep wracking my brain, wondering what I can do that they didn’t

These internal questions are what led to me finally realizing how powerless I really am. I can't even convince my close personal friends to re-evaluate the batshit crazy things they learn online, let alone change the trajectory of a nation.

[–] marx2k@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Read world news. This is in no way just America.

[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago

No but this post is about the US