WizardOfFrobozz

This response is so telling. Bluesky is fucking AWASH in comments like, “ha! how can anyone be this dumb?” “Has anyone ever been stupider?” “HEY, they said A when yesterday they said B!” Americans still refuse to look at what the far right is doing right in their faces.

This isn’t stupidity, it’s a intentional tactic. For MAGA, it’s a sycophancy test. The more absurd the claim, the more useful the test. Believing it or agreeing with it is so far from the point. It’s about ensuring the base continues to publicly demonstrate their willingness to abandon reality on command. “The more obvious bullshit we ask you to swallow or horrendous racism we can get you to defend, the more enthusiastically you will have to do it because you’d look SO WEAK choosing THIS spot to draw the line.”

For the rest of you, it’s a demoralization tactic. They’re rubbing your nose in how ridiculous they can be and STILL be an electoral threat. They know their supporters won’t abandon them, and they know that their opponents will do little more than express outrage, call them stupid on social media, and move on. “We can say absolutely anything, no matter how absurd, and you still have no choice but to treat us like legitimate opposition. What the fuck are you going to do about it?”

“The animals jump onto the solar panels and get fried,” Trump says. Not because he’s an idiot (which he IS, but that isn’t what’s on display here), but because the truth doesn’t matter when you’re not actually trying to convince anyone of anything. It isn’t about persuasion, it’s a demonstration of impunity. They’re showing everyone listening that they can make a mockery of reality, demand that their followers applaud, and force everyone else to spend their time arguing about whether the fucking animals are actually getting fried.

🙄

Wrong verb

Suicidal people who don’t take at least one fascist with them? World is better off without them anyway.

Sure, but we’ve already established that you lack self awareness, so…

This looks like a poster for a B-tier A24 movie

No, you’re fine. Stay home and do nothing. I’m absolutely fine with your country becoming a cautionary tale for everywhere else the Nazis are trying to make inroads.

You just keep doing fuck all, vote like you were going to do anyway, attend a parade or two and wave a snarky sign. Really. Don’t do a damn thing, and watch what happens. There’s literally no one I’d rather see made an example of than some cowardly white liberal on Lemmy projecting insincerity onto actual antifascists.

Americans are the biggest bunch of fucking cowards.

Oh, look what you’ve done. You’ve created a political morality in which the government’s entitlement to your obedience increases in direct proportion to how willing it is to fucking kill you.

There’s no country where people should be fighting back harder than the one where the government is most willing to murder them for daring to resist its authority. You’re part of the problem.

Did I not say “which is fine”?

Okay, but you’ve just created a sentence fragment, which is fine unless you were trying to use complete sentences.

It’s more like 95% if you (correctly) consider inaction a form of tacit approval.

It was nowhere near excusable in 2016. You already had decades of information about who trump was and nearly a decade of the Tea Party showing you EXACTLY the kind of people they were.

YOU are okay with the current status quo or you’d be doing something about it.

It’s fine, get defensive if you want, but the truth is you are way too comfortable and refuse to risk that comfort to fix the problems you pay lip service to opposing.

Especially when they spent the last century dining out on a national myth of “give me liberty or give me death” and being belligerent fucking assholes about “freedom,” crowing about how they’re the BEST IN THE WORLD at defending it, insisted it was necessary to let children die in school shootings all the fucking time in order to be able to handle exactly this scenario- and also everyone else is a bunch of weaklings who only exist because Americans put their lives on the line to defend democracy, and fuck everyone else for even questioning it.

Yeah. That’s wild.

“Once it’s too late, our only recourse is the thing we could have done all along to stop it from getting to this point.”

I still find myself humming the Bunyip song to myself constantly, decades later.

https://youtu.be/Ntf5_ue2Lzw

The bargain with fast food was that it was shitty for you, but it was quick, cheap, and tasted good. Now it’s even WORSE for you, costs as much as an actual meal, and increasingly tastes like garbage. What exactly are people trading off now?