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I hope Americans realized by now that they live in a fascist authoritarian state
Yes, we realized that back when they started shooting and killing us with zero consequences. Thanks so much for your concern.
What's funny, in a sad disturbing way, is everyone I know who was an anti-govt conspiracy theorist said the "next democratic president" wants to turn this country into a Police state, thought crime big brother blah blah blah, round up citizens into FEMA death camps, sharing pics of old "purchased" railway hubs with barbed wire pointed inward, they're gonna send black helicopters and black suited troops to rip people out of their homes and put them in internment camps...
..turns out they were right but it was the wrong party. Most of the are celebrating now and guess who they support
A good 55% of us knew that going into 2025
A lot of us knew going into 2020
More than that. Some voted for the fascist state.
but half of those decided they had better things to do than voting against it
The Democratic party's refusal to stop red state governments' voter suppression efforts or do much of anything else will tend to have that effect
Like clockwork the lemming blames democrats for things republicans do.
Oh boo the fucking hoo; US citizens need to get up off their ass and take responsibility. They shouldn't need handholding to vote against fascists when they have the chance.
In the southern states, people were getting arrested for handing out water to voters standing in 8+ hour lines that stretched multiple city blocks in 90 to 100 degree F heat (that's almost 38 Celsius) with no shade in states where Republicans shut down voting centers in and around traditionally leftist areas mere days before the election, forcing multiple voting districts to travel by car to the single open voting center miles away in a Republican district.
Voter suppression in this country is on a scale that most Europeans would think to put countries like Russia on.
I really wish that the rest of the world would realize that only about 23% of the total American population actually voted for Donald Trump in 2024. Even fewer of those people actually support him now.
And while there are certainly nearly infinite arguments as to why Americans should get out and vote, the reality is that the votes of merely 74 million people are now dictating our lives of over 330 million Americans, and the rest of the world is paying the consequences of that, too. But, before anyone else, Donald Trump fucks over Americans. Over and over and over. And, at the moment, there's not a lot we can do.
The vast majority of Americans fucking hate Donald Trump. I really wish the rest of the world didn’t lump us all in with him and his supporters, which are an increasingly shrinking fraction of us.
edit: "Well, why don't you do something about it?"
he's been impeached twice and there's another impeachment cooking, and 3 of us have tried to assassinate him. so, ya know... WE'RE TRYING
TL;dr: the vast majority of Americans are good, honest folk. A small number of us are unforgivable shitbags — that we admit. But, we are not a monolith. We are in a lot of trouble, and we kind of just don’t know what to do. We’re just trying to afford rent and groceries. But we’re doing our best. And we really are trying to fix our shit. But how?
We’re trying to really really hard. And the best of us are really, really sorry
Ignore the downvotes. Sane, non-fascists should all be allies regardless of where they live. There's a good chance those downvoting have rising fascist populism threats in their own borders too.
To people are downvoting or blaming anti-fascists within the US just because they haven't "solved" fascism yet, I'll just say: if you actually care about stopping Trump and fascism around the world, try to make friends and not enemies. Fascists would prefer we fight each other.
~100% of these people talking shit online about "not doing enough" would not do shit were they in a similar situation and probably don't do shit anyway as far as civic participation.
we have a very big boat to turn around. a nation of 330+ million people is no small thing to manage. we've done the whole "political revolution" thing twice, and it cost us nearly half our population each time. we'd rather not do that again , especially if there's a better way. and, of course, there is.
but it's... complicated and it takes time.... but, with these midterm elections, there's an opportunity to make things better, or, at least, shut off the firehose of nightmares.
And if you don't shut off the firehose of nightmares in a couple of months? This might be your last chance at a peaceful way to turn things around...
Thought I read something about overseas influence operations active on Reddit. Seems to make sense they'd be working other social media sites as well.
Thanks. A lot of motherfuckers forget about Normandy.
You’re all allowing it to continue. There are no “good ones.” 30 percent of you are Nazis, the other 70% are Nazi enablers or abject cowards.
You’re not “trying.” You’re waiting for someone else to do something.
Do something or fucking sit down.
Edit: removing most details, not needed.
Don't be a divider, be a helper.
The guy you replied to constantly tries to incite violence all over lemmy.
Merrick Garland and Biden had a chance to prevent all of this
Don't forget RGB. She stubbornly brought about the end of many checks and balances, and also set woman back a generation with the fall of roe v wade.
Fuck RGB. All she had to do was retire well past the age anyone should retire. But she needed that power, I guess. Power hungry assholes ruin everything.
"So many people forget that the first country the Nazis invaded was their own." - Abraham Erskine (as played by Stanley Tucci)
at least we can claim this over the nazis-- we know our concentration camps are concentration camps, and we're doing everything we can to constantly protest and expose them and shut them down.
our efforts thus far are... far less successful than we had hoped. but we're doing everything we can to stop it and let the world know what's happening. In that, we have been extremely successful.
And those responsible… we will make them PAAAAAAAY for their fucking crimes!
But there is a lot of shit we have to crawl through before we see that light at the end of the tunnel. And at this point,… whether we’re even going to see that light? That’s a matter of faith. Faith in the best of us.
For now, we’re navigating shit in the dark. Wish us luck. We are all going to need it.
It's a myth that the average German was unaware of what the Nazis were doing. They knew as well as we do here today; plenty were in total support, plenty didn't believe it and plenty didn't care, but few were totally unaware.
Half of Americans couldn't tell the difference between Harris and Trump. We're not good honest people. There are fewer of us that are good than there are fascists or those willing to sacrifice us to the fascists.
It always has been fascist
Oh boy yep, that's a fasces
Fucking hell, where is that?
Edit: that's the fucking speakers chair isn't it?
That's the House chamber, not even the speaker's office, just the House of Representatives
GW some fasces.
From Wikipedia:
It's clear that the symbol has had widespread usage long before and beyond historical fascism. Idk if the 50s get a pass..