If he’s any good at it he’ll pass an Enabling Act at the start (like Hitler did in 33), and then a halt to elections as an emergency measure later on.

Finally an electable party in Japan!

They weren’t funny, or socialist enough.

Resulting in them coming off as:

Serious, and Corporatist…

…which is what they are (although the Trumps are obviously way more Corporatist).

Putin has groomed him, taught him that fewer Oligarchs means tighter control over the country. Big win for Russia.

…I think the people who voted for Trump probably played the bigger part though.

You just listed tactics used on most modern day protests then told me to pay attention?

That’s not proof of fascism. That’s just a Tuesday.

Like I hate the guy, but this is a bad proof. He’s a generic corrupt Capitalist politician. It’s a best proof he’s good at trolling the left.

He held the bible for a photo op? That’s your proof he’s tangibly doing fascist actions?

You know a large majority get sworn in on that thing?

It also isn’t anything Trump has actually done. He jokes about being violent or fascist to get attention and goad the left into giving him even more attention - and they fall for it every time. He laughs at them with his supporters about this.

Yeah, that said - I don’t think he’s a fascist yet. I think he’s an extreme Capitalist with a narcissistic personality.

He likes to joke, play, and dance with violent rhetoric to get views and likes. He goads the left into giving him attention, and his supporters find it funny.

So I think he’ll be a more run of the mill candidate than most on the left are claiming. This is because American democracy is already corrupt, already serves mostly the wealthy and bigotted, at the cost of the stupid, poor, vulnerable, and ignorant.

So he won’t be a noteworthy fascist unless there’s a government action results in a mass violence, OR he refuses to leave office.

Yes, it’s in the air, it’s in what he says, the lies he tells, and whose emotions they’re aimed at. It’s in the American exceptionalism he sells.

That’s the vision the left has to fit into, and it’s been done before. Bernie was doing it in 2016.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nwRiuh1Cug

Compare that coherent vision of American exceptionalism with this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk4ueY9wVtA

Tell lies that make them feel better than the lies the other guy is telling.

No they won’t they’ll implement 50 - 75 percent of it. Ditching what’s not popular enough or appealing enough to business men and their popular base.

They’re libertarian business men who want little kingdoms of their own, they’re willing to play on fascism to get it, but they’re not going to be gunning people down in the streets. Especially not now interest rates are being cut by the fed, and the COVID recovery is ready to boost the economy again.

Part of why Trump won was people calling them fascist garbage and stupid. All the people Trump makes feel good about America took offense to that.

Trump bought into their offense by saying “I’m with you, I’m on your side, I’ll even drive the garbage truck. Hahaha”

… and the left’s only response was to double down with “you look stupid and crazy for not automatically agreeing with us, with no discussion or appeal from us”.

That same cycle of LEFT: “you’re a stupid crazy fascist”

RIGHT: “no we’re playing to make ourseves feel happy and edgy, and unpopitician like”…

LEFT: “Well that’s stupid and shouldn’t be popular”

Went on for 8 years. That emotional interaction/cycle was on repeat.The majority didn’t give them an off ramp or even try to appeal to them, or reason with them.

Studying fascism so you can call them fascist idiots better isn’t going to change the emotions at play, if anything it’s going to amplify them.

No, you have to make America’s history of exploitation and greed, of racism and corruption, of international business cartels, seem good and like winning. Because that’s how he makes them feel: like it’s fun and good and winning to be an American.

They’re saying they don’t want serious politics as usual. You’re saying “if I just call them fascist idiots better they’ll agree with me that they’re fascist idiots!”

That’s not a discussion that’s going to resolve any different or better by perfecting your very serious and sad and angry condemnation of them.

Trump has Musk and Murdoch money behind him. Vance’s life up until this point has veen thoroughly sponsored by Peter Thiel… They all have Epstein connections… A whole lot of people should be in jail.

It would be smart to put conventional explosives in, just enough to make salvage more difficult (and to prove they’re bot making dud systems).

It will be the last election in this version of America. The problem is that Trump may legitimately win this election. Voters, a majority, may he causing this.

What then? What if it is the last election in this version of America, and Trump wins legitimately? What does the left do if this happens? How much will you watch the country change? Will you be strong enough in your convictions to resist passification? Mental, and or physical passification, and/or political deactivation?

There will be forces at play trying to make you forget. Move on. Adopt the new normal. Go with it, just for now - because it’s not that bad for you. Will you be strong enough to resist that urging?

What will the future hold under Trump? Who knows. But I do know, this is a terrifying comment to have to write.

Which country is collecting these when they land? Is there a salvage operation or do they detonate?

Oh, so we let Capitalism destroy the planet and the ability to easily grow crops …and then resort to running around in the heat doing cannibalism?.. do we know they were billionaires at this point, or is there just still enough meat on them to make them worth hunting?

That’s the problem with post-Capitalist clarity, it leaves you in a really painful situation, and there may be no other destination possible. It nay be the only place Capitalism ends.

That doesn’t even address whether there’s a market in human meat and wealthy traders… And how Capitalist that market started. Oh Capitalism may not have ended yet in this scenario…

You could really ask this question of anyone about anything. There will always be substantial differences between one person’s life and another. Having had children doesn’t necessarily denote that difference, even less so for men as some fathers don’t stick around and instead go live their own lives seemingly uninterrupted.

But think of how many things people sink great amounts of time and effort into; gambling, becoming a practicing doctor, hedge fund trading, starting a charity, programming… Those people will probably all have large amounts of time devoted to those things.

Of course there’ll be many things that don’t compare, and some that do… Then you must also factor in that it’s a trauma for some people. Some people end up not liking their children, kicking them out, disconnecting.

Human nature is hugely variable. What’s it like being a good person? What’s it like being rich? What’s it like being homeless and a drug addict? What’s ut like being happy? What’s it like in prison? What’s it like as mayor? Or psychiatrist? Or teacher?

What’s it like not like doing any of the things mentioned here? Well, that question, your post, is really about you, isn’t it? It’s about you asking others “what would my life be if I didn’t, or don’t have kids?”

So, why are you asking?

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Musk is in regular contact with Putin, who makes suggestions about where Star link be turned off, or denied access to.

Bezos prevented the Washington Post from endorsing Kamala Harris.

Netflix is helping Israel dehumanize and erase Palestine and Palestinians.