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America is in danger of Fascism
  • Is this really what makes a fascist? Almost every party in democratic world uses similar rhetorics.

    Nope, predominantly an American quote in the 21st century. And while it doesn't necessarily make you a fascists, it does check the extreme tribalism flag. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_are_either_with_us,_or_against_us

    This is pretty much 99% of human history.

    Correct, and modern democracies tried their best to change course. Some more successfully than others. If you want successful examples look at Finland, those guys played a significant role in many peace treaties, including the famous European peace. And here's the kicker, FOR NOTHING IN RETURN. Or rather no immediate monetary or political gain.

    and what to tell about single party systems, like China? Do you call them fascist too?

    YES, quite literally and unironically YES! Like come on? "Communism with Chinese Characteristics"? We're just a couple word plays away from "National Socialism". The Chinese government is actively conducting ethnic cleansing and jailing anybody who isn't Chinese enough. Come on!

    I do not feel forced to watch "Top gun" or eat McDonalds

    At this point I'm starting to feel you're a troll, but hey, it's fun, so let's keep going xD I was more referring to America's foreign policy here.

    thanks god they did not kill Bernie Sanders

    Again, mainly meant foreign policy. However Burnie doesn't get off free either. The democrats didn't even give him a chance to be a presidential candidate despite being the crowd favorite. The guy's getting silenced.

    like any other fucking country, just look at Chinese schools

    Not every country, again, look at Finland, Estonia or the Netherlands. Great examples of an education system that respect the people's freedoms. And while most other European countries have something fucked up, non are anywhere near "KNEEL FOR THE FLAG!" level.

    still, rather weird tradition or aesthetics, not a fascism, for fuck's sake

    Weird esthetics? Maybe because the esthetic invokes the other counties that did this which most were under either fascism or communism. Like sure, it doesn't necessarily make you fascists, but role-playing as one every morning is still fucking suspicious.

    they behave like assholes at worst, still millions of foreign people dream about living in USA

    Look in a mirror. The US treats everyone else like a terrorist before they even step foot into the country. And yes, half the people that didn't go to America yet still think it's amazing. America is really good at advertising. If America doesn't want foreigners to dream about it, maybe it could stop advertising it self as the only valid way of life.

    This sucks indeed, but this is not inherent to USA, rather to police in general.

    Kinda, there are some bad apples in other counties too, like France for example. But the US still stands proud and tall for having one of the worst. Literally no other county arrest more people per capita than American. Not even your favorite China. Also having snipers at every protest? Fucking really? Direct military hand downs?

    You say my "accusations", but most of what I said are statements you didn't even negate, just said that some of em don't necessarily make the US fascist and the rest you renamed to "imperialism", which IS NOT BETTER! The only difference is that imperialism doesn't need to include nationalism, it's an umbrella term, under which fascism falls under!

    But boy, it's funny you'd mention the Russian shithole, considering the US seems rather proactively aiming towards it. The republicans especially seem to have em as their role model. If things keep changing the way they have been for the last 20 years, I give it tops another 30 years before the only thing that makes America better than Russia will be the running water. Maybe faster if the supreme courts keeps up the pace it demonstrated the last 2 weeks.

  • Well, AI made our search unusable dogshit. But AI *also* made us miss our climate goals, so
  • Imagine paying an unholy amount of money to actively fuck everyone over, including yourself, especially yourself like holy shit...

    What is it with big companies and desperately wanting to go under? It's like they're taking "too big to fail" as a challenges, the only rule being you can't just shutdown or sell.

  • Trump’s alleged ‘sexual proclivities’ graphically detailed in new Epstein documents
  • The "grab em by the pussy" guy, the person to proudly boast about being able to look at young girls and publicly talking about his daughter in a sexual manner, just full on fantasizing about her on live television, IS A SERIAL RAPIST?!? Never would have guessed, totally came out of the blue.

    Anybody supporting this monster is a blissful moron that doesn't even listen to what their great leader says, or is equally as fucking repulsive.

  • America is in danger of Fascism
  • Before I get to your question...that's a really weird definition. I mean it excludes most stereotypical fascist regimes, like nazi Germany for example. A communist revolution wasn't really on their list of fears or even concerns. In Weimar Germany they even shared voters. Most communist party voters became nazi voters once they became a thing, they run on the same platform. It's in the bloody name, Nazi = National Socialism. This definition seems to deliberately only target America, the US is the only one that goes fucking ape-shit when socialism let alone communist is at all mentioned.

    Anyways, to your question. We weren't really talking about presidents specifically, tho most of them fit the bill. Both democrats and republicans say the fucking "you're with me or against me" shit, like really??? The US generally has a rich history of violently shutting down competing powers, be it domestic or abroad (a 2 party system IS NOT natural for a democracy!). American imperialist wars are pretty much build on forcefully spreading American culture at any cost (especially if it involves killing anybody claiming to be socialist or not christian). From a young age US citizens are indoctrinated, the shit where they swear loyalty to the flag every morning is creepy as fuck, also the flash everywhere. Like christ, just look at how Americans treat foreigners. Didn't even mention the police yet...

  • America is in danger of Fascism
  • It's authoritarian tribalism based on nationality. In other words the forced elimination of opposition, because of the belief in one's superiority. And since one's superiority derives from their nationality, it inevitably has to include some traditional values. Any in fighting is just arguing over the meaning of their nationality. I don't understand what people don't understand or how they keep getting it wrong.

  • America is in danger of Fascism
  • Right, and the heroic Soviets also fought to combat the evil that were the Nazis, because they were natural enemies, no other reason no... /s (just in case it wasn't obvious.)

    Being a facist doesn't stop you from fighting other fascists, especially when those other fascists are fucking with your shit. The only difference until now was that the two parties managed to deadlock each other needing the support of an uncaring populace to gain total power. Once one ultimately wins, this whole "pillar of democracy" thing is over. Having literally only 2 parties for centuries is a bad omen for democracy.

  • Stay Mad, Tankies
  • Have you read Trump's plan for his next turn? The fucker wants to go through with hefty important taxes on EVERYTHING (that's essentially putting sanctions on the US lol). Cheap groceries aren't a good prediction for a Trump term. I'd suggest listening to what he's saying. There's more that makes me think that cheap things aren't around the corner, the fucker has many things he wants to spend for, without any plans for increasing the budget.

  • Stay Mad, Tankies
  • I agree that it is heartbreaking that the democrats keep pushing candidates no one wants. But no amount of incompetence is a reason to give fascism a try. I don't live in America, but considering they run this joint, I'd hate for it to become a shitier Russia.

    Biden is definitely not fit to do anything him self, but he's surrounded by good advisers and he actually fucking listens to them. Under his term not nearly as many horrific things happened as under trump. Trump's an immediate menace to the world order as we know it. I find it really ironic how he claims to be pro American, but actively destroys the reasons people look up to America and let it have so much influence in the first place.

  • Nate Silver: Joe Biden should drop out
  • It's already a disaster. It's been a disaster since last election. Anti opposition votes can only get you so far, before people start to feel indifferent, since their voices clearly don't matter in the slightest.

  • Hiiiiiii!
  • The why do they immediately run away upon realizing a human is near by? Like I'm talking about strays here, they only gather outside my widow when there's no one around and I'm quite in my room.

  • Nuclear isn't perfect, but it is the best we have right now.
  • Nothing generates more than nuclear (like it's not even comparable), it has basically zero emissions and there are countries like Finland who'll happily let you burry it there, tho you ofc don't need to go that far away. You don't need to dispose it nearly as often as coal ash, so it being in another country ain't really that big of a deal.

    Ofc solar is also a great option, because of the versatility, sadly German seems to really fucking love wind.

  • Nuclear isn't perfect, but it is the best we have right now.
  • Oh thank god... Apparently they aren't destroying it YET. There is hope. Personally, I'd feel a lot safer if it went into more nuclear loving hands, like the French or Czech, actually, most of Germany's neighbors would do.

  • Nuclear isn't perfect, but it is the best we have right now.
  • Looks like I'm a bit behind on the latest news, I mean in 2015 it (basically) alone was still half of their energy production. That's quite the explosion, too bad it's largely wind power and...biomass??? Right it's "renewable©® (in theory)", not "sustainable right now or benefitial to the current situation". Same to the natural gass growth, guess it's better than coal, but come on... And to my original point, in your graph we can see a negative corelation between coal+lignite over nuclear at a few ranges (when they shut down nuclear over fucking coal), roughly starting after 2005. Also wow, they actually fucking killed nuclear last year... JESUS...

  • Meat is expensive.

    No but like seriously, why are vegan and vegetarian options always MORE expensive at restaurants. Whenever I cook my self, the meat is BY FAR the most expensive part of any meal. Meanwhile stuff like soy strips are DIRT CHEAP, not to mention they last basically forever!

    The canteen I go to for lunch actually sells the meatless meals for 2/3 of the price, always a taunting reminder. Like hell yea, that's how ya convert me!

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