To me, it seems the USA is already at the bottom
Will they wake up before it's too late?
Submitted 20 hours ago by AngryFrog26@piefed.world to memes@sopuli.xyz
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ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 20 hours ago
MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 17 hours ago
The bottom is the US having no internal opposition to Trump. One of the biggest differences between the Nazis and the Republicans is, that the Nazis very quickly and violently destroyed the opposition. Somebody like Mamdami would have never been elected under Hitler. The great thing about the US is, that it has centuries of election history. For the most part with some horrible discrimination of women and black people, but still a large part of the population was voting. That is really hard for the Republicans to destroy and that means that there might be somewhat midterms. Obviously the Republicans will make those deeply unfair. However there is a chance of it going the right way.
Just to be clear, this is not going to be easy and the midterms if anything are only a first step.
justlemmyin@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
At the bottom, and UK EU following the footsteps hoping nobody notices.
underisk@lemmy.ml 15 hours ago
Someone once said the bottom to me nearly verbatim for questioning the Iraq war. My grandmother once asked me if I wanted to go to hell because I laughed at Bush Jr fumbling his words.
We’ve been there for a lot longer than people are willing to admit.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
100% we are.
red_tomato@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
They are already proud of it
DmMacniel@feddit.org 19 hours ago
Proud boys.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
When you talk to these crazy Trump apologists, they don’t agree with everything he does… But they hold this insanely delusional notion that things are best with him in charge.
They use whataboitism constantly. Recently I shared how awful things were with one of them, explaining that this country is no longer safe for anyone who openly opposes Trump. They told me “I know exactly how you feel, I felt that way under Obama.”
Like… WHAT?
FishFace@piefed.social 19 hours ago
This is not a meme, and not really an accurate comparison to Nazi Germany, where the regime actually paid a lot of attention to changing the laws so that the atrocities they committed actually were legal.
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
Trump is proving once and for all that so long as he doesn’t get punished for it, everything he does is legal.
hOrni@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
What do You mean “when it’s too late”? They are at the point where almost all of the freedom fell off and there’s only fascism left. We are all screwed.
WraithGear@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
um they are already targeting people for wrong think, that arrow is below the bottom flag
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
It was definitely not legal to murder innocent people. The arrow needs to move down.
The January 6th rioters did illegal things as well. Just because Trump pardons and protects those who do violence, doesn’t mean the violence wasn’t illegal.
zeca@lemmy.ml 14 hours ago
I guess the arrow points to how they respond to the accusations, not the truth. The truth is the last line of the meme, and it has been that for a while.
someguy3@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
This but the GOP and GOP voters think it’s changing the flag from a LGBTQ+ flag to an American one.
MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
I think, while Nazi comparisons are useful, it’s really important for people to understand that American Fascism is its own thing. Prior to the Nazis and Fascists coming to power, the U.S. was successfully managing an apartheid state and conducting mass sterilizations and popularizing the ideas of eugenics.
The U.S. was MASSIVELY influential on Nazi ideology, and American fascist really appreciated that and supported the Nazis in kind.
American Fascism has grown and developed out of unique American socio-economic conditions (manifest destiny, slavery, the KKK, Jim Crow, militia movement, preppers, protestant work ethic, evangelicalism, etc.) independently from other flavors of fascism, and therefore doesn’t map 1:1 perfectly to any other type of fascism.
The fact that European varieties were actively suppressed for so long while the America variety was allowed to actively metastasize means that the kind of fascism that we’re dealing with today is a far more advanced form and it’s already off the map, so to speak.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
Well, so did most of europe.