I always assumed America would swiftly deal with a racist fascist criminal megalomaniac.
Boy was I wrong.
This nation is WEAK.
Well instead of dealing with their fascist problem after WWII, they decided to repress (and sometimes kill) the most reliable antifascists - the leftists.
That said some countries that objectively did purge their fasists seem to still have that problem today. Perhaps the theory that capitalism creates fascism as it declines predicts this.
Capitalism creates an environment of fear and danger and promotes of level of individual responsibility that alienates people from everyone else. Even people who are well off today are afraid of losing advantages and being hung out to dry by the very same uncaring system they keep supporting.
It's not that cut and dry. There is a lot of overlap between capitalism and communism.
I never said the solution was full-blown communism. God, have the barest capability of nuance.
You clearly aren’t smoking responsibly if you genuinely believe that to be true.
You don't understand Marx or Lenin if you don't understand their belief in the relationship between capitalism and communism.
My point was that there's more nuance than just "capitalism always causes social fragmentation"
Ok, help me understand it then.
We also literally imported their scientists
After directly inspiring their eugenics efforts.
Not just their scientists.
Look up operation bloodstone.
While some potential recruits had served in Nazi forces and possibly committed war crimes, Wisner believed that their shared opposition to communism outweighed these past actions.
Well, I guess the Soviet Union didn't really help there.
Why would they deal with racists? USA as a whole never stopped being racist.
True but name a country that has
edit: cool, downvotes and not one answer. like being on reddit again
just no one is gonna be there like for Luigi, if we Americans had any balls he'd either be out of jail or someone broke him out, no balls, especially if you're a dumb fuck Republican, hey trump imma shit on your grave you orange POS, come get me, boom shaka laka
Turns out conservatives were just waiting for one evil and horrible enough all along.
And the Democrats... Jesus Christ are they useless. They roll over at the very sound of a stiff breeze.
I'd call America a nation of bitches, but bitches have a backbone.
The USA is distracted with treats. It's economy is the imperial core of the planet. That fact affords Trump some time before the masses realize what's going on.
Remember that the Nazis made the economy temporarily better for the in-group. They actually allowed socialist benefits for the German workforce before clamping down on that during WWII.
Trump isn't making the economy better for anyone though. He's screwing everyone over, and channeling that hate towards anything else but him and his base.
Just as we've seen with Charlie Kirk's murder and Candace Owen's conspiracy theory to blame it all on Israel, the Right can fracture very easily. I don't think this Admin will make it to the height of the Nazis. Their own incompetence and marriage to the rich will sew the seeds of their demise. Of course, anti-fascists throwing wrenches in things doesn't hurt either.
There was period of time during Trump's last administration where the world just got so crazy I had a collection of screenshots of "not the onion" headlines that just seemed too insane to be real.
I remember one was like "Judge determines woman can't prove she didn't want to be set on fire."
This would fit in nicely.
Huh.......I'm trying to think of what legal defense you could give to PROVE you didn't want to be set on fire.
I can't think of one. What do you say that proves it? Which means I get how that headline happened, but also.....how did THAT headline happen???
The only thing I can think of is that there was some sort of event where other people were being willingly set on fire. Like if were some sort of performance that went wrong, I could see there being a reasonable defense that the performer didn't know she didn't want to participate.
Most of the time when weird questions like that involving consent come up, I assume it probably involved some kind of sex thing.
my lay person understanding of the law is that in situations like these you don't need to prove what should be so overwhelmingly self-evident
there's probably some Latin phrase for it a lawyer would just know but when a thing is so far away from a gray area of reasonableness you're fine
you shouldn't need hard evidence, people as a rule don't like to set themselves on fire
If you don't want to be called a Nazi, stop doing Nazi shit you sack of human shit.
Trump always had this knack of revealing his intentions when he thought he could just hit back at people.
That's nothing new.
But what he reveals is indeed getting worse every day, or at least: every day of 2025 it is much worse than before that.
This, ladies and germs, is narcissistic dictatorial megalomania. Let's hope ~~it~~ he won't last long.
I hoped it wouldn't last long back in January.
And that was like 10-15 years ago
Let's hope it won't last long.
Just hoping he goes away doesn't strike me as a good strategy. So probably that's what the Democrats will go with.
Also, dementia
germs
What?
It's an old phrase coined by Milton Berl. A subversion of Ladies and Gents.
Fuck I’m old.
It happens. You’re still breathing. That’s what counts.
Ooh. I’ve never seen this before. Thanks for the clarification!
BREAKING NEWS: “President Cunt Cuntily Says Some Cunty Shit”
ALSO: “European Union Stockpiling ScotchGuard Reserves in Anticipation of Future JD Vance Visit”
Trump is using the "bully pulpit" to bully people out of their constitutional rights.
Ah yes, open threats leveraging intentional division, like a true leader
[insert “where are the epstein files” gif]
Any asshole posting about a "general strike" with no support fund and no organization of their strikers is a fed.
Well lol im just in an industry with no unions so thought it was good to post but apparently its some op now so i wont spread the link. But we definitely need to shut down this fascist takeover
Sorry, nothing personal. I've seen images posted a lot. This is the first time I saw a website, but that's even worse.
Strikes take a lot of planning and coordination. You need to be able to support your strikers so that they'll be able to outlast Capital until your demands are met. One of the main purposes of unions is to save a "war chest" to do this.
If I and a bunch of my Internet buddies tried to strike, the first problem is that we'd each be the only striker at our workplaces...our bosses would just fire us and go on with their day.
The second is there to defend the first.
Anytime you win, you know it when he starts talking about how hot the country is
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