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I'm so tired... (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 week ago by CupcakeOfSpice@hexbear.net to c/doomer@hexbear.net

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I'm so tired of feeling like I'm "crazy" because no one around me can realize that the US is not "on its way to becoming" Nazi Germany, but is in fact already Nazi Germany. I'm so tired of my history of psychosis making me think "Maybe I'm not the only one who can see clearly" as that's usually a red flag for me. I wish I could just close my eyes and be a lib again, but that's not healthy or useful. Besides, I don't think I can close my eyes. But I have a significant disability, so what can even do? I barely work now, and probably won't for much longer, so it seems organizing would be largely ineffective. Relying on government benefits, I'm just next in line for slaughter. Another voice disappearing into the void. I'm just so tired.

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[–] CupcakeOfSpice@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I get that too. I was just talking to my sibling about how in literal Nazi Germany, if Hitler wasn't in charge, someone else who does the same shit would be. Trump can be assassinated tonight, and the fascism wouldn't slow down.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago

I’ve been trying to tell people that the strength of the German war making came from a bunch of institutions that had been fully bent toward fascism by the time the war broke out. That’s why the DDR had to go back to the 19th century for a sufficiently “German” uniform that hadn’t been tainted by association with German nationalist war. We aren’t getting out of this mess by changing the color of the feather in our cap.

[–] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This is a bit of a hot take but as monstrous as Hitler was, he was also really foolish in a lot of ways especially strategically.

The problem with assassinating Hitler is that a more calculating, strategic, less unhinged figure could have easily used that opportunity to step into the void he left. And that could have made things much worse.

This is especially relevant for how erratic and destabilizing Trump is today. Yes, it's really fucking bad right now but imagine how much worse it would be if there was a suave, competent figure who was less of an egomaniac that replaced Trump. Sort of like an Obama for the further right. If you're scared right now, and you should be, then this prospect should terrify you.

I don't understand the progressive lib glee at the idea of Trump's physical and mental decline. He is often so counterproductive and he causes a lot of infighting amongst the conservatives. A unifying figure would be catastrophic now. Having him where he is, taking up space and being messy, is the best realistic situation we can hope for in the present moment.

(This statement will horrify the libs because they have no practical plan for achieving change and they are too scared of internalizing the case that Rosa Luxemburg put forward in Reform or Revolution a century ago when Germany faced their own situation that has a ton of parallels to the US today. But we have a plan and it's not "go vote about it" and it's not praying for Trump's heart to beat its final beat because those aren't plans, they are coping strategies for people unwilling to grasp the reality of the present situation. Thoughts and prayers!)