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[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 12 points 7 hours ago

Dachau didn't open until 3 months after Hitler took power. They are right on track.

[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago
[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

A little reminder, apparently Salvadorians are loving Bukele for this.

I tried reminding them that, removing due-process is a can-of-worms that you rather not open

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

there are people in other parts of latam that want that same shit in their own countries...

where there are marches asking where the people that were "disappeared" during the dictatorship went.

[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 22 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

The picture on the left is from when the prison first opened, so won't show any of the deportees

[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 12 points 11 hours ago

Oh hell. OTOH, I'd imagine we have no reason to think it's looking better these days.

Still, thanks for the correction, I took that as I found it.

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 35 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks to modern technology we can watch the whole thing unfold in real time!

[–] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

It seems this new technology is not much benefit in stopping it? Observers are great, powerless and disorganized ones not so much.

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Too many people live in willful ignorance

You can see the obvious big picture and scream from the rooftops, but everyone who is comfortable enough and in denial that things are actually that bad straight up just ignore you

It's only now that people are starting to get their wakeup calls, like a lot of Europe, for example

But god, if it isn't super frustrating to watch the local news in my European country and have politicians repeatedly say "nobody thought we would be standing here talking about this 4 years ago"

I did, fuckers! I did!! The fascist threat was obvious ever since the first trump presidency, and the trends could clearly be seen from even before then, however, I was a child at that time

I don't get it. Especially because politicians are supposed to be the experts in trends like this. Is everyone just fucking clueless??

I swear most people are just so neoliberal ideology brained, and heavily struggle seeing anything outside of that. It's been a massive failure on the part of society that political philosophy has not been a bigger part of the education curriculum. Or part of it, at all.

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I’m not sure how relevant this is outside the USA; but when I was helping build grassroots for social activism in Texas - I realized people had forgotten how! Their grandparents could, and did. I saw it as a child.

But something happened over two generations, and the knowledge was not handed down, or was not applicable when things changed so much .

I remember enough to know critical things in the community is missing. I suspect a major missing piece is that people stay indoors too much.

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Same in Germany. I don't know what it is either but I'm convinced it's related to the loneliness epidemic among the younger generation. People have seemingly stopped connecting in meaningful ways in general. No more religion, no more sports teams, working from home and getting your social interaction fix through social media. I think all of this is seriously starting to take its toll.

[–] in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 hours ago

It's a European tradition to spectate torture and execution for entertainment.

[–] DeusUmbra@lemmy.world 9 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Remember kids, fascism only ends one way.

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Only one way, but there are many ways to approach that way. My favorite is the Italian method.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 66 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Reminder that before all this El Salvador was sweeping up anyone and I mean anyone they found on the street during their sweeps and throwing them in huge overcrowded cells to await mass trials without representation.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 hours ago

even more damning that the populace has cheered for it; non of the human right abuses matter so long as it's not them.

[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

With tattoos

[–] Zidane@sh.itjust.works 21 points 15 hours ago

You see, it isn't so bad, they can sit up!