What the actual fuck. How much farther does this fascist piece of shit have to go before people realize we will not vote our way out of this mess and the only chance we have to stop this madness is to put our lives on the line and fight for what is right. Not just posting about it, or going to marches supported by the controlled opposition party funded by the same billionaires who fund and support this demagogue. Polite non violent demonstrations do not threaten the power structure while they continue to violently suppress any meaningful change. We are at least 5 phases into the same journey of fascism Germany underwent almost a century ago. And everyone is too fucking worried about mowing their lawns, working for garbage wages at jobs they mostly hate and watching their favorite TV shows to face the reality of what is actually happening.
If most people had a time machine, they say they’d kill hitler. But they aren’t thinking of the logistics of it. You have to know where hitler was at a specific time.
Quick question, where was hitler on June 14th 1905 at 3:30pm? Oh, don’t feel bad for not knowing. It wasn’t a reference to anything important. Nothing notable happened at that time.
But if you went back to that exact time, and tried to kill young hitler, where do you go? Where is he?
If I had a time machine, I’d go back to the 1980s. And ask my mom "Hey, what would happen if the united states had fascist confinement camps they sent undesireables to?
And she would tell me I was being obtuse.
And then I’d come back the next day. And the next day. And the next.
Every day asking the same question.
Why? Because do that for 20 years without context, and she’ll always think you’re insane. Then around the year 2000 the visits from future me stop.
She will never forget 20 years being annoyed with the same question. She won’t be able to deny she rejected the concept as being unrealistic.
And then in modern day, just once, I need to show her the news. The actual real life news. And ask her the question again. Except now I look exactly like that long lost relative that visited her every day in the 80s and asked her about president trump, and fascism, and camps.
She would FINALLY be able to admit her son knew something she didn’t. My mom isn’t maga. She’s just a stubborn narcisist boomer, who thinks she knows all and can’t ever fathom the possibility of unrealistic outcomes coming to pass.
I remember reading in school about the black plaugue epidemic. And I asked her (in the 90s), what if a global black plauge epidemic came back in our life?
I was told to stop being stupid. My mom is still alive, and doesn’t remember saying that. I wonder if she remembers the year 2020.
Point is, we all need to collectively admit the united states is at this point just as fascist as Germany in 1937. I say 1937, because at that point they were fascist, but they hadn’t yet started a war. They didn’t have concentration camps, but they had confinement camps.
Sound firmiliar?
Hey mom? What would happen if the USA became a mirror image of 1940s Germany?
“stubborn narcissistic Boomer” is the default of the entire generation, regardless of other characteristics.