If you cannot convince people that the government kidnapping people off the streets and conducting a takeover of the capital is full fledged fascism, they are never going to be convinced. Not until the boots are kicking down their front door.
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I think when protesters are being shot in the streets some more people might wake up. Maybe.
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They won't call it f@scism until he kills Americans in visible ways (not by, say, canceling their healthcare). Until he's putting Americans in camps and they're dying in large numbers, people will just say it's "Trump being Trump".
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Forever victims of their own asshattery
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Authoritarianism is extremely banal and ignorable for the privileged until its their door.
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No, even then they'll support him. A Danish MAGA was deported and he and his family still support him and mass deportation.
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I don’t know. Massachusetts did it after the Boston Massacre. We gotta figure out how to do it again. Or we’ve already lost.
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Most whites are fine.
Because they aren’t kidnapping US citizen whites outside the few to make examples.
They aren’t in the suburbs and small towns where most whites live. They are targeting browns and blacks in the city.
They won’t be kicking down red state doors in suburbia or rich areas.
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Yep, they either voted for fascism or didn’t bother to vote otherwise.
Now it’s taking the wrecking of the economy and HUGE neon signs pointing towards Jeff-Ep to even split his base.
The evangelicals are largely sticking with him even still.
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There are plenty of Americans who know it is fascism, and are happy, because they like fascism.
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I have no fucks to give the triple tRumpers.
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unfortunately, I think that's true
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Yep
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"It was only then that Winston realised you can't podcast from solitary."
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You speak the truth. After observing the indifference from pretty much everyone though, for the past DECADE, I'd say most ppl deserve it. (Florida) Americans are about to get a swift kick in the a** that will last many, many years. Each year will be worse. (German Immigrant, Vet &15-Year Activist)
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Not even then. They’ll sink into the Everglades still believing it was a mistake and Donald Trump would save them if he knew.
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"Don't throw around the word fascism. The Democrats did things that were fascist too, like investigate Russian interference in the election." - my dad
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It may already be too late. German Jews, were 100% German until a law said they were not on Sept 15, 1935. They thought they were protected by law. Law to borrow from Orwell, is what ever says it is or needs it to be. Someone here on Blsky said “maybe the wall was to keep us in.” Like in Berlin
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Thats why you dont bother to try. You cant fix STUPID. Just remember when it all starts, they dont make body armor for the head, and red hats make great targets.
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shocking: most people don't actually care about things until they're directly affected by them
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who is even trying to convince people
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Some people will end up in room 101 with the boot on their face and O'Brien literally standing there explaining the whole boot on your face forever thing and still not believe it.
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Conserve your energy for the people who have realised and need support whilst they fight alongside you. And fortify your communities. Despite what the debate bros on the internet tell you, an echo chamber that all understands fascism is here is exactly what you need to fight it.
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Which is why I fucking urge people to stop having dinner with their MAGA parents, paying their phone bill, helping with online shit.
CUT THEM OFF. Tell them exactly why.
Part of the reason we're here is because these people can vote this way AND WE'RE STILL HELPING THEM LIVE COMFY LIVES.
STOP.
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Can't fix stupid.
They're a lost cause and will have natural consequences soon enough.
May as well out that energy somewhere else.
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CAN WE PLEASE start referring to the Trump administration as the Turd Reich? Not gonna stop 'til this name goes viral. #TurdReich
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Was a nice run
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Even in that moment, they'll still believe it's "the other side" doing it. Even if Trump personally executed them, they'd say Obama made him do it.
It. Is. A. Cult.
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This is an illegal act, violating Posse Commitatus as well as 10A. The Uniform Code of Military Justice requires individual Soldiers to refuse illegal orders like this.
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This is our worry. And this is why we must call it what it is - FASCISM.
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And the objectors need to wait for enough of THEM to agree before effective action can be taken?
But what if it happened anyway? Start with kidnap victims defending thmselves with deadly force. That act would probably get a favourable reaction from most people.
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Millions of people in our society lack basic empathy.
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They know it’s fascism. They just think they’re immune to it, because they hate who Trump hates.
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Even then
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#WeWillNOTBeOccupied #ICEMonsters #MoreOfUs #RiseUp #FightFascism
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They brainwashed them. Methods:
- Populism, coming from Victor Orban: Finkelstein-Birnbaum method
- Big Data microtargeting (think Latinos for Trump, LGB vs LGBTQ, TERFs, Muslims pro Trump)
- Troll armies: memes, gameification
- Tech oligarchs, their control over algorithms & the big money
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Not until they themselves are in a concentration camp being starved and beaten.
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I love how badly this rhymes with a famous German poem
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Time to work around them.
Only about 20% of the population was actively involved in the American Revolution. We can do this if we believe.
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True
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Republican voters will LICK the boots kicking down the doors.
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Scary to think that now potential fascists are the fascists now
