backsliding into fascism just 80 years after WWII is like failing an open-book test in a room where the answers are written on the board and also being constantly read out loud over a loudspeaker - ThreadSky

verybadllama.bsky.social • 81 days ago

backsliding into fascism just 80 years after WWII is like failing an open-book test in a room where the answers are written on the board and also being constantly read out loud over a loudspeaker

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petekotz.bsky.social•81 days ago

To half of America, that's still the equivalent of trying to get into Harvard Med School.

willieleev.bsky.social•78 days ago

Vote Canada 51st state

dcdanking.bsky.social•79 days ago

It is no coincidence this takes place roughly a generation removed from when the bulk of the WWII generation had passed…. The memories died with them.

oncewasarnold.bsky.social•79 days ago

It’s a perennial human curse. And it’s irrelevant which “-ism” is used to frame the othering, the tribal impulse, the oldest of all human urges. This is a passage from Hawes book “The Shortest History of Germany. It’s the 1890s. 20 years later : WW1 (Episode 1). Another 20 years WW2 (Episode 2).

enemywith1n.bsky.social•79 days ago

We're not"backsliding" into fascism. 1. We've never been fascist 2. We're walking straight into fascism.

andrewctenor.bsky.social•81 days ago

Isn’t it more like when everyone who was there for the original lecture has just died of old age

russellengland.bsky.social•79 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/georgetakei.bsky.social/post/3ldqznti3yh2g

therealnickrogers.bsky.social•70 days ago

I mean, in a lot of states, the election was very literally an open-book test. Some people are beyond saving at this point.

steveramosaloha.bsky.social•78 days ago

And literally tattooed on our arms!

edtcoffey.bsky.social•79 days ago

Ugh, right?

orionkidder.bsky.social•79 days ago

It turns out, a LOT of people are just fine with fascism as long as it brutalizes and immiserates the people that *they* hate. Like William Gibson said: "Racists don't think they're racist. They just think they're right."