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TwoNineA | 10 months ago

Not weird. It's textbook fascism.

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stackbutterflow|10 months ago

It's hard for people to accept it because it raises new questions about the reaction to adopt.

If it's true then you know you should resist or you're complicit. A lot ot of 20/30/40 something Americans are going to have very difficult conversations with the new generations in 30+ years.

wing-_-nuts|10 months ago

>If it's true then you know you should resist or you're complicit.

Resist how exactly? Protest? We're already protesting. They're barely being covered in the news. Armed resistance? Yeah that's gonna work out so well against a militarized police state.

Look through history, from the fall of rome to wwII, and those that came out best during those crises had the good sense to flee to somewhere better.

thisisit|10 months ago

Well given that the country has a penchant for altering history such that “you did not see/hear what you actually heard and saw with your own eyes”, there are not going to be any difficult conversations. Civil war was for “state rights” while quietly omitting the slaves part.

Even today when the impact of tariffs are clear people rattle off everything to cover their bases - It will bring back jobs. It will create negotiation leverage for US. (If it did and China ate some of those tariffs what jobs are coming back to the US). These same people will deny their role in the mess they are creating.

adriand|10 months ago

That's exactly right. The problem with the public broadcasters is not that they are regime media, it's that they are not. Put another way, the problem is that they tell the truth. Fox News, on the other hand, is very much regime media, and constantly peddles lies. Therefore, Trump is not attacking them.

This particular move is part of the broader campaign to destroy the independent media, which as you pointed out, is textbook fascism.