Rookwood

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[–] Rookwood@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 7 months ago

I think you forget that they are being imported to the nation with the most powerful military on Earth.

[–] Rookwood@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 months ago

You're exactly right. Which is why my point is that in our two party system, the "left" has to put up an inspiring candidate to beat him. Hitler and Trump are essentially the same archetype, rejected narcissists who prey on people's fear by feeding them scapegoats. About 30% of the population has narcissistic, authoritarian sentiments at any given time. So for such a person to come to power, they only need to suppress the opposition below a plurality of 30%.

In Nazi Germany, Hitler came to power because the left was fractured by bickering among the many factions. They refused to unite into a coalition to address the problems of the Great Depression.

In MAGA America, we have the two party system which prevents voter fracturing, but the liberals are refusing to embrace the need for change and thus suppressing their own voter base below the 30% by platforming the status quo while people are suffering and unhappy.

[–] Rookwood@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It doesn't mention it in the article but the administration cancelled her visa without notifying her 5 days before she was arrested. This is part of the reasoning they were using to detain her. Is her visa re-instated? If not, then she is now illegal and has been effectively deported, nonetheless.

[–] Rookwood@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

Not the reason Kamala wasn't elected.

People want change. Kamala did not represent that. We are at a point where people will choose a fucking orange clown NPD if it means change. Dems have to put up or shut up.

This is on them as much as it is on Trump and his followers. Those people always exist. It's on the alternatives in politics to offer a better option. They have not for some time now.

Not to mention that the dems have actively subverted anyone who steps forward to offer said alternative.

[–] Rookwood@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago

Particularly the NFL, which operates as a cartel with monopoly on what is effectively a blood sport.

[–] Rookwood@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

We didn't know about Auschwitz until we liberated it and he was critical of them in the 30s.

It's a good example of how right pull happens. Until you're exterminating people, fascists won't be happy and until then centrists won't care.

[–] Rookwood@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 months ago

America really is an idiocracy.

[–] Rookwood@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Elon Musk's grandfather was critical of the Nazis for not being anti-semitic enough.

[–] Rookwood@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 7 months ago

Elon Musk's grandfather left Canada for South Africa because of his admiration for Apartheid. He was extremely critical of Hitler for not being anti-semitic enough.

[–] Rookwood@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 months ago

He's just going to ignore it and create some other manufactured crisis.

[–] Rookwood@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The health ministry said the risk to the general population from the virus was considered low.

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