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[–] 160 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Fascism. They keep dancing around it, but what they want is fascism.

This isn’t politics. They want to remake US politics into a fascist state, and they’re not even that shy about it.

Thankfully only about 30% of US adults are falling for this grift. Unfortunately about the same percentage of Germans fell for it in the late 1920s. It seems really low, but it’s enough if the rest of us are complacent.

So let’s not be complacent.

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  • [–] 72 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I can't afford to be complacent, I'm not white. I'd rather die with a gun in hand than in a camp. Some things are worse than death.

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    As a white person, I’ll die next to you if necessary. I hope it won’t be necessary – I’ll do everything I can to stop it getting to that point, but I see where this is headed. (e: we’ve seen this before.)

    We cannot let this happen again. We cannot let the bigots twist society like that so that people die for stupid arbitrary reasons like skin colour or religion, orientation, ancestry or disability.

    We should be past all that, and we can’t allow people who aren’t to gain power again. I’ll do all I can to stop it, and I hope enough others will, too.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Buy guns.

    If they want to fight, don't make it easy for them

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    The time is now.

    Buy a gun or two (a short one and a long one) and learn how to use them; learn some first aid, field medics really just need to know how to stabilize someone. Meet others in your area who are like you and share your beliefs, start building networks who can help each other because the police will not. This is real, the right is marching towards a blend of Christofascism/Corporatocracy that I'm not sure the world has seen and just winning a presidential race in 2024 isn't going to cut it.

    We need long term solutions, consistent, focused work so actual progress can be made again. Organization is so incredibly important and is why the rightwing has been so successful over the last half-century. We don't have shady PACs funded by billionaires behind us, we'll have to organize and DIY.

    https://www.dsausa.org/
    https://theliberalgunclub.com/
    https://www.counterextremism.com/supremacy/john-brown-gun-club
    https://www.guardianrebellion.com/

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    [+] 140 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)
  • [–] 72 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    They have been moving on this path since Regan, they just have the court and the rigged voting maps now they feel comfortable being open about thier intentions. While people like me was derided as alarmists they were building the engine that got us here

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    Really they've been on this trajectory since Nixon. They were talking about playing the long game to get right-wing media established back then. I imagine they also wanted to take other steps to make sure no other Republican went through the humiliation of having to pay for their crimes. Like rigging the judicial system, and everything else we've seen the past 50 years.

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That's scary as hell, they sound like the Hydra from Marvel Comics. I know the country is at a breaking point but they can't get their way.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago

    Same old bullshit as usual.

    The “promise” is basically:

    • Marginalize gay people, women, and racial minority groups
    • Fuck over the environment
    • Let corporations do whatever they want
    • Make education worse so people don’t question radical right wing policies
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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago

    The crazy thing to me is that they said their goal is to stop progress. Sure, they tacked on "for its own sake" to give the base something to latch on to, but if you ask any person impacted by LACK of progress it's for very real sakes and stakes for very real people. Fuck these assholes.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    reverse the left’s incessant march of progress for its own sake. Many of the best accomplishments, though, happened only in the last year of the Trump administration

    This has got to be a troll, George Lucas had better dialogue in the prequels.

    The last year of the Trump administration also happened to be where he started a violent insurrection against democracy.

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    [–] 83 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    the Heritage project leans into what legal scholars refer to as a unitary view of executive power that suggests the president has broad authority to act alone.

    Did the fascists not just come for student loan forgiveness on the bullshit claim that Biden didn't have the executive power to do something like that?

    Fuck these traitorous pieces of shit. If this shit doesn't stop we're about to be living in the fucking Pinochet regime (which was the brainchild of American conservatives, because of course it fucking was) and academics and musicians and authors are going to start getting disappeared along with our LGBTQ family, friends and neighbors. What a fucking shit show. And apparently there's not much we can do about it, except vote. As though that's ever done a fucking thing with an absolute anachronism of an electoral system.

    I can't help the nihilism sometimes, jfc.

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    [–] 74 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Straight out of the Nazi handbook

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    [–] 73 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I feel physically ill... I went to school from 96 to 2010.... I remember social studies and American history... The Holocaust being taught... I remember asking my teachers... What would happen if people tried to change our country to dictatorships... Every teacher was emphatic that it would never happen.. one, because both parties love the country and two this is why we learn about Hitler and Stalin.......

    Wtf happened?!

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    [–] 73 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    Nothing says "conservative" quite like destroying the thing you were supposed to conserve.

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  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Someone promised them that they could preserve their perceived power. And return the world to a time that never existed. If you understand that conservatives have no ideology Beyond coveting power and wealth and purely reactionary behaviors. This is all very logical and understandable unfortunately.

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    [–] 59 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    I honestly am at a loss of words, this is extremely scary and nerve wracking. I couldn't describe the bottomless pit I feel in my stomach, you either know it or are in on it. If republicans get into office it's game over, nothing less then a monolithic dystopia. We need to stop this at all costs, even if it gets physical, this has gone on for too long without much resistance.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Tell everyone you know that is not a trumpet to vote blue. We have to take the country back by winning the trifecta. The presidency, the House, and the Senate. That will allow Congress to actually function for the first time in years. We can get new judges in, actually hold the current ones accountable, and pass legislature that prevents a lot of the bs we are seeing now. We cannot stay home this election cycle.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    How do we even go about organizing ourselves in a way that doesn't get us put on some watchlist. Which I'm probably on now for even asking.

    It honestly feels like its time to take the gloves off. This only ends in violence. They don't understand anything else.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If we needed to organize in a secure way encrypted messaging is a good start, the government may try to ban it but it's basically impossible short of completely killing the internet entirely. The hard part is getting a large group of people together to stand against this. France has little issue organizing because most of the population is packed together and is far less land mass as well. The United States is far too big and not very populated considering the land mass. However seeing how black lives matter protests went I can tell one thing that we failed to do. We never completely pushed towards the end goal, we never reformed the system, only got the cons in the slammer. If we want change, it'll be physical but more than that, it has to be complete, no stone unturned, we can't settle for half baked protests. We need an all out revolution, and we need a competent leader to guide us toward that success. If we wanna sit here on our asses complaining about this then we're fucked, we need action and we need it now.

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    [–] 58 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    “We need to flood the zone with conservatives,” how about I flood your mouth with my balls

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    [–] 39 points 2 years ago

    Conservatives? Exactly what are they conserving? They are #fascists, plain & simple. We must stomp them out.

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Here's a taste of their plan.

    "Unaccountable federal spending is the secret lifeblood of the Great Awokening. Nearly every power center held by the Left is funded or supported, one way or another, through the bureaucracy by Congress. Colleges and school districts are funded by tax dollars. The Administrative State holds 100 percent of its power at the sufferance of Congress, and its insulation from presidential discipline is an unconstitutional fairy tale spun by the Washington Establishment to protect its turf. Members of Congress shield themselves from constitutional accountability often when the White House allows them to get away with it. Cultural institutions like public libraries and public health agencies are only as "independent" from public accountability as elected officials and voters permit."

    "Pornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children, for instance, is not apolitical Gordian knot inextricably binding up disparate claims about free speech, property rights, sexual liberation, and child welfare. It has no claim to First Amendment protection. Its purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters ofwomen. Their product is as addictive as any illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime. Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders.

    And telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered. In our schools, the question of parental authority over their children's education is a simple one: Schools serve parents, not the other way around. That is, of course, the best argument for universal school choice-a goal all conservatives and con- servative Presidents must pursue. But even before we achieve that long-term goal, parents' rights as their children's primary educators should be non-negotiable in American schools. States, cities and counties, school boards, union bosses, princi- pals, and teachers who disagree should be immediately cut off from federal funds.

    The noxious tenets of "critical race theory" and “gender ideology" should be excised from curricula in every public school in the country. These theories poison our children, who are being taught on the one hand to affirm that the color of their skin fundamentally determines their identity and even their moral status while on the other they are taught to deny the very creatureliness that inheres in being human and consists in accepting the givenness of our nature as men or women.

    Allowing parents or physicians to "reassign" the sex of a minor is child abuse and must end. For public institutions to use taxpayer dollars to declare the superiority or inferiority of certain races, sexes, and religions is a violation of the Constitu- tion and civil rights law and cannot be tolerated by any government anywhere in the country."

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    "...they are taught to deny the very creatureliness that inheres in being human and consists in accepting the givenness of our nature as men or women.".

    What in the great gobbledygook fever-dream ramblings is this shit?

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  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Half of that shit doesn't many any sense. These people are straight up just saying a bunch of bullshit that sounds fancy, but is still bullshit.

    The Administrative State holds 100 percent of its power at the sufferance of Congress, and its insulation from presidential discipline is an unconstitutional fairy tale spun by the Washington Establishment to protect its turf.

    1. wtf is "the Administrative State"?

    2. "Sufferance of Congress" what?? That's what Congress decides. Additionally, Republicans currently hold the power of the purse. They also held both chambers in Obama's last years and for Trump's first two years. They didn't do shit about whatever the hell "the Administrative State" is.

    3. "its insulation from presidential discipline" What are they even talking about‽‽ What the hell is presidential discipline?

    4. "is an unconstitutional fairy tale spun by the Washington Establishment to protect its turf." The Constitution clearly states the structure of our government and the responsibilities of each branch. Also, wtf is "the Washington Establishment"??

    I can't even get through the first paragraph. This is complete non-sense.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    wtf is “the Administrative State”

    It's the part of the government that regulates things like business that used to be regulated by private entities like trade associations and guilds. When congress established regulators for banks and for food and drugs and environmental policy, the private associations that used to regulate those things didn't like it much- they saw it as a usurping of their domains. When today's right talk mad about the 'administrative state', they're telling you they want to hand regulatory authority over banking right back to the banks, environmental decision-making to the people who will save money by dumping pollution in the drinking water, etc.

    This is a long and well-sourced primer on the history of the democratizing of regulatory authority in the modern democratic state, one that also discusses the rapid reversal of that trend we're seeing today

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    [–] 34 points 2 years ago*

    Lock them all up.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago

    We’re at the point where the words- “conservative” and “traitor” are synonymous.

    They’re openly and actively trying to dismantle the United States.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago

    18 USC 2383: Rebellion or insurrection

    Text contains those laws in effect on August 30, 2023

    From Title 18-CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

    PART I-CRIMES

    CHAPTER 115-TREASON, SEDITION, AND SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES

    §2383. Rebellion or insurrection

    Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.

    https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?hl=false&edition=prelim&req=granuleid%3AUSC-1999-title18-section2383&num=0

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago

    An entire group of people making more more than doctors sitting on think tanks writing plans how they can make everything go to shit. Also tax-free status.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    “Trump’s vision”? He has no vision outside of self-gratification or people just giving him literal and figurative fellatio at all hours of the day. We’re talking about the most easily manipulated person on the planet who will literally just go with the last thing that was said to him, no matter how fucking stupid it is.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    America will be an openly-fascist state in my lifetime.

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    [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    America crushed fascism a few generations ago and we'll do it again

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