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This is getting bad. Like, really really bad. (www.reddit.com)

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Posted by /u/Theory_of_Time

Our democracy is at immediate risk, and history is repeating itself. What Donald Trump and Elon Musk are doing mirrors the actions of past authoritarian regimes. It took just 53 days for Hitler to dismantle Germany’s democracy. 53 days. He used executive orders, erased marginalized groups, and silenced opposition—while too many stood by and did nothing.

Trump’s executive order erases transgender and intersex people from legal recognition—just like Hitler erased Jewish and trans people from legal records before persecution began.

Elon Musk now has access to the U.S. Treasury’s financial system—just like Putin’s oligarchs seized control of Russia’s wealth to consolidate power.

Trump is erasing vital medical information from our government and silencing opposition—just like Hitler suppressed science and banned opposing views.

Trump is dismantling government agencies, firing oversight officials, and gutting institutions like USAID and the Department of Education—just like Hitler replaced government officials with loyalists to eliminate accountability.

We are on day 15, and we are running out of time. We have to make change, or our democracy will be gone.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Don't read Reddit. Lemmy should block links to that shitty place.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

And how is this mildly infuriating? Again, post the stuff where it belongs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Expect congress to be set on fire, and DNC blamed then outlawed, soon?

There is some disinformation included in post.

Putin’s oligarchs seized control of Russia’s wealth to consolidate power.

It is Yeltsin who sold off Russia to western financed oligarchs. Putin has reversed much of this, and is far more hostile to oligarchs than west is. In Russia, large firms obey government instead of owning government. He has conducted war with voluntary high paid military where wage growth is very high and higher than inflation due to competition from military pay. You would never see in US an export ban on diesel to keep prices down for domestic consumers, as another example.

The US would be better off today, including its democracy, if Trump and Zionist mega donors had fallen out of windows. At start of Ukraine war, high LNG priced purchases are claimed to have mostly profited the EU importer oligarchs than US producers. Cheering on a war on Russia is a deeply pro oligarchy self destruction. Adding disinformation that our governments a few weeks ago were less oligarchist than Russia, is more warmongering propaganda, that we just started saying when our BFF Yeltsin created it.

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[+] [email protected] -19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 children)

Democracy was never a good idea. Trump won democratically. People are easily manipulated by populists.

Unfortunately republics and totalitarian states are also bad ideas.

And anarchism doesn't work.

So just ride the wave of history. Let it take you. This is what it's like to be alive, fighting one monster just to make something that will one day become a different monster. Infinitely recurring. Enjoy the fight, that's what being alive is about.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Sounds like a dmt thought tbh

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Why do you say anarchism doesn't work?

i don't think there's ever been an experiment with controlled variables that shows that, and when you control for as many variables as possible, it shows it is plausible

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[+] [email protected] -15 points 1 day ago (5 children)

we. can't. effect. any. change.

democrats have no constitutional power without majority in any of the two houses of congress, or three branches of government. unless you're willing to start a terrorist campaign, not sure what you think the people can do about it now. this was the danger all along, and no one can say, after trump fucking up the global covid response so badly, they didn't know what was coming.

the only thing that can move the needle is a general strike, but i have no faith in my fellow democrats to get up off their asses and sacrifice for anyone other than protesting jews in support of islamic terrorism.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Exactly, like trump didn't gain any significant increase in voters, democrats didn't show up. And now we are here. And now they want to become terrorists. Like you literally just had to show up, why should I trust you're gonna show up for "the revolution" now?

And fighting the US government is like fighting the weather. If they wanted to, they could literally drone strike you. We are fighting powers that are basically like gods these days. People let that sneek up on them. NOTHING like WW2, which still required the entire western sphere to militarily engage with germany, not some rag tag civilian groups.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

People might have showed up for the revolution. There's a reason for the Obama-Bernie-Trump voter; the democrats had a full eight years to see the writing on the wall and still decided they could win against the populist moment with business as usual and celebrity endorsements.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Real. Still gonna do my part

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

That first paragraph is so on point. Well said, as much as I hate that truth hammer.

[–] southsamurai 5 points 1 day ago

When you say we, I think you should probably replace it with democrats.

Because that's true. If you're going to stay part of the system that led to this, there's nothing you can do

But, you know, maybe find other options.

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