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That’s the thing though. The US is already a highly fascistic state and has been for more or less over a century. If we go over the standard criteria, there’s relatively centralized autocracy with the President, militarism which has pervaded American culture and politics for essentially its entire existence (especially apparent in globalized media such as Hollywood productions), suppression of opposition through shunning of any political ideologies left of the centre (clear in tactics seen throughout the red scare), belief in a natural social order with the working, middle, and upper classes, along with “undesirables” like the homeless and other marginalized communities, alignment of the economy with the state through the military-industrial complex, and explicit conditioning of individual identity to be aligned with the national one through the pledge of allegiance and US-centrism.

The only thing that’s up in the air is the President’s status as a dictator, but I would argue that’s simply a result of the US government’s focus heretofore on soft power, i.e. focusing on diplomacy and relatively peaceful occupation as opposed to force or violence. The ability of the President to have such drastic effects on the economy and current policy is already tipping the scales against the non-dictatorship argument in any case.

I’m not necessarily trying to make a call to action, that would be narrow-minded. I’m simply pointing out that real change on a societal level doesn’t truly happen until people realize things are getting desperate, and at that point the already long-standing problems were made a whole lot worse by believing they could be managed with less overt means.

Coughing Baby (annoying YouTube popup trying to make me to turn off ad-block) vs. Nuclear Bomb (right-click block element with uBlock Origin)

Reading this comment makes me feel like I tuned into inter-dimensional cable

This should be in a Mad Libs at this point

"If you ____ I have ____ to sell you"

The problem is that US politicians are not acting with voter's futures in mind, and the "progressive" ones & their constituents seem to believe that the only way things will get better is if they continue to bend the knee and cater to a constantly devolving status quo. Progress doesn't happen when you reduce your goals, and change doesn't happen without force. If reality doesn't account for you, you need to make it so. I suppose it's just a matter of it needing to get so bad that you realize the future was never promised to anyone to begin with.

And yet the illegal alcohol market boomed and it gave massive rise to organized crime and government corruption to allow it. It doesn’t “work” in any practical sense, it just concentrates the problem and makes it even harder to control.

They probably think the US prohibition didn’t work because they just didn’t try hard enough

You basically said Hanlon's razor is "complete bullshit" based on your own subjective view which is very much a denialist way of thinking. Not only that but I applied the principle to this most recent assassination attempt, not the current administration as a whole. It's not mutually exclusive with any malicious acts in the past year and a half. Real events aren't neat narratives, things that happen don't have to reflect any theses or character traits 100% of the time.

Did you try the medicine drug?

“Nuh uh” is a very interesting standpoint to have but you do you I guess

Doctor's 'pull it out by its head' slogan is 'just as hateful' as racial slurs, New York tick says

Hi, I'm Trevor Moore. Did you know that it's illegal to say "I want to kill the President of the United States of America"?