America is Fucked

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    the speed of america becoming a fascist dictatorship is crazy. 3 years and a bit and here we are... all legal law and order. you guys are fucked.

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    • i'm talking about this for more than 3 years now.
      > https://www.qbn.com/…      sted
    • i live in a fascist militaristic theocratic dictatorship myself. so, yeah, it's global.renderedred
    • It's an interesting question I don't think has been answered very well...why so countries converged on a similar trend of nationalist authoritarianism.yuekit
    • The difference with the USA is that Trump is ultimately a weak leader. He would clearly like to be the same as Putin or Viktor Orban but doesn't have theyuekit
    • institutional support to make it happen. And hopefully will be gone soon.yuekit
    • Big companies outsourced manufacturing destroying entire communities. They also used tax havens so didn't help the country they were based in.PhanLo
    • Trump even had all his shitty merch made in China.PhanLo
    • Then after some years, people in the countries are poorer than their parents were, with fuck all prospects, so politicians say they'll bring back the jobs.PhanLo
    • Also, like in the UK loads of labour councillors are useless, loads of places were failed by them, so people voted Tory for the first time ever.PhanLo
    • But during covid, all that nationalism pish didn't go far when they needed fruit pickers. No UK people wanted to do it so they bussed in some Romanians.PhanLo
    • nationalist authoritarianism = populist fascism.sted
    • @renderedred how does your political landscape looks like? there is no real opposition?sted
    • @sted, no opposition at all. right wing to the max. left wing non-existent last 5-10 yrs.renderedred
    • it's one big ultra nationalist neo zionist party. i use neo in front of zionism sice herzel's original writings were way different from this shit...renderedred
    • I'd like to think that Trump is the nadir of the current American cycle and people somehow get beyond his peculiar grasp on the country.Nairn
    • If they (/you) don't, we're all in a heap of trouble. Trump Series II - APolcaYpse EndGaMe is not something I want to see play out.Nairn
    • Personally I'm 30/70 on the shit hitting the fanNairn
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