"Heading to" is doing a lot of lifting in that headline.
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Will the Washington Post even write about this now that Bezos fired 300 journalists who weren’t Trump friendly enough?
Cancel Amazon, stop using US tech
It's so fucking disgusting. Literally fascist playbook 101. Purge journalists, intellectuals, politicians, judges. It's like the USA stared so long down the abyss that it finally stared back like some Lovecraftian horror...
The hard part about the erosion of anti-trust laws over the last two decades is it's really hard to do anything without supporting Amazon due to the sheer amount of things they own.
And even if you made the effort to avoid everything here first-hand, supporting a company whose backbone runs off of AWS ends up supporting Amazon second-hand.
Other than AWS, which is basically impossible to avoid since they own most of the cloud market, the rest in that list are fairly simple to avoid.
It’s wild to me that every complaint a right-winger has about socialism/communism is rather a direct complaint about authoritarianism, yet when we get actual authoritarianism they’re like “well at least I can still get rich someday”
No you fucking can’t you bootlicker.
Yeah we know 🫠
Do you think? Really? You dont fucking say.
"heading to" is a thing of the past. They arrived some time ago.
…heading towards?
“No shit”
“What are you, new??”
Is heading?
Authoritarianism?
How about the US IS an authoritarian state, has been for a while, and it's speed running heading into becoming a theocratic dictatorship ala handsmaid tale?
Thanks for the warning. Now, being warned, I can... well... be warned!
Warned.. yes.
You know early 80s punk sounded the alarm, what was it, 40 years ago..
I mean technically I can still post the horrific shit they're doing on Lemmy and facebook and I haven't personally been prosecuted yet.
So maybe heading is technically correct.
Americans being executed in the streets.
Journalists being arrested.
President threatening to take over elections and send goons to patrol polling stations.
We aren't "heading to". We are already there. It happened. Here. Because Americans couldn't be bothered to pay attention and inform themselves responsibly.
We are authoritarian whenever the R's have control. That is not new. We are heading to fascism. Call it what it is.
OH REALLY YOU THINK
It's not like the 40s. We are all already constantly tracked and surveilled. It's going to be worse.
OMG! WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN!?!
Dafuq you mean "heading to"? That shit is in the rearview mirror.
Funny when that 'authoritarianism' d oes land, those militias who helped get us there will either be forced to toe the line or be eliminated.
Not authoritarianism: being the prison capital of the world, spying on everyone everywhere, police killing 1000+ a year, etc etc
Part of the life cycle of societies. Unfortunately, we live in a world in decline and there are many signs that indicate this. 
Go back to bed.
The world isn't taking the US seriously enough, every damn org is way too slow to react
Another example, they're finally starting to call out the "early stages" of the trans genocide in the US whereas we've been yelling from the rooftops about it for ages. We're no longer in the early stages.
,,Sanction human rights watch! ... and do Amnesty also if you're at it" ~ some orange probably /s