• CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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    Same headline every day: Facist leader brings America further into Facism. Americans do nothing.

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      Some Americans are resisting in tons of different ways. There have been 24/7 “music festivals” (ICE protests that get labeled as music festivals because Tiktok will take down videos tagged with protests.) in LA and Portland for months now. Americans have been shot defending their neighbors, ICE agents have been shot.

      It’s important to remember that the Billionaires control the news and they won’t air anything that makes it look like the common folk have a chance of resisting.

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      C’mon man, you know Americans always do the right thing.

      Once they’ve tried everything else.

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    Ironically the US Holocaust Museum is basically a part of Israel’s PR wing and has done extensive work in whitewashing Israel’s modern-day Holocaust in Palestine, even saying that “Never again” only means “never again for Jews” and genocides of other people is OK. It should be shut down for that reason, not Trump’s.

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    So they want to cover up the truth that people in the US lobbied the whole world to not to take the Jews in leading to the final solution. Don’t forget providing material support to the Nazi and IBM lending the computer power to make the final solution a reality.

    Does it remind you of another genocide taking place that wouldn’t be happening without the support and help from the US government and their corporations?

    It is almost like we were never the good guys and WWII was just one fascist nation cleaning up another fascist nation’s mess.

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        It is okay, a lot of people cannot accept the truth that the US has been a fascist nation for a long time. Depending on how you interpret the revolutionary war it was always a proto-fascist nation.

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          According to Umberto Eco’s requirements, the US was Ur-Fascist for quite some time. I tend to agree with that.

          Now, however, we’re full on fascist for sure. Also, Holocaust aside, Hitler and his allies were obviously in the wrong. Like you can’t be OK with them occupying half of Europe.

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          Mm. Well, gonna disagree, but that’s okay! We agree the fascism openly being practiced today is abhorrent and must be obliterated.

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            You can of course disagree. But I would like to ask your opinion of the US toppling countless democracies to install fascist dictatorships during the Cold War. This is just one of many examples that highlight all is not what it seems.

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              “Countless” is a bit of a stretch, and really isn’t until the 1900s but yes in general that’s some imperialistic bullshit. Things that were kept from everyone for decades because they wouldn’t have been able to do it if it was out in the open. (Now is a very different time that has taken them decades and trillions of dollars to manufacture.) A closer look at any of those operations will reveal the usual suspects of militarism, racism, and enormous oceans of money. Those persons did not make up the whole of the country, then or now.

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                Fair enough and I agree that not all people in the US are wealthy militaristic authoritarian racists (aka fascists). Just those in charge I suppose.

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        They think if everyone just agrees with them, that in and of itself presents a solution. That’s their schtick. They said they don’t believe the United States is becoming more fascist – I’ll assume because it’s already fully institutionalized. They’ll point out problems and never solutions because they offer nothing of substance. It’s just a child-like mind with access to an LLM. Their post history should reveal everything you need to know.

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    Last week, through a sad chain of sycophancy, the Holocaust Museum was forced to make the following compromise: “Never again means never again only for Jews.”

    The “genocide is bad” thinking is part of the woke mind virus that just hates America and loves abortions.

    FYI, the money behind holocaust museum was always meant to promote Zionism, and Zionazi colonialism, apartheid, and genocide and rule over America. They could have just said “Americans under a Democratic Administration.” to better align with US government’s fake partisan view on Zionazi rule.

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    That’s right folks! Being American now means you reject basic facts and history. Btw, did you know Tylenol causes Autism and its the gulf of America now?

    Oh yeah, and if you don’t comply with the new “American” brainwashing you get targeted as a terrorist to America, the land of the free

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      FREEEEEEEEDOM. AMERICA IS THE FREEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. NOW GET DOWN ON YOUR HANDS AND KNEES AND GROVEL TO DEAR LEADER DUMPY OR YOU’LL BE DEPORTED!

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      That’s right folks! Being American now means you reject basic facts and history.

      Yea no, they became what they are today by doing just that. Anything negative was swept under the rug, called anti-usa or censored. Nothing new about it.

      With propangada for their public as the greatest country in the world while marketing themselves as the land of opportunity. It was obviously exploitation to make the rich people richer. But workers couldn’t be bothered with that as an embarrassed millionaire.

      There’s a reason they control most of influential news/social media.

      Now, they feel invincible, they’re just riding on propagandah. They feel they don’t need the smartest people driven with brain drain around the world.

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    Constantly flabbergasted by the sheer levels of cowardice on display by every. single. institution in this country.

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      I’m constantly flabbergasted that Americans continue to expect institutions to do the resisting while they do nothing.

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        What do you mean, nothing? They did a parade and made signs! It was the BIGGEST parade! They all said “we don’t like this!” That wasn’t at all a big clown show- totally effective.

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          And the people being blamed are the people considered to be in charge of the institutions. Not the other people “following orders”, not the people still patronizing the institutions, and not the people complaining about the institutions doing nothing why they do nothing themselves.

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      They gotcha by the mortgages.

      Fun fact: the word “mortgage” means “death contract”

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      I think it’s people not wanting to lose their jobs. They killed jobs so you have to hang on to the one you have. Even if it’s against your morals.

      Does your family go hungry for principles? Quite the question.

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        Fuck their jobs. Everyone who ever stood up for anything had a job to lose. They’re cowards, they’re complicit, and this goes for EVERY American sitting at home wringing their hands about the far right and doing fuck all about it.

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        If anyone should understand the lessons of fascist appeasement learned in WW2, you’d think it would be the people running a Holocaust museum. Go figure.

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        In this case yes. It’s the fucking holocaust museum licking Nazi boots. There are other jobs.

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      it’s well beyond cowardice at this point. they’re eager to comply the second an EO is so much as hinted at. this is absolute subservience and I hope history remembers them.

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      That’s why leaders of companies and organizations make the big bucks. They’re there to make tough decisions and set a good example for the rest of us.

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    Down in the Arkansas Delta, about 40 miles from anywhere, there’s lots of soybean fields. In one particular field, which you wouldn’t even notice if you weren’t looking for it, there is a small grove of trees.

    If you walk around the perimeter, you’ll find little speaker boxes along the way. When you activate each one, you’ll hear the voice of none other than George Takei talking about the place you’re standing in. It’s the site of the Rohwer internment camp where thousands of Americans, including Takei, were shipped in by rail and held prisoner during WWII for no other reason than they were of Japanese descent.

    There’s no sign of an internment camp there now. The only remains are monuments the prisoners built to their friends and family members who were killed fighting for the Allies.

    Some people are stupid or naive enough to believe that the United States can do no wrong. Some are even arrogant enough to think that admitting we were wrong is “unpatriotic”. Yet, like every empire that has ever existed, the US has committed many wrongs. History cannot be erased, undone, or whitewashed, despite the pathetic attempts of sad despots. And if we choose not to learn from it, we will soon repeat it.

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    Just FYI: The Holocaust museum is NOT part of the Smithsonian. They have even more reason to give King Diapers the finger but they’re voluntarily bending the knee.