They also took inspiration from the Catholic Church and the inquisition. The Church did ethnic cleansing long before the Nazis.
Hermit_Lailoken 61 points a year ago
Hermit_Lailoken 14 points a year ago
The pope at that time looked the other way.
InvertedParallax 16 points a year ago
Nazi legal theorists saw the U.S. as a “pioneer” in racist legislation.
James Q. Whitman, in his book "Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law",
Hermit_Lailoken 11 points a year ago
I believe they got some of their ideas from American eugenicists.
technocrit 2 points a year ago
Wherever there is a state, there is fascism.
InvertedParallax 38 points a year ago
I've lived in much of the country, and I'm not white.
There is racism everywhere.
But the South is like going from Lebanon to the deepest reaches of Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.
They're monsters, and proud of it.
technocrit -34 points a year ago
Cool islamophobic analogy,
InvertedParallax 38 points a year ago
That's not Islamophobic, the Taliban literally are misogynist, homophobic monsters.
To PHR's knowledge, no other régime in the world has methodically and violently forced half of its population into virtual house arrest, prohibiting them on pain of physical punishment.[238] — Physicians for Human Rights, 1998
The Taliban have committed a cultural genocide against the Afghan people by destroying their historical and cultural texts, artifacts and sculptures.[89]
The Taliban are about as Islamic as the Nazis are Christian.
Monsters are just monsters.
uawarebrah 49 points a year ago
Disgusting
ContessaChaos 38 points a year ago
She's damn sure old enough to know better. 😡
TheLowestStone 12 points a year ago
I doubt that.
4grams 83 points a year ago
Without a doubt this is the worst part. It was an immediate and irreversible swing from being an optimist who believes in the good of people to the complete opposite. I now believe humanity is fundamentally flawed and will destroy itself.
Watched too much Star Trek as a kid I guess.
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4grams 6 points a year ago
I really do appreciate the words and the sentiment. I would normally agree but right now my faith is still shattered. I think there are good and amazing people, who have done magical and wonderful things. I just think that small and petty tyrants are more common and more indicative of humanity as a whole. That the righteous have to look up from underneath the bootheel of those who deserve to be crushed under one themselves. Instead, those type get to run the show, and obviously always have.
This weekend has been bad mentally. I hope I can find some optimism again. I’m just so tired of expecting the worst and being proven right.
drhodl -2 points a year ago
"John Lewis and MLK Jr. still had faith in humanity"
Those guys were under the boot heel, and had no direction but up. I'd be more optimistic for the future of humanity if they were white dudes with everything to lose, agitating for an oppressed minority.
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Tar_alcaran 33 points a year ago
I once proudly said "when the internet is cheap and easy, everyone will have full access to all information and it will be effortlessly easy for people to stop believing falsehoods and it'll start a swing towards reason!"
I just want to hug teenage me.
Captain_Buddha 15 points a year ago
To tie star trek into an admittedly foolish level of hope: I believe there was a catastrophic war and social failing that, eventually, led to their pseudo-utopic future... right?
clashorcrashman 9 points a year ago
Wow, that's kinda on the nose, isnt it?
FlashMobOfOne 77 points a year ago
It didn't take Trump to make this real for me.
I remember how our country treated Muslims after 9/11. I remember how we treated people with AIDS and HIV when I was little. Right now I'm watching Nazi salutes on national TV and no one's getting punched even though the room is packed with the supposed opposition, and the people who consider themselves progressive are unironically enjoying people's families inability to afford food staples.
pahlimur 43 points a year ago
Progressives are becoming more radical as a response to right wing extremism.
I was raised republican and was completely caught up in their propaganda. During that time I would've let you starve to death while holding food if I was told you were part of the 'bad' group. You need to treat Republicans as the dangerous entity they are, don't bother being empathetic, they won't ever reciprocate.
TheLowestStone 29 points a year ago
don’t bother being empathetic, they won’t ever reciprocate.
If your statement is true, then you are evidence that we need to at least leave the door open to allow people who come to their senses a path to redemption.
fluffykittycat 24 points a year ago
You're not wrong but they have to be the ones to take the first step. If they don't want to we can't force them and we don't have time for that nonsense anymore. There should be Redemption paths but if someone's just awful that's their problem and we have to defeat them
TheLowestStone 7 points a year ago
Could not agree more.
FlashMobOfOne -15 points a year ago
The 'progressives' who voted Democrat remind me of abusers who punched their SO in the face and then got angry that they broke their hand.
For four years the vast majority of voters got poorer. Then, they ran Biden knowing his brain wasn't working and when he embarrassed them, they crowned a weak candidate who looked at all of these poorer people and said she'd change absolutely nothing. Even worse, she told them to be joyful about it. Just absolute political stupidity.
Trump did not broaden his coalition on extremism. He broadened it on Democrats' political priority to give more money to the rich at the expense of the poor. It's just stupid politically to be seen rooting for people's misery, because those votes are ripe for the picking thanks to Trump's unilateral wrecking of the economy.
The message shouldn't be: "Your vote was stupid and we hate you." It should be: "Hey, there's an election next year, and if you vote for us we'll fucking stop this shit." (Granted, that's hard to believe watching Schumer and co do nothing, but that's still the message they need to run with.
TheLowestStone 20 points a year ago
Yes, and I'm disgusted by people who threw their vote away or refused to vote blue over genocide despite the fact that things were clearly going to get worse under Trump. We've had this argument before and I'm not going to waste my time on it again.
SpaceShort 4 points a year ago
Voting democrat was still the lesser evil. The fault is with those in charge of the Democratic party, not their voters.
technocrit 20 points a year ago
Don't forget hundreds of years of ongoing slavery and genocide.
InvertedParallax 15 points a year ago
Or as Southerners call it "The Good Old Days".
When they say "Make America Great Again", they have a very specific time in mind.
boolean_sledgehammer 8 points a year ago
I grew up in these toxic conservative cultures. It became very clear to me at a young age that there was something deeply wrong with them. I've heard exactly what they talk about when they only think that the people in their fucked up tribes are listening.
These aren't potential allies to reach out to. They are enemies to overcome.
tiredofsametab 8 points a year ago
Yeah, the aftermath of 9/11 was shocking to me as well and, in many cases, deplorable. The use of the terms "sand n-word" and things like "rag-head" were flying around all over (at least in my part of Ohio), Sikhs and others were getting targeted by racists, and the whole thing was such a surreal time.
The small town I grew up in did have a fair amount of anti-semitism (uncool things were referred to by some as "that's Jewish") and I'm sure I heard slurs around that as well. I didn't expect the big, farther-left cities to descend into that.
DrBob 54 points a year ago
She was. She was John the Baptist but wanted to be Jesus. Opinion on her was fully established so even if she was 45% positive you could never move the dial on the 6% you needed to push her over the top.
She would have been an outstanding attack dog for a fresh candidate if she could have put her ego aside and accept that it wouldn't be her.
ZombiFrancis 36 points a year ago
She was trying to follow eight years of Obama that had primed an electorate for a radical change candidate. She was not going to be that and in fact personified that her Party would unfortunately not be the one to change.
Xanthobilly 42 points a year ago
She was also a terrible candidate in the same way Kamala was, which is something people still don’t accept. They both had terrible PR and were establishment pro-corporate candidates. Those two features guaranteed they wouldn’t extend past their base. At the time Bernie was offering a populist agenda, which is what Trump used to win both times. The DNC still to this day cannot shed corporate influence enough to do what’s necessary to win.
fluffykittycat 4 points a year ago
The word populous is hardly unspecific, but a lot of what Bernie Sanders wants his popular and if you run a candidate with roughly his platform they would win no problem. Neoliberal Centerists have no appeal anymore, it's completely dead as an ideology
SpaceShort 2 points a year ago
This
Wilco 14 points a year ago
This is it. I never got it until I read this. Obama was a work horse president. He actually overcame the conservative ratchet system and turned the dial towards liberal. He made the ACA and it was overall decent, even Conservatives liked it. They hate Obamacare if you mention it and want it destroyed, but will not want anything to happen to the ACA.
Hillary just didn't bring this vibe. I believe she was just a republican in democrat skin that was being put forward. Kamala gave me that same vibe.
We need to hear some batshit crazy stuff. The next democratic president needs break rules using executive orders just like Trump did. Abolish Citizens United and then arrest any judge that dares rule against the order, all the way up to the SCOTUS ... it seems the president has this authority now.
fluffykittycat 10 points a year ago
That's a good idea. Abuse the rules and offer the compromise that you will stop as long as all the changes they made are kept permanent and a constitutional amendment is passed that limits the power of the presidency and important ways, like saying that the president can be charged with a crime and that anyone who is or has ever been the president can never receive a pardon
peregrin5 3 points a year ago
arrest any judge that dares rule against the order, all the way up to the SCOTUS ... it seems the president has this authority now.
Just because the other side is doing this, this is not where we want to be as a country. The country would devolve into non-existence if both sides were acting as lawlessly as Republicans are now. What needs to happen is they need to face real consequences for breaking our democracy as much as they have been.
DrBob 4 points a year ago
Nobody else seems to remember the Hillary is 44 movement. It was an early version of foreign mischief and tried to do to the left what the Tea Party did to the right.
When I said she was John the Baptist I was actually thinking of her first run at president when she and John McCain were doing vodka shots in Moscow laughing about how one of them was going to be president.
She could have been a herald for a rejuvenation of the Democrats with a younger face. Instead she fought it all the way down.
someguy3 4 points a year ago
She said she'd have a map room to fight climate change. She declared fucking war on climate change. You know that big existential issue that all the leftists say they care about and would surely turn out for, right?
FlashMobOfOne 7 points a year ago
No, she wasn't.
If they hadn't rigged the primary for her, we never would have had a Trump.
SpaceShort 7 points a year ago
Not sure why this is downvoted. Almost all superdelegates already lined up for her at the start of the campaign and she already had an agreement with the DNC to control the party's finances and strategy in exchange for fundraising.
refurbishedrefurbisher 2 points a year ago
Or in 2020 when they rigged the primary for Joe Biden. Or in 2024 when they rigged the "primary" for Joe Biden (yes, a primary did happen, and I voted for Williamson).
FlashMobOfOne 2 points a year ago
I did too, haha.
JigglySackles 23 points a year ago
He's obviously not getting another turn with the communal brain cell so I don't think he'll be regretting anything.
andros_rex 42 points a year ago
Living in a southern state that is solid red - it’s just difficult to exist. Much more than half of the people I interact with would not view me as a human being if I weren’t stealth about my transness - if I didn’t pass. These people voted against my rights and safety. I’m surrounded by people who think people like me are subhuman.
buddascrayon 23 points a year ago
And I'll bet that every one of them calls themself a Christian. Fucking joke religion that doesn't even follow its own tenets.
ToastedPlanet 41 points a year ago
I already knew that there were plenty of awful people in the US since I studied the civil rights movement in school. Watching white people use fire hoses against Black people and white people being ok with that was a clue. For me the worst part has been watching my friends and family be brainwashed by the MAGA movement. People who I know to be otherwise wonderful people.
For me it's the answer to the zombie question. Do zombies have some part of their former personality still inside? The answer is definitely yes, and not some part, but 100% of their former selves.
I'll be talking to my Mom and she'll be her old self again for a whole conversation. Like the last decade never happened. Then something political will come up and she'll be gone again. And I'm stuck arguing with this zombie.
Fox News has taken multiple family members and I'm sure many more friends. Unlike zombies there was no attack or infection. The brainwashing happened through radio, television, and social media. And unlike zombies there is hope, because people do get out of cults.
grrgyle 8 points a year ago
My neighbour is a totally pleasant lady, but she believes the craziest shit. Like that Joe Biden was replaced by an actor, or that the autodoc (like from the movie Elysium) is real. Also just goes on about how beautiful the weather in Russia must be.
We're not even American ffs. She's getting got by second hand, like, collateral propaganda.
vaultdweller013 2 points a year ago
Honestly there could be really simple autodocs like the ones from the OG The Fallouts but if they do exist they are extremely simple prototypes that can probably stitch up a wound real good at best. Something I've noticed about conspiracy types be them creationists, Alien nuts, or maybe big foot enthusiasts is that they will take the plausible and make it implausible.
Though some of them do accidentally break the programing because they either gain the requisite knowledge that starts to disprove the conspiracy element or because they are shown enough evidence to the contrary. A good example is Lore Lodge who used to be all in on bigfoot years ago but now think that it's just wildmen, hermits, or crackheads.
grrgyle 3 points a year ago
A good example is Lore Lodge who used to be all in on bigfoot years ago but now think that it’s just wildmen, hermits, or crackheads.
I guess that's bound to happen if you're genuinely seeking knowledge.
Vespair 39 points a year ago
I'll never recover, personally. The way my world-view was shattered by how many not just nameless strangers, but people I actually know and interact with, are the worst sort of hateful monsters.
My world is a different place now, and I don't think I'll ever feel the same.
ArgumentativeMonotheist 6 points a year ago
It's stupidity and immaturity more than maliciousness, at least in the case of the US lumpen. The results might be more or less the same but the reframing helps with living in this world and believing in people's 'well-meaning nature'.
MyNameIsIgglePiggle 5 points a year ago
Not as malicious but covid opened my eyes up
Asfalttikyntaja 5 points a year ago
And then they wonder why I try to escape from the reality.
Alph4d0g 33 points a year ago
I think it's about time that the progressives start pandering to the dumbass class. Promising to do all sorts of dumbass and unconstitutional things and then supporting actual progressive policy when they get into office.
If this worked for the current Manchurian dumbass candidate - progressives can surely get their deception game in order.
theangryseal 11 points a year ago
Wouldn’t work.
That is unless they go all in and start carrying crosses around and talking about Jesus nonstop and somehow convince those folks that their opposition are all secret Satanists.
Makes my stomach hurt.
merc 33 points a year ago
It's also amazing just how incredibly tacky the MAGA movement is.
The Nazis were evil, but at least they wore clothing designed by Hugo Boss. At least they borrowed from impressive looking Roman-style banners and eagles. They understood how to use colour, light and so-on to project strength. Even if you acknowledge that the Nazis were evil, at least you can sort of understand why the German people were drawn in.
But the MAGA movement is so weak, so tacky. Even if I were somehow 100% aligned with their beliefs, I wouldn't want to associate with them in public because their whole aesthetic is so embarrassing. I can't understand how anybody can look at Trump and see competence, intelligence and strength. I also can't understand how anybody can look at a typical MAGA rally and see anything other than a design scheme that would make even Wal*Mart cringe.
Lemminary 5 points a year ago
Oh, I'm so glad you pointed it out. I thought I was going nuts thinking they were gaudy and in poor taste and I wasn't reading anyone saying it. 😂
The Mar-a-Lago face alone, and the gaudy golden shoes, statues, chandeliers and shit. Yuck lol
merc 3 points a year ago
I wouldn't know how to look it up, but I really wonder what the average German or Italian who didn't support the fascist governments thought about them. Did they see the governments as strong, organized and competent, but didn't support them because they trampled on people's rights, etc? Or were Mussolini and Hitler seen as clowns and their supporters as tacky idiots?
As someone who wasn't alive back then, and who doesn't know anybody who was (at least not in those countries), it seems like they were probably seen as competent, powerful and organized. But, I really hope everyone knows that outside of the MAGA movement, they're seen as tacky, incompetent, weak, stupid and embarrassing. I would hate for a historian in 2100 (assuming humanity survives long enough for that) to be writing about MAGA saying that their aesthetic was powerful and intimidating, when it's much more reminiscent of a circus.
MrsDoyle 2 points a year ago
In the UK a fascist movement took off at the same time as Nazism. It failed because their bullying tactics didn't wash with Brits, especially with what was going on in Germany. They were seen as the thugs they were, basically. Antifascists halted an attempted parade through the largely Jewish east end of London, "the Battle of Cable Street". After that the govt banned paramilitary uniforms etc. Once the war started of course that was it - the party was proscribed and most fascists were interned for the duration.
Meanwhile... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/...
merc 2 points a year ago
In modern day America, it seems like 99% of artists are anti-Trump. That isn't really surprising because fascism is about conformity and falling in line, whereas art tends to be about self-expression and challenging norms. So, it seems like in the modern world, very few artists or other creative people are willing to work with the Trump admin. I wonder if back in Hitler and Mussolini's time that wasn't the case.
AlexLost 1 point a year ago
Yeah, the Nazi socialist party had some gereally well received ideas and were able to grow an identity around it without shoving it in people's faces until they were well established all ng the path. Maga started at the end and thinks they can just push people around and throw baseless accusations around and people would believe them. Some do, but only the fringe folk and truly rabid followers. This is not full of quality people, usually the opposite actually.
CheeryLBottom 26 points a year ago
Maybe Reagan shouldn't have closed down the mental institutes and facilitate the stifling of access to mental health
technocrit -22 points a year ago
Libs blaming mental health? Fashy as usual. Anything to avoid blaming themselves/dems.
wanderwisley 26 points a year ago
I am born and raised in a small rural town in northern Nevada, and from my personal experience people have always been this level of unhinged in someway or another. With the rise of the Internet and Trump. It just became more easily accessible to talk to and listen to other unhinged individuals.
Prandom_returns 25 points a year ago
The big realisation, for me, was during Covid. I haven't recovered since. My view of people, in general, has changed forever.
TheLowestStone 14 points a year ago
Dude looks like a Mike Meyers character.
improve7elephants 18 points a year ago
I like to look at it this way: There are not many bad people but weak people who fall for propaganda. The real bad people are just a few but those are the ones manipulating the weak.
Soup 11 points a year ago
I know a lot of people who are pissed off and struggling yet don’t blame minorities for their troubles while actively voting against their best interests at every possible turn. I also know people who, even if it took some time, realized that conservatism is actually fucking awful. I even know some conservatives who are just really stupid or bad at economic policy but who are genuinely good people(so long as he can see you or even just hear that you’re a friend of someone he knows my dad will give you his shirt, and he doesn’t have ill-intentions towards minorities, for example).
Trump people are just fucking terrible. Their entire “ideology” is so rooted in being terrible that even if they were just weak morons sweat away by the propaganda I still cannot fathom how they weren’t tipped off by any of the thousands of moments which gave them the opportunity to reflect.
Apocalypteroid 10 points a year ago
Nah, a lot of people are cunts.
wowwoweowza 9 points a year ago
Glad you started this conversation. Allow me to just add: if we are to repair our republic and restore our constitution, we are going to have to find a common ground where these feeble minded followers can see that the world they reject is one that benefits them more than the dystopia they embrace.
This is going to require restraint and tolerance on our part.
head_socj 3 points a year ago
You don't have to be stupid to follow an authoritarian. In fact, your characterization is a huge driving force in their radicalization. People with legitimate grievances watched globalization leave them in the dust in pursuit of a multicultural, pluralistic society. This left them vulnerable to narratives that espoused their "historical" superiority amongst other groups and their subsequent entitlement to world primacy. It's more a function of a lack of diverse perspectives as a result of continued divestment from public services and goods, as well as geographical concentration of wealth and resources and other confounding variables.
I agree that the world before Trump was marginally better for these voters than the alternative they've elected, but your heirarchical paradigm is condescending, reductive, simplistif, obnoxious, short-sighted, and exemplifies why so many people swung that way to begin with.
Also, I can't underestimate how incredibly dumb and dense you have to be to consider that the previous paradigm was good for anyone outside of the West who was not already someone of considerable financial means.
wowwoweowza 0 points a year ago
Looks like one of us already has that common ground I was talking about in abundance. Thanks for leading the way.
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GreenKnight23 12 points a year ago
that guy isn't having fun, he's having a manic episode with violent fantasies.
nobody with that look in their eyes is in control of themselves.
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DarkFuture 17 points a year ago
The best advice I can give to anyone regarding MAGAts is to take advantage of them.
They're letting us know how stupid they are. They're marking themselves.
So take advantage of them. Run some scams on them. They'll fall for it. Don't let Daddy Trump be the only one robbing them blind.
vividkitten 5 points a year ago
I thought about running a far-right merch store selling shirts and stickers with all of their shitty little half-brained slogans on them and donating all the profits to left-leaning organizations. Make them indirectly fund the people they're trying to harm.
GooberEar 3 points a year ago
My baby insanity wolf self already does a variation of this.
When my conservative family and acquaintances give me gifts, I donate the gifts to charities or political groups that I know those folks would hate to support. Uncle Ben gives me a debit gift card? That's going to Bernie Sanders and the ACLU. Cousin Jen gave me a digital photo frame? That's getting sold and the money's going to Planned Parenthood.
The fact that I repeatedly tell these people not to give me any gifts and yet they still do is the icing on the cake.
drunkpostdisaster 1 point a year ago
I was thinking about writing something for one of those alt right self publishing companies.
seeigel 16 points a year ago
It is escapable. It's propaganda. Show them different news and they are communists.
The worst part of the Trump era is the realization of just how few people don't fall for the divide and conquer manipulation.
Remember_the_tooth 14 points a year ago
One of the best parts. They outed themselves.
Gammelfisch 13 points a year ago
When I examine my German family tree, this is the kind of shit they fell for too. The only difference, the USA had a healthy economy before Jan 2025, while Germany was a wreck.
kayzeekayzee 10 points a year ago
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DarrinBrunner 9 points a year ago
It's sad there are so many, but it's better that we know. They are the reason behind freedom of speech. If they aren't allowed to speak, then we don't know the extent of the problem. Only education can solve this problem in the long run--that is why they attack public education.
UncleGrandPa 9 points a year ago
THAT has been the most demoralizing part
That half of my fellow Americans willingly embraced Nazi Fascism
VampirePenguin 1 point a year ago
The voter turnout was very low, Trump's active supporters are more like a third of the country, which is still too much, but not insurmountable. And many of those were just one issue voting dummies. I think Trump's hardcore base is closer to 20%.
Showroom7561 9 points a year ago
I can't even imagine the type of person who could proudly brand themselves with the name of a rapist, after the fact.
Raiderkev 7 points a year ago
One of the good things about living in the bay area is seeing these people on TV, it's like seeing an NPC in a video game. It's hard to believe they are real. The 1st time I saw an IRL maga hat was 2020, and I'm pretty sure it was a tourist at the beach I had to point and laugh. The 2nd time was last month, and I gave that bitch the bird. She was wearing the cringe ass Elon Dark Gothic Maga hat.
arschflugkoerper 2 points a year ago
Thank you, someone had to do it o7
EffortlessEffluvium 7 points a year ago
It’s the greatest source of my depression…
AllNewTypeFace 6 points a year ago
Look at Stars ‘n Stripes Shrek there. Isn’t he just the happiest guy ever?
ArchmageAzor 6 points a year ago
I don't understand how the US is so prop-full of hateful, ignorant, angry people. Is it because of all the lead they ingested towards the end of the 20th century?
barneypiccolo 12 points a year ago
Its because conservatives have actively meddled in the educational system, and kept kids from learning and practicing Critical Thinking Skills. At the same time, they used the vast Conservative Propaganda Machine to teach people to rely on Faith-Based Thinking, where they believe whatever they are told, no matter how absurd or outlandish, as long as it comes from someone in authority, such as a radio/tv talk show host, a politician, a preacher, a cop, a boss, etc.
Thats why they went so hard after evangelicals. They have already proven that they will build their entire lives around the most bizarre mythology and fairy tales written by neolithic goatherders, so all they had to do was get them to accept their political fairy tales, too.
Critical Thinking Skills are the most important part of any person's education, and Conservatives have actively suppressed it. That's why the Department of Education has always been one of their worst enemies. The 'liberal indoctrination" they are always screaming about are Critical Thinking Skills.
GroundedGator 2 points a year ago
It's because those in power will always make sure the masses are blaming the "others" and that there will always be "others"to blame. They don't want people looking too closely and seeing that it is them who make life hard.
technocrit 6 points a year ago
Imagine living in USA and only realizing it 2 months ago.
Dragonstaff 3 points a year ago
Unfortunately, realization is amazingly escapable.
Clinicallydepressedpoochie 3 points a year ago
Growing up we just called it the south
drunkpostdisaster 3 points a year ago
I hope that guy gets ink poisoning.
peekingduck 1 point a year ago
Honestly it’s not a bad thing to be able to see all these humans who are about as useful as smegma. See them, single them out, and when the time comes, well, you know lol…..
boughtmysoul 1 point a year ago
They’re not sending their best.
HalfSalesman 1 point a year ago
Not just one of the worst but arguably the worst.
One day Trump wont be president but his supporters will continue to be around after him. They'll continue to make up 31% of the voter eligible population.
El_Azulito -1 points a year ago
I get the sentiment, but posts like this only foment the hate from either side even more. Just adding fuel to the outrage, and as long as we keep doing it like this, there will never be an offramp. The freeway will simply end in fire. This strategy is not tenable.
El_Azulito 1 point a year ago
What the fuck is a Democrate, you dilettante?
clonedhuman -9 points a year ago
I'm not 100% sure, but I think this picture was AI generated.
technocrit 1 point a year ago
Funny guess but, if you do an image search, it seems pretty real.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/...
It's funny how the capitalist media interviews this lady to explain her side. White privilege in action. Imagine capitalist media doing that for any refugee, anti-genocide activist, leftist, etc. Liberalism supports fascism.
RecursiveParadox -3 points a year ago
Have an upvote to bring you back up. Looking closely I think you may be right (but I'm not an expert in these things, just do pattern recognition a lot).
InputZero 6 points a year ago
If that's what you think, you completely missed the message. If anyone wants to live peacefully I'll let them, that's what we all want. If anyone starts to take away people's rights, disappears people, call my neighbors subhuman, ext, I'll punch them square in the face in the face.
XM34 5 points a year ago
Cry louder! Nazis deserve everything they get. Because unlike any of the groups the attack so aggressively, they placed themselves in the line of fire. They get attacked because they CHOSE to be inhhumane monsters.
I have not an ounce of mercy left for these creatures!
AlexLost 1 point a year ago
Is that maybe exactly how everyone that is pulling the strings on all this want you to feel? Just food for thought. You be you, just don't close the door on these people, we've all spent some time lost.
thanatotus 3 points a year ago
you just wear a different colored hat
You almost understand this issue 🤣
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themeatbridge 1 point a year ago
"bUt WhAt AbOuT tHe PeOpLe WhO kIlLeD nAzIs? ThEy WeRe JuSt As BaD!"
That's you. That's what you sound like.
drunkpostdisaster 1 point a year ago
It's retaliation and self defense on a sociological scale
rottingleaf -11 points a year ago
Choosing a photo with unattractive faces is not an argument.
I don't think I've ever seen political activism which wouldn't show the same.
But - it's a bit like that joke, bow your head down and say, looking at your boots, - "life is wonderful", then raise your head up and say looking at the sky, - "life is shit", which one do you like more? I think the latter is less shit.
So - Trump supporters are people who are used to seeing shit first around them, but that doesn't mean they are all bad people because of this. Yes, they are mostly conscious in aggressive skepticism, one can say trolling, of politics, but maybe that's good. Yes, it's a bit like a kid having tantrum messing with other kid's toys. But - those things they are not treating seriously, are those things really serious? Those institutions they are harming, how much of those was real and how much just a respectable appearance?
Crash tests are useful, and disagreement is useful, and messing things up is useful. It's a crisis, not a catastrophe.
andybytes -60 points a year ago
Oh, and like the genocidal liberals, are any better. It takes two to tango and we live in an imperialist fascist empire that is now coming to the tail end of neoliberal policies. This whole, them against us, is just not gonna work, and it's not helpful. Libturds wafting in their own byproduct. It's all about me me me me me me me that's the problem with America. All the other countries around the world are biting their nails, but also enjoying the show. Yankees Get What Yankees Deserve.
technocrit -9 points a year ago
They didn't say that. It's pretty obvious that liberalism is also a right-wing ideology. Genocide Joe spent a year+ supporting genocide. He spent his whole term attacking migrants. He did nothing to help people. Etc. Liberalism is a major foundation for fascism. They're both right-wing just with different branding.
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They were always here.
I escaped from the south to the coasts, but I always tried to warn people how vile the worst of us were.
Nobody coukd believe it, but remember, Hitler wrote about the south as the model for Germany in mein kampf, and the nazis copied the Nuremberg Laws from Jim crow almost verbatim.
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