• Tachanka [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      it's always been serious. this conversation reminds me of when trump got elected 4 years ago. You had libs going "We're a fascist dictatorship now, you have to take this moment seriously." and you had socialist saying "always has been, this is just the newest low in our constant downward trajectory."

        • Monsieur_bleu [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          I mean, you both have a point, this is very much literally fascism and the obvious prelude to going full jakarta on anyone left of John birch and also the inevitable trajectory the USA has always been on.

          • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            yeah, i never disagreed with her. Which is what I was gonna say next but she politely asked me to disengage.

      • pinglun [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        Legal scholar Juan Cole describes Trump's election this way: "How the U.S. went fascist." Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns terms Trump's presidency "Hitleresque." Historian Ron Rosenbaum, author of "Explaining Hitler," insists that Trump's tenure so far is based on a "playbook written in German. That playbook is 'Mein Kampf.'"