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people in here really trying to be like “you are defeatist and wrong” and “I have hope” who also don’t wear a mask anymore lol
listen. say whatever you want. I do not want to hear from anyone who isn’t taking Covid seriously anymore. I just don’t. If you are not considering both your community’s Covid response and its climate response as things at the top of your mind in all of your praxis you are naive and you are not prepared to do what needs to be done for any cause with the urgency it requires. And that’s 9/10 people in this thread. That’s 9/10 people in the country. 9/10 people in the world.
There are almost 100 replies to this thread and not a single one mentions disability or anything at all about the consequences of unchecked Covid spread and mutation — except in the past tense, of course…! Nothing anyone says which is like this is a serious analysis of things. You are — willfully or otherwise — neglecting a massive piece of the puzzle then showing me a picture with a hole in it and telling me I just dont get it. I am so exhausted by it.
So no I don’t have a whole lot of hope for this place, or indeed many places anymore, and no amount of Lenin or Mao or any other esteemed thought leaders are going to change that in this current moment.
negl I wish we had like. A Shinigami Eyes plugin, or a Lemmy Enhancement Suite plugin that allowed for tagging of Lemmy users; I'd actually be able to keep track of who to disregard based on certain subjects that shouldn't be hard to maintain a coherent and actually-progressive line on.
This is maybe some terminally online freak shit but I remember who’s who when I see em. The rest of the time is me waiting for the other shoe to drop for everyone else; haven’t been wrong yet…
I miss when my memory was that good
People who can't even consistently put cloth over their faces think they have what it takes to make it through Long March 2.0.
Honestly I'm not sure, all I know is that we'll see more pogroms like we saw in Britain become regular in the West, and it will target anyone they perceive as Muslim or Chinese.
I hope to leave before it gets more serious.
I agree with Anarcho_Blinkenist. However, I think of that one scene in Disco where the Deserter is talking about how "They're not human" (capitalists), which I agree, detracts from that point that they are actually human who are committing atrocities but nonetheless the reason I thought of that is because I'm afraid what America will do while fighting for it's last breath. Even if all is successful, which ultimately it will be; what scars will the Beast leave on this planet? Just from what I've heard from my time talking to vets and such, etc it is something I think of often.
That's what is scary to me. The loss that will happen.
But it must happen, otherwise, barbarism.
in the US there aren't enough white people to take over the country, I think it'll be neoliberal police state transphobia, not third reich transphobia.
*not trying to be flippant with this brief comment, just trying to be concise because I don't have the credibility to be verbose
The Nazis never won an actual majority even in manipulated elections. 75% is absolutely enough to go full third Reich.
Jews were less than 1% of the population in prewar Germany
They didn't only go after Jewish people though, they also attacked the various traveller peoples living in Germany, gay people, leftists and dozens of other relatively small groups.
I realize, but if you add up everyone they targeted it wasn't 1 in 4 people.
White people don't need to "take over" the country, they already dominate it. Besides, it's not like American fascists will start with 19th century race science. They will come to power promising to only brutalize the broadly defined "criminals", and gradually expand the definition once they've already captured the state
Maybe I'm wrong or deluding myself, but I think that a white-supremacist fascist movement—and I don’t know of I can imagine any other kind in America—would have a hard time going fully mask off and saying "okay we're doing white-supremacist fascism now" in a country where 25% of the population are not white and a lot of people are armed, and I think they would need to be mask-off fascist if they wanted to round up trans people on a national scale. *I’m not saying there won’t be patchwork fascist control at the state and county levels, pushing things as far as they can, like Florida but worse, with police increasingly turning a blind eye to transphobic attacks.
A lot of modern fascists are more concerned with culture than skin culture. If you're the right kind of Christian, who uses the right cultural signifiers and dresses the right way, skin color can usually be forgiven by these people, at least for the sake of forging a political alliance.
Maybe a lot, but I don’t know the actual fraction they make up among fascists, or how important their fraction is in terms of their potential power in the future. The proud boys followed Enrique Tarrio but they also dogwhistle about great replacement and are overwhelmingly white. My big assumption is that movements full of white supremacists will struggle to recruit POC, but maybe I’m wrong about that, or maybe Christian patriarchy will overtake white supremacism as the main driver of fascism in America. I don’t know. In a country this racist, I have a hard time imagining it.
Never underestimate how much gaslighting and insincere bullshit the fascists will use to gain power. Based on historical fascism, it will probably come with a faction of support that appears progressive and anti capitalist, maybe even socialist, which views the fascist party as a way to challenge capital. They will get long-knifed eventually, but until then their existence will frustrate our attempts to reveal the fundamentally reactionary and white supremacist nature of the fascist project