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pazzy posted...

I've only really heard China really doing some stepping in.

China is going to replace us as global hegemon and it will be well deserved

Im glad that I fled to Mexico early last year and avoided living under fascism

ssjevot posted...

Of course. The US always had a shitty undemocratic system. Many other countries do just fine.

Such as? Majority of democracies are turning to fascism right now.

The fact that Musk and his ilk are doing all this is also illustrative of the fact that there will likely be no future fair elections; they wouldn't be doing this if they thought there was any chance of being out of power in 4 years.

Anyone with the ability to leave America should look into doing so now.

Even if Dems get back in power, I guarantee that Elon is going to get away with all his crimes, just like Trump did last time. The American justice system is set up to ensure the ultra rich will never face justice.

1984 shit. They will push this idea that it never existed, and MAGATs will swallow it.

America's supposed checks and balances were all based on gentlemen's agreements, and it was inevitable that something like this was going to happen one day. American demcoracy was poorly designed from the start.

We are living in Idiocracy

BewmHedshot posted...

The CFPB is part of the Federal Reserve I'm pretty Elmo can't just pull the plug and turn it off.

Who's going to stop him?

Dahlia View please

Department of Government Efficiency that focuses on destroying the government and making it less efficient. Thats literally how they named ministries in 1984

There needs to be a left-wing counter militia.

Donkey Kong 64

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/us/politics/dei-watchlist-federal-health-workers-cdc-nih.html

But if you reveal the identities of DOGE employees, it's apparently a crime.

Yes. I'm trans. As much as I hate the Democrats, Republicans want me to die

China and Russia are probably loving the Trump show. Americas status in the world is ruined and we did it to ourselves

I hope the era of Chinese hegemony will be better than the era of American hegemony.

AceMos posted...

whats deep seek

Chinese open source AI platform.

I wonder what the upcoming era of Chinese hegemony will be like.

https://www.the-independent.com/tech/deepseek-ai-us-ban-prison-b2692396.html

Sadly, this is a law that does nothing but hurt normal Americans to enrich American corporations so we can assume the Democrats will join in and make this bipartisan.

I live in my state capital so Ill probably go. Though its at 11AM and Im a night shift worker so maybe not

One of my coworkers is a woman who treats me, as a trans woman, perfectly fine, and like any other coworker, and has also casually mentioned dating other girls in the past. She's also a massive Trump supporter, and doesn't regret her vote. She said she voted for him because the establishment wants to keep him down, so he had to be a good choice for dismantling them. I genuinely do not understand the logic of some people.

metralo posted...

I know you mean well, but far left people wanted trump. they didn't care about Gaza. they wanted trump. thats why literally none of them are talking about politics today

They didn't want Trump. They just viewed Harris and Trump as being no different, and didn't want either of them. Gaza was a big reason for this. Nobody on the far left genuinely wanted Trump because they thought he'd be a good president (maybe some wanted him to accelerate the collapse of American hegemony, which does seem to be happening under him).

I consider myself far-left, but I kind of hate other leftists who refused to vote Harris over this. Harris was going to be bad for Palestine, but it was obvious that Trump was going to be a lot worse. I even saw dozens of leftists saying that while Trump would be terrible domestically, he'd be better than Harris internationally. Fucking morons.

I usually switch between K-Rose and K-DST. The former helped me get into country music as a kid

I got married shortly before he took office, and took my wife's surname. Because I'm transgender, I'm unable to update any of my actual documents to reflect this, because if I did, I would either never get my passport back at all, or be forced to take a male one. The reason I got married when I did was also Trumps fault; I had to be ready to flee to Mexico at a moments notice, if it becomes necessary

action52 posted...

You sure do seem to enjoy blaming them more than Republicans.

I dont expect Republicans to do anything good by default. Of course they arent going to stop fascism, they are a fascist party

Theyre just lying down and taking it. History needs to remember that they were just as much to blame as Republicans.

If they were given a massively lower quality of living, but Donald told them their quality of life had improved, they would believe him.

The wider American public is going to see this as a huge win for Trump, while ignoring what Musk is doing to our government.

Canada just agreed to do something they were already doing, but sadly the majority of low info Americans will perceive this as a win for Trump

Dungeater posted...

it's pretty crazy how many self-purported empathetic and progressive thinkers take glee bc the right people are being hurt

Well, I will feel the exact same level of empathy for hurt Trump voters as they felt for me as a trans woman when they voted to take my rights away.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/beyond-repair-elon-musk-confirms-usaid-is-getting-the-boot/

This man may do more damage to our government than any whove come before him

As someone with family in Mexico who crosses the border regularly, there really does need to be better security. Half the time, when I cross into Mexico, my documents arent checked and they dont even look at me, or check my car. I could be carrying anything or anyone and they wouldnt know.

ROBBAN posted...

are there any movies where you think you're following the "good guys" throughout the movie, only to reveal near the end that they happen to be Nazis or Khmere Rouge or something?

Starship Troopers, I guess.

Has any nation in history shot itself in the foot as much as America did in 2024? We all knew this was going to happen, and we elected them anyway.

KajeI posted...

You mean the extremist militant furry supremacy faction "splinter group" that was controversial even within the furry community in story to the point they had dudes going "nah man we're not like that, those guys were isolated incidents" even on furry island, and then when the furries figured out they were actually like that they went "hey maybe stop being stupid and going all in for revenge"?

That's a hell of a spin for those guys, that's for sure. And you don't even get to go "Well they started off being portrayed one way and then things changed and they became evil" when in Blake's character trailer they're literally doing terrorist shit and Adam doesn't give a flying fuck about any of the casualties.

Like what the fuck, there's so many things wrong with that entire season and how they do things and that's what you went for?

My question is why they would choose to portray the only group fighting for racial justice in such a manner to begin with. Yes, within the setting the White Fang are portrayed as generic cartoon villains, my issue is with that writing choice itself, especially when we aren't shown any counter examples.

mehmeh1 posted...

i've never watched RWBY but i keep hearing people say a lot of subjects and stuff are handled very badly so guess that's just more to the pile?

They did a racism subplot where they made those fighting for racial equality the bad guys, and portrayed them as over the top cartoon villains, if you want an idea of what it's like.

AceMos posted...

thats the thing the show does not want you to sympathize with cinder

it seems the intent was to make you view her as evil for those actions

I think we were supposed to sympathise with her. But there are some mixed messages, given she's shown to be entirely irredeemable in the present.

Id be stuck in Texas and immediately flee across the southern border

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/31/nearly-half-of-danes-see-us-as-threat-and-78-oppose-greenland-sale-poll-shows

Trump alienating us from our allies one at a time

Democracy truly does die to thunderous applause. Most Americans wanted Musk in control.

American version:

First they came for the illegal immigrants, and I cheered them on because they were taking our jobs.

Then they came for the transgender people, and I cheered them on because trans people are pedophiles.

Then they came for women, and I cheered them on because Im a man and feminism made me feel emasculated.

Then they came for legal immigrants, and I cheered them on because their skin is a different color to mine.

Then they came for me, and I dont understand why no one is willing to speak for me.

Americans dont just refuse to speak out, they support it until they become targeted, and then they think of themselves as victims. You think any of the Trump voters regretting their choice because its harming them give a shit about the harm they voted to cause to others? They dont, and dont even understand that they did anything wrong.

The sad thing is, if there are elections, and Dems ever get back in power, while they might reverse some of Trump's social policies, it's a guarantee that everything that fucks over the working and middle class to help the rich is going to be kept in place by the Democrats.

Only one. My dentist recommended I get more, but I had no kind of dental plan or dental insurance at the time, so I only had the one causing problems removed. I had hooked roots, and it was one of the worst experiences of my life.

In Nazi Germay, the liberals and centrists sided with Hitler against the left initially. All we're witnessing is a repeat of that. You cannot fight fascism with liberalism. The failure of liberalism is what has given us fascism.

I wouldn't be surprised if we see child marriage nationwide after 4 years of GOP control. Didn't Trump run child beauty pagents?

I would not be in favor of skipping Perona's arc. She's too good of a character.

UnholyMudcrab posted...

Honestly, it doesn't really seem to me that this one has anything to do with Trump or his policies.

He is intentionally gutting air safety, and is trying to make air traffic control workers quit. This will cause them to be even more stressed and under pressure than they already are, even if they haven't quit yet.