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If that's what actually happened, I wonder if those things stick when he re-enters civilian life to go back to having Fox News blaring 24/7.

Also forcing them to communicate with real people in real life makes a HUGE difference. Combine those two things and you have a potentially powerful force of deprogramming.

It's almost like forcing the Germans to walk through the camps after they were liberated... Except hopefully before it gets to that point.

God if that's all it takes.... Stick each of these fuckers in a tiny room with 11 of their peers and FORCE them to listen to nothing but cold hard facts for hours a day, for weeks, and then discuss them in person until they can all unanimously agree on our collective reality...

Maybe it's doable? God, I hate the idea of "re-education," it has such an icky, authoritarian connotation. But it's literally what these people need. Except in this case it isn't about inundating them with propaganda, it's literally just reality and irrefutable facts.

Bruh, you brought Stalin up?

I'm so confused by what you're trying to say.

It's kind of wild actually. When Trump talks about this case being "fixed," and the judge as being "corrupt," he's telling us exactly what's going on in his other trial with Trump appointee and person with no prior trial experience (if I recall correctly) before being appointed to her seat on (looks at notes) huh, the "United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida."

Wait a second...

No, they know that Trump supporters are the types of people to actually listen to and heed these calls.

This is stochastic terrorism straight up... Or is just flat out terrorism, they're not really hiding it. This is the spokesperson of a "social media platform" (lol I know I know) saying this, not just some random casual Fox News watching R voter.

And he knows exactly who he's talking to. It's a clear attempt to mobilize.

Goddamn people must really be this stupid. I guess we just need to experience this pain first hand like Germany before we fully grasp what we are allowing to take hold of our government.

But even looking at them these days, it seems like 80-100 years is all it takes for everyone to start forgetting....

Edit: Came back after some thinking and realizing that the communications director for Truth Social probably literally is just some random Fox News watching R. Just not casual I guess.

Yeah, and I guess the trans people that end up dead in the balance will just be considered sacrifical lambs then?

It's ok though, we'll make sure to use the correct pronouns at their wakes.

Ah yes, totally the views of a neutral, third party company that's just trying to compete with Twitter.

Will every reader also know the finer nuances of the 3 downward arrows, one of them referring to Stalin’s authoritarianism?

Yeah it seemed like you were implying (or actually just saying) that one of the arrows refers to Stalin's authoritarianism. Which is a bad thing, right? Do we agree on that? And I have it as my profile pic... So I dunno how else I was supposed to take your comment?

And to be clear, again, it is not true that one of the arrows refers to Stalin in any way.

I will accept just about anything to stop the fascism from taking control of our country at this point.

This has already been a propaganda war, the left just sucks at it. And when you're up against people willing to fight dirty with the future of the Republic at stake, and you're not willing to meet them at their level, you lose every time. And this is something we cannot lose.

So no, I'm ok with interpreting what we all fucking know he meant anyway, based on the ridiculous way he speaks and having to listen to it constantly for the past decade. I'm ok with that little stretch if it means my gay and trans friends in Florida don't end up against the fucking wall in a year and a half.

It's starting to get dire. I really don't think people grasp what happens if he wins again. And it will happen quickly.

Lol the funny thing is that comebacks like that are completely worthless when the thing I originally said is actually true.

It reminds me a bit of the "you still live in your mom's basement," insult. Like it just falls flat when you say it to someone who's lived alone for a decade... It just doesn't work.

But I don't need to prove shit to some idiot on the internet.

It's unreal. I'm convinced people are just collectively too stupid to ever fully escape this constant pull towards fascism.

We should maybe start getting used to the idea that we had a nice century or so of relative freedom and prosperity, and we're lucky to have been alive during it.

US problems... Nobody else needs to worry about whether or not they have health insurance, do they?

Huh that's interesting...

Maybe we can hear directly from them about their views on Stalin:

The Three Arrows were adopted as an official social democrat symbol by the SPD leadership and the Iron Front by June 1932. Iron Front members would carry the symbol on their arm bands. The slogan "neither Stalin's slaves nor Hitler's henchmen" was also used by the SPD in connection with the symbol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Arrows#Weimar_Republic

So lol at you falling for some kind of bullshit agitprop just so you can attempt a clever comeback on Lemmy.

I'm using it as a general anti-fascist symbol, and I like the idea of vandalizing swastikas with it.

Lol three weeks later... I know you're being facetious, but I'm literally an engineer. I'd rather not dox myself so I won't be more specific, but yes I do know about water treatment.

"See guys we're totally not Nazis"

That's why you gotta laminate your seed phrase, at the very least. And put it somewhere where it will stay for a very long time and that you'll remember (maybe hidden in a certain book, or put a false bottom in a drawer, I dunno get creative). Doesn't matter what you have or don't have on a disk, the Bitcoin isn't on the disk, it was the words you should be protecting.

It isn't even realistic medieval logic. They drank beer back then because the low alcohol content would kill some of the nasty shit making it safer than water or milk. I imagine if an adult asked for some milk back then, they'd be asked to see the baby.

Except it literally is. It's literally why you're here right now commenting. Scroll up and read the headline again.

AIDS-causing viruses? H5N1 is influenza... Have I missed some kind of news that we can get AIDS from the flu now??