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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago

This is mask-off fascism, which should horrify every US citizen, because it means they think they have already won.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 days ago

Ahhhh freedom (for the rich and powerful)

[–] [email protected] 108 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Can we stop treating the "national security" and "endangering our troops" takes as if they make sense? Bombing brown people isn't national security.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 days ago (5 children)

They aren’t trying the win the minds of people who already agree with them.

There are different words and different views of morality and liberty to different groups. This is speaking to the common sense of the right voters in their own language and values. Loyalty, pride in country over dictators, armed service as personal sacrifice for the greater population.

Reds and blues actually agree on almost everything they just explain it completely differently and fight while agreeing. The politicians however are like cartoons of the farthest views to cover for lobbyists running our government since like 1980.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Adding to what the other guy said, trying to get Republicans to convert to your side through FACTS and LOGIC is a fool's errand. Always has been, always will be. This is why the Democrats keep losing; they focus too much on the enemy and not nearly enough on their own base (which, I should say, already outnumbers the enemy massively; they frankly don't need anybody else).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

not nearly enough on their own base

This is why people don't vote. They believe their vote doesn't count and I've yet to see Democrats hop on that wagon and ride it to town. Like, do it while it's still true, fools!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

At the same time using such framing reinforces the very foundations of Fascism in their minds such as the Racism (bombing brown people is fine), Nationalism, Militarism, "Might is right" and so on.

I've lived in a couple of countries, including the UK which also displays a similar mindset to the US, and my conclusion when I saw Brexit up close over there is that the line from the constant cultivation of Nationalism and Delusions of Grandeur amongst the population by pretty much the whole of the Mainstream Media, to Brexit, is pretty direct - people were both Racist against other Europeans and believed Britain would get whatever it wanted from the EU when it left it (hence favored Leave) exactly because during their whole lives they were constantly fed by both politicians and the press a view of Great Britain where the "great" wasn't just a reference to the physical size of their main island.

To me it seems the US suffers from this problem to a larger extent than Britain (for example, Brits aren't made to, in school as kids, constantly repeat the pledge of allegiance), so keeping on reinforcing this, especially in the minds of far right muppets, isn't going to help.

Besides, a lot of the Trump vote seems to have come from people being crushed by the system in the US who were swindled with the far-right siren-song of "blame foreigners", so maybe Democrat figures should be focusing on being "the Party that cares" rather than just carry on playing the strings of Militarism and Nationalism alongside the other guys: being attractive to far-right muppets (i.e. a slightly less Fascist party with some make-believe identitarian bullshit that's still racist as shit - hence perfectly happy with massacring brown people - just with different "worthy identities") isn't exactly delivering a Democrat party that's worth having and what would be real worth it was a party that tries to improve the lives of the many thus attracting voters from amongst the disenfranchised that Trump swindled and is currently busy betraying, and that path doesn't need to blow the far-right dog whistles of Nationalism and Militarism.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

National insecurity

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I agree with you 100%. However, they could have been talking about anything else, hence the national security tag. In this case it just happened to be bombing brown people.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

just to be clear, "school newspaper" for these broken clock brains applies to middle and high school classes on journalism where they publish their efforts

[–] [email protected] 117 points 2 days ago (12 children)

Blame paddle-holding impotent Democrats unwilling to be aggressive and limp-dick Republicans scared of MAGA base. The government is full of dipshits scared of losing power

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 days ago (1 children)

cowards, the entire lot. and the MAGA base is cowards, too, mark my words

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

the dems are not cowards. they’re complicit.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

i guess this all comes down to what cowardice is, because i would argue the cowardice is the root of the complicity. they'd rather go along with things than risk the comforts they've gained. they refuse to standup and do what is right because that would be scary. better to maintain the status quo, even as it collapses into a new, worse, status quo, than to risk losing some luxuries to ensure that their constituents, us, get the best possible outcome in this situation

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

The question is: do they even want to do the right thing? Look at Fetterman, for example. I don't think he's a coward. I think he's just wrong.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago

"ohhhh we can't do anything we're out of majority right now that's why we've done nothing of substance since citizens united passed and made us directly accountable to billionaires"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Replace Democrats with Americans. You have reached the point where doing nothing against it is a form of approval for it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

This is true. They could be the opposition, together, and they choose not to be.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I appreciate you so much for actually linking actionable steps

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Americans, put that second amendment to good use.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago

Going to the gulags, but in different words.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

"Put our troops in danger" while they bomb the shit out of Yemen.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Bombing an entire apartment building full of civilians to get one guy and his girlfriend. Real heroic shit.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago

The IDF special.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

Yep exactly. The US attacks on Yemen are just a continuation of a long American tradition of bombing the shit out of "lesser" nations.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

The US has always been doing war crimes in the middle east. It's just another tally mark on the wall.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Did they post a Musk meme on reddit?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

American flag emoji...Freedom...etc.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And if it took you this long to understand this, you're part of the problem.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I agree. I also think it's better late than never. There are always going to be lots of naive people, it's natural. People tend to think things cannot go so wrong, it won't happen here, it won't happen to them... it keeps them functioning. How many of the people seeing the real problems are depressed or have other mental issues? We probably need much more evolution as a species.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

I'm assuming you mean "evolution" in the colloquial sense, not the biological one.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

Not a Democracy

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Crazy how anyone is surprised by this. Republicans have always been authoritarian traitors.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

History loves a rhyme. Though this one's got simple whitey meter to it, taken right from their playbook. Just crazy that no one saw it coming, right? Wow.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

History loves a rhyme:

Unfortunately in this time, If you're rich, it ain't a crime, Especially if you kiss the ring, Of our newly enthroned king

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

no one saw it coming

I'm reading Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America by Sarah Kendzior written during Trumps first term. The book may have been premature because, holy shit, everything Kendzior wrote is exactly what is happening now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Because those fucking crackers have no imagination other than ways to lie to themselves about their peens, et al.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago

you can't. they can.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago

Hmm, I think there's a name for that. Something about being fashionable I believe.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

Hi. Welcome to the shitshow. Tell your friends.

Because the story is being scrubbed from the media as we speak.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I find it funny how your account is on lemmy.sdf.org but you're linking to slrpnk.net for a post on a lemmy.world community. The Fediverse be quirky like that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Ye I kinda love it. On jerboa when you share a post it gets the link from the user's instance

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