The craziest thing is that the children of those who fought against facism are the ones ushering it in. They protested for equal rights, rocked out at Woodstock, and were the most economically blessed generation ever. Then in their old age they thought “maybe Hitler was right.” Still unbelievable.
I've only been around for a quarter of a century and I'm absolutely baffled. The first time around I couldn't vote, the second time around we watched a failed insurrection, and somehow they still put the orange crime man back, with a horrid plan to ruin everything to match.
We wouldn't regularly put grifters in positions of power if we weren't grifters. Not surprised the evangelicals follow the man they have been scared by grifter after grifter. Heck the folks with money and resources rarely seems to do proper due diligence.
I protested and demonstrated in the 60s and 70s in hopes of leaving my children and grandchildren a better country. Then came reagan and Greed is Good.
My history teacher & friend brought a Holocaust survivor to our HS class to answer our questions. He had to take an Internet break during *his* first campaign because it gave him chest pains. It saddens me to say I am glad he is not here to witness this, our new fascism. His heart would break anew.
We are here for more reasons than can be put into a single post, but the one which is the most pertinent, is how people are still no more educated, no more aware of this danger now, 80 years on, and how this has been used by the same types of mentality.
Can't be a coincidence that most of the people that were alive during the war are now dead. There is no touchstone to give the people alive a dose of reality when they start flirting with fascism again.
It's because the fascistic mindset has always had deep roots in many societies, even our own. That mindset never went away. It just quieted down for a while, until the times and circumstances revived it publicly.
I mean, the poster child for crushing fascism is supposedly Germany, right?
Yet the AfD is gaining ground, and has taken most of the seats in the European Parliament from former eastern areas. The mindset never died, and immigration has revived it.
Yes, but regarding taken many seats in the East: thats former SOCIALIST/STALINIST East-Germany. And, as we know today, Putin started his influence operations somewhere in the 2000s. West-Germany is pretty relatively overall.
For comparison: Northrhine Westphalia alone has 24 million residents, 5 East-German states combined 12 million. The state of Thuringia, where the Höcke in the foto has most seats, has 2 million.
The AfD will get ca 19% overall coming election. Nobody will coalition with them. The votes are lost.
Wasn't it John Cougar - Melloncamp's song "Pink Houses" Well, Ain't That America. It's so typical of our country. Some of the greatest minds here...yet we are governed by the choice of idiots.
Sadly, I fear this has dire consequences on the ability of the species to survive.
If the repeating pattern is Democracy/Fascism/Ruin/Recovery/Democracy/Fascism, then we don't have a chance as a global community to tackle larger issues of environmental degradation, poverty, hunger, and education.
maybe bec the desire never went away it was just kept low, in the 30s/40s there were politicians & wealthy elite who embraced nazism, downplayed it in 50s/60s but 80s saw a militia backed embrace of it, 90s saw the gop start laying the groundwork for a takeover of the govt & racism made it happen
Sadly so many ppl don’t learn that way bc they can’t put themselves in others shoes. Instead they want to experience it for themselves while the rest of us want off the ride.
Didn't France put the aristocrats in charge one time? Didn't that end in a revolution? Why can't the US learn from history instead of having to see it fail for itself?
The thing is, we've allowed the very rich to turn down the loudspeakers and swap out the books while blasting our eyes with bright shiny lies, so we now have two generations that have no understanding of what fascism is, how it starts, or how to stop it without a lot of people dying.
... and yet people refuse to listen / read it and then will claim they were not aware. That is what we get for poor education and promoting mediocracy.
It's an open book test, but a lot of people are reading the book of misinformation:
* tariffs are something other countries pay (similar tactic to building border wall);
* grocery prices will come down (excepting eggs, maybe if Musk causes a recession)
* insurrectionists are hostages
etc.
Stop doom scrolling. And if you do see stories on Trump and Musk, practice looking at them like they're clowns (because that's what they are) and have a good belly laugh. It's healthier. Also, you could concentrate on a hobby. Mine's music and it's the best therapy around.
With all due respect, I don’t laugh at my enemies. That would be taking them for granted. These men are dangerous and there will be no world to practice music in if we keep underestimating them
But unless you can do something positive to stop them, your anger will be turned back on you, resulting in mental and physical issues, now and in future. Study vibrational frequencies and the mind/body connection. Anger will get you nowhere.
I do study vibrational frequencies. I listen to specific frequencies every day. They help me with my anger. However, I’m searching for a way to channel my anger because these assholes are obviously channeling their negative energy and are benefiting from that use.
In even more recent history voting for Trump to have a second term is like failing the test when the correct answers are already filled in but you believe that you can still do better.
One of the doom loops of nationalism is however bad the consequences of the exact same actions that you’re currently taking and however many examples there are, you’re able to think “well that can’t happen here because we are soooo much better than everyone else” eg American exceptionalism
The result of decades of right-wing propaganda and attacks on education from every conceivable angle ... the moron MAGAt Cult of domestic terrorist traitors.
America has elected an unpatriotic coupe plotter found guilty as a felon who instigated a riot at the Capitol that caused huge monetary costs, physical damage to people and death just to threaten his own vice president.
He is also a carrier fraudster and criminal.
So....
I always treated the stupid and ignorant with contempt and i don’t regret a second of it. That group of people is responsible for all suffering on earth past and present.
We don't HAVE to be here is the part that's eating me up. We are still the might of the U.S.A. We are American muscle. American quality. American resilience. We built the network of freedoms we enjoy through great hardship and sacrifice, as you know well Mr. Takei. We have momentum. We need guts.
Right?! A Japanese-American friend of my mom's, who's family was displaced during WWII voted for Trump in 2024. Or her husband did and she didn't overtly express any difference in opinion. How far have we fallen?
Except that the wrong answers are also being blared on the loudspeaker and they are louder than the one with the right answers.
Don't underestimate the power of disinformation, especially when combined with strategic long term efforts to demolish and discredit education, journalism, and science.
People who ignore history are bound to repeat it again, but given his ancestors were members of the n-word party, well, therein lies the cause of this "ignorance"...
Backsliding into authoritarianism 80 years after WWII is like forgetting the lessons of history when they’re right in front of you. We’ve been warned, the answers are clear, yet here we are. This isn’t just a political battle—it’s a fight for the soul of this nation. Time to WAKE UP!
I was born 1955. Having lost an uncle. Murdered by nazis in France.
German sons of a German immigration.
World War 2 was never far from my consciousness.
I'll be gone when the time comes that killing natzis becomes necessary again.
I have the feeling that the answers on the walls are not clear enough. I hope we know how to f****g write them for next time, because this is really depressing
This is exactly what the GOP wanted to accomplish by dumbing down America--a more easily controlled populace. A majority of people in the US don't even understand the first thing about democracy, much less fascism.
A kakistocracy is a government run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens. The word was coined as early as the seventeenth century.
If you read history, 80 years is the magic number for the great forgetting in historical cycles. However, this time around, we had a group conducting a 50 year plan to kill education, take over media with disinformation sources, and capture a political party, and it worked.
I was listening to a documentary earlier about the early years of Hitler's reighn and used a counter to track parallels between Trump and Hitler. The 6 I counted was 6 too many
But fascism is going to continue uninterrupted wealth acquisition for our owners? Didn't we all agree this is the most important metric of the human experience?
I use to give a open book quiz early on in the year
Would get a couple of kids that failed it every year
How do you fail an open book quiz early on?
In 25 years of teaching , I never figured out a answer to that question
Let’s not forget our nation’s resistance to fighting fascism and the Third Reich. Hitler had occupied most of Europe and still we opposed sending armaments, much less troops.
We allowed Rupert Murdoch to run a propaganda network. Always was a bad idea...maybe if we recover from all this we can do something about that, and other things.
We’re fucked as a species as long as these oligarchs play their games. Anyone making more than 10million should be capped to 10million and give the rest back.
Don’t anybody tell me that 10million isn’t enough. Fuck’s sake.
According to the Strauss-Howe hypothesis, history can be divided into periods of 80 to 100 years. In each period, four generations compete for power, resulting in a crisis moment followed by radical social and political reconstruction.
I remember a conspiracy theory growing up that was about how we never won WWII & that there were just too many of us for the Nazis to kill or control so they formed a long game to control us all through hypnotism & subjugation & we were entrained to think we won.
The right has very intentionally done whatever they can to prevent education from happening in regions where they can control it, and/or distract the population with entertainment. While many of us see what is happening as obvious, many others are completely ignorant.
Biden needs to enforce the 14th amendment using his immunity. Arrest, DENATIONALIZE, and exile Trump, Vance, Musk, and the five SCOTUS members who are on the take. We have to convince him to do this or millions will die.
Part of the problem is that Anglo-Saxon white supremacy and European-style fascism have merged. But many Americans believe this is the same old white supremacy they're used to and that traditional American methods of resistance will work. They won't. I've compiled the threads below to explain.
They'll only be twice as expensive as they are now!*
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*thanks to repeated waves of bird flu that are inadequately addressed due to defunding of the CDC & Dept of Agr.
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1. He’s good bullshit
2. A lot of Americans are as gullible as all get-out !!
You just have to stay alert and start to resist… if you’re not one of the lemmings.
Which is it's own perversity !!
Will humanity ever learn?
Yeah, well now he’s admitting he can’t fix the economy while hiring people hellbent on ruining it. Tough shit.
Yet the AfD is gaining ground, and has taken most of the seats in the European Parliament from former eastern areas. The mindset never died, and immigration has revived it.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn02w01xr2jo
The AfD will get ca 19% overall coming election. Nobody will coalition with them. The votes are lost.
Spain was Fascist until 1975 under Franco
If the repeating pattern is Democracy/Fascism/Ruin/Recovery/Democracy/Fascism, then we don't have a chance as a global community to tackle larger issues of environmental degradation, poverty, hunger, and education.
Every post on that fascist machine only strengthens musk.
Down with oligarchs.
Once to Native Americans and once to black people.
* tariffs are something other countries pay (similar tactic to building border wall);
* grocery prices will come down (excepting eggs, maybe if Musk causes a recession)
* insurrectionists are hostages
etc.
At least, that is how it worked out for me.
I am pretty comfortable with my diagnosis. I did go to school for a while, so it wasn't a surprise.
Fucking dipshittery
He is also a carrier fraudster and criminal.
So....
Don't underestimate the power of disinformation, especially when combined with strategic long term efforts to demolish and discredit education, journalism, and science.
Uhh, uh, oh.
*Frantically starts flipping though pages*
"Where's the peaceful revolution where nobody did anything but things got better?!"
"Must be here somewhere!"
Credit to @bladeofthes.bsky.social
German sons of a German immigration.
World War 2 was never far from my consciousness.
I'll be gone when the time comes that killing natzis becomes necessary again.
Go back 80 more years, Civil War
Go back 80 more years, Revolutionary War.
Plutocracy and Authoritarianism are friends like Peanut Butter and Jelly
But KAKISTOCRACY on an Economic and Governance basis can only be acheived with EVANGELICAL VOTERS
A kakistocracy is a government run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens. The word was coined as early as the seventeenth century.
https://bsky.app/profile/verybadllama.bsky.social/post/3ldm6a3uppk2j
"Oh you're just being dramatic."
They're saying they want to eliminate minorities.
"They're just being hyperbolic, they're not *currently* gassing anybody."
At this point I'm certain if another Holocaust happened the right would just claim it's all a hoax of liberal media.
So to recap, we have a non-elected official who supports neo-nazis making decisions in our government.
literally one generation later:
"We are fascists!"
what did you think was going to happen ?
Fuck adobe
Would get a couple of kids that failed it every year
How do you fail an open book quiz early on?
In 25 years of teaching , I never figured out a answer to that question
Don’t anybody tell me that 10million isn’t enough. Fuck’s sake.
https://bigthink.com/the-past/strauss-howe-generational-theory-revolution-america/
https://youtu.be/nskumJWJmuw?...
People WAKE UP!!!!
Somedays, the thought of that.
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*thanks to repeated waves of bird flu that are inadequately addressed due to defunding of the CDC & Dept of Agr.