eh, democrats were already deporting just as much.
trump, like mussolini before him, is making a big deal out of it.
all that to say that your country was already fascist, just covertly so.
this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2025
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America has been worse than this in the past. It is true it is galling to see the mask slipping because it is too heavy. We are weaker than we have ever been as a country. This turn to colonialism ourselves is the last gasp of a dying empire. This too will pass
I chose a bad time to burn out on the activism. Makes me feel triply useless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ehf9udAhng
People have been struggling against barbarity and winning for centuries. We have to look for ways to build solidarity. Then people are going to fight back because they have to.
Banger video
Me and the comrades when the class consciousness kicks in
Also lmao
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
This is the time to organize comrade. Do not let doomerism get a hold of you. If you want to change the world, this is the opportunity to offer everyone around you an alternative. I am not talking about lecturing them to believe what you believe; but act in the way you want the rest of the world to act. Find an org and do something to counteract your pessimism. Action is the best way to combat the doom. Let tech freaks have the reins to a moribund and imploding government bureacracy. Help build dual power and, if you are tech savvy enough, support, or implement open source alternatives. Families are being ripped apart. Find ways to support them, through dealing with bureaucratic nonsense, translation, resource indexing, etc.
it feels like a prelude to the violence
Read Blood in My Eye by George Jackson the united states has been awash in violence for hundreds of years. The targets keep expanding, but we must avoid any pretense that this violence did not exist before, and is somehow new.
the united states has been awash in violence for hundreds of years. The targets keep expanding, but we must avoid any pretense that this violence did not exist before, and is somehow new.
GOOD post
will do my best to 
find an org and actually do something worthwhile
but damn if it isnt scary rn
and you are right the violence has always been here
The fall of the imperial core is a good thing. The rest of the world is rising because of it.
Don’t get me wrong, I am totally on board with this. Shame it has to be the core imperial boomeranging too close to the sun rather than they simply come to their senses and work together with the global south for world peace as a way to atone.
in retrospect i think that was always going to be the case. can't reason with the great satan
u right
That’s the point. The system is designed to punish. You’re supposed to be afraid.
They want people to get a taste of what will happen for thinking that they could withhold their votes to defy the system. If you don’t vote for us, we’ll make sure you’ll suffer even worse.
The real question is how many people who sat out of the election will start voting for Democrats again.
voted blue like a chump. At the time I thought it was just a meaningless red state vote but now i feel like it was than worthless, it was actively harmful... anything that legitimizes demonrats as a party is just feeding into the same mechanisms that let them snuff out any hope for change over the last 40 years
and even then they would still punish people like me for being too far left and not buying into third-way-ism so fuck em. fuck em all and never let anyone tell you otherwise
it's been said before but electoralism really is a fuck
The real question is how many people who sat out of the election will start voting for Democrats again.
good question, honestly after the biden administration i feel like their remaining goodwill is rapidly dwindling. Beyond being completely ineffectual to begin with theyre now an opposition party with zero power, so theyre worse than useless... people are really mad rn and theyre not doing anything, whether that's because they won't or can't doesn't really matter I think
are eating right now.
it feels like a prelude to the violence
This is the violence. It can escalate, but dehumanizing immigrants and trans people (on top of and extending anti-blackness) is already violence as embodied by ICE raids and deportations, bans on participation and forced detransitioning.
I understand that you would not intend to undermine or disagree with what I just said. I just want to emphasize that violence has already started and has been here.
Hard to say this without sounding like a hypocrite, but I wish we could see if this true or if the internet has just warped reality for most
it's all true
sorce: me....
Does “if America sneezes, the world catches a cold” still apply? Or are we way past that?
Considering the the US is doing nothing to stem the tide of H5N1, this is an apt analogy.
I hadn’t thought of that, but how very (scarily) true.
Germany’s catching the cold right now. Europe in general won’t be far behind. This stuff’s been here, but it’s more mask off than ever.
Breaking stuff is easy. If you’ve ever broken a room down to the studs, that’s the easy part. Large room for error, you’re already breaking things.
Building it back though. That takes a good long while. Requires layering, time, small margin of error.
I don’t think falling apart is right. It’s evolving. Into something less refined but more stochastic