Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

@Background Pony #8F4B
no.

When Right Wingers start calling you a terrorist simply for having sympathy for minorities and the poor facing discrimination, you should have 0 issue referring to said Right Wingers as fascists at that point.

Just saying.

I’ve been calling the spade a spade for years already. The GOP can call itself whatever it wants, they’re Nazis at heart.

They do some bad things but calling them fascists and nazis is incorrect and counterproductive.

@Background Pony #01F2
Pretty sure they’re the party who had a Holocaust denier make a speech on remembering WW2. Hard to get much closer to Nazis than that.

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@Background Pony #01F2
I’ve been urging leftists to just call them “National Populists” and “dumbasses” but the fascist label is just too ingrained in the mind.

@Meanlucario
The issue here is that fascism and nazism rose in a state of emergency for the ruling classes. In Italy, Germany and other states, they felt the need for a united party that could stand up to the realistic threat of communist insurrection and subdue the restive working class under the banner of national and interclass unity, social chauvinism and militarism, whipping up the masses into a furor about international conspiracies against national sovereignty. While “Trumpism”, as a form of right-wing populism, does include these elements in its repertoire, its classification as a “fascist” movement begets confusion because other central elements of fascism as we define it - for example, an armed party militia loyal to the “prince” - are lacking, as well as the threat of communism, which for decades has been safely containted by elecoralist opportunism, powerlessness, relative socioeconomic stability inside the US compared to other countries and the lack of even an only nominally “socialist” bloc of states on the international scene.

The pseudo-socialist antics that characterized nazi-fascism and allowed them to attain sufficient popularity in their heyday (Mussolini having once been an anti-war socialist and arguably inventing anti-fascism himself in his stance on Austria-Hungary during WWI before he invented fascism, wink wink) are likewise absent in Trump. Some unions may have shown support for him, but he makes no promises of rewarding labour and the working class directly besides those crude photo ops he does in employee uniforms. It must be pointed out that, at this monent, the American ruling class really does not need capital-F fascism and that both sides of the duopoly have eagerly carried out their class interests without stirring the boat.

In short, if there’s a historical Italian politician to compare Trump to, it wouldn’t be Mussolini but Silvio Berlusconi. What seals rhe fact that this is a systemic issue with modern democracy under capitalism, likewise, is that a growing number of countries across the world now have their own Trumps and their own Bidens.

A MAGA dipshit could cut themself while shaving and somehow have the mental gymnastics to blame “Trans Muslim Communists” for it.

Hate, it’s what drives them.

Don’t feel remorse, you can at least smirk at whatever suffering they personally endure as a result of their own actions.

Saw the inauguration. It was as uneventful as I expected.

The day thay America died.

Pray for America.

The day that* America died.

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The ne t 4 years are gonna be hard for the trans community, give them support from the fat orange dumbass

News says the inauguration is over. Is eggs cheap yet?

@Dustcan
No

@Dustcan
Maybe they will be after four years.

Oh well. Surely they’ll be cheap tomorrow then.

@Background Pony #D9FA
What are all the folks who voted for Harris supposed to do now? And isn’t “pray for America” just as effective as “thoughts and prayers?”

@IWTCIEM
The Harris voters should probably just keep living lives as they have been.

Insert Quarter, Try Again?

That’s kinda what you do when your candidate fails?

@Zaknel
Funny story!

I know two members of the US armed forces, proudly serving for over a decade, much of that in combat zones, that are about to be kicked out of the military, ie. fired without cause. Because they’re trans.

I’m sure they, and the thousands of people in a similar situation, will just “keep living their lives as they have been” now.

But hey, I’m sure this will lower the price of eggs! Right?

No, he’ll just have his head up his own ass as usual.

@Zaknel
Yeah, try telling that to people whose lives AREN’T in danger because of this orange fuckstain.

@Zaknel
What an ignorant thing to say. I expected better from you.