Spyke
lemmy.today

People who don't mainline political news genuinely don't get this.

It's literally Big Brother. This is a surveillance state telling you how to do everything.

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lemmy.world

Those people have also not read 1984 and either won't get the reference or think it's a reality show reference

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AeronMelonreply
lemmy.world

Mussolini, Mussolini on the wall, who’s trains run the most on time of all?

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If you ignore the whole dictatorship thing, that actually looks bad ass. Trump's style is so damn ugly and boring. If I'm living in a dystopian fascist dictatorship the least they can do is look cool!

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Cethinreply
lemmy.zip

I find it ironic that there's a reply about people who don't read it not getting 1984 as a reply to this. The surveillance is a minor part of 1984. It's largely about them controlling thought. They control language and the media to make it almost impossible to speak against them. "Big Brother" is the meme that gets repeated (I think because it was the only part that fit conservative thought, so they made that what 1984 is instead of it being against them), but it isn't the important lesson to be taken from it.

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Fair point - these were 2 separate thoughts. First, Big Brother is the face scowling down at us all, right out of the book. Second, that the US is right now a surveillance state and this is one of the more visible aspects of the virtue signaling and telling people to love the Great Leader.

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Which means they have a bullet with my name on it.

Better than living with so much cringe the rest of my life.

And autism is supposed to be socially awkward.

Imagine having such a fragile ego you need to remind people you have the power not them. The power to what? Shoot us? That doesn't give you power, that just makes you evil.

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sopuli.xyz

That looks like FREEDOM to Me!

-Someone who Lives in a State where you CANT paint Sidewalks and CANT speak after 10PM and CANT read Books with Rainbows in them!

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lemmy.today

i believe he could be referring to texas allegedly trying to ban "expressing yourself" on colleges after 10pm.

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I'm genuinely curious if students at colleges in Texas mass mobilize. What happens when the majority of colleges' student bodies are arrested and taken off campus? Is that a significant enough shock to tame these god damn fascists?

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Well that's an obvious protest right there. Having a trumpet shit rally, and end it at exactly 10:00 p.m.

Who is protesting in the middle of the night anyway?

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I'm sure the photographer would point out they literally just photographed reality. It's reality that's dystopian

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lemmy.dbzer0.com

No argument there; I guess I was aiming my compliment more towards the framing and composition of the pic, not so much the subject.

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Reminds me of when Trump was in office the first time and Biden was running. Trumpers started posting pics of empty store shelves, (from all of the panic-buying and COVID shortages) and captioning them like “this will be America under Biden”. My brother in Christ you just drove to the store and took a photo of reality under Trump… And reality under Trump looks like empty store shelves.

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All they need is a symbol of some sort plastered everywhere and America will officially hit Nazi Germany level

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lemmy.world

American doing Americanism Americanly

Damn, reminds me of Evil Foreign Country Full of Bad Foreigners.

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Echo Dotreply
feddit.uk

American presidents have never been dictators before, at least not in the US itself. They support dictators and overthrow legitimately elected governments but not at home.

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lemmy.world

American presidents have never been dictators before

I mean, tell that to Andrew Jackson. Or William McKinley. Or Jefferson Davis. However you square it, the Confederacy at least was an undeniable dictatorship that controlled half the country.

Even outside the Civil War, the Presidency has been an imperial office. American presidents have a well-defined line of succession and a party mechanism to guarantee the position of ex-presidents within the plutocracy once they leave office. But we've had plenty of periods in which a single party dominated the White House and governed at the head of a completely subservient legislature.

The period from Jackson to Taylor was indistinguishable from any military dictatorship you'd find in 20th century Europe or Latin America. The era from Hayes to Eisenhower was functionally an armed occupation, from the perspective of any African-American or Latin American or East Asian migrant. The 19th/20th turn-of-the-century labor revolts were pockmarked with American military firing on factory workers, miners, and farmers until they fled, died, or were forced back to subsistence living. What else do you call that?

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ttrpg.network

Maga hats probably look at that and feel good. Their in-group is strong and winning. That's all that matters to them.

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woah spoiler alert! some people wanna see how this fascism thing is gonna go first

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this really isn't going to be the thing that convinces them. ya'll need to realize that the cult LIKES this

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lemmy.world

I have not the first doubt in my mind that somebody has jacked off to the idea of how upset somebody else's about this.

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leminal.space

you know that's the point. really gotta stop giving them reaction porn that motivates it all. remember all those tiktoks with the corny teehee guys just filming themselves wearing their diddler hats in public, mugging at the camera because they're triggin' da libz? I always thought fascism would be ushered in by people a little more serious but reality is disappointing.

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I really don't think approval ratings effect reality. his core people are people who don't really engage with all that

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lemmy.world

It's so strange that he clearly has body image issues, what with the orange make-up, extreme comb-over, and lies about his weight and height, yet he seems to have no issues with 20-foot photos of himself up on buildings looking like someone toilet papered an alcoholic's 4-day-old paper bag.

Or he has no body image issues at all, and genuinely believes he's attractive, looking like a sickly prehistoric mosquito peering out from the inside of a lump of amber. Maybe he really believes he's that tall, that thin, and that intelligent. Which just raises further questions about his psychology. Is that just typical narcissistic sociopathic shit?

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isnt that also a body dysmorphia issue" dont believe anythings wrong with yuor face, body" but clearly he is not healthy at all.

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First one. And posters are a proof of it. That is why he has them in this weird slightly top angle. He thinks that angle makes him look fit and super cool but no matter what he does, he looks like a 90 year old pedophile that he is.

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I have a sneaky suspicion that the bronzer is all that holds him together and if he stopped applying it he would crumble to dust.

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Time to up how much of a fucking asshole I already am to magats for subjecting me to this fucking bullshit

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lemmy.ca

Again, is anyone here, on Lemmy, surprised by this shit?

Yes, America lives under democracy, however, did you ever stop to consider that business operates under authoritarianism? So we take someone who is aggressively capitalistic, has run and owned several businesses, even had a TV show that's known for the phrase "you're fired", and put them in charge. Then we're surprised when this person who has basically been head of several authoritarian businesses, starts acting like an authoritarian regime?

I don't think so Tim.

None of this is surprising to me in the least.

And people voted for this.

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"Hybrid regime" is the best phrase to describe the US right now.

Not a total dictatorship, yet, but very authoritarian, but somehow just not authoritarian enough for someone to be granted political asylum in, say, the EU, but nevertheless, very authoritarian.

I wonder at what point the EU would actually take this regime seriously and start granting asylum.

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This isn't about you. The left leaning folks fail so hard at politics because you all think you're the main character. As if you're the last stop on the information path. All this crazy stuff that happens gets consumed by you and then stops. We're suppose to do stuff with this information not just kill it after we have a quick view of it. So saying "is anyone surprised" misses the point here. It's not about information for you or others personally. The point isn't to inform just so you're aware. Its so you do something with it.

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In fairness, it does seem like the kind of extreme that would come up in a video game. You'd at least expect some subtlety in real life, rather than outright drapes with the guy's face on, and a positive word slapped on.

Like putting his business logo up.

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feddit.org

"Holy small dick energy, Batman. That man must feel a huge need to compensate for something."

"He may have a small penis Robin, but he is also a fascist, a pedophile, a traitor and an incredible piece of entitled shit. We must never forget that."

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feddit.org

This is so over the top. Has anybody considered that it could be an act to distract from something even more sinister?

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Nalivaireply
lemmy.world

What's more sinister than being a fascist in the middle of the takeover of a country?

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tetris11reply
feddit.uk

It's not even a country. The US has individual states larger than most european countries. This is domination of a small continent, with the largest army, with guns pointing at everyone

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As a citizen who did not vote for this I'm very scared. What you say is true and I'm at the lowest level of poverty and I have a mental disability. I know I'm very early on in the chopping block and I have no clue what to do or how to escape this hell.

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plythreply
feddit.org

I would like to know.

As a guess it could be the risk of AI if people don't control it as society, a new nuclear strategy that accepts nuclear winter, the final stage of capitalism that takes away everything, the introduction of a surveillance state, or on a positive note, a distraction from the opportunities that people have. But none convinces me.

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AI doesn't exist and will not exist possibly ever, but everything else (and much much more) is basically a result of some fascist taking over a big country with a bunch of resources.

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SkyezOpenreply
lemmy.world

If he were smarter, maybe. We already know he has wet dreams about being a dictator, this is just him living his fantasy.

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plythreply
feddit.org

Biden could be president while losing his smarts. Is Trump calling the shots?

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That's why this is scary. The dems managed to hide bidens decline until he spoke at length. We know trumps brain is soup and we know he's the one calling the shots because the results of his melted brain actually become reality, and other republicans have to scramble to explain why his latest unhinged executive order is actually the greatest thing ever and totally not unconstitutional at all.

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Yes. And yes it is.
The key difference between this Trump presidency and the last, is that the people backing him this time have weaponized his stupidity. They are definitely doing some really nefarious shit while he runs around playing dictator. They started by getting rid of every watchdog group within the government, and then eviscerated every department that had access to massive amounts of money. So, just like the $12billion dollars in actual cash that mysteriously disappeared during GWs presidency, we are going to find the literal trillions of dollars that were in the coffers of those governmental departments somehow magically gone without a trace.

It is going to take decades for people to even get a basic understanding of all the nefarious shit it's going down right now.

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lemmy.world

If there's anyone in your life that still doesn't get that Donald Trump is a fascist, then they are a cultist and a photo won't have any effect.

This is early 1930s Germany. They're lost. They're gone. They're going to have to be beaten into submission like every other fascist movement ever.

We had a chance to go down another path. We passed on that opportunity.

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In europe there are many old people who obviously aren‘t cultists, but still say "well he did alot of good things for his country" or "well the woke youth would run society to the ground". So yeah, Trumpism isn‘t only a cult problem, but a cultural one.

Which is why I‘m very cynical about what will happen when the White House toddler finally bites the cheeto dust.

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lemmy.ca

But don't worry guys, the files will ruin him lmao

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lemmy.world

idk what the fuss is about this is totally normal where I'm from:

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From the movie adaptation of the book "1984" from the year 1984.

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sh.itjust.works

How much would we have to crowdsource for somebody to risk draping a Baby Vance version over this banner?

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ouRKaoSreply
lemmy.today

Doesn't even have to be over it. Hell, hang them on every other building so they make hanging posters illegal...

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Illegal for private citizens and only enforced when their enemies do it.

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Scribbdreply
feddit.nl

I still can't believe this was real and not some set for a movie.

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When you are that ugly, you'd think you wouldn't want your mug all over the place reminding people you look like a sack of spoiled mayo spray tanned orange and stuffed into a bad suit.

Peak manliness right there according to the MAGAt moron brigade. Peak. Lol looks like he's shitting himself in that picture.

So fucking pathetic.

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The comparatively small font on, "American Workers," really makes it seem like it's saying, "Trump First." ...which I'm sure is an accident.

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lemmy.world

If this was a screenshot from a game with a fictional president, people would call it "very on the nose". Maybe someone with photoshop skills can make that edit, to ask Trump supporters what that president reminds them, then switch in the original with Trump (of course many will think the original is the fake).

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lemmy.world

Reminds me, go look for your favorite porn videos. They gone.

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Ah, thanks for the correction. And yeah, he keeps a book of Hitler's speeches by his bed, so definitely a Nazi.

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He was forced to do that otherwise his friends Kim and Vlad wouldn't stop to make fun of him. They already ridiculed him in the group chat for the low energy military parade for his birthday

But this is still small. Even smaller than the flag! (Which is hung flipped, on the wrong side?)

They are still laughing because look how small he looks compared to the Vlad one! Did he wanted to save money? Cheapskate!

Now he has to put his photo in every classroom and replace the Lincoln statue

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We're building it up

Just to break it back down

We're building it up

To burn it down

We can't wait to burn it to the ground

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It is becoming apparent that despite all the wailing and gnashing of teeth, everyone is actually ok with all his shit

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Trump should honour the environment and make a gold statue on the whitehouse lawn of a some representative animal. Maybe a calf? Thank goodness there are no statues of him (yet?). Those vinyl building posters are easy to melt.

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1948 called, they wanted the premise for the novel 1984 back.

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Trumps more interested in looking in a kids hole than anyone's soul.

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I wouldn't want to be the person with an office behind that poster. not even if I had bulletproof glass

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For me the first page of a Google search does not link to stories with this image with the military standing in front. Except for one link to the Boston Globe which displays for a second before paywall blocking.

That is why the general netiquette is to share the link in the first place.

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That link was not clickable from OP because it was a screenshot. I manually typed it in but forgot to use uppercase so it returned a Hillary Twitter thread https://archive.is/qds8p

Of course I know what the banner says now because I found a decent source which I have in my comment.

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"trump banner dc"

You'll find it to be a very effective search engine query.

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This is so wild. But it's so infuriating how the left has this type of ammunition and yet not fucking guns to do anything with it.

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If you haven’t removed people from your life who DONT know that Trump and his cohort is a menace then… what’s the point here now?

Either they are a future ____ , or just let them be.

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LwLreply
lemmy.world

Given that one of the main defining things of fascism is a personality cult, yes it's an indicator for sure.

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Commiunismreply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

It isn't a defining fascism feature of fascism, as it can apply to populism, dictatorships and whatever else that features great manning of leaders. Hell, even democrat candidates, given the "political culture" of US have cults of personality form around them.

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technocritreply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

populism, dictatorships and whatever else that features great manning of leaders. Hell, even democrat candidates, given the “political culture” of US have cults of personality form around them.

This is all fascism too.

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It isn't, fascism is a defense mechanism of capitalists when their system meets an existential crisis (eg worker militancy) and liberal democracy is no longer capable of maintaining class domination.

Great manning of leaders, nationalism and so on is just liberalism, though more of a superfluous aesthetic rather than core ideological tenet

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lemmy.world

Who cares about a damn poster, is that all you ve got? Check his real actions dude, but I guess you support pedos like Biden

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Trump is a pedophile, who did nothing besides giving more power to the oligarchs and christian fundamentalists.

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Yeah, maybe then he should release the Epstein Files to show all the stuff Biden did. You know, the files that were already on Pam Bondi's desk.

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