This honestly feels like the Feb 2020, but for fascism instead of COVID only people paying attention know what is going to hell - ThreadSky

sharonk.bsky.social • 2 days ago

This honestly feels like the Feb 2020, but for fascism instead of COVID

only people paying attention know what is going to hell

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sketchfox7.bsky.social•2 days ago

And we don’t have face masks for facists

hvalross.bsky.social•2 days ago

So many people IRL say stuff like "I'm tuning out from the news to protect my mental health" well the news is gonna become unignorable soon

exxzackly.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yeah, because that's the smart and reasonable thing to do :P

spacejamveteran.bsky.social•1 day ago

I did that for a little bit but I came to realize that ignoring it won't make it go away and we need fighters right now

thoreauaway.bsky.social•2 days ago

I was deeply skeptical of COVID panic at the beginning. It seemed like it would blow over just like Ebola, Zika, swine flu etc, and people forget that COVID panic was right-coded right up until it was proven correct, at which point right wingers abandoned it.

fakegreekgrill.bsky.social•2 days ago

Which is darkly funny.

lharp.bsky.social•2 hours ago

I don’t think it was right-coded. I was particularly aware because I was pregnant & read Twitter accounts of people in China dealing with it, warning others as well as Epidemiologists & infectious disease experts.

tft.io•2 days ago

I was negatively polarized into thinking it wasn’t going to be bad because I worked with a guy who was convinced it was going to be a catastrophe because of his virulent anti-Chinese racism

tft.io•2 days ago

Sorry, Madav, I guess you were right about the virus, if not the grannies on the TTC.

anitmata.bsky.social•2 days ago

You look at a stopped clock, it's a really good bet it's wrong

deborahparr.bsky.social•1 day ago

I was buying masks from March. And once we saw the scenes from Italy, I knew we were all in real trouble. The Italian doctors warned the UK, and the Johnson government threw away our chance to do good for the British people.

quinnae.com•2 days ago

I remember how in the first couple of months of 2020 there was a panic about Chinese restaurants and take-out, as well as Chinatowns. A lot of the left-of-centre messaging had to respond to that; "guys, please do not be dumb and racist."

madwomanreading.bsky.social•2 days ago

We have to fight back!

madwomanreading.bsky.social•2 days ago

But we know how to fight back, for real

ppresti.bsky.social•1 day ago

THIS ☝️

houzi4.bsky.social•1 day ago

Supply chain talk already going on as well . Ukraine should stop itself from offering mineral resources. Be a model to the world. Stop the plunder now.

hrryan.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yes, it does. It also feels like "On the Beach", in which everyone is going about their business trying to act normal while waiting for the radioactive cloud to arrive.

gastropoda.bsky.social•2 days ago

This time I hope we have agency. Alerting everyone I can to #NationalBoycottDay on Feb. 28.

afterthehavoc.bsky.social•2 days ago

The night we started getting orders from the pandemic, we were playing a game of Pandemic Legacy.

I need to avoid Secret Hitler for the foreseeable future.

theherdmans.bsky.social•1 day ago

Okay but Secret Hitler is the best board game in our quiver right now.

afterthehavoc.bsky.social•1 day ago

Go for it! It's a great game! Just take it from me, you might spend the rest of your life wondering if you specifically created this timeline by creating a Jumanji Situation.

vacheestfachee.bsky.social•1 day ago

If it makes you feel better, it's not really a secret at this point...

josiahtoppin.com•1 day ago

It’s true. The media are lagging behind or even adding to the normalization of language that should be considered threats to security and a precursor to war. People that should know better don’t. I wonder when security and military procurement will begin to be talked about more in Canada.

theherdmans.bsky.social•1 day ago

But there’s also a new coronavirus. So that’s gonna be fun.

tia2030.bsky.social•1 day ago

Hello my name is Tia .. I'm from Gaza
And i am 3 and a half years old
I wish I could hug my mother, Lina, but my father told me that she was in heaven
I want to tell her that I love her very much and that I am very similar to her, as my father tells me
🇵🇸🍉♥️

https://www.gofundme.com/f/helping-family-to-leave-gaza

meggyweg.bsky.social•2 days ago

I got engaged in February 2020. At the time I was vaguely aware of an ominous virus in China but figured the situation would be in hand by the time of my wedding. Lol.

meggyweg.bsky.social•2 days ago

cavu4ever.bsky.social•2 days ago

Beautiful regardless

gayvulture.bsky.social•2 days ago

Lmao damn. That's actually so accurate.

bdonnelly.bsky.social•1 day ago

I’m losing friends who are going “relax, I zoned out during his first term. It worked out. I even made a little in the stock market. I can’t pay attention to this everyday & you’re kinda getting too wrapped up in this. Everything is going to be fine—we’ll just vote him out in four years again.”

betsybrody.bsky.social•1 day ago

💯

johnbingham.bsky.social•2 days ago

Haven't even got to the big legislative stuff yet

checkrsgreen.bsky.social•2 days ago

I think all they're gonna get done is the Reconciliation Package, and even that's a big if with the margin they got. Non-zero chance they lose control of the House before they do it.

dawe.bsky.social•2 days ago

Don’t think it feels that way up here

anthrodiva.bsky.social•2 days ago

What an accurate yet terrifying analogy.....

poodlefax.bsky.social•2 days ago

these bros throwing their arm in the air should be a sort of indication or signifier but hey

it does seem very similar

michaelv2v.bsky.social•1 day ago

You don’t have to catch the fascism.

b40girl.bsky.social•2 days ago

I bought 3 gallons of bleach in early Feb ‘20. Signed, Cassandra

keeganc15.bsky.social•2 days ago

Our second week of March 2020 moment is coming very soon

austin-dave.bsky.social•2 days ago

But there is no way Trump will bail out the market this time when it crashes.

capitalistfool.bsky.social•2 days ago

He'll bail out crypto, "now backed by the full faith of the Social Security Trust Fund!"

amunicipalfox.bsky.social•2 days ago

Oh God considering the debt ceiling it might actually be 5 years to the day since the last crash.

spacejamveteran.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yeah that's fucking wild how this was settup like a shitty movie sequel

haidenrohr.bsky.social•2 days ago

add a bird flu pandemic to the mix w fascism and it’s going to be March 2020 on steroids soon

hollychessman.bsky.social•1 day ago

I know, right?!

therealzman.bsky.social•1 day ago

Unfortunately, it will feel like both at once here soon.

Mask Up

This is the way we will win, let them not believe this time and we’ll just see what happens

The Potential is Worse Everyday!

Boycott all MAGA
Downsize and Pay Debt
Lay Low

These types will burn their own candles out if we let them

tkat.bsky.social•1 day ago

I actually worked a (school) news room during that time and let me tell you NOTHING was scarier than reporting on updates of that virus every week. Watching in real time as it crept closer and closer to us. Then one day I wake up to an alert to not come to school because everything's locked down.

ktap33.bsky.social•2 days ago

I made the exact same comparison the other day. In both cases I was thinking "this seems like a really big deal, why aren't more people freaking out about it?"

kevinlikesmaps.bsky.social•2 days ago

Most people are not extremely online. They're not reading Politico. Most people do not even know how our government really works. They don't know what CISA or NLRB does, or who Kash Patel is. They know when they lose a job or when they can't afford food.

dmgaltieri.bsky.social•2 days ago

That’s so true. I started tracking our data in early March, and it was clear we were headed to blow Italy’s numbers out of the water. This is as devastating, if not much much worse

ideagov.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yeah

driftingthrough.bsky.social•2 days ago

https://www.ericachenoweth.com/research/wcrw <-- don't feel powerless.

pteridoid.bsky.social•1 day ago

And just like last time, we won't agree on what went wrong our how bad it was even after the fact, depending on the media we consume.

fluidsguru.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's 'normalcy bias' playing out again.

winniethewitch.bsky.social•2 days ago

What will the death toll be this time?

ascotrose.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yeah. Shit's probably going to blow in March-April.

thatonejnl.bsky.social•1 day ago

This. I am like, where is the room for those of us watching all of this and caught in a relentless, unending scream

Being on here is sheer cognitive dissonance.

lamb-vindaloo.bsky.social•1 day ago

Honestly, COVID was a huge wakeup call. I didn't realize how many people ACTUALLY cared more about their haircuts than loved ones.

usspcrichardandson.bsky.social•2 days ago

it's staaaaaaaarting to get out that Things Are Getting Bad, mainly because of DOGE

themontgomery.bsky.social•2 days ago

Very slowly. At least I feel a little *less* like I'm taking crazy pills now. Until maybe late last week, nobody who wasn't extremely online had no idea anything bad was happening.

underscoredan.bsky.social•2 days ago

It’s wildly insane that threatening Canada did basically nothing here. It broke my fucking brain

usspcrichardandson.bsky.social•2 days ago

people assume Trump is full of shit about that, and the media is sane-washing him on that issue to a degree. he is clearly not full of shit about hardcore austerity and it's a lot less feasible to sugarcoat the effects of an intentional massive economic shock

beckya.bsky.social•2 days ago

The continued sanewashing is making me crazy. They’re trying to wreck the government, and the MSM calls it “provocative” and “controversial.” Not to mention blowing up NATO. Trump alternates between insulting Canada, praising Putin, or looking totally checked out. Insane.

baptistelerak.bsky.social•2 days ago

Also, the sad reality of it is that a lot of Americans are moral degenerates who like seeing the prissy Canucks get taken down a peg.

kellumdander.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think it's more that people just don't take the real world that seriously anymore. Trump saber rattling at Canada is, for them, just plain old good tv entertainment.

underscoredan.bsky.social•1 day ago

I do think that happens. Unfortunately my experience is worse - Roganites who see themselves as liberators.

vinminen.bsky.social•2 days ago

calgbob.bsky.social•2 days ago

Well said

darkwebmallcop.bsky.social•2 days ago

The big RSA conference was going on in San Francisco in Feb 2020 and many of my friends co-workers were going and there was a rumor that Covid was being spread by farts and I was like lol, “Good luck!”

That was the last day I worked from an office ever

various-threnodies.bsky.social•2 days ago

Legitimately feels like we're 1-2 months away from him driving the US economy off a cliff

onetruestephen.bsky.social•2 days ago

Remember that a massive chunk of voters have never lived through a recession that wasn’t cancelled out by massive fiscal stimulus.

joi-itos-jibo.bsky.social•2 days ago

Wonder what he’ll want to do when there’s a lot of dissent over the world’s richest man helping him crash the economy. Probably act normally I’m sure

victorsforza77.bsky.social•2 days ago

That's why they kneecapped the US military this weekend.

zparks.bsky.social•1 day ago

💯

heavymode.bsky.social•1 day ago

They expected covid to be the final push they needed for the conspiracy version of the great reset, when we recovered they manufactured the conditions again

kagiboran.bsky.social•2 days ago

What will be the “Tom Hanks has COVID” or “March Madness is cancelled” watershed moments, I wonder

dmnd.me•2 days ago

WSJ headline will read something like: “Economists warn executives: BLS data no longer reliable”

tbapple.bsky.social•2 days ago

A labor disruption.

hotel-putingrad.bsky.social•2 days ago

Tom Homan trying to arrest AOC.

globewithaface.bsky.social•2 days ago

Personally, the watershed moment for me in 2020 was Kobe Bryant dying.

rattatatouille.bsky.social•2 days ago

Not quite related to COVID, though. The NBA suspending the season was, however.

globewithaface.bsky.social•2 days ago

When I got news of his passing I knew instantly that the year was going to be shit

batsdingersatk.bsky.social•1 day ago

My mom died the Monday before. Felt like once she was gone, everything went downhill

rattatatouille.bsky.social•2 days ago

A volcano erupted in my part of the world days before that. And before *that* the Americans assassinated Soleimani and got very close to triggering WWIII.

strayarc.bsky.social•2 days ago

Mid game. That was kind of unmissable.

bahrad.bsky.social•2 days ago

The day after the guy who got it made a big show of making fun of Covid and licked the microphones at a press conference!

darrellgardner.bsky.social•2 days ago

I think either 1) congress doesn’t pass a budget and Trump doesn’t do a partial government shut down as required by law. Or, 2) congress doesn’t raise the debt limit ceiling and Trump directs the treasury to keep issuing new debt anyways to keep things going

mandoqueer.itch.io•1 day ago

wait I thought a shutdown was a thing that happened because the government literally logistically *couldn't* run without a budget not that it was something the president had the capacity to ignore but just never did
Jesus is everything in the US just a gentlemen's agreement???

benhosp.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think both of those will be broadly popular! *I* kind of support both of those. Critical support to President Trump for Minting The Coin!

spacejamveteran.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is an underrated possibility

crispybanks.bsky.social•1 day ago

Delayed tax returns.

forceholy.bsky.social•1 day ago

Either some cartel videos on Liveleak kick off a war with México or Troops murder civilian protestors.

joekatz45.bsky.social•1 day ago

The government shuts down on March 14th and hasn't reopened by, say, April 8th and people realize it's not gonna before taxes are due

joekatz45.bsky.social•1 day ago

(My previous standing assumption was it was gonna be "Trump bombs Mexico" but I think we're gonna get to other things first)

jjinandtonic.bsky.social•1 day ago

On the bright side we all get to practice our inner henry david thoreau

joekatz45.bsky.social•1 day ago

With the war tax resistance? Or we're all gonna have to live in the woods?

jjinandtonic.bsky.social•1 day ago

Hopefully 1, if 2 hopefully our moms can do our laundry for us

mousebsky.bsky.social•1 day ago

Doge breaks something in the treasury and the US defaults on the national debt.

markshawtoronto.bsky.social•2 days ago

For other countries:
- when the trade wars start in earnest and Ukraine is carved up

For the US democracy:
- Journalists or political enemies arrested on charges of sedition

heres.bsky.social•2 days ago

Bond yields spike to 6%

kevinlikesmaps.bsky.social•2 days ago

I don't think normal people pay attention to that. I'm Very Online and I pay attention to politics, but I'm not a finance guy so that doesn't mean anything to me.

foghorn453.bsky.social•2 days ago

Mortgage rates generally track the 10-year US Treasury yield; a spike in bond yields will show up in the mortgage industry pretty quickly

kevinlikesmaps.bsky.social•2 days ago

I do not think that will register for most people because most people are not buying houses. *Everyone* was affected by COVID, most on the exact same day (whenever lockdown started for your area). It was an off switch. Mortgage rates are completely irrelevant to me, I would have no idea.

huge-jackedman.bsky.social•2 days ago

Dem pols arrested and unable to respond to reporters

jocelynl.bsky.social•1 day ago

They are just salivating over the possibility of arresting AOC

milkweed.bsky.social•1 day ago

If they are stupid enough to do that, it will backfire.

mgocoder.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yep. When they start arresting Democrats and shipping them to the death camps.

fwordleproblems.bsky.social•2 days ago

Okay geez, dark

formertwtruser.bsky.social•2 days ago

lol, yeah, let's not get ahead of ourselves

dvdbutler.bsky.social•1 day ago

Well they’re certainly creating the conditions for that and have done a lot of things already such as how here in TN they made it a crime to vote against a GOP immigration policy because their argument is that attempting to change the law would violate it and is a crime.

Yes that’s real

poodlefax.bsky.social•2 days ago

the Rudy Gobert of the end of the beginning

waluigiyaoi.bsky.social•2 days ago

Stock market crash or social security checks stop going out

revpowell.bsky.social•1 day ago

FAFSA is gone during College admissions season.

revpowell.bsky.social•1 day ago

In terms of Foreign policy, when Hegseth orders a troop buildup on the Southern border for military operations.

energycheckup.bsky.social•1 day ago

Who else has Elon Musk’s assassination on their Bingo card?

randyhermanlaw.com•2 days ago

Army is ordered to invade "Austria or maybe Australia"

bokross.bsky.social•2 days ago

Missed Social Security payments.

bendeebendee.bsky.social•2 days ago

at that point my question is not "would something happen" but rather "would the AARP start posting proscription lists all over DC"

fwordleproblems.bsky.social•2 days ago

This is closer to the mark. You could see this happening. And hoo boy would there be hell to pay.

kevinlikesmaps.bsky.social•2 days ago

my boomer mom will be in the streets then

vacheestfachee.bsky.social•1 day ago

She won't be alone. 😞

kevinlikesmaps.bsky.social•1 day ago

if they cut SS payments this problem will be solved in a week by Grandpa Joe with a cane.

hurricanexyz.bsky.social•2 days ago

If this happens it will definitely do the trick

joekatz45.bsky.social•1 day ago

We should all probably be at least a little worried about how tax season is gonna go

fwordleproblems.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oh I always worry a little because I'm terrible at all that stuff lol. But this time the worry is for EVERYONE.

dvdbutler.bsky.social•2 days ago

Might even be sooner since so many regulatory agencies along govt services are disrupted.

Tax season is here and how fucked up is that gonna be?

goodtimegoldy.bsky.social•2 days ago

Multiple deaths resulting from unaffordable medication

themontgomery.bsky.social•2 days ago

Switzerland starts selling off US Treasury securities.

geosb3.bsky.social•2 days ago

Tom Hanks gets sent to El Salvador for criticizing King Krasnov.

lamorak.bsky.social•2 days ago

It’s going to be when millions of Americans go to get their mental health meds refilled only to learn that RFK banned them is my unorthodox pick.

andybowen.bsky.social•2 days ago

When Wal-Mart stops selling dairy products.

themontgomery.bsky.social•2 days ago

Or at least, *pasteurized* dairy products.

various-threnodies.bsky.social•2 days ago

Stock market crash 100%

various-threnodies.bsky.social•2 days ago

Not like Great Depression levels or anything but Wall Street finally realizing "oh fuck he's actually nuts" and the panic sell off starting lol

heres.bsky.social•2 days ago

NVDA beats earnings by a margin, but not a huge margin

blueontario.bsky.social•1 day ago

Don't rule out the "D" word. We're only in the first month of this.

doomforpresident.bsky.social•2 days ago

the April jobs report, which I expect to be one the worst in living memory

kendall-s.bsky.social•2 days ago

He’ll fudge the numbers.

dimondoak.bsky.social•2 days ago

BLS has strangely not been touched (yet). DOGE probably is unaware of the agency since it doesn't regulate a Musk company.

guydebored.bsky.social•2 days ago

Why April?

doomforpresident.bsky.social•2 days ago

Due to the timing of the household survey, the April report is when all the DOGE layoffs will show up.

replantcanada.bsky.social•1 day ago

Interesting. This is what I told my bosses. But does America even make it that far? I'm not convinced. I'm not a car person, but even I know that North American auto manufacturing will collapse in weeks if the tariffs are actually implemented. And that will have huge ripples.

hammerhead179.bsky.social•2 days ago

I think it'll be the 25% tariffs.

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