Regardless of Putin invading Ukraine being illegal, and Israel genociding Palestinians being illegal, and pretty much everything Trump has done in 2025 being illegal, I have faith that the rule of law will miraculously apply in this situation for some reason.

My empathy would agree with you, but — while I’m well aware that racism and fascism are a product of ignorance, stupidity, poor education, and propaganda, all class warfare waged by Americas plutocrats — I also logically can’t see any way out of this, any way to deprogram the nazis, without the average American feeling pain; the same kind of pain America has inflicted on dozens of countries, and hundreds of millions of people, over the last century… So much instability, suffering, and political violence that they ultimately reject neoliberalism and conservatism, and revolt against the plutocrats that created this mess.

You can’t realistically “deprogram” tens of millions of MAGA. WW2 resulted in an ideological “cleansing” — a de-nazification — of the European population. So yeah… America will continue to devolve and regress until some sort of reset occurs, for better or for worse.

They’re all run by corporate sociopaths. You’re never gonna see “nice” again from any of the plutocracy.

He doesn’t blame them personally. He and every GOP politician don’t actually believe most of the propaganda they peddle; excluding regards like MTG and public handjob hooker.

Most of what they say and do is a performance — it’s all part of the conservative cinematic universe — manufactured to manipulate the feefees of the mentally-ill MAGA cult. I’m not saying they aren’t imminently dangerous fascists. I’m saying we shouldn’t entertain the idea that their words mean anything but grift.

100%. It’s been obvious from the start. This is probably the top secret part of project 2025 that is alluded to exist, but hasn’t been documented anywhere.

4 years of these pump and dumps will kill off most small businesses, while enabling the nazi party and preferred oligarchs (including Putin) to consolidate and own the lions share of the market; stealing trillions from global investors and retirement funds, and attaining voting rights to control most corporations. DOGE’s purpose was to eliminate and disrupt every institutions ability to document and enforce these crimes.

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Again, everything that Trump and the GOP are doing is everything you would only do if you thought you’d never face repercussions, accountability, or fair elections ever again.

+ politicians. Basically any position that grants power over others — especially the weak and vulnerable — which is why there should be an “abuse of power multiplier” applied to these criminals more than any other.

Politicians and other parties who engage in political or regulatory corruption should get life in prison, as they destroy the public trust in democracy and institutions. Same for the justice system.

The world will be lucky if America escapes a fascist dictatorship via civil war. If not, it means the fascists have won and the rest of the century is gonna be so much darker than the 3-4c that’s already inevitable.

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So they can use it to dramatically expand data collection “to achieve 0 murders”, and before you know it everyone’s getting disappeared by the thought police.

I did not have “The Nazi’s will outsource their gulags to El Salvador” on my fascism 2025 bingo card… I need to get more creative, or possibly criminally insane.

Probably not as long as Israel remains firmly fascist. Trump and most of the GOP are sociopaths/psychopaths. I doubt most of them actually believe the white supremacism and racism they peddle. It’s a means of class warfare to divide and conquer — to attain and maintain power. Though, as we all know, the out groups are fluid and can change at the whim of madmen.

At this point I’m not even convinced Hitler or the Nazi senior leadership were as — at least, initially — anti-Jewish as they were sociopaths/psychopaths utilizing the pre-existing anti-Jewish sentiment to attain power. Though, there is the question whether acting racist and violently crushing all opposition reaches a point where they themselves either believe it, or wouldn’t dare voice the truth simply out of fear of being subject to the same violence they’ve used on others.

It’s becoming increasingly obvious that conservatism and neoliberalism are incompatible with democracy, freedom, and human civilization in general.

When you reject evidence based policy the way they consistently do, you doom the planet and species.

They’ll humane-wash it with some fraud credential they created — like everything else — but the body inside will be some Palestinian, Uyghur, or “other” gulag prisoner; sourced from a fascist pipeline.

I’m so glad the George Floyd protests solved police brutality!

This is why protesting should only be treated as the initial rallying cry to garner support. Without the millions protesting willing to engage in direct action — like general strikes, permanent boycotts, etc — there will never be meaningful change.

Under the Biden administration, ICE records show the agency deployed Clearview widely, even as officials there charged with monitoring the technology were in the dark about how it was being used and by whom.

This is the direct path from neoliberalism/conservatism to fascism that some of us have been warning about for decades.

Sure, the D’s are better than the lowest bar known to man — mentally ill fascists and con artists — but fascism may have never succeeded without their own corruption, authoritarianism, and fealty to the plutocracy. They’ve spent decades building the most pervasive surveillance apparatus in history, collecting data from most computers on the planet, about most of the human population, and are doing nothing as the keys to the kingdom are handed to the Nazis.

The MIC already worked a solution since last time China restricted exports; both Cali and Australia would pick up production.

The problem with rare earth isn’t that it’s rare, it’s that they only exist in low concentrations, and the total lack of labor and environmental laws in China means that there is no room for external competitors to compete on price… Our modern neoliberal governments refuse to do anything that does not enrich or empower the oligarchy; not even for “national security”.

Unfortunately, this means Australia might have just jumped to the top of the nazi parties annexation list.

More specifically, conservatism is an umbrella for the sociopathic/grifters, bigoted/fascist, and just plain stupid/ignorant.

Elon is all 3 of those.

False. Putin is president.