Ever notice how people will use any word but Republican when talking about Republicans? It is not an accident.

Well, they branded themselves. Trump is following Hitlers playbook, sometimes to the letter. Do you now understand why Republicans want only a sanitized version of history taught at schools?

Anyone who got taught about Nazi Germany and how it came to pass noticed the signs long ago. They are blaringly obvious it you know what to look out for.

They branded themselves as maga. That name will stay forever.

Yes.

Most people are busy surviving - in the USA and in other places as well. I am one of them, sitting in a relatively safe Europe that is not entirely overrun by nazis (just yet). 90 years ago it were my family members in Germany - while things gradually got worse for some citizens they still had to go to work, feed their kids, pay the rent. They were branded as nazis after they lost the war. Before the war they were just citizens of a country gradually sliding into authoritarianism, just like the USA is now.

When I read headlines about Israel and USA I feel some angry disbelief that this horror reaches me as a normal sounding news headline - like something I should just listen to and get vaguely annoyed about, not something that makes my heart feel rotten and my brain boil, not something that makes me want to take up arms and fight for what makes us humans instead of monsters. But then I have to think about rent and food again, and everybody around me does the same. So here we are - letting things happen because we are busy surviving, and because the media makes what's happening sound like just another headline.

"fortunately" it's not half of Americans, it's half the voting population considering "did not vote" would win almost EVERY SINGLE ELECTION if it were a candidate.

I like to think more people actually care about this stuff, but are too fucking lazy or can't be bothered to miss one episode of "The Real Life Of Some Fake Jackass" to go vote... Hopefully one day... But I doubt it.

possibly, my history class never went in depth about topics like this but the history telling of it def made me think ALL germans were nazis so it might depend on how the story is told to the individual

The Americans flying swastikas ?

The American doing hiel hitlers ?

The Americans treating other sovereign nations as personal resources ?

The Americans building concentration camps ?

The American subverting elections with violence ?

I guess only time will tell.

At the very least, the white trash version of the nazis.

They already are. Americans are the stupid Nazis and Israelis are the actual Nazis.

The world hates both; the only reason you don’t see many coming forward is because Israel is paying off the world to ignore their crimes, while the world is just trying to wait out the Trump presidency in hopes that there will actually be a next election.

I think that hope is far fetched. I doubt we will see fair midterms. I genuinely think the USA is done. Balkanization is expected to occur shortly after the realization hits that the elections are all a sham. About 2-4 years from now.

Only on lemmy