I wish everybody stopped talking about "test run" and "slippery slope": we're 200% IN the authoritarianism. In fact, it's so authoritarian everybody can stop using the authoritarianism cutesy and call it what it is: FASCISM.
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Im convinced voting can be cancelled, people rounded up for mass extrajudicial execution and media will still be running headlines about "our declining democracy"
They're already rounding people up for extrajudicial deportation. If they happen to die in the process, well, they were illegal anyway!
We the people need to organize and resist. Get involved in your local community.
This is part of the reason why so many on the right are labeling any use of "fascism" as dangerous rhetoric -- to remove the ability to discuss current happenings in a more meaningful way.
I have a friend of a friend who is still maga. I heard him say that if anyone uses the words nazi or fascist he dismisses everything that person has to say or stops listening. I was like you can’t talk about this current moment accurately without using those words.
I started calling it fascism a few months back. When the shoe fits. And holy crap does it fit.
In January I said "the parallels to 1933 in Germany cannot be ignored", which is still kindof a mild statement, but my "enlightened conservative" relations already went up in arms about that.
We got a stop saying test run. We're in it. Sure it's "testing" in that they're seeing how far they can get, but we're in the fascist regime.
Came here to say this as well. We’re not test running for authoritarian, we’re in it. Now we’re just testing to see what the backlash is and how far and fast we can push it.
They're self-identifying as fascists, openly spreading hate, and I am really loathe to see what happens next week at Pete's little military get-together. At some point the administration will just execute someone openly, extrajudicially, to see what happens there. At some point the courts stop being even a pretext.
You mean like blowing up people on boats in international waters they claim to be narco terrorists?
Seriously. Should just say "is next incremental step down the path."
Why is everyone so fucking passive about this stuff?
I guess we now know exactly how dictators rise.
Are we already past the point of no return?
Depends on what you consider 'no return'. Every fascist regime falls eventually.
With only what’s left of the antique led DNC what do you think?
Well, if we talk about it here we get banned. I also think a lot of people just assume it’s all going to blow over.
if we talk about it here we get banned
"here" as in !news@lemmy.world ? I don't know, I often say it out loud and haven't been banned yet. But I rarely look back at which community I commented in.
lol. I’ve burned so many accounts over bans for action that I don’t even know what my username is at this point.
It's chiocciola.
What the fuck does that even mean? These ridiculous LLM created usernames.
Ah, you want me to do more stuff for you. It means snail.
OOh yeah… I actually remember creating this one. There was an article about a snail crawling Across an apartment building call box buzzer and the tenants thought it was kids playing games
Dunno if ban evasion is something you want to be bragging about publicly.
Why? If I am not attached to a username, then the username would just switch if I got banned. Life would continue on in 30 seconds as if nothing happened. No one here has any power over anyone, so why should I be scared?
A lot of communities frown upon it
Well, I frown on a lot of communities – so I suppose we’re even. And to answer your follow up ahead of time, I’ll go where I want and do what I want.
Oh shit, we got a badass over here
Thanks, I guess. But to me it’s a lot less grandiose when all I do is click a button and there is a fresh account.
I guess I could always spin up my own instance and keep one good account for acting superior, and then having thousands of accounts at the ready…. Like some people.
I'm not getting banned for saying it, and I see comments to that effect on Lemmy constant.
Say the word, Bart?
INCITING VIOLENCE!!! Woooo
Oh. So you incited violence. Hmm yeah wonder why anyone has an issue
So what’s your solution? More protesting?
If you haven’t noticed, ZERO efforts to curb fascism have worked in 2025.
My guess is that you’re not all that upset about it.
nah I love fascism. the answer is absolutely to scream about murder on social media tho
/s fucking obviously
So if you don’t have suggestions, just stay out of it. Sit back and let whatever happens happen.
So, the Winchester then?
You riding a horse?
Really? This is exactly what we should all be talking about especially after that last anti-1A, anti-Bill of Rights executive order.
Let's not forget some key points.
The "big beautiful bill act" is set up to destroy America slowly and most of it is due to take effect JANUARY 2027. Right after midterms. Not a coincidence. All of our healthcare will get more expensive and hospitals will shut down.
The tariffs the Republicans have approved are going to add between $4,000 and $8,700 to your annual living expenses as time goes on under Republicans.
If you want to ignore the blatant lies, propaganda, pedophilia, racism, fascism, and war crimes; you are a horrible person.
LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) faces up to 17 years in prison for an incident where she briefly made physical contact with federal law enforcement officers who were attempting to arrest another elected Democrat, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka. (..)
McIver is charged under a federal law that targets anyone who “forcibly assaults, resists, opposes, impedes, intimidates, or interferes” with a federal law enforcement officer carrying out their official duties. There’s no question that McIver, who joined a group of people attempting to block federal agents from seizing Baraka, impeded or interfered with that arrest. But she only committed a crime if she did so “forcibly,” and the Trump administration’s claim that she did is quite a stretch.
A video of Baraka’s arrest shows a chaotic scrum where officers repeatedly laid hands on McIver. McIver also made contact with the officers a few times; in the most significant interaction, she appears to have placed her forearm on an officer who had just knocked her off balance and pushed him away.
It may be unlikely that a jury would convict McIver, but the mere fact that she must hire lawyers to defend herself places an extraordinary burden on her. House ethics rules prevent her from accepting pro bono legal counsel, so she must either pay for her legal defense — which could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars or more out of pocket — or use campaign funds to pay her attorneys.
I stand by that it's insane that resisting arrest of oneself or others and opposing and impeding law enforcement is illegal. Sure you shouldn't be allowed to attack, but the desire to be free and to stop unjust arrest should be considered innately human for the former and a consequence of internalized values of citizenship for the latter.
but the desire to be free and to stop unjust arrest should be considered innately human for the former and a consequence of internalized values of citizenship for the latter.
Which is exactly why they made the laws against it. The spirit of the law is that a lawful arrest has to be allowed to take place and the courts should decide whether that arrest was valid. The letter of the law just makes you a felon if you try to stop an arrest, regardless of the situation.
Test run? No. It’s the actual thing.
She's the test case for more effectively prosecuting all his political enemies. He'll see what works on her and then apply it to everyone else.
This is what most of their authoritarian actions recently are. They apply it to a few first so they better apply it to the many.
It's a test run the same way my temporary fixes at work are temporary
The advice remains the same. Start arming yourselves and everyone you know.