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Remember, Hitler only needed 53 days (self.usnews)

submitted 23 hours ago by Powderhorn to c/usnews

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I've pointed this out elsewhere, but if I'm going to have something of a megaphone, this needs to be endlessly pointed out. What is happening is not normal, and the more we normalize it, the more they win.

We are in the late Weimar. Some 248 years was a good run, but this is no longer a democracy, and the sooner people realize that, the better.

This is not hyperbole. And fuck off with "we were always a republic." So was Rome until exactly this inflection point. Learn some fucking history.

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[–] EchoSpire@lemmy.ml 6 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

I’m not saying it’s not fascism. I agree with you. But comparing us to Germany isn’t going to get anyone else to pay attention who isn’t already paying attention. Do you know what the oversimplified and stupid response to your comparison will be? “They’re not being antisemitic.”

People hear “Nazi Germany” and just think about the Holocaust in a gross oversimplification. They don’t see that the new "Jew" is just the liberal, the "communist-terrorist," the "mentally ill." There is no one “other” this time. There doesn’t really need to be, though.

If you want to engage people, the collapse of the USSR is another historical parallel we are mirroring, not the collapse itself, but the takeover of power by oligarchs and state actors right after. We are quickly heading toward that point.

These fascists are going to crash the world economy. What that means, I don’t know. Maybe just a new digital currency, maybe a new military-industrial complex, but when our economy fails, it will play out like the economic capture of the Russian government after the fall of the USSR.

The fascists want this. This is some Yeltsin shit, man. It’s German-Russian fusion, fascism on the rise.

[–] Powderhorn 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/1629536

We're already a third-world country. You just don't see it if you're not in poverty-stricken areas.

[–] EchoSpire@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

What's your point? In relation to this conversation what are you trying to say? I don't disagree with you, but why are you bringing it up now, in this discussion?

[–] Powderhorn 1 points 1 hour ago

Because so many people don't realize how far we've already fallen. I'm going to beat this drum, over and over, for mostly the choir, but when I was in a newsroom, I viewed it as a win if I could make a few people more informed. It's why I'm here and volunteered to mod.

Data like these are no longer reliably being reported by local outlets, so why not use a platform to do so?