Hi fascist! I’m guillotine!

Everyone: We’re going to have universal basic income to compensate us for losing jobs to AI, right?!

Elites:…

Everyone:…right?

All the more reason to use Signal.

It is sad and tragic that a once respectable and influential religious group steeped in culture and history, became a lackey of Kremlin.

Problem could be resolved if, I don’t know, tax the rich.

What do you expect? The media bowed down to Trump. I didn’t think fear of lawsuit would lead to this but here we are.

Even fascists in other countries aren’t this stupid. What do they even want to gain in spreading diseases?

I wonder what the right wing media tell voters to convince them to support rich people and their cronies. I get that Trump made people feel special during campaign, but he’s a billionaire, why would people think he’s going to help the plebs? Is scapegoating minorities been addled too much into people’s brain that they forget they don’t like rich people? If you ask a lot of ordinary people, they don’t like the rich, but somehow they see Trump as the exception.

No, we’re making fun of stupid people.

Yeah, but honestly, it’s sad. People who fall for romance scam do so out of desperation.

Will people stop calling the capital and fascist protectors law enforcement? Calling them that makes it sound like they are honourable when they’re not.

Too many people are still convinced that Elon’s wealth is attained through his hardwork alone.

It might be more difficult to dismantle US fascism because it is oligarchic technofascism, than old school fascism. However, if there is one thing that is proven, is that eventually people rise up. Time and time again, those who come to power become too corrupt to be palatable. This has been observed since Plato’s time.

That’s what they are doing. I am amazed that no one from outside has yet pointed finger and warned about Heritage Foundation’s attempt to influence Europe. They want to see the world burn, literally.

Even though I have reservations about US-style DEI initiatives (I’d much prefer France’s way of not recording ethnicity, race, religion etc), I do find Trump admin’s policies to be beyond absurd and stupid of just nuking everything.

The good news though is that fascists typically shoot themselves on the foot and end up destroying themselves because their decisions are based on emotions. There is quite literally neither rhyme nor reason. If one reads into Nazi and fascist policies and institutions, they don’t make any sense whatsoever. Nazi Germany was actually on the brink of self-made bankruptcy by excessive overspending, until Hitler declared war to delay the inevitable by plundering the resources of Europe. Eventually, American fascism will just end up eating itself.

I am not trying to invalidate your comment, but saying that is like trying to boycott goods and services from China.

I have just read other people’s comments as to why Redditors delete their comments. But even before the enshitiffication, I and others find it frustrating when comments are deleted.

Yeah, I get so pissed when people nuke their comment history. Why do that when you don’t have too much of personal revealing information in that post or comment? Even one of the mods of AskHistorians expressed frustration of insightful posts and comments being deleted by OP. I did not even delete any of my posts before I deleted my Reddit account, because there are no revealing information, and I know some of my posts and comments will be helpful for others.

Probably too distracted by culture wars and other single issue pet peeves to pay attention to the whole picture. My coworker says he agrees with most of what Trump says but is extremist on others. I was like, it’s part and parcel what did you expect? A friend supported Trump for his non-interventionist foreign policy, which may be true on Trump’s first term, but not so much anymore on his second term. I haven’t spoken to him in a long time but I reckon he may be regretting supporting Trump.

What I notice about Trump supporters or those who sympathises with him, is that they don’t really talk about economics or how his bill guts major public investments and agencies, and give more tax cuts to the rich. It is more often on culture wars, or even Epstein files (not dismissing the Epstein files but the Republican economic policies will have more severe consequences to Americans in generations to come and should be talked about more).

A lot of people supporting an ideology or a politician is being in our own social bubble. In my social media feed, I see only anti-Trump content. For others, they see pro-Trump. We’ve became more polarised since the Second World War because of the advent of new modes of communications. In the 20th century, TV and radio were the social media that polarises the society Even if Trump did some good things (remember that he said Hitler did some good things, and yes, Hitler may well have) but the problem with demagogues is that they bait and switch. You can’t ignore the genocidal intent of the person simply because he or she gave you free healthcare.

That’s the idea.

I haven’t seen the show, but the premise of “The Thick of It” is that the real powerful figures are staffers, not the politicians themselves.