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I genuinely, cannot, believe this might be happening. (thelemmy.club)
submitted 2 days ago by to c/boycottus@lemmy.ca
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We all knew shit was gonna hit the fan when Trump won his second term, but this, I don't think anyone saw this coming.

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[–] 17 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Yeah, you can't make this shit up. I feel sorry for all the normal Americans.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago* (2 children)

    The US is also trying to export their madness to the rest of the world. I feel sorry for us normal Europeans that might get our own right wing loons thanks to America not being able to contain theirs.

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  • [–] 4 points 15 hours ago (1 child)

    Fascism finds fertile ground in wealth inequality and rural stagnation caused by our economic system. It's easy to blame the US but it's a global issue.

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  • [–] 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

    It is and you have to have the fertile land to get something to grow for sure.

    The difference in this brave new era is Musk, Vance, Rubio etc are happy to turn up and say their bullshit to our faces, openly promote and fund it etc. There is no operating in the shadows anymore and they are using the levers of the US government to kneecap their former allies due to how over integrated we became.

    Certainly it's better that we all realise where the US is now and where it's heading. Hopefully the rest of us can change course.

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

    I don't. They decided to sleepwalk their way into this. I knew what was coming for the USA in a single visit to Houston in 1999. I could hear the jackboots marching in lockstep from just around the corner down the block. Americans of my acquaintance, when I expressed that nervousness, told me I was being "alarmist" … and kept telling me that as the post-9/11 phase started with the not even slightly ominous-sounding "Department of Homeland Security", the "PATRIOT Act", the explosion of racism when a black president was elected, the whole Tea Party fiasco, etc. etc. etc.

    Now the same people who went for a nice stroll in their sleep are waking up to what they let grow all around them.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago

    As an American... you're right. It's been hell living my life here in a lot of ways because the vast majority of people here are basically zombies. I'm honestly just rooting for us to fail at this point, and it's coming up rapidly. The inflation, debt, and unchecked fraud of Wall Street will get us in the end. I'd be surprised if we didn't have a fairly major economic crash within the next 10 years.

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