Not that it helps us terribly much right now, but I remember when people were accusing Biden of being just as bad as Trump.
I don’t remember Biden or any Democrat doing this. Crack down on protests? Sure. Sign an EO that effectively says “we get to decide what you’re allowed to say, and we get to decide where that line is”? No.
Gonna be a lot of “terrorists” in the coming years if this isn’t tossed out by a judge. Democrats don’t align with my ideals, but rather than installing the weak Democrats to the White House or Congress, people ensured we have fascists in all branches of government to fight against.
Just stupidity up and down. And I am tired, boss.
But gEnOcIdE jOe
Whoa there. Don’t forget that the Biden admin tried to sneak a “disinformation” group into DHS. It was not as blatant as what’s happening today, but let’s not sugar coat it either.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/24/politics/dhs-disinformation-board-shut-down/index.html
He also cracked down on campus protests. Doesn’t really refute my point. Neither Biden nor Kamala would have allowed a position like the one put out by the current spokesperson.
Disinformation did and does exist, and it’s a real problem. What he did was the incorrect way to go about addressing it, but setting up a group with the goal of trying to fix something that’s actually rotting away people’s epistemic foundations is a far cry from “we get to unilaterally decide when and where you’ve crossed some nebulous line of our choosing.”
I would have rather been fighting against the Biden admin, right now, than the Trump admin, the latter of which currently has fawning sycophants controlling every branch of government.
In terms of the here and now I largely agree with you. I’m just the kill joy reminding the audience that every president has been complicit in ratcheting the executive power of the office for over a century. Unless that power is curtailed tyranny is inevitable.
I hear you, friend. Sucks that we’re here.
I hate to break it to you, but people in the US are probably just weeks away from being brutalized and thrown into jail at the behest of the Trump administration for any or no reason whatsoever. Things are moving much faster than anyone would have thought possible and violence, real physical violence is an unavoidable property of any fascist regime.
Things are moving much faster than anyone would have thought possible and violence, real physical violence is an unavoidable property of any fascist regime.
I would kindly ask you to speak for yourself. Leftists and historians have warned about the fascist tendencies of Trump and the Republican Party for years. We know from history how fast things move once fascists start seizing actual power (as opposed to just cultural power/media hegemony). It’s okay to be surprised, it’s okay to admit you did not expect this, as corporate media and the center-right Democrat establishment has largely been downplaying the seriousness of your situation. But please don’t erase all the voices that have been warning you about this, as they are also the ones you should listen to more if you want to resist fascism.
- Remember jan 6th? That was your wakeup call. Democrats largely treated it as a cosmetic issue (defeat the Republicans by playing respectability politics and painting themselves as the “adults in the room”). You should have buried the insurrectionists and Trump with criminal charges. And those charges should have been treated with the utmost seriousness and urgency.
- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z55AEOPYlYc
- https://forward.com/culture/546615/book-bans-nazis-berlin-florida/
- https://www.newsweek.com/ron-desantis-nazi-symbol-campaign-sonnenrad-1814801
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Tyranny …
The way I see it, the Democrats have to open up to leftists and progressives and abandon their bipartisan centrism bs. You need another FDR and an associated narrative to stomp out fascism. You need a proper alliance of the center and the left, which requires the Democrats to get their sh** together and actually start resisting. Walz is doing great btw if you want an example of what left-moderate Democrats should be doing rn.
Here’s one of my favorite quotes from Erich Kästner (1899-1974), a german pacifist and staunch opponent of the nazi-regime, whose books were burned by the nazis, outlining his lessons from that horrible time in history:
Die Ereignisse von 1933 bis 1945 hätten spätestens 1928 bekämpft werden müssen. Später war es zu spät. Man darf nicht warten, bis der Freiheitskampf Landesverrat genannt wird. Man darf nicht warten, bis aus dem Schneeball eine Lawine geworden ist. Man muss den rollenden Schneeball zertreten. Die Lawine hält keiner mehr auf. Sie ruht erst, wenn sie alles unter sich begraben hat. Das ist die Lehre, das ist das Fazit dessen, was uns 1933 widerfuhr. Das ist der Schluss, den wir aus unseren Erfahrungen ziehen müssen, und es ist der Schluss meiner Rede. Drohende Diktaturen lassen sich nur bekämpfen, ehe sie die Macht übernommen haben.
My attempt at translation (German to English is kind of weird if you want to keep the sentence structure close to the original text):
We should have put all our efforts into fighting the nazi regime [1933-1945 was the time of the nazi dictatorship] no later than 1928, any time later would have been too late. We can not and must not wait until resistance is treated as sedition. We must not wait until the snowball [of fascism] has become an avalanche. We must stomp on/crush the snowball before it can become an avalanche. Once it has become an avalanche there is no stopping it [fascism]. It [the avalanche] will only come to rest once it has buried us all. This is the lesson we should learn from the events of 1933. This is the crux of what our experiences [what we have lived through] have taught us and I hereby conclude my speech. Imminent dictatorships can only be fought before they have seized power.
And watch as Republican voters maintain the thought-terminating-cliché: “Yeah, it’s gonna hurt at first, but it will be good after that.”
The administration is claiming the authority to decide what people think. Basically everything they scream about liberal indoctrination, but actually doing it in reverse. In normal times they’d get slapped in the face with the 1st amendment, and that would be the end of it. But with our current untrustworthy supreme court, now it’s going to end up being a fight.
“What do we mean when we say ‘free?’ According to the Bible, real freedom is found in subservience to God, so clearly, slavery is actually freedom.” —Jordan Peterson, probably
clearly, slavery is actually freedom.
And anyone who disagrees with this is literally 1984 - Also Jordan Peterson probably
deleted by creator
Foreign terrorist organisations
Like the cartels, say isn’t the majority of Americas
slaveprison population there on drug charges?
