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[–] 163 points 1 year ago (7 children)

People who don't mainline political news genuinely don't get this.

It's literally Big Brother. This is a surveillance state telling you how to do everything.

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

    Those people have also not read 1984 and either won't get the reference or think it's a reality show reference

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  • [–] [S] 32 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    ny first thought was Mussolini

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    If you ignore the whole dictatorship thing, that actually looks bad ass. Trump's style is so damn ugly and boring. If I'm living in a dystopian fascist dictatorship the least they can do is look cool!

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I find it ironic that there's a reply about people who don't read it not getting 1984 as a reply to this. The surveillance is a minor part of 1984. It's largely about them controlling thought. They control language and the media to make it almost impossible to speak against them. "Big Brother" is the meme that gets repeated (I think because it was the only part that fit conservative thought, so they made that what 1984 is instead of it being against them), but it isn't the important lesson to be taken from it.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Fair point - these were 2 separate thoughts. First, Big Brother is the face scowling down at us all, right out of the book. Second, that the US is right now a surveillance state and this is one of the more visible aspects of the virtue signaling and telling people to love the Great Leader.

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  • Which means they have a bullet with my name on it.

    Better than living with so much cringe the rest of my life.

    And autism is supposed to be socially awkward.

    Imagine having such a fragile ego you need to remind people you have the power not them. The power to what? Shoot us? That doesn't give you power, that just makes you evil.

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  • [–] 142 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    That looks like FREEDOM to Me!

    -Someone who Lives in a State where you CANT paint Sidewalks and CANT speak after 10PM and CANT read Books with Rainbows in them!

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

    CANT speak after 10PM

    Im not aware of this one.

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

    i believe he could be referring to texas allegedly trying to ban "expressing yourself" on colleges after 10pm.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    It's not allegedly, they signed it into law.

    This article was published on June 5. Since then, Gov. Greg Abbott has signed Senate Bill 2972 into law. It will take effect Sept. 1.

    https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/texas-ban-universities-speech-talking-night-20361753.php

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I'm genuinely curious if students at colleges in Texas mass mobilize. What happens when the majority of colleges' student bodies are arrested and taken off campus? Is that a significant enough shock to tame these god damn fascists?

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    We’re not exaggerating. SB 2972 would require public universities in Texas to adopt policies prohibiting “engaging in expressive activities on campus between the hours of 10 p.m. and 8 a.m.” Expressive activity includes “any speech or expressive conduct” protected by the First Amendment or Texas Constitution.

    https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/texas-ban-universities-speech-talking-night-20361753.php

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

    Kudos to the photographer. That pic is dystopian AF.

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

    I'm sure the photographer would point out they literally just photographed reality. It's reality that's dystopian

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  • Reminds me of when Trump was in office the first time and Biden was running. Trumpers started posting pics of empty store shelves, (from all of the panic-buying and COVID shortages) and captioning them like “this will be America under Biden”. My brother in Christ you just drove to the store and took a photo of reality under Trump… And reality under Trump looks like empty store shelves.

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

    This is literally Palazzo Braschi in 1930s Italy.

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

    Maga hats probably look at that and feel good. Their in-group is strong and winning. That's all that matters to them.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If this was any other president the right would be losing it.

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

    It's so strange that he clearly has body image issues, what with the orange make-up, extreme comb-over, and lies about his weight and height, yet he seems to have no issues with 20-foot photos of himself up on buildings looking like someone toilet papered an alcoholic's 4-day-old paper bag.

    Or he has no body image issues at all, and genuinely believes he's attractive, looking like a sickly prehistoric mosquito peering out from the inside of a lump of amber. Maybe he really believes he's that tall, that thin, and that intelligent. Which just raises further questions about his psychology. Is that just typical narcissistic sociopathic shit?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago*

    First one. And posters are a proof of it. That is why he has them in this weird slightly top angle. He thinks that angle makes him look fit and super cool but no matter what he does, he looks like a 90 year old pedophile that he is.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago

    Child Rapist Mango Mussolini

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago

    cartoonishly evil

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    this really isn't going to be the thing that convinces them. ya'll need to realize that the cult LIKES this

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

    I have not the first doubt in my mind that somebody has jacked off to the idea of how upset somebody else's about this.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    you know that's the point. really gotta stop giving them reaction porn that motivates it all. remember all those tiktoks with the corny teehee guys just filming themselves wearing their diddler hats in public, mugging at the camera because they're triggin' da libz? I always thought fascism would be ushered in by people a little more serious but reality is disappointing.

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

    This is so pathetic.

    This is North Korean levels of cringe.

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

    American doing Americanism Americanly

    Damn, reminds me of Evil Foreign Country Full of Bad Foreigners.

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

    American presidents have never been dictators before, at least not in the US itself. They support dictators and overthrow legitimately elected governments but not at home.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    American presidents have never been dictators before

    I mean, tell that to Andrew Jackson. Or William McKinley. Or Jefferson Davis. However you square it, the Confederacy at least was an undeniable dictatorship that controlled half the country.

    Even outside the Civil War, the Presidency has been an imperial office. American presidents have a well-defined line of succession and a party mechanism to guarantee the position of ex-presidents within the plutocracy once they leave office. But we've had plenty of periods in which a single party dominated the White House and governed at the head of a completely subservient legislature.

    The period from Jackson to Taylor was indistinguishable from any military dictatorship you'd find in 20th century Europe or Latin America. The era from Hayes to Eisenhower was functionally an armed occupation, from the perspective of any African-American or Latin American or East Asian migrant. The 19th/20th turn-of-the-century labor revolts were pockmarked with American military firing on factory workers, miners, and farmers until they fled, died, or were forced back to subsistence living. What else do you call that?

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  • These memes are getting awfully heavy

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If there's anyone in your life that still doesn't get that Donald Trump is a fascist, then they are a cultist and a photo won't have any effect.

    This is early 1930s Germany. They're lost. They're gone. They're going to have to be beaten into submission like every other fascist movement ever.

    We had a chance to go down another path. We passed on that opportunity.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    In europe there are many old people who obviously aren‘t cultists, but still say "well he did alot of good things for his country" or "well the woke youth would run society to the ground". So yeah, Trumpism isn‘t only a cult problem, but a cultural one.

    Which is why I‘m very cynical about what will happen when the White House toddler finally bites the cheeto dust.

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

    But don't worry guys, the files will ruin him lmao

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    [–] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    How much would we have to crowdsource for somebody to risk draping a Baby Vance version over this banner?

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

    Again, is anyone here, on Lemmy, surprised by this shit?

    Yes, America lives under democracy, however, did you ever stop to consider that business operates under authoritarianism? So we take someone who is aggressively capitalistic, has run and owned several businesses, even had a TV show that's known for the phrase "you're fired", and put them in charge. Then we're surprised when this person who has basically been head of several authoritarian businesses, starts acting like an authoritarian regime?

    I don't think so Tim.

    None of this is surprising to me in the least.

    And people voted for this.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    "Hybrid regime" is the best phrase to describe the US right now.

    Not a total dictatorship, yet, but very authoritarian, but somehow just not authoritarian enough for someone to be granted political asylum in, say, the EU, but nevertheless, very authoritarian.

    I wonder at what point the EU would actually take this regime seriously and start granting asylum.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    In fairness, it does seem like the kind of extreme that would come up in a video game. You'd at least expect some subtlety in real life, rather than outright drapes with the guy's face on, and a positive word slapped on.

    Like putting his business logo up.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    This isn't about you. The left leaning folks fail so hard at politics because you all think you're the main character. As if you're the last stop on the information path. All this crazy stuff that happens gets consumed by you and then stops. We're suppose to do stuff with this information not just kill it after we have a quick view of it. So saying "is anyone surprised" misses the point here. It's not about information for you or others personally. The point isn't to inform just so you're aware. Its so you do something with it.

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

    idk what the fuss is about this is totally normal where I'm from:

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    I still can't believe this was real and not some set for a movie.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    The comparatively small font on, "American Workers," really makes it seem like it's saying, "Trump First." ...which I'm sure is an accident.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Time to break out the projectors.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    When you are that ugly, you'd think you wouldn't want your mug all over the place reminding people you look like a sack of spoiled mayo spray tanned orange and stuffed into a bad suit.

    Peak manliness right there according to the MAGAt moron brigade. Peak. Lol looks like he's shitting himself in that picture.

    So fucking pathetic.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    1984 was a hell of a year

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

    Finally he's acting like a fascist who wasn't a Nazi.

    Still a fascist though.

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

    Huh? He's definitely acting like a Nazi

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Fash gonna fash.

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    Reminds me, go look for your favorite porn videos. They gone.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    We're building it up

    Just to break it back down

    We're building it up

    To burn it down

    We can't wait to burn it to the ground

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If this was a screenshot from a game with a fictional president, people would call it "very on the nose". Maybe someone with photoshop skills can make that edit, to ask Trump supporters what that president reminds them, then switch in the original with Trump (of course many will think the original is the fake).

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Bet they burn real nice

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    It is becoming apparent that despite all the wailing and gnashing of teeth, everyone is actually ok with all his shit

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    He was forced to do that otherwise his friends Kim and Vlad wouldn't stop to make fun of him. They already ridiculed him in the group chat for the low energy military parade for his birthday

    But this is still small. Even smaller than the flag! (Which is hung flipped, on the wrong side?)

    They are still laughing because look how small he looks compared to the Vlad one! Did he wanted to save money? Cheapskate!

    Now he has to put his photo in every classroom and replace the Lincoln statue

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    1948 called, they wanted the premise for the novel 1984 back.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    ALL HAIL CHAIRMAN TRUMP!

    万岁 万岁 万万岁!

    /s

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I wouldn't want to be the person with an office behind that poster. not even if I had bulletproof glass

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