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That sounds interesting as fuck, is that Berlin Noir?

I might have to check that series out. Thank you.

It actually reminds me a bit of Babylon Berlin, a German noir show which was based off the Gereon Rath series by Volker Kutscher.

I don't disagree...but the party-line Democrats have been telling progressives exactly that since the Clinton administration.

Again, to be clear: I'm happily voting Biden this November, but the Democratic party has become very good at doing just enough to keep their core loyal while also doing nowhere near enough to keep the country out of constant existential peril, effectively cultivating that crisis as a (pardon the pun) trump card that they then use to tell progressives "what you want is less important than the current crisis! Just go along with us in this election and we pinky swear to do more for your causes!".

They know if they move left they'll be displaced by a combination of progressive candidates and centrists, so they have basically adopted the strategy of keeping the right just dangerous enough to be credible while keeping their left flank secured with a drip feed of snail's pace "progress".

Left of center? You mean left from totally bonkers actual Fascists....

When the nazis came to power, they forcibly took away the guns of their victims. They'd send a squad of SS to your house, surround it, and force you to give up the gun. If you didn't, they'd kill you, if you did, they still got you in the end.

Some of their victims hid, refused to give up their arms, and fought back. They didn't survive.

If guns were the answer to dealing with fascism and authoritarianism, germany never would have had the holocaust.

There will be insanity if he's allowed to run at all.

There should be no way for people to participate in a democracy they have attempted to overthrow, and these fuckers are absolutely going to try again. It will be a shitshow. I hope the US justice system comes through, but it will be a very dangerous time for America if Trump and his cronies are not prosecuted for their crimes before the next election.

we should all be prepared for the absolute insanity that may ensue if he actually wins

We should also all be prepared for the absolute insanity that will ensue if he loses. I fear we will have a more violent insurrection this time around and maybe even local violence in some areas.

I'm not saying we take to the streets with weapons

Then you're doing nothing but shilling for the gun lobby, who immediately donate millions to the worst Republicans.

If you're going to advocate guns, you should be willing to tell people what to use them for.

A highly public series of rapid-fire executions gives Trump some very immediate media "wins".

And when you review the list of death row inmates its easy to see how conservatives can twist any objection to execution as endorsement of police slayings, carjackings, kidnappings, and child murder.

Right-wing news will have a field day announcing "Daniel Troya, the man who murdered an entire family in cold blood JUST GOT HIS DAY OF JUSTICE!" with swooping infographics and blaring trumpets. Drag on some Project Veritas stooge with B-roll footage of a crying pink haired college kid and topping it off with "WOKE LIBERALS ARE SO OWNED!" and you'll have a fascist feeding frenzy.

I’m saying we should all be prepared for the absolute insanity that may ensue if he actually wins

Real Helms Deep Hours.

You frame it as a contradiction, but this is very nakedly the nature of a patriarchal theocracy.

There's no real conflict between the view of a dictatorial Israeli King as someone who treats woman as chattel and endorses state execution of prisoners. This is all over the old testament and common enough in the New Testament Letters from Paul not to be remarkable.

Very cool and consistent, a serious political party here.

They're deadly serious. It's the 1980s all over again, folks.

I grew up JW, and all the scriptures used to fight against abortion are in the first half of the Bible, before Jesus is involved. To quote a certain former Trump staffer...

Jesus ain't say that.

Conservatism at its core is 'just' wanting to keep the status quo. Which itself is imho already pointless, but it's not too bad.

It however, is not reactionary.

These people are reactionary to the mediaeval extent. But we preach to the choir. Try getting those people who themselves believe in those ideas, that they don't work....

I thought this too. Current events spurred me to look at history for context. Quoting Ed Abbey; "Neoconservative? Theres nothing new about it, its old as time and evil as hell."

Let’s be real, they START by executing prisoners Pretty soon anything but their political party & their religion is made illegal so anyone daring to say otherwise gets arrested / imprisoned / executed.

I mean they openly spoke about this on CPAC. Project 2025 sounds like a conspiracy theory, but it's not a theory, it's right out there in the open.