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Between palantir and flock cameras they don’t even need to load up the van.
i like to speak up in loud bangs
But what do we do? I feel so powerless
grow a pair and buy a gun
And then what?
Buy bullets. Practice shooting.
Form a terrorist cell, network for it to grow, and start killing people/destroying infrastructure
Or stop pretending like buying a gun does anything and enjoy what the majority of Americans wanted
study history. imagine likely scenarios. learn how to avoid them. prepare prepare prepare.
My friends and are I looking into making our own commune.
Looks like Robert Reich is in the Fediverse
Early warning signs of fascism:
1.) Powerful and continuing expressions of nationalism
2.) Disdain for the importance of human rights
3.) Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause
4.) The supremacy of the military/avid militarism
5.) Rampant sexism
6.) A controlled mass media
7.) Obsession with national security
8.) Religion and ruling elite tied together
9.) Power of corporations protected
10.) Power of labor suppressed or eliminated
11.) Disdain and suppression of intellectuals and the arts
12.) Obsession with crime and punishment
13.) Rampant cronyism and corruption
14.) Fraudulent elections
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They helped building it, by constantly taking the “moral high ground” (succumbing to fascists, not calling them fascists because some people making racist jokes might weren’t actually fascists).
At a minimum, multiple states are/were all they way up to the Governor’s seat. Yes.
It’s a sliding scale and it’s recently descended into unambiguously facist territory.
Its like diagnosing a disease: just one symptom isn’t conclusive, but when you have all the known symptoms you can be pretty sure what it is.
USA was founded by slavers who were the pre-cursors to fascism.
USA was fascist from inception even before fascism.
The Democrats were less obvious but still bow down to corporations.
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” — Benito Mussolini.
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Corporatism doesn’t have to come with racism. Technically fascism neither, but nobody uses it like that.
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Sex, size, place of birth, lineage. Why is race necessary to divide people?
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Merger is the key word.
Corporates do have some power, to greater or lesser degrees, in most government systems. But very few have the level of control over writing laws and paying politicians that the USA has.
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So watch out for more signs of fascism, particularly when corporate rights trump individuals.
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Freedom of the Press still exist
lol. Gotta remember freedom means dollars and press means buying politicians.
Not to mention the many actual journalists murdered by empire. There have been hundreds in palestine alone… Plus prisoners like chelsea manning, etc.
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Reich calls out the Führer, there’s a headline that writes itself.
He’s got a very unfortunate surname for someone who is so anti-Trump lol
I wonder if his dad was Robert Reich Jr…
Richy Reich
His son is Sam Reich, CEO of dropout.
It also means rich in german. It funny when he tweets against the rich.
We need to disappear this regime.
If Trump can do it, then any president can do it. That’s the real problem.
As awful as he is, I think he serves a good example of the opposite being true. It can serve as a warning.
“If we give any President this authority, someone like Donald Trump could use it if they ever got elected.”
But what if he can disappear people who speak out?
Well, I look at this way.
Trump is going to fuck me and my family no matter what.
The only way Trump is not going to fuck you is if you make over $250k a year, are a white male adult, and are willing to kiss the ring.
Eventually I will be on that list of people to oppress/disappear because of who I am, not what I’ve done or will do. It’s more than likely you or your family members will be too.
Because while they start with the outspoken, when opposition is silenced, they will move on to crush the meek with a horrible glee. In the end, it won’t matter one whit to them what you do or say unless it gets in their way - it’s about what they want to do to you.
So let your inner Luigi roar. They’re coming for us anyway. You have a chance to speak NOW. Use it. They haven’t won yet, and they won’t if enough of us speak out.
laughs in EU
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.- Martin Niemöller
Just in case people don’t know the original.
That’s not the original.
Hint: any version that doesn’t mention “communists” is “filtered”.Good point. I forgot about the communist part and only copied the first one on wiki due to laziness. Thanks for reminding me.
Which already tells you too much about Wikipedia.
Wikipedia is not an entity, it’s a collective. You, personally, can fix whatever is incorrect there. And some would say, should.
that the best we’ve got is still not good?
Good call, I didn’t know that. This is the original
Als die Nazis die Kommunisten holten, habe ich geschwiegen, ich war ja kein Kommunist. Als sie die Sozialdemokraten einsperrten, habe ich geschwiegen, ich war ja kein Sozialdemokrat. Als sie die Gewerkschafter holten, habe ich geschwiegen, ich war ja kein Gewerkschafter. Als sie mich holten, gab es keinen mehr, der protestieren konnte.It’s not straight forward to translate, because there is no active verb in English for “to remain silent”.
When the Nazis came and took the communists I remained silent Since I wasn't a communist. When they imprisoned the social democrats I remained silent Since I wasn't a social democrat. When they took the trade unionists I remained silent Since I wasn't a trade unionist. When they took me There was no one left Who could protest.Does “I chose silence” work?
Good idea, but I think “remain silent” applies a bit more generally. The phrase “you have the right to remain silent” is always translated to “sie haben das Recht zu schweigen”. So I went with that.
(“schweigen” being the verb I’m looking for here)
I think I’d say ‘I kept silent’ as more common or ‘I kept quiet’, probably an even more common phrase. ‘Kept’ would be slightly more ‘active’ than remained I think.
But “remain” does some nice extra poetic work here; it foreshadows another usage of [narrator’s] “remains” - the corpse or ashes or whatever lifeless material is left after their death.
And the poem doesn’t mention the disabled, who died first.
You need to do more than speak out though. We’ve been speaking out about Trump for a decade and he’s was reflected and is currently breaking America to rebuild it into some kind of dictatorship.
Green card holders aren’t citizens.
If non-citizens don’t get due process, nobody does. All they have to do is claim you’re not a citizen and then good luck proving you are one without due process.
who said they are and how is that relevant
But that’s the point. If he can do it to people here legally and the other branches don’t push back and/or he ignores judgements concerning it, then the laws start to become meaningless and he’s little less than a king. After that it’s a slippery slope to detaining citizens for speaking poorly about the government, it’s officials or Trump himself.
And not any kind of king. An absolutist king.
