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I mean I hear what you're saying, and I actually agree with several points, but my first response is good luck getting people to hear you about the poison that is social media or your plan for traditional media (& I don't wanna say the bad words but you know which words the folks on the right will call that -- obviously they are fearmongering) while we are dealing with literal Nazis deporting people and inching ever closer to deporting perceived enemies, LGBTQ/trans folk, liberals, etc. In fact I have told anyone I can in Canada/other countries I know or come into contact with to contact their government and advise them to take action against social media to prevent more Elon Musk-like abuse.
I am 100% interested in implementing what you're saying - it's one of the first real proposals I've heard for helping deal with this mess - but these things are only going to be able to be dealt with when we aren't at risk of shipping even more legal immigrants or our own civilians to foreign prison camps. You are missing the forest for the trees because of your desire to fight the, and your anger at, the system.
I agree the system is broken. You are 100% right we wouldn't be here if it hadn't been able to be abused to this extent in the first place.
But we are here and we have to deal with the cards we are given - and considering they're starting to ramp up social media monitoring for folks that are "pro Palestine" or "anti semitic", it's fairly safe to say that's beyond a slippery slope to changing the search terms to being anti-Trump.
He's literally revoking the security clearances of people that investigated him and threatening to prosecute them. That's literally political prosecution unless you continue to deny Russia connections like a fool/traitor. He's literally talking about how he wants to pursue sending American civilians that are prisoners, to foreign prisons. Just like Nazi Germany started doing to the Jews.
I say this gently because, assuming you're a real person I again agree with some of your thoughts and think they're worth expanding on:
get your head out of your ass. It is astonishing that you can dare make claims about the "dog tearing up the flower bed" within this context. If you think "it could never happen here," then why are we still waiting on them to bring back the man that the Supreme Court said that the admin must bring back, and that we are supposedly paying El Salvador to house since they are still technically OUR prisoner?
You should actually read the article I posted. It calls this out directly -- in that continue down this path and it's likely you aren't going to see reality until a military boot kicks you in the balls.
Project2025.observer <--- a website tracking the progress of P2025's phase 1 public goals. Take a look. It's already like 50% complete.
Project2025 ends with Trump calling the Insurrection Act and using its powers to attempt to remain a dictator. Everything I have shared with you backs up that the plan is to make Trump into the "CEO dictator" of the United States.
Is this really what you would have been shouting about in Weimar Germany before the Nazis seized absolute power? That we should be focused on some other issue instead of STOPPING THE NAZIS???????
"in July 1932, the National Socialists had attained but 37 per cent of the vote. But the 63 per cent of the German people who expressed their opposition to Hitler were much too divided and shortsighted to combine against a common danger which they must have known would overwhelm them unless they united, however temporarily, to stamp it out.”
Excerpt From The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Shirer, William
They're already in power. They're working to ensure that they can stay in power. They are deporting people en masse, even people here on legal asylum. They are threatening to ship American prisoners there. Both Trump and Musk have made comments about wanting to jail people they view/claim as funding anti-Tesla protests (largely in reference to the damage being done but every single step brings us closer to outright targeting of anyone the right doesn't like.)
You know it's true. They already make jokes about how all of us have "TDS." They joke about how liberalism is a mental illness. Do I have to continue to beat the danger into your head?
4chan is in power now. 4chan is not joking. Trump is not joking. Continue to ignore it and the Republic is lost. the world will be lucky if Europe and the rest of "the West" survive China/Russia expansion. We already know China is eyeing up Taiwan. You think with how Trump is handling Ukraine, he's gonna put much effort into helping Taiwan? Continue to ignore it, and the entire world is in peril. It's not hyperbole. It's not a joke. It's not trolling.
It's only gonna be trolling till the first few people get killed by MAGA like Proud Boys, or ICE. Mark my words.
Sorry yall, I'm a wordy mother fker. Probably got a little bit of diarrhea of the mouth. <_<
So who is the enemy we should focus on? Is it Trump? Is it Putler/China? Neoliberal and austerity policies of both parties that created the fertile ground for neofascism?
The OP article is about Trump and US economic policy, and I replied to a comment that segways away from "stopping the nazis" and instead focuses on the evil "Putler".
Yeah the parallels to weimar are there, but it's that you can't see them - you are the ones who distract with this conspiracy theory that Trump is somehow Putin's asset or his creation. It's like saying that Hitler is Stalin's puppet because they want to divide up Poland (Ukraine) - just because they help each other out it's not reasonable to start persecuting the socialists - which they did and do now! (Tankies bad, defederate).
Buddy if you can't hold more than 2 thoughts in your head there's no real discussion to be had lmfao. The longer you are in denial about Russia the more power they have.
What are we personally gonna do about Russia? If you mean by force - nothing. Don't fight a land war in Asia. (In fact, conquest & imperialism is bad, mmkay?) Bombing our enemies only makes hardened future enemies. But they are attacking every democracy, and they are assaulting ours via MAGA. That is useful to get people to see. Russia, and their agents, are not working for you/us. They are infiltrating and co-opting governments around the world.
If you can't or won't see it you're just blind. 🤷🏻
Absolute dogwater argument. That I'm distracting or don't see Weimar parallels because I also understand/see how Russia has been attacking everyone 😂😂😂😂 👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻 I'm trying to focus on unity and the many issues we are facing
And you're here crying like a bitch "but nooo stop with Russia bad"
Are you Russian?
Dude, i read every word, and you are 100% correct. Im wordy too, but you're a good writer, and your arguments are coherent and supported with sources, logic, and critical thinking, so no need for apologies.
He's also contemplating paying compensation to the Jan6 Traitor/Terrorists. The most proven, violent, battle-tested MAGATraitors will now be on his payroll. These MAGA Psychos viciously attacked COPS for hours, they'll go through peaceful protesters like a tank through butter.
The 2026 mid-terms are shaping up to be a bloodbath, and he can't afford to lose his already thin majorities in Congress. If the Dems take even one chamber, they will have control of investigative committees with subpoena and arrest powers (if they can be courageous and bold enough to use them). He can't afford to leave it up to rigging, especially with so many states and districts across the country.
Next summer (2026) will be the biggest protest season in American history. Every city will be having multiple protests over multiple issues, and by then the MAGA Nazis will have done so much ugly stuff to America that the citizens will be seething.
HitlerPig will encourage his paid ~~Brownshirts~~ er, RedHats to infiltrate the protests and instigate violence. Then he will mobilize the authorities, and even the military, to quell the violence with even more ferocious violence. Imagine Tiananmen Square, but in cities across America.
Around mid- to late-October, when its too close to the election for the courts to intervene, he will declare Martial Law and suspend the Mid-Term Election, until peace can be restored, which will never happen because he controls the violence.
Once we miss the mid-terms, he'll just ignore any SCOTUS decisions, and breeze right past the 2028 election, and anyone who hasnt already given up hope, will.
I also think he will quit NATO, and join a new alliance with Russia, China, North Korea, etc., and will give Alaska to Russia, and Taiwan to China, as a show of good faith, because they promised that he could have Canada and Greenland. He's that fucking stupid.