George, I think there might be something in the Bible they quote so often, something about protecting the weakest.
So sad they don’t understand the regime is comes for them too.
It is about all of us. The challenge is fighting the default mindset that insists “nothing like that could happen here”. A state of denial that keeps survival fear at bay. Unfortunately I can’t get to that level of denial. It is happening.
Rising authoritarianism worldwide inspired me to write an allegorical trilogy on the perils of fascism: 1) unnecessary war, 2) failed democracy & resulting climate crisis, & 3) racially-motivated subjugation. Check out: https://amazon.com/dp/B0B1JNBCTK?
This is the day of the military parade and his birthday. There will be others in between. Just search online. But this will be a big one, especially if he follows through with the parade.
Not all. LGBTQ people weren't included in the poem because when the Nazi camps were liberated, those forced to wear the pink triangle were transferred to the nearest functioning prison system instead. Commies and queers became the new enemies used to keep the public compliant.
"You're a Socialist! The poem says we come for you first."
"I'm a #SubGenius! Not a socialist!"
"We're MAGATs we don't read well."
"I don't believe in socialism!"
"That word you said starts with a S tho so we're sending you to El Salvador."
"Will there be pizza and beer?"
"Nope."
"This sux!"
Here’s a question? If you’re not a socialist, why are you communicating on a socialist platform?🤔
And if you don’t believe in socialism how are you even a MAGAt? Wouldn’t you have to SOCIALIZE with others to show support for your shared values and principles?🤨
I want to grab every US citizen by the shoulders and point them towards Russia, shouting "they did this before! Do you want to be like them?", but I fear they would only be afraid of it because it is Russia. And then clap when the US-KGB does the same things the KGB did.
Mind I am only picking Russia because it seems MAGAs and their pals absolutely clamour for the Third Reich. The thing their ancestors fought against and what was used in many "USA defeated" dystopias!
They came for my people and we've watched them come for the rest.
Why did the people on the Mayflower leave Europe? You're seeing the fruits of their labour now. A white Christian nation.
used 2 feel that way til I moved to LA..and visited Lil Tokyo. and saw and felt how racist they were..worse than anyplace I have ever been. incl Russia..so now I think..let me worry about me..b/c yte ppl got this.
#alt A billboard sized sign which is low to the ground and against a background of trees. The sign says We're about 3 lines deep into the "first they came for" poem. It's not a very long poem, folks. 💜
Ok but what are we doing?! I'm tired of the virtue signalling on this app. Yes...if I were in 30s Germany, I would be doing the same...sitting and waiting for the organized mob to form. I can't go to the WH BY MYSELF and try to end all this...that's not how France won against the monarchy.
The “poem” is my interpretation of what happened in Germany 1945.
After WWII, killings, gas chambers and other atrocities the country experienced a decade of shame wrapped in silence, covered by a layer of denial garnished with a bow of self-deception.
I’ve been thinking a lot about this, actually. How did Europe heal when it was over? I don’t want to talk to MAGAs now, and I don’t think I’ll want to talk to them when this ends either. What if my kid falls in love with a kid whose parents are MAGAs? How did Germany forgive? How will we move on?
It was America that helped western Germany establishing some democratic order and it was Europe as a whole which agreed for measures preventing repeated history.
But the grand children of Hitler and Mussolini are still there and MAGA helped them with their lies and alternative truth to grow.
We’re three verses in, and the pattern’s clear. What begins with the quiet removal of “them” ends with no one left to speak when they come for you. Indifference isn’t safety—it’s complicity dressed in silence.
I'm from the UK. Nigel Farage wants to intoduce Trump's DOGE and DEI purging policies if he becomes our next Prime Minister which sadly is looking like a very likely prospect. I am trying to warn as many people as I can by saying be careful what u wish for 🥺😳
Absolutely. We're all in this together, fighting for a more just and equitable future for everyone. What's one thing you're doing today to build that future?
"The poets (by which I mean all artists) are finally the only people who know the truth about us. Soldiers don’t. Statesmen don’t. Priests don’t. Union leaders don’t. Only poets." James Baldwin✨💗👑🌸
So very true and poignant. We are getting into the fourth line in England (after the council elections). With Canada and Australia giving Trump a message while our voters supported a Trump arse-licker called Farage.
It's long past 2nd Amendment time.
Just a little footnote.
Check out who just bought Remington and Federal. The military has stopped producing ammunition for the public.
In a country that is nothing but a bad reality show, conspiracies are next week's programming.
Pastor Martin Niemöller, the author of the poem, supported the Nazis for many years, but that did not protect him once he started disagreeing with them. In 1937 he was sent to a concentration camp.
Fascists don't care if you used to supported them, a lesson that MAGA supporters are yet to learn.
I wrote this a while ago and updated it to reflect what Trump's done since then. Trump's done away with women's Reproductive Rights, Voter's Rights and DEI Rights too. Hopefully we overturn everything soon.
Never forget that, as good as the poem is, it also deliberately left out LGBT+ people from the list. The Hirschfeld library was burned by the Nazis in 1933, and the largest library of alternative human sexuality was lost.
Written by German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller. One of his contemporaries, Rev Dietrich Bonhoeffer participated in a plot to assassinate Hitler, for which he was executed. People of faith need to stop supporting the evil 🍊🤡 and stand for truth.
Of course. Especially when you do not teach or learn from history. In the US, they do not teach American history, never mind others.That is by design. Trump would not even be there for a first term if the voters had any education.At the same time they eliminate books and evidence. Rewriting history
From what I’ve seen, they’re butchering history. Erasing the achievements of POC and teach the Big Election Lie BS. They want a gullible next generation, like Hitler’s Brown Shirts.
Another way to look at this...
People who gain power by drawing a line don't stop at one line. Play the game and odds are you'll find yourself on the wrong side of a line.
Everyday is a new opportunity to stand for justice, decency, and democracy. As our republican congress continues to bend the knee to a want to be king, we must remember to be Fierce, be Brave, and be Free! Demand Democracy.
FACT. And there’s a certain marginalized group they are targeting more than others and some on the other side are quick to throw us under the bus! Can’t wait to put this country in my rear view!🏳️⚧️🤬🏳️⚧️
A lot of people just don't get it! It is so sad that people are still living, that went through this before. A lot of Americans are still in the mentality of; it's them not me that the government is going after.
Sadley, people don't understand the concept of something so simple to grasp unless it comes to their doorstep, and that's when they ask, why is no one coming to "my" rescue, missing the point of Pastor Martin Niemöller poem!
I don't want to sound like a bitch here, and its breaking my heart that this is happening at all, today I'm getting ready to walk for 4,200 of my stolen sisters and am not sorry the white people are feeling like BIPOC people have always felt. Scary, huh? Please don't forget this feeling afterwards.
I know, I belong to several of those: AuDHD, physically handicapped, and queer.
at this point im nolonger afraid of bullets. bullets are quick. Then done. But having this goddamned hyper empathy curse makes me feel every part of this national death. SLOWLY. It feels like an ETERNITY.
^Also, It literally feels like America is this MASSIVE, dying, collective organism, of which I am a smallest little zooid, a derivative.
It's not gonna be okay until EVERYONE OF US IS OK!
I do believe that some honestly think they won't be touched in any way from all of this--and I just don't get that. We're all in it together, like it or not.
That’s because they voted for others to be touched, ousted, jailed, nailed, stripped of their aid, stripped of their dignity-and gleefully cheer when it happens-their hubris is inevitably the self pity that is starting to be aired on the local news. They get no sympathy from me.
They couldn't wait to see the rest of us crying, suffering and begging for mercy in multiple ways. Now they are the ones doing the bellyaching, and I can't in all conscience feel sorry for them. They are mean and vengeful, so now they'll see what the other side of that feels like.
We have to give Combover Caligula and his regime the boot, ASAP. The longer these monsters are allowed to stay in office; the more damage they will do.
Look at what they've done in 104 days. Imagine how bad things will be in 6 months or a year. 😢
That very well could be the case at the rate the regime is speed running their fuckery, Chris. This is why we have to fight hard now and demand change.
Although I don't like that poem. You should be good, kind and respectful of others, not for your own sake (eventually), but because it's the right thing to do.
"Hey" can I change a holidays name or date; "Donny 2 fingers sexual assault rapist bone spurs 2 dolls is allowed to", "what happened to the golf of America brain fart", "is a frog's ass water tight", "doesn't the bear s*** in his own woods"!
Can't expect much from a nation founded by white men for white men. Now the white men are all angry because they've been losing control of their agenda to keep the US a nation for white, cisgender, heterosexual, able bodied, christian men. White authoritarian rule has always been, when does it end.
If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the GI Rights Hotline. There is support, you don't have to go through with it. tel: 1-877-447-4487
If you march at a busy intersection, use the crosswalk and erupt in thunderous noise as you cross. Then, let cars go, wait for the next signal to erupt again. Repeat
Blocking traffic gives police an excuse to stop you, _and_ letting cars go gets the word out to more happy drivers!
2 Timothy 3:6 - They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over gullible women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires.
There are those of us who will never forget, there are those who will never remember and then there are those who will cheer it happening again. That third group is maga.
Worth noting that Niemoller came around to that view after initially being a Nazi sympathizer. The MAGA crowd can perhaps see the light -- eventually. Until then, we protect their intended victims. speak out, and stall their campaign of cruelty and hate.
Exactly, the poem is actually a confession. You can add "and I think they deserved it" to each of the lines except the last.
Basically it's the leopard face eating thing of the 1930s.
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I remember when a Democrat,then a Republican POTUS came for my peers while I waited to turn 18. 58,000+ didn't come home alive and many more came back physically & mentally wounded. It's past time for us to realize that both parties are paid for by Cooperations that profit from death and suffering.
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So sad they don’t understand the regime is comes for them too.
It's autobiographical.
Rising authoritarianism worldwide inspired me to write an allegorical trilogy on the perils of fascism: 1) unnecessary war, 2) failed democracy & resulting climate crisis, & 3) racially-motivated subjugation. Check out: https://amazon.com/dp/B0B1JNBCTK?
Hourly wage and salary folks, this is easy to do without violating anything so 🙏 hear me out ok?
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#ImpeachTrump
#DeportTrump
Capitol switchboard (202) 224-3121.
Email them through their websites.
Tell them to shout impeach, impeach, impeach!
Loudly. Daily.
While it’s still legal.
And be a big problem for the dictator all day long.
Or don’t ask for money…
(Please repost)
They came for women
They came for trans people
They came for catholic Latinos
If you aren’t white Protestant male and not productive in their minds, they are coming for you.
"I'm a #SubGenius! Not a socialist!"
"We're MAGATs we don't read well."
"I don't believe in socialism!"
"That word you said starts with a S tho so we're sending you to El Salvador."
"Will there be pizza and beer?"
"Nope."
"This sux!"
And if you don’t believe in socialism how are you even a MAGAt? Wouldn’t you have to SOCIALIZE with others to show support for your shared values and principles?🤨
How the hell is there ANY OTHER STORY than the massive violation of Human rights and The Constitution being perpetrated by the Trump administration?
Might as well slap on the swastika armband if you,
Every day is a new target and a new chaos, but only one problem! https://rumble.com/v6swo0j-sayonara-mike-waltz-lets-sing-about-the-next-fall-guy-or-gal.html #trump #resisttrump #maga #art
Why did the people on the Mayflower leave Europe? You're seeing the fruits of their labour now. A white Christian nation.
The new line will be,
“Then they came for me,
And I got to kill nazi’s for free.”
https://hmd.org.uk/resource/first-they-came-by-pastor-martin-niemoller/
https://www.mobilize.us/
https://theblop.org/index.html
Then Never Forget It.
He mentioned communists, socialists and trade unionists.
The poem was derived from his lecture
https://martin-niemoeller-stiftung.de/martin-niemoeller
The people having genuine concerns, about not making ends meet.
The far right hijacking that concern and molding it to blame on a specific group, rather then confronting the actual issue.
When does one realise 🤔?
Stayed
Survived
Suffered
Once it ended
Pretended
Haven’t seen anything
Haven’t heard anything
Haven’t done anything
#neverforget
#neveragainistoday
After WWII, killings, gas chambers and other atrocities the country experienced a decade of shame wrapped in silence, covered by a layer of denial garnished with a bow of self-deception.
Fascists were always the others.
Lies killed American lives.
But the grand children of Hitler and Mussolini are still there and MAGA helped them with their lies and alternative truth to grow.
Consequences for leaders in the movement?
Let's get past the evil and vile Trump regime atrocities and then work on that part?
I instantly cry when I wake up each day.
#HumanRights
💔🐉💔
She sees it!
And I shouted like hell because I read the damn poem when I was 15!”
A LOT has been said about each line this time.
It's been better than nothing: we're working some court cases.
But it's also shown action still speaks louder than cheap talk.
Maybe it should've exhorted people to DO something, not just say something? 🤷♀️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_uwg5vK43I
Contact Congress in 5-minutes!!!! 💙✊🏻🇺🇸
Just a little footnote.
Check out who just bought Remington and Federal. The military has stopped producing ammunition for the public.
In a country that is nothing but a bad reality show, conspiracies are next week's programming.
Fascists don't care if you used to supported them, a lesson that MAGA supporters are yet to learn.
We owe Trump a big thank you for banishing our wannabe Temu Trump party into the wilderness
https://bsky.app/profile/tincanfury.bsky.social/post/3loawwqr5x22l
I'll bring it back as soon as I'm done with it, though.
History repeating itself.
People who gain power by drawing a line don't stop at one line. Play the game and odds are you'll find yourself on the wrong side of a line.
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All the Republicans near me are cheering it on.
They know, and they like it.
Because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trade unionist.
….
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me — and there was no one left to speak for me.
I keep seeing polls and I wonder who the fuck are these people still with blinders! Wake up America.
your first they come poem is gonna be different but its still getting worked
On behalf of all same Americans, I am Sorry💙
at this point im nolonger afraid of bullets. bullets are quick. Then done. But having this goddamned hyper empathy curse makes me feel every part of this national death. SLOWLY. It feels like an ETERNITY.
It's not gonna be okay until EVERYONE OF US IS OK!
Please call your representatives every chance you get.
Please hit the streets every chance you get!
The law is used by the Dictator to kidnap people in the dead of night
The military is under control by a Dictator ass hole sucker
And the Dictator wants us to revolt so he will declare martial law?
Look at what they've done in 104 days. Imagine how bad things will be in 6 months or a year. 😢
Until this regime is out, none of us are safe.
Although I don't like that poem. You should be good, kind and respectful of others, not for your own sake (eventually), but because it's the right thing to do.
https://youtu.be/1DH1YGhJF_U
A modern and current interpretation of this poem
SOCAN Member for public airplay
😊
If you march at a busy intersection, use the crosswalk and erupt in thunderous noise as you cross. Then, let cars go, wait for the next signal to erupt again. Repeat
Blocking traffic gives police an excuse to stop you, _and_ letting cars go gets the word out to more happy drivers!
Your calculus is now this; it's very simple
Move against the administration
The first ones to do so will be labeled 'courageous' and 'patriotic', while the last ones to do so will be primaried
You are in power, now
That U.S. Congressional switchboard number is
202-224-3121
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https://youtu.be/BjVMqfCwlug
We will normalize tomorrow.
Question is, what are people willing to do about it?
First they came for Country
By his deflagration
Comes celebration
Crushed & hung magat balls
This the unifying call
Of a United Nation 🇺🇸
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
On a side note, dreamt Obama returned as the leader of US 🇺🇸 So there’s that 🥰
You might not like the expletive (I do), but we all should heed the immediate action!
https://www.wont4getyounotes.com/here-it-comes/
Basically it's the leopard face eating thing of the 1930s.
Not only in the USA.
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Less than 100 people helped the Japanese. They faced fines.
Most White Americans will not realize it until it’s too late.