Violent protests probably. Even republicans don't want fascism. But there is nothing we can do without a hero assassin... At least 3 of them actually.
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So if we're just good with careening into fascism 2.0 what does the future look like?
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Even republicans don’t want fascism.
What's been truly revolting is in watching how many liberals have jumped on the fascism bus. Kristen Gillibrand is fully in bed with the Silicon Valley techno-fascists. Richie Torries can't get enough genocide, whether its via our migrant concentration camps at home or our outsourcing of genocide to the Middle East via Israel and Saudi Arabia. Sitting Democrat NYC Mayor Eric Adams has gone all in on MAGA, after receiving pardons for his chronic misuse of public office and funds from the President. Gavin Newsom is flirting with Charlie Kirk and Steve Bannon as a podcast host. Half the 2026 Texas Dem Congressional slate is fully in favor of turning the US/Mexico border into the new Iron Curtain. The Florida Democratic Party wants a Bay of Pigs 2.
It's Italy in 1924 all over again. Oops! All fascists.
Yeah people thinking the Democratic Party is going to save them are delusional IMO. They are part of it and many of them have been working towards the same goal. They are a false opposition at best. Not all of them, some of them are legit, like Bernie, and look how he has been treated by the Dem establishment. Any real resistance is marginalized.
I thought the dems could save us in 2016. I then believed they would save us in 2020. The last chance I gave them was 2024.
Ill vote in their direction only in the hopes they can hit the brakes but, overall, they prove again and again they enable this shit and take no interest in stopping it.
I have been voting against Republicans for nearly 30 years and still have yet to see Dems hit the brakes. They do let off the gas some of the time, and since they are the only ones who have a chance of winning they get the vote by default.
If voting wasn't so quick and easy where I live it would be difficult to convince myself to put in the effort. It should be this easy everywhere.
That’s why you gotta primary out the ones that don’t actually do their job. Like if it’s too late to primary one out then yeah vote for the dem over the overt fascist but that’s a last resort. If you have the time, check and see if any actually good candidates are running in the primaries and see if you can volunteer and help them out with their campaign. Obviously not everyone has the time or ability, but every little bit helps if you can
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some of them are legit, like Bernie
It's really telling that every time somebody wants to point out that some Democrats are still decent, they cite an Independent
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Even republicans don’t want fascism.
They don't? How can you tell?
Well fascist were socialist and socialism is communism, so obviously.
/s
Am I missing some elementary knowledge? How is fascism resemblant to socialism?
I think they're making a joke (what with the /s), but some people will say that since "Nazi" is derived from "national socialist" it's a form of socialism. Usually people making that claim are arguing in bad faith and/or are grossly misinformed.
Violent protests
this is what the fascists want. any excuse whatsoever to declare martial law, impose curfews, 'papers, please' checkpoints, and 'papers, please' thugs going door to door, looking for anyone they don't like so they can send them to the concentration camp.
thoughtcrime doesn't entail death, thoughtcrime is death
I keep hearing this so often "they will take any opportunity to declare martial law" this so often its starting to sound like autogenocide
yeah, that's a weak reason against violent protests. stronger ones are:
- the violence is often misdirected at people not able to bring change, eg. small businesses or cars.
- the violence exhausts protesters. many of them being crippled or killed by police, until the protests are suppressed by too few motivated protesters being left.
btw cops love violent protests. they get to kill maim and torture more people than usual. it's what many of them signed up for and look forward to with excitement. sometimes they have off duty cops in plain clothes infiltrating protesters to start the carnage. all it takes is throwing one stone near a collegue with shield and helmet to give him an excuse to go on a rampage against innocent protesters, while the infiltrator sneaks off
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Hey where did they get that picture of me!?
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We're already at the thoughtcrime stage...
Funny how Republicans online were the ones crying about that, but now they're salivating at the idea of deporting Mamdani for the crime of being a socialist. Can't have those political opinions, that's wrongthink!
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Might wanna check how long the line of succession is
It's starting to look like the movie "Desperado" (or perhaps the entire "El Mariachi" trilogy)
can't wait till the dude with chain gun in the ~~brief~~ guitar case comes to save the day...
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I often wondered how nazi germany happened given the democracy and find myself caught up in the process despite my best efforts and the efforts of many people I know.
The only efforts that matter going forward is for people now to give up their own comfort to secure the future for others. Either we trust each other with our lives or we forfeit our futures to authoritarian rule. I maybe only have another 30-40 years left. 20 years of "healthy" living. Its not me who's losing out big.
Id happily donate those years to a cause that was real and not just talk. If my only choice is to lead it myself, fine, but someone needs to start following.
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Things are going to get real fucky.
Those in power will be unable to trust each other and their employees even less. We may end up living where we work.
Diseases will be widespread, and no care will be offered to anyone but the privileged.
Famine, likely entirely manufactured, will cause massive amounts of starvation.
Modern conveniences will be slowly lost. Cars will be falling apart because no one can afford mechanics, and the lack of vehicle regulations leads to excessive accidents.
Planes will break up midaire. Widespread blackouts when shit goes sideways. Forget about medicine.
Waterways will be polluted beyond what can be boiled. Breathing in big cities will be hazardous. They will say "efficiency" but not one instance of efficiency will be observable.
Kids showing academic excellence will be abducted and sent to special indoctrination schools so that they can only benefit the regime.
Women will have rights removed. All men will have to do a two year duty in war. Church attendance will be reported to the government.
I have more ideas but I'll stop there
damn homie are you the heritage foundation
I mean I could be. 13 year old me thought of most of this stuff during his hormonal days
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Eventually, the world will get tired of our shit and do something about it. It will not be pretty. Mainly economic suffocation…. That’s the only way the rest of the world can hurt the US.
We're suffocating ourselves just fine
Eventually we will get tired of our shit and do something about it. TF would others help us while we refuse to help ourselves? The rest of the world will contain us, much to the sociopathic capitalist class' delight.
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Brain drain. It’s already started. Academics, scientists, and researchers are moving to Canada or Europe to do their work. As shit gets worse, the upper and middle classes will start to do the same. The underprivileged and undereducated will fight for the scraps of what’s left.
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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable.
If your curious what the right is pushing for go ahead and check out The Turner Diaries.
If you actually finish the book, wait for your rage to subside then arm yourself.
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So I actually just kinda answered this as a "joke" in another thread, but essentially:
The future: fascists, racist robots, billionaires, more fascists, bombing civilians, cutting science funding, the earth is on fire, more fascists, cutting HIV study funding, more racist robots, gutting artistic employment, more billionaires, fried donuts.
Oh boy donuts
Yeah, Lemmy, what does the future look like?
Bull. I don't even get to have a double jump implant installed but I still have to deal with corpofascism. This is all a total rip-off.
We're not good with it and we hope it's not too late to turn it around. And no, I don't know how so there's no point asking me.
Look to the past for a view of our future.
"We" are not good with it. But if you're American you might be, yeah.
The door is shutting. Might want to stick your foot in the gap before they lock it behind them.
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