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Voices: At 86, I have never witnessed an internal threat to democracy as grave as today’s (www.sltrib.com)

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The consequences: Never before has a former president who is as flawed a candidate as Trump — an individual some have called cognitively challenged and psychologically unstable and who believes in nothing other than himself, his appetites, his instincts and his autocratic ambitions — evidenced, according to major polls, a 50% chance of reelection.

Never before has such an individual commandeered a major American political party, garnered the loyalty of its most radical and/or opportunistic power-players, and forced its moderates to choose between cowardly silence or the termination of their political careers.

Never before could such an individual, if reelected, stand so thoroughly empowered to reject experienced advisors who are faithful to the Constitution — reject “the adults in the room” who might rein in his most authoritarian impulses — and instead appoint loyalists who will do his bidding. In addition those loyalists will enact the fusion of executive-branch dominance, faux-libertarianism and Christian nationalism mapped out in Project 2025.

Never before would such an individual, if reelected, be so thoroughly insulated against criminal indictment and prosecution — all due to the wide-ranging and much criticized presidential-immunity decision rendered by six conservative justices of the U.S. Supreme Court.

For those of you who like to use the bad faith argument that Democrats fear monger every 4 years. THIS IS NOT NORMAL AND HAS NEVER HAPPENED IN OUR COUNTRY.

VOTE! Our lives literally depend on it!

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[-] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

What do video games have to do with fascism?

Directly, nothing.

But things like gamergate and the like evolve in these communities.

Often a group or figurehead or a narrative emerges. It isn't accidental.

The individual pipelines to fascism are narrow and focused, the pool is wide.

Homies nowadays may not be the best example. Granted.

It's not the homies themselves, (as in many other communities) but malicious actors exist to guide people who seek the belonging of groups.

PS. Hydrohomies started as r/waternwords (The original name of the sub is an auto removed here so I've changed it)

BTW, I drink water, and I don't use Arch.

[-] kboy101222@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Fascists co-opt other groups and movements constantly because fascists don't create, they only take and destroy. But hydro homies is well past it's incredibly edgy start and is now just the liquids equivalent of Linux users - never shutting up about how superior they are for doing a minor thing.

Fascists definitely love the in group-ness of it, but there's no "only soda" group that's fighting them and therefore no one to point to as an "other" to forward fascist ideals. Hydro homies is extremely low on the priority for the fascist pipeline. They are incredibly obnoxious when they leak out though.

Also, I vote the potential only sodas group to be called the "soda jerks"

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