It’s not at all hyperbole. Survivors of the holocaust during Trump’s first term specifically brought up how eerie and terrifying was the similarity with what they lived through during the early years, in the long run-up to the full Nazi takeover.
Biden and the neoliberals represent everything that gave rise to the material conditions that spawned the growth of Nazi Germany
Neoliberalism will continue to spawn fascism until we do away with it. Unfortunately our oligarchs will not prevent that. Which means that fascism is an inevitability in the United States - if not in 2024 then shortly thereafter
Incrementalism and neoliberalism will kill us, and there’s nothing we can do to stop it
You know a socialist came within like 20 feet of the Democratic nomination in 2016 and probably would have won the general, right
A lot of people trying to organize to improve their situation in much harder conditions would call you a coward and quitter for just throwing your hands up in this absolutely abject surrender. You’re still free, you can speak your mind on Lemmy, you can vote or organize. That’s already like 5 big steps up. Just whining about it like “boo hoo all the neoliberals in power won’t just hand it over to me even though I asked them to” is some fuckin weak sauce.
I actually don’t agree that Biden’s economic policies are of a piece with all the neoliberal Democratic-party bullshit that’s been on offer ever since Reagan took down Jimmy Carter’s solar panels. But that’s neither here nor there; the main point is your rampant defeatism is a bunch of conveniently-means-I-don’t-have-to-do-anything crap.
Bernie is a social democrat. If he’s socialist then Scandinavia is socialist. And Scandinavia is obviously not socialist
boo hoo all the neoliberals in power won’t just hand it over to me even though I asked them to" is some fuckin weak sauce.
They wouldn’t hand it over even if there was full blown revolution with nationwide riots and murders. Nor should they - they have far more power than the people, and our military and police are indoctrinated and impossibly heavily armed
I agree that Biden is the best president since LBJ. Gazans might not agree with that evaluation. But I probably do.
Freedom of speech is an illusion that is rapidly shrinking under our current society. It is at best effectless, and at worst a means for the government to engage in gathering intelligence and surveilling certain individuals to build files for future retaliation
Did you ever stop to wonder why it’s up to leftists and liberals to come together to stop it instead of the checks and balances that our system is supposed to have?
Who made you agree that it’s up to the leftists where the checks and balances are supposed to do the job?
We got here by voting for the lesser evil every single time and we’ll be here again unless everyone begins to ask themselves questions like this.
It’s not at all hyperbole. Survivors of the holocaust during Trump’s first term specifically brought up how eerie and terrifying was the similarity with what they lived through during the early years, in the long run-up to the full Nazi takeover.
Biden and the neoliberals represent everything that gave rise to the material conditions that spawned the growth of Nazi Germany
Neoliberalism will continue to spawn fascism until we do away with it. Unfortunately our oligarchs will not prevent that. Which means that fascism is an inevitability in the United States - if not in 2024 then shortly thereafter
Incrementalism and neoliberalism will kill us, and there’s nothing we can do to stop it
You know a socialist came within like 20 feet of the Democratic nomination in 2016 and probably would have won the general, right
A lot of people trying to organize to improve their situation in much harder conditions would call you a coward and quitter for just throwing your hands up in this absolutely abject surrender. You’re still free, you can speak your mind on Lemmy, you can vote or organize. That’s already like 5 big steps up. Just whining about it like “boo hoo all the neoliberals in power won’t just hand it over to me even though I asked them to” is some fuckin weak sauce.
I actually don’t agree that Biden’s economic policies are of a piece with all the neoliberal Democratic-party bullshit that’s been on offer ever since Reagan took down Jimmy Carter’s solar panels. But that’s neither here nor there; the main point is your rampant defeatism is a bunch of conveniently-means-I-don’t-have-to-do-anything crap.
Bernie is a social democrat. If he’s socialist then Scandinavia is socialist. And Scandinavia is obviously not socialist
They wouldn’t hand it over even if there was full blown revolution with nationwide riots and murders. Nor should they - they have far more power than the people, and our military and police are indoctrinated and impossibly heavily armed
I agree that Biden is the best president since LBJ. Gazans might not agree with that evaluation. But I probably do.
Freedom of speech is an illusion that is rapidly shrinking under our current society. It is at best effectless, and at worst a means for the government to engage in gathering intelligence and surveilling certain individuals to build files for future retaliation
Did you ever stop to wonder why it’s up to leftists and liberals to come together to stop it instead of the checks and balances that our system is supposed to have?
Who made you agree that it’s up to the leftists where the checks and balances are supposed to do the job?
We got here by voting for the lesser evil every single time and we’ll be here again unless everyone begins to ask themselves questions like this.