As a historian and teacher, and as a Jew, I don’t throw around accusations of Nazi and Fascist lightly, but Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric and policy proposals have crossed the line.

Another escalation against the proletariat, although I think that Biden's administration is sanctifying a lot of what Trump did in his previous term, which only gives more ideological unity to increasingly fascistic policies.

  • EnsignRedshirt [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    Again, my point is that there's no need for that kind of radical shift. What would the government be able to do under a "full fascist dictatorship" that they can't do now? Make abortion illegal? Commit genocide? Completely ignore public sentiment on every popular issue? Funnel all the power and wealth into the hands of a select few while the rest are treated as indentured servants? The current status quo is really, really bad, but in a way that keeps people in a perpetual state of thinking exactly along the lines that you're thinking, i.e. "things are bad, but thank goodness we aren't in a fascist dictatorship."

    • Adkml [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      The powers that be literally just figured out that explicit fascism is a hard sell so they're doing soft fascism with a shiny coat of paint on it.

      You get to chose which color tie the person doing the genocide wears.

      You get to be performatively upset about things like the concentration camps when the wrong color tie is president.

      You get to March with a million other people for a cause neither party gives a shit about, and they dont even shoot you in the head set your car on fire and rule it a suicide until you start actually taking meaningful steps towards those goals.

      • EnsignRedshirt [he/him]
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        11 months ago

        Exactly. They don’t even have to pretend to care. They can let people complain and march and write newsletters all they want, there’s no need to stop them because it doesn’t amount to anything. It’s like letting a toddler run around outside to get some energy out before you put them down for a nap. Why try to create some kind of draconian nightmare dystopia when you get basically the same result with a lax nightmare dystopia?

        • PeeOnYou [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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          11 months ago

          maybe at some point someone or some people decide peaceful protesting doesn't work and start incorporating violence in their demands?

          things can't really continue as they have been forever.. people will get pissed enough sooner or later