• SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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      6 months ago

      These are your people libs

      These feckless dicks who no longer even trot out something like 'immigrants built America', and instead nakedly, instantly agree to compromise with the party backing a guy who literally quotes Hitler

      And they're 'compromising' so that they can send more guns to Ukrainian skinheads (and European black markets by proxy since they don't get tracked at all) and to Israel so they can ethnically cleanse Palestinians fight Hamas

      They used to have a facade, they don't even bother any longer

      Fuckin make that Schumer quote a site tagline

  • RyanGosling [none/use name]
    hexbear
    60
    6 months ago

    Republicans: they’re poisoning our white blood

    Democrats: they’re poisoning our American blood

    Totally different things but tankies will act as if they’re the same

    • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
      hexbear
      5
      6 months ago

      chefs-kiss nailed it. Libs legitimately believe this.

      Theres not a border crisis and never has been (except for the US doing crimes against people at the border of course, but i mean what the media calls "the border crisis"). And the fact it doesn't exist can never be acknowledged, because libs and fascists bith believe in it regardless

  • BoxedFenders [any, comrade/them]
    hexbear
    60
    6 months ago

    2 parties with identical policies but one of them is openly racist while the other is kind of ashamed of appearing racist so it tries to conceal it in public.

    • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
      hexbear
      12
      6 months ago

      Listen, if one party is 100% Hitler and one is 99% Hitler, you're obliged to vote for 99% Hitler I don't make the rules

      At least that's what some lib told me while they were busy helping clean their grandad's Nazi uniform

  • ZoomeristLeninist [comrade/them, she/her]M
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    6 months ago

    this is just “hitler comparing Jewish people to rats is despicable but we do have a problem with Jewish economic control and the SPD knows we have to solve that problem, but in keeping w our principles”

  • nightshade [they/them]
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    6 months ago

    How do Democrats still not understand that giving concessions to the "merits" of fascist rhetoric (like they're doing with trans people as well) will never make people think you're more "reasonable", and will always further normalize hatred? Or do they understand it and that's exactly why they're doing it? They've done it so many times that it has to be a conscious decision at this point, right?

    • hotcouchguy [he/him]
      hexbear
      18
      6 months ago

      I think they're ultimately indifferent to the hatred, and just want the easiest way to maintain the status quo and their position within it.

    • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
      hexbear
      8
      6 months ago

      How do Democrats still not understand that giving concessions to the "merits" of fascist rhetoric (like they're doing with trans people as well) will never make people think you're more "reasonable", and will always further normalize hatred?

      Because they agree with the fascists. The only thing they don't agree with is the rhetoric. They hate the aesthetics of the right, but they want the same things. Libs just feel guilty about it. Libs affectations and rhetoric is only about assuaging their guilt.

    • Adkml [he/him]
      hexbear
      7
      6 months ago

      That's about where I'm at.

      Democrats have very thoroughly exhausted their benefit of the doubt. Maybe I just think too highly of them somehow but I don't believe they're really completely incapable of developing an electoral strategy with decades of real time feedback on what doesn't work.

      At a certain point if somebody keeps jumping on the same rake in the same place everyday you start to realize they should be able to avoid that by now.

      They'd rather lose appealing to moderates than let progressives into the same building as the levers of power.

  • GarbageShoot [he/him]
    hexbear
    30
    6 months ago

    This is offtopic, but the way that people whitewash the Weimar Republic by talking about Hitler like he was a wizard who cast a spell on Germany doesn't just have the effect of obscuring the political-economic conditions of fascism and its connection to long-standing European society, but further feeds into a fetishistic reverence for Hitler that encourages modern readers to hang off his every word to try to understand how the magic works, effectively working to spread his speeches even further than they would otherwise spread and lending a gravity to everything he says because, as far as many liberal histories were concerned, what he said was literally magic. It seems like a choice of characterization deliberately made so that the sins of the past can happen all the more easily for having already happened once, rather than protecting society from it using our past experience with it.

    • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
      hexbear
      16
      6 months ago

      the way that people whitewash the Weimar Republic by talking about Hitler like he was a wizard who cast a spell on Germany

      Literally the plot of that flopped Harry Potter movie lol. This way of thinking obviously predates that, I think a lot of the bad WW2 pop-history is to blame.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
      hexagon
      hexbear
      13
      6 months ago

      cast a spell on Germany... literally magic

      In early 2017 I realized liberals and liberalism itself wasn't ever going to deal with the anger and frustration that gave rise to Trump. I knew in my bones that they were never going to consider why people like an out-of-work autoworker in a dying Rust Belt town would vote for Trump. The dems were just going to give speech after speech on themes like "This isn't who we are!" I have to admit I expected they would at least make passionate pleas and strident, forceful comments.

      I wasn't clever enough to realize they'd be Schumer's level of bloodless and feckless before every election that this is the most important election of our lifetime. It's been almost seven years and there's been zero introspection by the dem machine. They're waiting and waiting and waiting for the public to snap out of their Trump spell and vote for democracy.

  • AlpineSteakHouse [any]
    hexbear
    29
    6 months ago

    Everyday I wake up and realize that we are going to go full fascist in America. Not with Trump but in 20-30 years we will be full-throated black-booted fascist and dipshit dems will mostly support it.

      • @Kaplya
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        6 months ago

        The difference is between scratched and unscratched, which isn’t much at all.

    • coeliacmccarthy [he/him]
      hexbear
      21
      6 months ago

      full-throated black-booted fascism is already here, just not evenly distributed. And it'll stay unevenly distributed even after you're enveloped in it

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
      hexagon
      hexbear
      18
      6 months ago

      I don't when/how it will happen but I do know the dems will be flummoxed that nobody wanted FascismLite.

    • @IHadTwoCows@lemm.ee
      hexbear
      16
      6 months ago

      I will think about every time I got bashed and banned for saying that liberals need to arm up and be ready.

      Turns out they were all pussies that WANT fascism. Must be thise Hugo Boss suits.

    • @Justice@lemmygrad.ml
      cake
      hexbear
      10
      6 months ago

      I mean, it's going to get worse, but we're already there.

      Look at the laws and the crackdowns on people who protested police murdering black people. Or look at the recent ongoing blackballing of everyone they can touch who supports Palestinians.

      The only thing left that makes us all feel like we aren't living in a fascist state is that we have "free speech" to openly criticize, verbally, the government and officials, but you can NEVER act on that criticism. And honestly that may remain forever (hard to tell) because it's a very useful control mechanism. Liberals LOVE peaceful protests and typing essays on Twitter, but if you go out and (I do not condone!) firebomb or break into an arms manufacturers' warehouse, then, "holy shit shoot to kill! GODDAMN TANKIES!"

      To liberals, words are the ultimate tool. Actions, material conditions, etc. none of that shit matters. You just gotta "own the Orange Man" and then he will be defeated and we can move on to doing literally everything he was doing anyway but nicely or never spoken about at all. Status Quo Joe is their savior. Genocide Joe. Jim Crow Joe. He's just the same, and in many ways worse than, Trump.

  • RION [she/her]
    hexbear
    26
    6 months ago

    Okay they're not poisoning the blood, but they're souring the lymph at the very least. In some cases even intoxicating the piss

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
    hexagon
    hexbear
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    6 months ago

    There's a notable reply. Sweet mother of God - this is the longest single tweet I've ever seen.

    It's ~3,330 words - Nitter

    • ZoomeristLeninist [comrade/them, she/her]M
      hexbear
      18
      6 months ago

      holy shit, the absolute state of “microblogging”

      i was curious and found that the character limit for twitter blue is 25,000 characters. for reddit-logo its 40,000

    • @HornyOnMain
      hexbear
      13
      6 months ago

      This is how a dictator gets elected and then rules for many years. Harken! Beware!

      he's a wannabe angel-biblical

      • emizeko [they/them]
        hexbear
        5
        6 months ago

        Harken!

        it's such a rare word that the first thing I thought of was GWB's Harken Energy scandal

  • @Kaplya
    hexbear
    22
    6 months ago

    Again proving this comparison correct: Make Fascism Great Again vs Build Back Fascism Better

    • @Justice@lemmygrad.ml
      cake
      hexbear
      16
      6 months ago

      He's been living rent free in liberals' brains since 2015.

      He's literally out there quoting Hitler basically, talking about eugenics basically, talking about blood and soil. (the democrats! They don't like it, folks! They don't want me saying these things. But it's true! It's true.)

      And the like 4th or 5th most powerful or highest ranked Democrat, the fucking senate majority leader, who is also Jewish, is out there like "ok, guys. Yes yes he's quoting Hitler. But look! Remember. Hitler hated Jews ok? It had nothing to do with communists or trade unionists and definitely not Mexicans or Palestinians! Hitler and the Nazis were Hamas. Don't forget that! Definitely not Israel and absolutely not the US!"

      I really enjoy getting to live through the timeline of "what if the Nazis came along and no legitimate leftist movement existed to defeat it or even "justify" their right wing delusions? No force to check them. No real enemy for them to aim to defeat. Anyone left of Himmler is deemed a "marxist communist fascist" (Trump keeps saying all those together 🤦‍♂️ Stephen Miller is definitely still writing for him)"

    • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
      hexbear
      7
      6 months ago

      What's Biden supposed to do??? He's only the president! You expect him to have the kind of power an ex-prsident has?? smuglord