Am I projecting? What do you think, fellow lemmings?

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[–] 56 points 2 years ago (13 children)

My coworker said to me today that all the news outside of the US is calling us Nazi America and this goes hand in hand with my own international news reading experience in the last day. I think everyone is acknowledging how dumb we look and how it affects them?

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    As someone from "outside the US": It isn't much better elsewhere. Italy has a fascist government, France is fucking up everything, Sweden has a governemnt depending on a borderline fascist party, the Netherlands has borderline fascists as part of the government, in Germany open fascists poll at 20% as the 2nd most popular party (elections are next month), Georgia is on the brink of civil war, Korea is in a utterly weird crisis/coup mode, in the middle east we are having a genocide happening, Sudan is in chaos, and so on and on.

    On the bright side: Things appear to be somewhat okay in Spain and Belgium seems to have a somewhat half-working government.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Belgian here, we have a working Flemish and Wallon regional governement, as well as for the Flemish (is same as régional) and French and German speaking communities’ governements, but the Brussels region and federal aren’t getting anywhere. It’s only been 227 days tho… ETA: radical right was almost largest party in Flanders, and the ´libéral’ party in Wallonia won with a radical right agenda

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    Sounds about right. My wife has friends abroad that have been calling and asking if everything is alright, then start the questions of how we let this happen, why don't we do anything about it, etc. And I'll be honest, I do feel pretty helpless at the moment and very uneasy about the next period of time. I've been reading quite a bit about WWII and how Germany got into their situation, and almost too much if it parallels. Most of the population was sick of the status quo and wanted change, those who spoke up and tried pointing certain things out were labeled as worrying lunatics, and most of society was too ignorant to care until it was too late. I mean, what the hell is an individual to do? I could grab my rifle and take to the streets, and immediately get gunned down by cops, or start writing letters that will pretty just get me added to a list at this point.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Well they didn't have any past government examples to use as a warning. News and communication back then was also much more limited.

    I could grab my rifle and take to the streets

    They literally had street battles with armed communists and ww1 veterans fighting each other. The average person was so horrified of living in a war zone that they voted for any party who could stop it.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Considering most other countries are voting in right-wing governments, sounds like they're in the process of "letting it happen" as well.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    No doubt there's a major push globally to descend into authoritarianism, arguably under the auspice that people are fed up with capitalism and voting for something different. But it's hard to convince billions of people that the real root is a handful of billionaires playing Pinky and the Brain. We'll just have to see, unfortunately.

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