and here again i find myself unsure of what to say in the face of something i've been warning against for years
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I'm almost at the point of pulling up a lawn chair, cracking open a beer, and wearing a shirt that says "Told ya so" while I waste away in the sun.
Enjoy that lawn chair and beer while you can, we're probably a year or so away from everyone who didn't vote for Trump being either bussed off to the death camps or drafted as cannon fodder in the war for Greenland and Canada.
I don't get whisked off, I die in a 30 minute firefight screaming obscenities and lobbing molotovs.
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I'd go to those wars. Seems like they'd appreciate me more as a defecting troop than my current government cares about me as a vet.
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A podcaster who used to make a podcast called Common Sense stopped because he felt he had said everything he believed and there wasn't any point in making new shows.
He did one recently which basically said "well it happened just like I expected, but I didn't expect it would be so sudden".
(At least, that's what I took from it....)
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and it recalls the “Dark Ages” that followed the fall of the Roman Empire
This is unfair to the Romans. They struggled through multiple economic and migratory/military crises to keep their state alive and saved it from destruction several times before entropy finally took its course. Even after Rome "fell", people maintained the appearance of continuity. What they did not do at any time is deliberately take a hammer to everything. Trump is much more like Pol Pot than Odoacer.
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It’s too late for America. You can’t save a country when half of its citizens want to burn it to the ground.
The best outcome is the left reorients and rebuilds systems independent from the federal government, either by focusing on the state and local level or through interstate compacts.
I work for an R1 university and have had multiple siblings gleefully claim that where I work is a cult that needs to be shut down. They don't even have enough empathy to wish me well in my life.
i'm doing graduate work at the NIH and whewwwwwww the magas in the extended family think I work in the seventh circle of hell for satan
Hello fellow Knight (in someone’s service)
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The only way to save America is to divide it into separate unions.
That way them red states can bask in their poverty.
I really do want to see Alabama, Kentucky, and Mississippi have to try and survive without California or New York as their sugar daddies.
Sugar daddies get something in return. What does Alabama do for New York and California besides some sibling joke material?
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It’s too late for America. You can’t save a country when half of its citizens want to burn it to the ground.
Yeah.
... yeah...
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while it is important to stress how terrible trump is making these times, and how much a fascist he is, please know that the “dark ages” were not in fact “dark” at all. there was a whole swath of Asian, African, and Islamic technology, art, and culture that was blooming.
Even Europe had important discoveries and inventions through that time, like the windmill.
The whole Dark Ages schtick was made up by Enlightenment people to make them feel better about themselves.
The whole Dark Ages schtick was made up by Enlightenment people to make them feel better about themselves.
It's much more than that.
Ehhh, it’s more about the number of surviving records.
It’s dark to us relative to how long ago it was. We still know much more about it than ancient history.
But one thing that definitely did happen during the dark ages and lasted until the renaissance is looking back at the past and feeling a fall from grace.
Shit we already feel than comparing today to 1999 (when civilization peaked according to The Matrix).
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people are still business as usual as if nothing's happening, and will continue to do when the papers please checkpoints pop up, the curfews, the martial law--it's depressing
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Alternate title: "The Atlantic publishes a story about MAGA that everyone with a brain knew for at least eight years."
Welcome to the party.
To be fair, The Atlantic has been much better at addressing these issues than the rest of MSM, but still not far enough.
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The only surprising thing is that the headline isn't an actual Trump quote.
I thought the same thing initially, but then I considered how accurate the statement was.
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What sort of world is this where the leader of a country can get up and more or less say "I'm going to ruin everything and send citizens to a foreign prison without trial" and they're allowed to carry on
This one, quite literally. This is not new for humanity even in the slightest.
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I grew up with Reagan and Thatcher on the telly and there was always something bestial beneath the surface layer of civility. Maybe Trump merely shed the pretence.
Sure did.
As much as Trump may make us yearn for the return of civility, let's never forget it was never more than a blanket laid over oppression, exploitation, and dehumanization.
It's what fascism looks like. The arts and sciences are among the first things to go.
I wish soldiers fighting for our freedoms would take on a different connotation. I wish it meant something.
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Anyone with eyes was hip to this 6 months ago at the latest. Some media dude writing it up changes nothing. This isn't a revelation.
What happened to traitors back in the Dark Ages? Asking for 8 billion friends...
So this "article" (that I couldn't read on my own without downloading their app) is just explaining a better article from The Atlantic? Why even post this trash, why not post the actual article from The Atlantic?
And why are all the comments discussing this like it's not trash with a bullshit, clickbait headline? Is Lemmy all bots now, too?
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Can we Order 65 this traitor before he Order 66 us?
Historia Civilis has a series of videos covering Rome. In the one below, Rome has descended into conflict between political gangs. I am personally expecting something similar to go down in the US within a couple years.
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