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People seem to think that what's happening in the US is just a worse version of the same old cycle. It's not. There's a reason Trump is demonizing the democratic allies who call out fascism while praising fascist leaders. There's a reason he has a problem with voter statistics being anything other than those you would get in dictatorships. There's a reason he's suggested that people wouldn't have to worry about future elections and has passed around the idea of a third term. There's a reason he's replacing everyone in government, specially those that will oversee the next elections, with loyalists. There's a reason he's pushing people who would be extremely unfit for their positions where it not for their loyalty to him. There's a reason he's demonizing any world order that has come from diplomacy, open borders, free speech, and open dialogue. This won't switch back next election, because by next election your "democracy" will be dead, replaced with a mockery for show as the US becomes increasingly fascist.

Your federal government is no longer the government you pledged to. If you take out all the parts of the ship of Theseus, throw them into the garbage, and build a monument to yourself with completely new parts, it is not the ship of Theseus. Your federal government has more debt than any individual state does. In the EU, the UK was free to leave, but in the US, you've been indoctrinated that you must remain united even when what you were remaining united to no longer remains what it was. If you still want to remain a "one Nation under God, indivisible" you are choosing to ignore the "I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands" of the pledge, and you are also choosing to ignore "Thou shalt have no other gods before me. The south starts civil wars to protect the slavery that profits the oligarchs while the north plays submissive while the whole country shifts to fascism. How could the United States of America not be doomed?

Yes, other countries want there to be division within the US. But you know what they want even more? To have their pawn in the presidency. Don't try to avoid losing a battle to end up losing the war. While the new oligarchs are pledging themselves to Project 2025 for the Dark Enlightenment to extend their influence internationally while they pen us up in our borders, Trump has been promised to become the fascist dictator of a Russianesque faux democracy, and Trump doesn't mind how shit it gets for everyone else as long as he gets to be its king.

Keep in mind that the Nazis will doxx other Nazis as agent provocateurs if that gives them an excuse to shut down their critics.

Extra funny if you knew of the people who were "playing" Eve Online psychopaths, who had and still have the tendency of toying with the mental gymnastics of portraying the Sith as the good guys and the Jedi as the bad guys and decided over a decade now to get involved in propping up the Trump movement.

Implying they already have it from Google's side.

A lot of it was built with US soft power, but a lot of it was kept in check because of US soft power. I wouldn't place bets on everything suddenly toppling to the ground, because that'd be ignoring the opportunities that have been made by removing the soft power barriers. It's as foolish to assume as claiming to be able to take Ukraine in three days.

As well they should.

There's a lot of gaslighting on Lemmy, specially because of the nature of by and whom it was founded for. Troll factories play both sides: https://www.wired.com/story/russia-indictment-twitter-facebook-play-both-sides/

Not the European institutions. They exist on their own merits that have nothing to do with building social webs.

I'm also sick of LIVE news channels hosting on YouTube that enable chat rooms without any supervision and force it onto your face unless you close them. Just disable that shit, you aren't dedicated streamers, who do bother to moderate chats.

"Social webs" where they are not needed are just increasingly becoming an opportunity to saturate with shit posts, fake news, and propaganda by randoms. I am not going to them for a random two cent Joe's opinion, I am going to them for whatever their trained and paid professionals are providing.

It can be federated to some degree, but shouldn't be as a two way participant . For example, as a read only instance whom you can receive a user in if you are part of that institution, but whose use will also be limited to that instance and with only a very limited and controlled portion of those instances being shared with other instances.

Or, hear me out, whatever happened to just hosting your own fucking website and RSS stream? Not everything needs to an opportunity for a random Joe to drop his two cents in.

It's been a couple of years since Teslas were the go-to option, at least this is making people catch up to the fact.

The chicken that laid the golden eggs.

That security and those in the white house are part of those millions of Americans, and there's more than can be done than just targeting him outright. It's funny that Texas and California have large secessionist movements coming from the GQP, but when the nation is at risk of actual fascism, there's nothing remotely similar coming from Democrats. There is a world of different options available to those who seek it, I'm just stating this one as an example that the other side has no problem considering.

I think at this point Trump might even want another pandemic so he can put export tariffs on the vaccines leading US pharmaceuticals will have to develop.

Welcome back from your 3 day hiatus, totally different person not trying to entrap people.

When everything is a terrorist organization, nothing is - and you might be living in a fascist state.

It says how much we are screwed that we are probably currently more concerned over the short term.

I was wondering why he suddenly jumped on USAID. Now we know. I had been thinking the US was going to take longer to shift into a fascist state, but apparently it is already there.

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Did you have a stroke? You can keep making yourself look like an ass. Nice try, tho. 👏

You can keep making yourself look like an ass. You're not hurting anyone's feelings with your tantrum.

Welcome back from the one week hiatus, different person.