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[–] 65 points 1 year ago (65 children)

Violent protests probably. Even republicans don't want fascism. But there is nothing we can do without a hero assassin... At least 3 of them actually.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Even republicans don’t want fascism.

    They don't? How can you tell?

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Well fascist were socialist and socialism is communism, so obviously.

    /s

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Am I missing some elementary knowledge? How is fascism resemblant to socialism?

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    I think they're making a joke (what with the /s), but some people will say that since "Nazi" is derived from "national socialist" it's a form of socialism. Usually people making that claim are arguing in bad faith and/or are grossly misinformed.

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  • [–] 78 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    Even republicans don’t want fascism.

    A “Trump Boat Parade” in Jupiter, Florida, on Sunday was joined by neo-Nazis waving swastika flags, shouting “White Power,” “Heil Trump,” and “Make America White Again!”

    What's been truly revolting is in watching how many liberals have jumped on the fascism bus. Kristen Gillibrand is fully in bed with the Silicon Valley techno-fascists. Richie Torries can't get enough genocide, whether its via our migrant concentration camps at home or our outsourcing of genocide to the Middle East via Israel and Saudi Arabia. Sitting Democrat NYC Mayor Eric Adams has gone all in on MAGA, after receiving pardons for his chronic misuse of public office and funds from the President. Gavin Newsom is flirting with Charlie Kirk and Steve Bannon as a podcast host. Half the 2026 Texas Dem Congressional slate is fully in favor of turning the US/Mexico border into the new Iron Curtain. The Florida Democratic Party wants a Bay of Pigs 2.

    It's Italy in 1924 all over again. Oops! All fascists.

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Yeah people thinking the Democratic Party is going to save them are delusional IMO. They are part of it and many of them have been working towards the same goal. They are a false opposition at best. Not all of them, some of them are legit, like Bernie, and look how he has been treated by the Dem establishment. Any real resistance is marginalized.

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  • [–] [S] 22 points 1 year ago* (7 children)

    I thought the dems could save us in 2016. I then believed they would save us in 2020. The last chance I gave them was 2024.

    Ill vote in their direction only in the hopes they can hit the brakes but, overall, they prove again and again they enable this shit and take no interest in stopping it.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    I have been voting against Republicans for nearly 30 years and still have yet to see Dems hit the brakes. They do let off the gas some of the time, and since they are the only ones who have a chance of winning they get the vote by default.

    If voting wasn't so quick and easy where I live it would be difficult to convince myself to put in the effort. It should be this easy everywhere.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    That’s why you gotta primary out the ones that don’t actually do their job. Like if it’s too late to primary one out then yeah vote for the dem over the overt fascist but that’s a last resort. If you have the time, check and see if any actually good candidates are running in the primaries and see if you can volunteer and help them out with their campaign. Obviously not everyone has the time or ability, but every little bit helps if you can

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Primary them all. They're all wet sacks.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I understand that, and I agree. We do need Dems in Congress that will always push for progressive legislation and fight back against conservative nonsense. The issue is, there’s a vast amount of people in this country that want to do the opposite, and in most cases, we’re outnumbered in that regard. You have to VOTE, we have to WIN! Even a moderate Democrat can be pushed towards progressive reform. A conservative Republican will never.

    Biden’s BBB was 2 votes away from becoming a reality, unfortunately, it failed. But 10 years prior to that in 2011, it might’ve been 6-9 votes away. WERE MAKING PROGRESS. But everytime republicans gain control, our progress is put on hold or reversed. We can’t allow them to keep winnning.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Even republicans don’t want fascism

    Yes they do.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Even republicans don’t want fascism.

    Um, sorry but have you been paying attention for the last eight years?

    The people left in the GOP are driving at full speed towards a fascist dictatorship. It's not Trump, it's the entire cadre of sycophants and Nazis he's set up to protect him.

    Laura Loomer's "Alligator lives matter" didn't suggest that? Nor the fact that she was celebrating the creation of a new concentration camp to round up and possibly murder ALL Latinos in the US? (And selling merch to go with it!)

    What about Kristi Noem filming propaganda in front of cages full of prisoners in El Salvador?

    The six SCOTUS judges who are eagerly giving Trump every immunity and power he wants?

    Ron DeSantis creating a second one-stop deportation centre?

    The US Republican Party ARE fascists, and are ecstatic over how things are turning out.

    If you call yourself a Republican and are against this, you're either a hypocrite, or a liar.

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  • [+] 24 points 1 year ago (29 children)
  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    You can show up to a protest armed to the fucking teeth without firing off a single round. That's how those anti lockdown fucks got what they wanted in 2020 (and one of many reasons why COVID exploded).

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    I keep hearing this so often "they will take any opportunity to declare martial law" this so often its starting to sound like autogenocide

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    yeah, that's a weak reason against violent protests. stronger ones are:

    • the violence is often misdirected at people not able to bring change, eg. small businesses or cars.
    • the violence exhausts protesters. many of them being crippled or killed by police, until the protests are suppressed by too few motivated protesters being left.

    btw cops love violent protests. they get to kill maim and torture more people than usual. it's what many of them signed up for and look forward to with excitement. sometimes they have off duty cops in plain clothes infiltrating protesters to start the carnage. all it takes is throwing one stone near a collegue with shield and helmet to give him an excuse to go on a rampage against innocent protesters, while the infiltrator sneaks off

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    that's a weak reason against violent protests. stronger ones are:

    Non-violent ones are more effective, as per some study I saw a month or so back.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    There is an agenda in convincing people that non violence works. Take a real look at how unions and civil rights actually happened. The non violent get credit after the fact to control the narrative.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Hey where did they get that picture of me!?

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Better check your phone bro, I think they might be spying.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    We're already at the thoughtcrime stage...

    Funny how Republicans online were the ones crying about that, but now they're salivating at the idea of deporting Mamdani for the crime of being a socialist. Can't have those political opinions, that's wrongthink!

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    He calls himself one, do you have cause to doubt it?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    I have cause to believe USA makes up their own meanings of words that has nothing to do with the rest of the world meaning. You can interpret that how you will.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    For the record, he’s a democratic socialist, not a social democrat. These are distinct, though related movements. The difference between them, which you seem confused about, is that socialists do not uphold the capitalist class, despite your claims. Social democrats want to retain capitalism, while democratic socialists do not.

    However, democratic socialists do have differences of opinion with more radical socialists on the best way to achieve the socialized means of production they aim for. They favor reform over revolution.

    You are welcome to disagree with this view but it’s not a good reason to view their socialism as false or insincere.

    No need to reply, since we already established that you’re not interested in good faith discourse. But I couldn’t leave this misinformation unchallenged.

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