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I was trying to get into university in America, failed and got into one in Japan two years ago, so probably this:

World's falling apart, huh? Really dodged a bullet there. Also can't wait to be quadlingual.

I don't think he's that smart, but if he is that's actually brilliant.

Having lived in Germany in the '90s and given current political winds, I don't see AfD being able to get very far.

Two crucial things have changed between the 90s and now, though: the standard of living and the number of immigrants (both real and as perceived by Germans). The former is obvious, and as for the latter between the 90s and now there have been multiple (American-caused European-enabled) refugee crises in Europe due to the influx of Middle Eastern people fleeing war. This has made Germany go haywire, counteracting any advantage they may have had on the anti-fascism front over Americans—who are for the most part already used to having Others in the same environment as the Self.

According to a study in 2018 by Leipzig University, 56% of Germans sometimes thought the many Muslims made them feel like strangers in their own country, up from 43% in 2014. In 2018, 44% thought immigration by Muslims should be banned, up from 37% in 2014.[26] -Wikipedia

This sort of disdain for an Other is the indicator for fascism, and it's very much on the rise in Germany.

They have guardrails yes, but those are only a mildly effective stalling method. Fundamentally Germany is falling at breakneck speed too, so those guardrails will only be a mild inconvenience.

"Again" when did the left ever have the presidency?

Germany's AfD gets a lot of publicity, but I'm betting on the UK being the next Western democracy to fall into fascism.

I know this community is open to all sorts of questions, but you clearly just have an axe to grind that you're looking to see validated here. Come again when you're trying to learn something.

Which, by the way, he has no authority to do.

At this rate Americans need to be prepared for the very real possibility of potentially lethal clashes with police forces if they want to win this.

Never let a good crisis go to waste, as they say.

Luckily we've already had a complete turn over of leadership and they're a lot more progressive this time.

To be clear, what the party leadership will affect is future—not current—democrats. Expect the DNC to shift left over the next few years, but don't expect the current neoliberal shitstains in office like Schumer, Pelosi and Jeffries to become smaller shitstains. Someone still needs to primary those people.

Honestly it's kind of refreshing that meaningful numbers of people are finally acknowledging that this is just the vultures picking on the long dead corpse of the US instead of continuing to buy stupid shit, medicating, and otherwise playing pretend we were still a nation of laws and democratic representation.

I don't think so. I still see talk of the midterms and even 2028 general as if those matter in any way now. The sentiment I'm seeing is that the system simply had an error that can be fixed rather than a symptom of a much deeper problem. In particular, I see way too much trust in the Democrats and way too little leftwing politics.

That Ben G worked to limit their power once the nation was formed is a mark against him being a fascist to me, and he didn't go as hard on violent struggle as the meaning of life as full fasc-fascism does.

Fair enough. I'm still going to call the average Israeli a fascist from the start (something something settlements), but I guess their ruling class was too committed to the idea of a democratic Zionist state to allow a true fascist society to develop until Oslo and the lead up to the assassination of Rabin. The way I see it, the assassination of Rabin—rather than being a sign of a fundamental change—was things snapping back into place. The Israeli leadership had simply come to represent more accurately the people.

But the International Community should act to contain that instinct and provide an alternative.

Absolutely, but it's because the international community is colossally dropping the ball there that Palestinians have to resort to violence. I mean if you look at the timeline of these things you'll notice that the anti-Zionist movement in the West pretty much only appreciably expands when Israel wages "war" in Gaza; this isn't a war to be fought in Gaza but nothing short of wholesale slaughter of Palestinians is enough to keep the world's eyes on the region for more than five minutes.

I have the impression you are envisioning a much more violent response to Israel than what is needed or would be actually favorable for the Palestinian population.

I'm not sure what you mean; what situation are you talking about here? Because under the current status quo Palestinians only have one means of resistance and that's violence.

The point I'm trying to make is that Hamas won't turn to genocide simply to gain popularity (though I do expect quite a few massacres); either they'll do it even if they're popular or they won't even if they're unpopular, and I'm leaning towards the latter.

I never said authoritarian states can't commit genocide, but rather that they usually don't use it as a way to support their regimes unless they turn fascist. The Holodomor was a way for Stalin to suppress Ukrainian independence, while the other three were long-running ethnic conflicts exacerbated by malicious and/or incompetent European decolonization.

Hamas is the only possible interlocutor for Israel.

That's because almost no established government is willing to support armed resistance against Israel. Dialogue will not save Palestine.

Mostly no? Struggling authoritarian states seek, among other things, war, but they do not as a rule commit genocide. That's mostly a fascist thing.

Gaza already has Christians so clearly they're not executing people just for not being model Muslims.

you'd see a genocide on the levels not redditors could even defend it

That is simply not based in reality. Hamas does some horrid things don't get me wrong, but they're fundamentally an authoritarian state rather than a genocidal state.