cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/65164
In a set of fascistic speeches on Thursday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, White House power broker Stephen Miller, and other top Trump administration officials labelled the political left as a “terrorist” threat and vowed to use all of the tools at their disposal to systematically destroy left-wing groups. Representatives from 67 countries gathered in the U.S. on Thursday for a meeting…
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Sadly ironic, considering that I think I’ve already seen this meme before. :(
It’s actually an original of mine. I used it so often, i can’t even remember on which platform i used it first… Recently i updated it with the Italian flag.
I am so sick of this pen-faced alien being given a mic.
Nazis traditionally labeled people on the opposite end of their political spectrum the enemy and it’s not long before they are disappeared on a consistent basis.
I wonder if the people who are in the place to act are going to be able to stop the next Kristallnacht before it happens.
They already got the concentration camps in place.
Please use the term Progromnacht. Kristallnacht is how the Nazis named it and is highly euphimistic.
Americans will listen to this and then just drive to their shitty jobs they hate like everything is normal. They don’t fucking care.
That’s basically the average the country is left with between the decent people and the tens of millions who voted for idiotic racist rapist fascism three times in a row.
It’s like a third don’t care, a third do care, and a third are enthusiastically in favor.
A third “do care” as long as “caring” requires literally no real effort, risk, or sacrifice on their part. They care performatively, which is as good as not caring at all.
Edit: lol the meme generator’s US flag drop-in only has 49 stars
Quit your bitching and state how you’re helping. You keyboard warriors are fucking annoying, man.
US Americans, especially white US Americans, are incapable of doing anything because a violent revolution of their state is against their material interests and they know it. This is why settler US Americans are not part of the global proletariat. For the global proletariat violent revolution is a either a side step in material reality or a benefit but the settler US Americans, like Israelis, benefit materially from their state via subsidy and sharing in the global extraction from the empire.
You don’t even know if he’s American or not.
And even if he is, what difference does it make? You’re in a Lemmy comment section. People are going to write what they’re thinking. Even if they don’t, this sort of thing will still be in their heads. Which you can’t even blame anyone for considering how impotent the masses are in the US. Thoughts like these are perfectly understandable regardless of who it’s coming from.
No, they’re not “understandable”.
people are going to write what they’re thinking
And I’ll keep telling them how much of a useless fuck they are when, they too, aren’t putting their fucking necks out on the line to stem this.
Do you care to explain exactly why it’s not understandable?
In any case, you’re getting angry at the wrong people. This is counter-productive.
I am American, I was making fun of the keyboard warrior I replied to, and Poe’s Law is way too fucking strong in this space. 🙄
Yes, my point was more that you being or not being American is irrelevant in this context, considering the USA’s status as the global hegemond (thereby causing everyone to have a stake in it regardless). My thoughts still stand.
It’s really fucking easy to be a tough guy on the Internet. Congratulations.
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Centrist democrats nod in respectful agreement.
I used to think it was a bit hyperbolic to say everything they say is projection, but you know…
I’d like to see one example of where it’s been shown to be hyperbolic, though.
I only keep saying it because it keeps being true.
Here in the United States, we have taken the necessary and essential action of formally recognizing left-wing violence as a form of political terrorism that is a direct threat to our national security and survival of our republican form of government,
Oddly telling how he doesn’t say “a threat to our democracy”.
left-wing violence
Isn’t it interesting how they never give actual examples when they say shit like this? You’d think it would be trivial since it’s such a pressing issue.
He’s a white supremacist fascist piece of shit so he means minorities not imprisoned and enslaved & fair elections where one person holds one vote not weighted by gerrymandered counties or low population states when referring to left-wing violence.
Feels like the R in “republican” should have been capitalized.
Yes and they don’t hide it.
https://www.heritage.org/american-founders/report/america-republic-not-democracy
wtf
yup. If you’ve hung out around American conservatives for a while, this is something you will have heard. I was actually kind of surprised to hear trump and vance claiming to defend democracy
Well, unfortunately for him if you go far left enough, you get your guns back… Just saying…
The latest episode of This American Life is about this. It’s really fucking scary those protestors got 30 years for moving boxes while the capitol protestors got a slap on the wrist and a presidential pardon.
“Fascistic” means like fascism. This isn’t like fascism, it is fascism.
You know what?
I know in history class, they said some people ignored Hitler’s rise to power — believing he wouldn’t get very far.
Americans thought that of Trump in 2016. Trump thought that of Trump in 2016.
I’m at a point now where, if you’re spewing fascist shit, you’re a threat. I see you as an immediate threat, because the problem is that we haven’t been taking people like you seriously.
Don’t get fooled a third time.
I think a lot of people assume we have to be at full blown Nazi genocide before “fascism” or “fascist” can be reasonably used.
Nope.
It’s fascism now. Already. Currently happening. Here in America. Now.
We just haven’t reached the apex…yet.
I don’t know what I hate more, that these pricks with fingers feel validated enough to be openly stating this kind of shit, or that there is nobody that is in earshot this verbal diarrhea that puts him on the spot over it. Especially in the broader republican side at large. Just letting this happen because it’s “your guy” is some weak shit.
Has the US forgotten already that Hitler looked at the US race laws with admiration in Mein Kampf?
This isn’t new. This cancer has never been excised, just bandaged over because it became inconvenient to capitalist interests at the time.
As far as I can see, this shift back towards fascism in the US is the response to the rise of China as an economic and military power.
Some of this rise is attributable to the decline of favour of fossil fuels, and China’s position as market leader in solar and wind generation technology. This is why Trump has a hate for renewable energy, and such a throbbing micro-peen for oil. The US is being left behind, fast.
Has the US forgotten already that Hitler looked at the US race laws with admiration in Mein Kampf?
Forgotten? Most schools here probably don’t even teach that. I would bet that most Americans are not at all aware of this fact.
Many Americans probably think they liberated the entirety of Europe during WW2 with a little help from the British and Canadians.
[Nervous laughter remembering my history class textbooks…and the History Channel specials…and appreciating how games like Medal of Honor and Call of Duty showcased many other countries’ contributions to the effort I was never even aware of]
Heh. Heh? :3 lol
I remember really liking, I think it was Call of Duty 4 (?) as a kid because the main character was a Soviet soldier, and it was such a fresh perspective for that kind of game.
Are we thinking of World at War maybe? The one where you were a sniper stealthily sneaking through the Red Square with a Mosin Nagant?
That game was amazing. Along with Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, I’ve played it through multiple times.
MoH:AA also featured a brief stint as the Soviets, too.
Both also made sure we knew the PPSH “pe-peh-sheh” is one of the coolest SMGs ever made. :D
I remember Call of Duty 3 on the Wii had a section where you played as a Polish tank crew!
Yeah I think it was World at War. MoH games were cool too, but back then before online, CoD single player games were so much more cinematic
Republicans are spineless cowards. Always have been.
I think until I see real Americans taking to the streets on mass, all Americans are spineless cowards.
2nd amendment cosplayers been larping this whole time!
Let’s emphasize the fact that he is not saying people who march around carrying rifles and machine guns intimidating Americans in their hometowns. Nor is he talking about people who commit mass shootings. Or people who pollute the air, water, and soil that we need to survive. No, it is people with left wing and liberal ideology, people using their freedom of speech.
Fucking evil. I hate everybody who voted for this and everybody who didn’t bother to vote.
Fucking evil. I hate everybody who voted for this and everybody who didn’t bother to vote.
Oh yeah, All those Leftists who famously vote blue no matter who. With all that hate in your heart are you sure you aren’t a Republican?
Leftists don’t vote blue no matter who. With all that confusion are you sure you’re not conflating leftists and liberals?
A lot of people misunderstood the original comment you replied to. They know leftists don’t vote blue no matter who. They were bullying the original commenter for talking down to “everybody who didn’t bother to vote”.
and the republican-lite crowd who never made fighting this an sort of priorirty while they committed genocide, you hate them too right.
No, because I’m not a dipshit that needs to both sides this.
Because even if I hadn’t been paying attention to both parties for 20+ years and knew beyond question that one party was way, way, way , way, way, way, way more capable and willing to vote in favor of average Americans, I still wouldn’t be stupid enough to both sides this because one side is just so obviously better than the other, and in the current political climate, and for the foreseeable future, one of those two sides will be in power at any given time.
TL;DR - Take this trash both sides garbage to a platform stupid enough to fall for it.
No, because I’m not a dipshit that needs to both sides this.
You’re a dipshit because you vote as you’re told in exchage for precisely nothing. And then you tell yourself stories about had you had no choice. And its pathetic.
Fuck off, we don’t need this “both sides same” crap in every single discussion.
Fuck off, we don’t need this “both sides same” crap in every single discussion.
then maybe people shouldnt start the same topic over again if you dont like the same answer to the topic. If you dont like a dirty nappy dont shit in it every time and expect a different outcome. You’ll get the same answer every time this is brought up, and that surprises you?
What Soggy said.
yes, well thats what the upvote button is for isnt it.
Upvote isn’t strong enough
What confuses me about this administration is that they seem to be aiming to make any political belief or action that does not support them worthy of a lengthy prison sentence.
… but [REDACTED] is also a lengthy prison sentence. So they’ve removed the incentive to not [REDACTED].
In other words… why design a system where your opponents have nothing to lose? They will be pushed towards acting like they have nothing to lose.
That’s exactly what they want. If they have nothing to lose, they fight back, then the right can point at that and use it as confirmation of their originally bullshit claims. Fascism 101.
I see this sentiment a little more frequently than I see the following that I’ll paraphrase:
“They’re doing this to egg on a response [so we should not give them what they want by pushing back]” is an accidental or intentional PsyOp campaign.
If your opponent threatens to fight you if you fight back, you would choose to surrender before the fight begins?
It’s an incredibly effective PsyOp when arguably the largest downside of anti-MAGA people is their rampant apathy, and that sentiment is like gasoline to a fire. “Oh, the enlightened response is to stay home like I did in 2024? Sick.”
Oh, sorry, don’t mistake my explanation for complacency. I’m all for fighting these fascist pieces of shit by any means necessary. You’re damned if you do, damned if you don’t, might as well do.
Label me a terrorist? I’ll show you one.
In other words, Labeling Theory.
You’re goofy…
… are you insulting someone for agreeing with you? That’s pretty goofy.
Didn’t really seem to be agreeing or disagreeing, you’re just saying things lol. Your comments didn’t seem to have much purpose other than describing in further detail what is being said like some kind of AI subtext generator. Hence, goofy.
