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[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Biden approved more and more fracking projects and oil exctraction hit record rates. Just because NBC kept saying everything was okay now doesn't mean that it was, some of us were paying as much attention then as we did under Trump, unlike dems.

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

I can see that Biden held twice children at the border at one time than Trump at his highest. I can see that weapons and money to Israel skyrocketed under Biden. I can see that Obama alone prosecuted more whistleblowers than the US had prosecuted in its entire history.

If you only count it as fascism when it starts affecting white people half as much as it was affecting the rest of us then you can't be surprised we consider you just as much of a fascist as them.

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Concentration camps have been a thing for most of the US' existence, have become super widespread in recent decades (as in, the children in cages) and they're completely bipartisan. At one point, there were twice as many children detained under Biden than at Trump's highest.

You might not have known it until now (doubtful) but if I know democrats, you're gonna handwave it away even though you no longer have that excuse. Democrats are no more than the left wing of fascism and so is anyone who treats these abuses as irrelevant distractions from the real issues, that is, the comforts of white people.

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I get that these reductive analogies are enticing ways of digesting the world around you, but you really have to take the time to learn about political economies and their characteristics from actual experts if you want to talk about it in a way that makes any sort of sense.

This and your previous comment kind of read like a bunch of platitudinous concepts haphazardly thrown together from a lot of fiction and short-form content.

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Still some would say they're beating around the Bush.

Authoritarians btfo.

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Are you 12? Otherwise you're way too old to be using five dollar phrases you don't know the meaning of after you've prattled off on a bunch of shit you clearly don't have even a YouTube infographics-level understanding of.

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Neon by John Mayer

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 weeks ago

Now, now, Rome didn't fall in a day

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

not even the dissolution

Especially not the dissolution. They had a referendum to attempt to legitimize the dissolution, which failed in a landslide, and then they ignored it and did it anyway.

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I don't mean it to be a perfect analogy, I just found it funny that these are two idiots enacting big sweeping changes in political or economic organization that are likely to end up killing the host. Gorbachev's USSR died at the hands of the US and its puppets while in the US capital seems to be cannibalizing itself.

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 28 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I disagree, it's a very good thing. USians have had ample time to reckon with their fascist government, but since the price was being paid by minorities and people abroad, not enough of y'all listened or cared. The rot took hold, the violence was turned inward like Malcolm X warned and when the US dies the world will immediately be better for it.

Of course, provided they don't do the ghoulish shit only they and Israel would, nuking us all out of spite.

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Let's hope it's not like 2008 and this one is fatal

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