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I can imagine the various branches of the US military getting into slap fights over who gets to oppress whom.
I feel like everyone forgot what happened last time.
People in unmarked vans with no identifying patches or badges, just fatigues, grabbing people off the streets at night in the northwest.
Even worse than the official fascists, the unofficial ones who were emboldened to act with impunity, riding into cities and inciting violence. Attempting to run Kamala's bus off the road in 2020 in Texas.
Dems run like they want to lose. Always conceding the arguments of the fascists. Touting the endorsement of monsters like Dick Cheney. The kinds of monsters who made the Republican party what it is today.
If "senior democrats" actually gave a shit about avoiding conflict in the US, they'd actually be fighting for universal voting rights and eliminating FPTP voting.
Oh, I fuckin remember.
Honestly, if Trump somehow pulls out a win - and definitely, if he pulls out a win with some very clearly bullshit tactics involving GOP congressional leaders and the Tribunal of Six - I am completely serious when I say I expect an order of magnitude increase of political violence, up to and including a potential civil war. It’s that bad.
Mega donors don't want anti fascist rhetoric because it cuts into the profit margins
It's almost as if fascism and unbridled capitalism have some kind of a mutually beneficial relationship.
Weird.
Allowing direct sales from car manufacturers and cracking down on unregulated supplements would knee cap fascism immediately
This feels like it attacks the problem at the margins. How is this approach more effective than direct dilution of power and flattening of hierarchies?
This approach would be a step along the way to that goal. A good chunk of fascist support comes from people selling supplements or used cars (there was a recent It Could Happen Here ep discussing this). Those people have money, power, and outsized influence on politics from local to federal. Disrupting their profits disrupts and dilutes their power. If your goal is to disrupt fascism there must be concrete steps to doing that, and this would be one.
We're thiiiiis close to the death of the "free world." Fascism is a blink away.
Seriously, and it's his supporters that are the problem.
Trump is obviously a buffoon, but it's his mass of ignorant bigots, thieves, and exploiters that give him his power.
Even if he loses, these people aren't going anywhere. They are the real problem.
It’s so sad too. I just visited a concentration camp and memorial in Germany with plaques highlighting the evils of facism and thought to myself wow, there it is, in my home country (US). And I hope we don’t continue to get worse.
I wish we'd have that level of openness here in Romania. There's plenty of Romanians who think of the Holocaust as a specifically German thing and are wilfully ignorant about our complicity.
Always has been.
Hey if the military takes over my town they're going to be upset. As well they should be.
Sounds like he's promoting firing up civil war tbh. How much of that could he get away with before people aggressively fight back? Or at least I hope we'd aggressively fight back
Do we have any idea of what military heads are thinking about that? Are they enthusiastic, mixed, or ready to oppose their commander in chief?
Active duty isn't allowed to talk politics, but so far, some retired generals spoke out against Trump and endorsed Harris.
But on the flip side: go into any mess hall, on any base, and tell me what is on the tv for the news channel. I can guarantee that you won’t like the answer.
Fox News, unfortunately.
Some high ranked thoughts could be inadvertently leaked to the press, though.
You do not execute orders that aren't moral. The US Military is not like the Russians. Although, I wouldn't depend completely on that.
Oh goodie, this that whole reason we have the 2nd amendment thing? Should work out great.
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