It’s still in its reactionary and infantile stage, but it’s past cardboard signs and into small scale attacks at easy targets.
Which ain’t much, tbh. But you try getting people that are itching to do something now to do something more controlled and useful that takes planning an coordination.
It’s even in the news. There’s posts about it on lemmy, and other fediverse communications. But it isn’t being shown as much on normal news outlets in the US, except when it’s big enough to make local news until ego makes someone like musk take to social media outlets and make it known that way.
Right now, everything is low key, vandalism level action, but it is actual people, on the ground taking action that isn’t waving signs.
It’s even in the news? Oh wow. Sorry man I’m not trying to be rude at all. I’m sure that especially the Americans that are active here, are one of the most anti-trump ever. Don’t get me wrong.
But yes. It takes organisation. Where is it tho? Like, when are you gonna organise? You already have a literal concentration camp. It’s not in your own borders. As a German, this sounds… familiar.
It’s the whole slow immersion thing. Two years ago, people talking about how dangerous this could be were banned from some places online.
Now, you’ve got some of the less complacent arming themselves the way those of us a bit more pessimistic in our outlook did years ago.
But, being real, people have been saying for decades that what the nazis did couldn’t happen again. But pretty much every major power in the world still had some degree of power madness that got directed against the weakest, the poorest, the most vulnerable. Germany, that saw it first hand, isn’t immune to it, there’s a far right party there that’s just barely restraining themselves from goose stepping and heil-ing.
Here in the US? We were built on taking other people and demolishing them. For all the good that the constitution represents, it was written by the same kind of people that owned slaves.
We’ve had what amounts to concentration camps for over a decade, though you’ll hear people say they aren’t concentration camps because there’s no executions going on. Hell, our prisons amount to concentration camps what with the way they treat the people in them.
So, it’ll take a lot more than what’s going on. The people alive today didn’t pay attention to history, or want the status quo to return so badly that they’ll accept the fascism until it’s too late.
Seriously, it isn’t just the US, the remnants of fascism never went away. But, here in the US, we pretended like there weren’t nazis here. And we rode that post war wave of wealth into a capitalist hellscape that leaves so many people so unable to do anything but work and lose hope that they just want things to blow over rather than fight even harder.
So, it’s going to come down to a very small amount of us trying to turn things around, and we’ll probably fail.
Homie, there’s more than protests going on.
It’s still in its reactionary and infantile stage, but it’s past cardboard signs and into small scale attacks at easy targets.
Which ain’t much, tbh. But you try getting people that are itching to do something now to do something more controlled and useful that takes planning an coordination.
It’s even in the news. There’s posts about it on lemmy, and other fediverse communications. But it isn’t being shown as much on normal news outlets in the US, except when it’s big enough to make local news until ego makes someone like musk take to social media outlets and make it known that way.
Right now, everything is low key, vandalism level action, but it is actual people, on the ground taking action that isn’t waving signs.
It’s even in the news? Oh wow. Sorry man I’m not trying to be rude at all. I’m sure that especially the Americans that are active here, are one of the most anti-trump ever. Don’t get me wrong.
But yes. It takes organisation. Where is it tho? Like, when are you gonna organise? You already have a literal concentration camp. It’s not in your own borders. As a German, this sounds… familiar.
How much more needs to happen?
Nah, no worries, it didn’t read as rude.
It’s the whole slow immersion thing. Two years ago, people talking about how dangerous this could be were banned from some places online.
Now, you’ve got some of the less complacent arming themselves the way those of us a bit more pessimistic in our outlook did years ago.
But, being real, people have been saying for decades that what the nazis did couldn’t happen again. But pretty much every major power in the world still had some degree of power madness that got directed against the weakest, the poorest, the most vulnerable. Germany, that saw it first hand, isn’t immune to it, there’s a far right party there that’s just barely restraining themselves from goose stepping and heil-ing.
Here in the US? We were built on taking other people and demolishing them. For all the good that the constitution represents, it was written by the same kind of people that owned slaves.
We’ve had what amounts to concentration camps for over a decade, though you’ll hear people say they aren’t concentration camps because there’s no executions going on. Hell, our prisons amount to concentration camps what with the way they treat the people in them.
So, it’ll take a lot more than what’s going on. The people alive today didn’t pay attention to history, or want the status quo to return so badly that they’ll accept the fascism until it’s too late.
Seriously, it isn’t just the US, the remnants of fascism never went away. But, here in the US, we pretended like there weren’t nazis here. And we rode that post war wave of wealth into a capitalist hellscape that leaves so many people so unable to do anything but work and lose hope that they just want things to blow over rather than fight even harder.
So, it’s going to come down to a very small amount of us trying to turn things around, and we’ll probably fail.