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Trump’s administration is dismantling disability rights and education. History has shown this can be a warning sign for all civil liberties

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[-] tree_frog@lemm.ee 94 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

They're coming for everyone. This is the boot stomping on a human face for all of eternity that 1984 warned us about.

Men will be subjagated, women enslaved. Immigrants, trans, and disabled or mentally ill removed one way or another. After that, I don't know. I don't expect to be here past that point so I haven't looked that far ahead lol

But climate change is coming. And possibly ww3, this time with even more nukes I imagine.

I guess the oligarchs can enjoy their silos.

[-] girlthing 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I don't think we're so far gone that we must lose hope.

First: maybe you're right, and this is the end of everything we've ever held dear, the end of all hope forever. But if that's true, then everything is futile, which gets you nowhere. Plus, nobody can predict the future, so however compelling this idea is, it's still ultimately a theory. What's the point of believing a theory that only makes you feel like shit?

Remember that despair only serves the enemy. Moreover, despair is a coping mechanism, an escape - if it's all hopeless, you don't have to fight back, so you don't have to face the possibility of loss and defeat. Whatever happens to you, is this how you want to live?


Lemmy sure loves doomerism, but I'm going to post the facts that currently give me hope anyway:

The Nazis stayed popular because they actually fixed Germany's economy, at least in the short term. Trump and his cabal of idiots have conclusively shown that they are neither capable of nor interested in this.

They are already massively unpopular. Even in the kinds of business circles that supported Hitler then and would support him today - the fucking Wall Street Journal is criticizing Trump. Bezos' mouthpiece. Also, y'know, there's massive rallies and grassroots organizing. Republicans chanting "tax the rich" at their representatives.

We've seen stronger, worse governments fall. Argentina's military junta waged a Dirty War for nearly a decade, using horrific mass torture to totally destroy their political opponents. They succeeded in wiping out all opposition. They even had majority support in the beginning (neither the Nazis nor Trump did). But the junta fell anyway - because they utterly destroyed their economy. Trump probably won't take a decade to do that.


In summary: hold on to hope, and fight back. You get to choose what that looks like for you. For me, it looks like: stopping my current doomscrolling, doing some chores so I can feel less shitty about how little I've done today, then doing some tonglen to deal with my own fear and grief and despair. It won't end fascism, but maybe it'll help me become functional enough to organize and build one day.

Good luck, and I hope that if I'm ever strong enough to join those who resist, I'll meet you among them.

[-] tree_frog@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago

I said they are coming for everyone, I didn't say I wasn't going to fight.

But folks need to recognize what the end goal is. And how serious attacks on immigrants, trans, and disabled folks are even for folks not targeted yet.

A boot on our face for eternity.

[-] girlthing 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Fair enough. You can probably tell that I mostly wrote that reply to work through my own despair and apathy.

I'm just personally done with Orwellian imagery. As a faraway threat, the fear it inspires used to motivate me. Now it's no longer a faraway threat - it's right here. Now, after learning about ever-worsening mass surveillance, after seeing popular movements crushed, after years of burnout and despair, I find it only makes me want to curl up and die.

In general, I see a lot of people react this way to what's happening right now. So I try to share what little hope and strength I can muster. Maybe it'll help someone.

[-] tree_frog@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Let it motivate you comrade. The time is now.

Solidarity and mutual aid is the path forward. The Democrats were never going to save us. Collective action was always the way.

I mean shit, Biden backed out of the microplastics agreement right before he stepped out of office. That is their legacy and where their loyalties lie. With their lobbyists and donors and of course saving their own skin, not their constituents.

[-] SnotFlickerman 29 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I don’t expect to be here past that point so I haven’t looked that far ahead lol

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I'll be gone in the second wave. Either dead from losing access to my cancer medications or dead in an El Salvadorian prison without my cancer medications.

[-] PurpleSkull@lemm.ee 21 points 3 days ago

Well that's your fault for being a lefty terrorist, innit?

Getting cancer and needing money is communism and terrorism and real nazism and all other isms. Pull yourself up by the bootstraps and join the 20 or so billionaires in the government or die. Welcome to the American dream, no, trying to wake up from it is also terrorism.

[-] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 days ago

Yeah but have you considered taking more vitamin A?

[-] icerunner_origin@startrek.website 49 points 3 days ago

I wish the media would stop portraying it as left vs right. In the UK, the traditionally left-leaning Labour party that is currently in power are also coming after disabled people. It's not left-right politics, it's the predatory billionaire class coming after everyone, taking the easiest targets first.

[-] samus12345@lemm.ee 38 points 3 days ago

Their owners want you to focus on the culture war so you won't notice the class war.

[-] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 3 days ago

It's America vs MAGA. Many versus few, while the few try to remove humans from the many.

Maybe corpo media will finally realize that they won't have any readers/viewers/listeners when there's no jobs and nobody left to consume their media.

Unlikely though. Status quo is so comfortable until it's too late.

[-] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

How is left against accessibility? You say "traditionally", as well.

I'm Canadian and these terms are not jiving with me.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 52 points 3 days ago

The nazis called them “useless eaters,” as I recall.

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago

"Lebensunwertes Leben" life that doesn't deserve to live. Only a matter of time until Donnie borrows that one.

[-] FundMECFSResearch 1 points 1 day ago

He’s already said “Disabled people should just die”, os not far off

[-] samus12345@lemm.ee 39 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)
[-] menjoo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago

That was a great watch. Scary how similar the situation in America is now as it was then in Germany. Because there is no one who can save the US, as there are no Allies this time around.

[-] TripleIris@lemmy.wtf 41 points 3 days ago

They're coming for everyone, and appear to be doing it in stages. Immigrants and foreigners first. Those with disabilities next. They're setting the ground work for judges and journalists already. After that it'll probably be gay people, or possibly black people. Democrats they'll likely save for last, as there are too many straight, white, male Dems to go after right now. They're going for the "there's no one left to speak out for me" method.

[-] PurpleSkull@lemm.ee 20 points 3 days ago

Oh gosh, you think? Damn, I wish we had a historical blueprint somewhere that could show us how a modern autocratic regime would go about eliminating their "unwanteds".

Oh hey turns out we have one, but no one ever considered it could happen in the US because Americans are super special snowflakes who can't do wrong. And according to that one, Democrats will actually be the first ones in camps. In fact it doesn't matter if you're not white or gay or whatever. As long as you support the regime, you will be safe under Trump, but not necessarily his successor.

Step 1 is ALWAYS coming after regime-critics first. Ethnonationalist concerns are second.

[-] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 3 days ago

That's the funny thing: you won't even be safe if you support the regime. Fascism is a constant battle for power on every level and things can turn sour for anyone if they just happen to be on the wrong side even once.

[-] FoolishAchilles@lemm.ee 10 points 3 days ago

This is exactly why I cannot fathom how some people are choosing to be apathetic about what’s happening to their neighbors. You see that in your neighborhood and you think you have anything to offer that will satisfy the hunger of capitalists turned fascists? Our lives are nothing more to them than another resource to exploit and bleed dry.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 4 points 3 days ago

And according to that one, Democrats will actually be the first ones in camps.

No, according to that blueprint leftists and progressives will be the first ones in camps. Democrats are controlled opposition and are, in fact, beneficial to the regime. I mean why the heck would they go after a Schumer when they have Bernies to worry about?

[-] PurpleSkull@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago

Well true, the "far left" will be first, then the "moderate left", then "people in our own midst who fail the purity test". I've used the term Democrat as an umbrella.

[-] badbrainstorm@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

I always see this dude in Burbank rolling around in his power chair with a Trump and American flag sticking off the back. My first thought when I saw this post

[-] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 21 points 3 days ago

Any group that is different from the Nazi norm will be persecuted by Republican scum.

[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 17 points 3 days ago

Here's the especially fun part: the people deciding 'norm' will always find a way to slice the in group into ever smaller wedges.

The Right Wing is a death cult. It eats everything until they're forced to eat themselves because without an out group to persecute they don't have any real purpose. So, they just keep making more out group until they're forced to shoot themselves too.

[-] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 6 points 3 days ago

In Nemesis (comic books) there was a moment when the racist fanatics ran out of groups to persecute, so they just came up with a new target: people with freckles.

[-] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 3 points 3 days ago

Totally true the Right Wing is death cult they come to hurt and kill as many people as possible.

[-] Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

First they came for x and I didn't speak up.

Then they came for y and I didn't speak up.

I may be misquoting here but the sentiment and line of thinking is the same.

[-] FundMECFSResearch 17 points 3 days ago
[-] lemmingthelemmers@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

First they came for the Palestinians....

[-] Generica@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

I hope they start with Texas governor Greg Abbott

[-] Tronn4@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

Gov Hot Wheels

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