European here, from a country that was occupied by Germany. I'd just like to say that the West only joined the war when you perceived yourself to be in danger. There were many elites and leaders sympathetic to fascism & eugenics were most popular in the US. You need to face your history, guys...
Not in my wildest dreams. Iβm supposed to be traveling the world and now Iβm afraid they wonβt let me back in because I openly hate the monster in charge
It might not take "years." We greatly outnumber the plutocrats. Sure, they have lots of money, but that all disappears if we just say these magic words: "We will no longer honor your pieces of paper." The hard part is, we must wake the people who have been fooled by the plutocrats.
If youβre referring to American fascism itβs not much of a worry. American armies are poorly trained, petrified shitless, and havenβt been successful for decades.
Golden... maybe. Older-n-dirt. No, but, my grandfather fought in both WWI and WWII. My father and three uncles fought in WWII. My brother-in-law in Vietnam. I just "missed" it. I guess I can keep up the family legacy. Oh, and I had direct ancestors fighting in both the civil war and revolution.
Neither did I expect the circumstances we face today. I never felt the need to protest until Trumpβs first administration. It is more serious than ever with the addition of Elon Musk. And none of these people can be believed which makes it all worse.
Fighting this backward thinking is an ongoing thing. Democracy is like a muscle and you can never stop strength training or it will go weak. Democracy is like going to the gym gym and maga is like those old-time belt vibrator thingies LOL!
I'm in my 60's and a Black man. Been there done this racist shit already. Thought maybe we had arrived at racisms herd immunity with Barack Obama.
It gets so tiresome repeating shit over and over again.
There's a 33% gap that refuses to partake in elections when they don't like both sides
Understood. I fear the major issue in the United States is social and cultural. No amount of politicking can fix that. Which I'm sure you experience in a more immediate way than I.
As long as the underlying fabric remains racism and misogyny no amount of elections will change that.
Iβm so sorry! Hopefully those that voted for him are feeling the heat, because the first time they voted for him was a mistake the second time was a choice.
All so sad!!! Carry on. Fight the good fight. Your beautiful country is worth saving.
From a TRUE, NORTH, STRONG and FREE CANADIAN! π¨π¦
Nope! We just went through hell with Covid and isolation! Biden got elected and things slowly started to get better! I was starting to enjoy myself and boom Trump wins and Iβm living my worst nightmare!
I'm with you. I planned on working another 5 years before retiring and enjoying a decade or two...but then the orange asshat came back with a vengeance.
Just hang in there. Do what you can, when you can, and try not to dispair.π
If you are 62+, take your SS now! Get into the system before 'THEY' won't let you. FYI: ONLY Congress can make changes to SSI. They can raise the minimum application date to 70. Social Security was always to be insolvent by 2035. That's 10 years from now. Where will you be?
π Thanks, but I'm only 55 and still love my job, so I'm not quite ready to retire yet. Also, I'm a teacher, so I don't get SS. I have a pension coming, hopefully, unless the orange asshat destroys our economy completely.
Only recently. We fought a ridiculously long battle in WEP/GPO states and just won our SS back. Only to have THIS asshat administration start messing around with it.
Nope, teachers don't pay in to SS. We have a separate pension plan we pay into. In California, it's CalSTRS - Ca state teachers retirement system. Unfortunately, STRS has invested in stocks...OOK, but they bought Tesla! I hope I still have something to retirement on.
I heard that. I am the same. My point being that almost all the fights I see people having to fight right now are exactly the same fights that I watched my friends fight in the 60βs. The Conservatives will NEVER give up, and will need to be put down again and again.
How do ya lose to an old incompetent fart doin fellatio to a mic , ranting insanely in a dumbster truck dressin himself up like a total garbage ..don't even get me started with his 34 convictions , how ? Make no sense to me to this day ...lol
Bud , i really didn't expect to lose 2024 election , i mean the ole fart riding on a garbage truck doin fellatio to a mic , how can we possibly lose ? I am still havin PSTD thinkin about it
Me too. I thought we had learned from the Holocaust & this would never happen in our free democracy in USA. Look at all the military personnel that sacrifice their lives to keep the Nazis out of America. Our American HEROS have to be rolling over in their graves. This makes me so sick to my stomach.
Nope. This is not what I had planned for my retirement years. I planned on retiring at the end of this year and now, I donβt know what to do. The tariff fiasco is tanking the markets and republicans are threatening social security. I am sick of Trump and his daily dose of Fuckery.
And yet, here we are, Planning Cape Mayday, a protest camp on the National Mall which we will set up on May 1st and we will remain on the mall until the president is gone. Impeachment and removal is the only option. Join us this summer.
TRUMP WILL START NUCLEAR WAR AFTER HE LOOTS THE TREASURY WITH MUSK!!! TRUMP & MUSK WILL DESTROY OUR EDUCATION OUR ECONOMY OUR DEMOCRACY & THEN START NUCLEAR WAR!!!! PARASITIC OLIGARCHS, CHRISTIAN NOTZIS & MAGATS ARE EXTREMELY EVIL VILE DISGUSTING RACIST & DANGEROUS!!! DENY DEFEND DEPOSE & RESIST!!!
I really thought migrating to the US means I will not worry about Russia controlling my government, and my kid grows up under a fascist religious regime with a cult supporting it.
I belonged to the SDS in my undergraduate years. I protest a speech be George Wallace. Only to see history repeat itself loudly. I cannot express my despair.
Franklin D. Roosevelt - βThe liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism."
Never thought this would happen until Trump was elected to his first term. That's when I knew that almost half of our country caved to a cult and the lies of Fox, etc. J6 was the culmination of those lies. Second term, worse and replete with more incompetents. Trump hasn't improved with age.
No kidding. My father as a WWII paratrooper who fought the Nazis. Little did I ever think Iβd be doing it on native soil yet here we are. Til my last breath, I will fight this cruelty and depravity
I never thought I'd see USA become nazi fascist country. I'm 1 of those kids who asked why people allowed murdering so many innocent men,women, and children.Iwant 2 wake up from this nightmare, but unfortunately, it's really happening π’ & I am scared but determined to fight fascist bullies!
Me too!..π±..feel like Iβm back in College during Civil Rights and Vietnam except this is on Steroids..and it feels much scarier.. waiting on another Kent State reprise to really get things going..
We have been complacent and fascism must always be ruthlessly suppressed. Weak people who listen to their bleating about free speech have let the cancer back into our societies. Once the cancer spreads, it's very hard to eliminate. It's lucky if it doesn't need a shooting war.
For years I've been writing about "The Great Awakening" which is a fascist cult trend in American history that caused our Founders to institute the separation of church and state to keep the crap we're facing now from happening. It's changed over centuries but that's MAGA. Time to kill it again. πͺ
No, me either! Protested and fought for 18 year old right to vote, abortion rights, minority and LGBTQ rights. Protested Vietnam war and corrupt Richard Nixon! Never thought I would have to begin fighting GOP policies again at this late age! Our country has been returned to the early 60s!
Retired and financially set (for now) Nope, never expected. Foolishly thought I had retired to a life of leisure. My fam says 'why do you rally, why do you risk what you have'? I reply - "because I feel, as if I owe it, to someone - to the others who fought before us so that we could get this far"
Our we use our whole brain and understand whatβs going on. History says we have a small window of opportunity to resist a dictator before we lose all our freedoms. That window is closing.
As I said, it's not that easy. Literally, one has to deal with innate processes hard wired into our brains. In order to do as you state requires effort - and focus. Those 2 actions are not innate - and that is a problem with an uneasy remedy. Agreed that most good things require "sweat".
No! Retired in November 2024. Back to work part time to make up for no Medicaid which reduced my Social Security to $1600 a month. I have worked on the books for 50 years! Scared and super pissed off!
'When I was your age we had demonstrations about EVERYTHING, from Vietnam to wearing bras. Young people today don't know what public participation IS!'
Nope, I was going to travel to places I havenβt been to yet. Not leaving now. Naturalized citizen who trash talks the regime. I might not get to come home. So I stay and will fight to my dying breath, if need be.
Me thinks that my golden years will be shorter than I originally planned due to all my concern over all the craziness in our country during this administration.
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Didnβt expect this!
Fuck tRump and fuck F-Elon!
"I don't know why they call these the golden years. They are more like lead years."
It gets so tiresome repeating shit over and over again.
There's a 33% gap that refuses to partake in elections when they don't like both sides
As long as the underlying fabric remains racism and misogyny no amount of elections will change that.
All so sad!!! Carry on. Fight the good fight. Your beautiful country is worth saving.
From a TRUE, NORTH, STRONG and FREE CANADIAN! π¨π¦
Now Iβm wondering if Iβll be able to collect Social Security. And my 401k? I wonβt even look right now.
Fuck Trump and the GOP and everyone who voted for him.
Just hang in there. Do what you can, when you can, and try not to dispair.π
If nothing else I can spend my time organizing marches, being a pain in the ass at the capital. Free stuff! Lol
No golden years if fascism...
in the 60s to march and am too old in 2025 to march.
You know like the unpaid shills here.
Impeach and remove!
How wrong I was.
My kids. They will spend their entire lives fighting it.
You shouldβve spent more time preventing fascism throughout your life, so that your grandkids wouldnβt suffer under it.
I will go down fighting.
'When I was your age we had demonstrations about EVERYTHING, from Vietnam to wearing bras. Young people today don't know what public participation IS!'
I couldn't fathom who "enemies domestic" might be.
Now I know.
But here we are. Bring it. We are ready. #resist