The cure is radical ideological change... but many people don't think.
this post was submitted on 14 Dec 2025
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Everyone is right, everyone is always right and that is why we must kill to make our vote count because everyone has to kill to make there vote count, that democracy in action!
Ah yes.. being morally correct will stop the fascism! Just like how it stopped fascism in WW2 and so on!
Even if we could "vote out" MAGA, if our response is as passive and non-disruptive as we have been, we've effectively legitimized big business' strategy here. The oligarchs don't care who is in power. If they can get massive tax cuts from one Nazi term every 16 years, they will back those Nazis once every 16 years -- If the people rioted and destroyed their businesses during Nazi/gilded regimes, the big business CEOs would rethink that strategy.
The point of an uprising now isn't just about stopping the current fascists -- it's about sending a clear message that the USAmerican people will not tolerate fascism. In business terms: Fascism is not profitable, regardless of what financial policy is on the table. This was the unspoken societal assumption throughout our nation's history, but bit by bit the line has been tested, and the bar has been lowered.
The War on Drugs' intrusions in our personal lives; The War on Crime's mass imprisonment of US residents; The economic pressures of Trickle-down policy; The War on Terror's normalization of mass-surveillance; ICE detentions, assaults, and human trafficking -- Each step is built upon the last. Each step begets the next intrusion of our quality of life.
When we go on working and consuming, keeping this system running; we normalize all the injustices that have occurred up to this point. Year by year, we give all politicians, oligarchs, and corporations less of a reason to fear us. Every time we boast about non-violence, we further push the narrative that the people will take whatever you give them.
We deserve the treatment we allow.
I'd pay money to watch people try to defeat fascism with nothing but bats in 2026.
Edit: I lied. I don't pay to watch anything. But I would watch a couple of ads.
This meme accidentally proves the point: you don’t beat authoritarianism by copying its methods.
This meme accidentally proves the point: you don’t beat authoritarianism by copying its methods.
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Only it's worse than fascism now.
Fascism is old hat, today we're dealing with its evolved for in modern authoritarianism.
What we are dealing with today is something even Goebbels couldn't have come up with. How they have made their evil, hateful ideology permeate everything through association and some really effective and sophisticated psychology.
Trump isn't the architect of it, he is just a beneficiary.