• HasturInYellow@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    The question is, is the American public in the right mood to flip over to fascism when scared by the riechstag fire or flip against it?

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      2 days ago

      Dude, we’ve already flipped. Dissent is punished and while most people aren’t okay with it, no one’s doing anything that will actually stop it.

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        1 day ago

        as soon as the first shooting, disappearance happened, there shouldve been riots, instead we got peaceful and ineffective protesting, if the govt knows you arnt going to riot with threat of mass unrest, they are going to ignore the protest.

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      At the very least they’ll look on and offer ‘thoughts and prayers’.

      We already see the ‘sorry, I didn’t do this personally, the ‘good natured’ jokes about it because what else can you do at a time like this, how they ‘stand on the side of…’, the philosophical quotes whenever something happens.

      Can’t vote or protest though, nope, they might lose a job, or it’s their right not to, or it doesn’t make a difference.

      They’ll look on. Furthermore once it’s all done they’ll expect we quickly forget and forgive.