We all know the saying: scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds...

I expected to see a bunch of random strangers on social media complaining about the election and suddenly pretending to care about human dignity.

But it hurts to see family, friends, and trusted content creators going down pipelines not dissimilar to Red MAGA pipelines. For as much as they hate Trump supporters, liberals are becoming just like them.

There is one creator on TikTok named Seema R (@artlust) who I occasionally watched. I guess she has a career and education as an art museum curator. Occasionally she dips into political topics, and I never had any major issue with her thoughts on those.

I was going to share a specific video of hers from today, but it has been deleted in the past hour or two. She was practically foaming at the mouth about nonvoters, calling them anti-semites and mocking them for complaining about "gEnOcIdE" as if that is some childish complaint.

(Edit: Here's a video with a similar vibe as the deleted one: https://www.tiktok.com/@artlust/video/7435258288767290654)

The shock of this video gave me a huge sense of dread. I think the election of Trump finally set in, but more than that, I finally let go of some silly hope I had that Trump's re-election would wake up liberals and realize the commies were right. But from all appearances, the exact opposite is happening. Liberals are so fuckin mad about Trump that they're taking it out on the commies. It's going to be a nightmare for the next four years and I fear that America is far more defenseless to rabid fascism than I thought.

  • xiaohongshu [none/use name]
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    3 days ago

    I was one of the people who thought the bourgeois ruling class would not let Trump win because he’s a liability. But now it has finally dawned upon me what the liberal bourgeoisie is going for: Trump’s win will be a punishment for the voters who did not turn out for Harris/Democrats.

    The ruling class wants to discipline those who think they can punish the Biden/Harris administration by abstaining. They want to punish the minorities who went for Trump after being told the inflation was just their imagination, those who stood up for the genocide in Gaza, and those who sat out of the election for the Democrats’ lackluster campaign.

    This is why I fully believe that Trump’s foreign policy against Palestine is going to be even more vicious than Biden’s - the ruling class wants to spite the people who failed to show their support for Harris, and instead Trump’s presidency is simply a tool that will be used to crush the hope and instill the sense of fear and dread and guilt into every person who refused to support the Democrats. You don’t want to vote for us because of Gaza (or any other issue)? Here I’ll make sure that you remember this decision for the rest of your life.

    Remember, the role of fascism is to defend liberal capitalism under crisis. Trump is playing that role. And if enough American voters who sat out of 2024 can be scared into voting the Democrats again in 2026 mid-terms and the 2028 presidential election, then the system is merely functioning as intended. A self-correcting maneuver through disciplining the voters, if you will.

    With third party movement now officially dead, the question for the American left is: what is to be done from now on?

    • refolde [she/her, any]
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      3 days ago

      Grab some stakes and push them through the chest of every vampire in this godforsaken place.

      Idk my only plan of action is adventure-time. If nothing else, I just want them to feel pain. They've been living in nothing but constant bliss and ecstasy their whole lives.