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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Gov Hot Wheels