Perhaps most urgently, they are wondering whether his rhetorical turn into more fascist-sounding territory is just his latest public provocation of the left, an evolution in his beliefs or the dropping of a veil.
It's fascism. Say it, you coward.
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Fascist rhetoric to scare or anger your political enemies isn’t less fascist
Nothing is new under the sun. Watch your MAGA neighbors closely. Any representatives with ties to the right mentioning civil war should be just as much an alarm. They're saying their plans out loud. Listen to them.
Yeah these Gravy Seals are just looking for a reason to LARP as Chuck Norris in Delta Force, who secretly believe they are the main character is some chuuni fanfic.
Unfortunately this "LARP" has tangible and lasting effects on our democracy.
Congratulations America, in our glorification of hyper individualistic selfishness, we made fascism, a system built on oppression and scapegoating, less scary to the ignorant general public than scawy sociawism. Because social cooperation ensuring everyone's basic needs are being met at the expense of a small subset of people getting to live like modern pharaohs is the devil, after all. People we consider lazy deserve to die for the bad decisions they must have made, amirite my fellow Americans?
Maybe if we hadn't made our core value greed, and our mandated core drive in life competing against one another to get moooooore than our neighbors, there wouldn't be nearly so many ignorant people eager to have the state oppress groups of people that don't (yet) look like them and kneecap the competition.
This is live together or die alone in practice. We chose the second one. But hey, look at all the different variations on the chicken sandwich we got for our Faustian Bargain! This place's has pickles! This other place's has a zesty sauce! It was worth all the cruelty for the freedom of capitalism!
And before some sad true believer tells me "the free market has nothing to do with the rise of Trump and the fascist right herp derp" I would defer you to Donald Trump's entire lifelong brand that elevated him to power. What was his idiotic gameshow about again?
I blame cars, even if they a symptom, they are definitely a catalyst to the isolation and lack of apathy
While I don’t believe cars are the reason, as Mitch Hedberg puts it, they are the Carmex adding the nice shiny highlight to the underlying fever blister.
If these fears are new you haven’t been paying attention.
He's gotten a lot more explicit about planning a fascist dictatorship since his coup attempt failed. We won't see a bunch of Republicans refuse to back one in the moment again
The first time is just practice if there are no consequences. And he suffered no consequences from it yet.
Exactly. Even Hitler went to jail for a while after his first coup attempt. Trump hasn't had to.
"Authoritarian bent". Lmao, what a cesspool.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Donald J. Trump rose to power with political campaigns that largely attacked external targets, including immigration from predominantly Muslim countries and from south of the United States-Mexico border.
During a Veterans Day speech, Mr. Trump used language that echoed authoritarian leaders who rose to power in Germany and Italy in the 1930s, degrading his political adversaries as “vermin” who needed to be “rooted out.”
These ambitions include using the Justice Department to take vengeance on his political rivals, plotting a vast expansion of presidential power and installing ideologically aligned lawyers in key positions to bless his contentious actions.
He has tested the legal system with broadsides against the integrity of the judiciary, railing against prosecutors, judges and, more recently, a law clerk in his New York fraud trial as “politically biased” and “out of control.”
Crowds at Mr. Trump’s events have generally affirmed his calls to drive out the political establishment and to destroy the “fake news media.” Supporters do not flinch when he praises leaders like Mr. Orban, Xi Jinping of China and Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
It also often features a cult of personality around a strongman leader, the justification of violence or retribution against opponents, and the repeated denigration of the rule of law, said Peter Hayes, a historian who has studied the rise of fascism.
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If he manages to win again… somehow… I hope all those fucktards who voted for him have their lives destroyed and their children drafted into the military to die horrible and painful deaths in the war with everyone that he will inevitably start.
/rant
They better lock him up quick.
Many who deserve death, life, etc Gandalf quote. If Trump is reelected, the whole world will pay the price. Be moved more by pity than bitterness, if you can.
If you’re gonna “guilt me,” at least give me the whole quote. You can be a cunt, or you can be lazy—but you can’t be both.
If you know the quote, then why shouldn't I be lazy? If you don't, then you have better things to read than the 4am mutterings of a cunt.
I’m glad we agree
At first I read this as Trump’s dying words…
Don't tease us like that.