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This implies that the majority of the world has a mental health disorder. Yes, that must be it...
How stupid do these MAGA clowns think people are? And: Are they perhaps projecting their own characteristics onto others?
Or is it perhaps about imprisoning dissidents for no reason?
Hmmm, that sounds familiar. Ahh, yes, Hitler and his henchmen did the same thing...
They are getting away with much bigger atrocities than this. People will absolutely be on board to suddenly have their trump-hating relative actually be mentally ill. Then you don't have to listen to anything they say because they are just crazy.
Even announcing trump derangement syndrome in an official setting so it can be in the news cycle for as long as they want is going to have a powerful impact on the personal, individual level much wider than what he has done this term so far really. Now anyone who disagrees with trump is crazy. That's just best case scenario.
As I said, this is straight out of Hitler's playbook and serves to prepare for the next atrocities. Nazis have traditionally been interested in giving their crimes a legal veneer.
Nope, that's not out of Hitler's playbook, that's out of Stalin's. The Nazis killed psychiatric patients and converted hospitals to barracks; they did not fill them.
Weird I didn't see the second half of your comment when I first replied. You're absolutely right and I'm terrified. The social-political environment and economy that allowed the rise of the nazis in Germany have been happening in America for decades. There are so many parallels and then within 6 months in office a LOT of big stuff is happening really fast. Federal institutions completely gutted, harassment of the employees by their government, deportation of citizens, removing birthright citizenship, and now wanting a medical diagnosis for anyone who disagrees with them.
It is absolutely terrifying and I no longer feel safe sharing my opinion anywhere because I don't know how dangerous it will be in the future.
"Guys it's right out of Hitler's playbook"
Goes back to bed
Every accusation is a confession from the GOP
Yes, but with things like this, the current US government is actually trying to create a legal basis on which it can make undesirable people disappear. Just like the Nazis did in the Third Reich.
It's about establishing an unjust state with the corresponding legal means.
I really think that plans are being made here to establish a dictatorship. There are many other signs of this.
The plans were made by the middle of 2024. Project 2025 is well underway.
I'm from Germany and am only observing the situation from afar. Are there any efforts to prevent the US from becoming a fascist state?
I know, of course, that people are taking to the streets and that this is not being reported adequately by the media. But what is the plan?
In any case, there seems to be no serious resistance from the Democratic Party...
It's much the same problem you guys had in the 1920s. Hate is easy. Cruelty is the norm. Humanity, like the chimpanzee we're closest related to, is a very 'in-group/out-group' species. You're either one of us, or you're a threat to be beaten down and killed. Hate is easy to stoke, especially when things are tough. And don't forget -- Hitler studied hate-filled regimes world-wide before he put together his authoritarian empire, and one he studied hard was the US Southeast. Abuse of 'inferior' people was a way of life for them!
Standing up could get you killed in these not-so-United States, so a lot of us try to keep our heads down and be 'Good Americans'...
If there are, they aren't being reported on. It seems American individualism will kill us all
Year 2785. The Tesla-built Trump-atons patrol the irradiated skyline of New America. The scorched remnants of what was once called Earth. Their red, white, and chrome exoshells glint beneath a sun filtered through atmospheric ash. "Nobody knew healthcare would be so complicated" can be heard over the speaker from it's silver jowls.
From beneath a collapsed monument to Elon, a stone shifts. A malnourished human, skin sun-leathered and trembling, crawls out wrapped in a faded Trans-Palestinian Soviet flag. Eyes cracked with age and dust, he whispers into the void:
“Every accusation… is a confession.”
“Trump-bots are racist.”
“General strike.”
Centuries-old resistance slogans, preserved like fossilized dog shit, echo into silence. No one hears him. No one cares because these are decades old slogans that never really packed a punch anyways and were never adapted over time or expanded on through content creation and memetic knowledge.
In the shadow of the gutted White House, Lauren Ro-BoeBert 2.0 strokes patriotism behind a metal dumpster her servos sticky with Trump derangement.
The world turns. The code loops. And somewhere, deep beneath the bedrock, a spark of humanity retreats back to its lemming like hole beneath New America.