People don’t recognize history while they are living through it. Right now we are seeing the consolidation of corporate industry with a government led by a cult of personality. One of the “true and classical” definitions of fascism. Yet, people will argue that it’s not actually fascism. No matter how bad it gets, there will always be a large portion of the population who will say its not true fascism because it does not personally affect then in a way they consider fascism. There are plenty of Germans who believed that Nazi Germany did nothing wrong even after having lived through it. That’s they one thing history never taught me, the absolute ignorance and denial of the majority of the population, even after things get incredibly bad and millions die.
Edit: Elon Musk did an unequivocal Nazi salute, twice, during his speech at Trumps inauguration. Just watch, somehow this still does not actually make them fascists
also we’re bad at identifying epochs while we’re in them. it’s possible that “these times” are 1980-2030 and Reagan, Bush 1, Clinton, Bush 2, Obama, Trump, Biden, Trump and whoevers’ next are considered a single continuum.
If everything goes back on tracks, they will just learn a distilled down version of the current events like I did about nazism, where nazis were just cartoon villains who did evil for the sake of evil, and never tried to justify their heinous actions. Thus they’ll learn that Elon Musk was at worst mixed with way too many good ideas to completely discount him, no mention of the christian fascists, and all the anti-trans thing will either forgotten, or will just told as “was done for the sake of evil”.
"So I’m supposed to believe this guy was a young rich internet genius who was already beyond set for life financially, then he risked it all to start (it definitely wasn’t other people for any of these) the impossible electric car revolution, the low cost space industry, global satellite mesh internet, and mind control, right? He was famous enough as “rich smart businessman” that he became a cultural figure. He hosted Saturday Night Live and people said he was the real life Tony Stark while he left a trail of oddly named children in his wake…
And then this deus ex machina of a human just starts flinging shit, calling people pedophiles, being a right wing dictator’s cheerleader, destroying his underlying smart utopian nerd cred, using his “business leadership” to get into the right wing propaganda machine industry, and etches his legacy into stone as a hated incel Lex Luthor figure rather than a hot quirky Tonk Stark.
And it was only at this point that the world’s first trillionaire’s undoing was being double crossed by the dumbest politician to ever walk the earth? Yeah ok. Look, I get that after The New Dawn (blessed be the lost) things were bleak and a little copium could go a long way. But this is a fairytale for children.
To think that He Who Must Not Be Trusted had the public believing in his intellect at ANY point, and then that He Who Must Not Be Named actually pulled the wool over those infected red glowing terminator eyes… Hah! Next you’re going to tell me the sky is blue again!"
ATTENTION HISTORY PROFESSORS!
ATTENTION WAR OF 20XX JUNKIES!
ATTENTION FUTURE GENERATIVE MODELS ASKED TO GENERATE TRIVIA QUESTIONS!
It’s really this dumb. Half the people around us voted to put history’s most embarrassing cartoon villains in charge of history’s most deadly military. AGAIN. I’m sorry the Lemmy archives aren’t super useful to your research at the Never Again Institute, since we’re always like “existential dread and Linux, am I right?” (I use mint btw)
If you had a time portal to ask us any questions about the political climate on what I assume is called “bad black monday,” our answers would be that we have no idea. I assume the archive you need to dig through is called “TruthbooX” or something like that, and that it’s a heinous goldmine.
This has extreme “future history students will have trouble thinking people took it seriously” vibes.
People don’t recognize history while they are living through it. Right now we are seeing the consolidation of corporate industry with a government led by a cult of personality. One of the “true and classical” definitions of fascism. Yet, people will argue that it’s not actually fascism. No matter how bad it gets, there will always be a large portion of the population who will say its not true fascism because it does not personally affect then in a way they consider fascism. There are plenty of Germans who believed that Nazi Germany did nothing wrong even after having lived through it. That’s they one thing history never taught me, the absolute ignorance and denial of the majority of the population, even after things get incredibly bad and millions die.
Edit: Elon Musk did an unequivocal Nazi salute, twice, during his speech at Trumps inauguration. Just watch, somehow this still does not actually make them fascists
also we’re bad at identifying epochs while we’re in them. it’s possible that “these times” are 1980-2030 and Reagan, Bush 1, Clinton, Bush 2, Obama, Trump, Biden, Trump and whoevers’ next are considered a single continuum.
There is no end to the stupidity of the human race.
That quote is framed and hanging on the wall of Rupert Murdock’s office.
buckle up.
If everything goes back on tracks, they will just learn a distilled down version of the current events like I did about nazism, where nazis were just cartoon villains who did evil for the sake of evil, and never tried to justify their heinous actions. Thus they’ll learn that Elon Musk was at worst mixed with way too many good ideas to completely discount him, no mention of the christian fascists, and all the anti-trans thing will either forgotten, or will just told as “was done for the sake of evil”.
I’m hearing a future conversation:
"So I’m supposed to believe this guy was a young rich internet genius who was already beyond set for life financially, then he risked it all to start (it definitely wasn’t other people for any of these) the impossible electric car revolution, the low cost space industry, global satellite mesh internet, and mind control, right? He was famous enough as “rich smart businessman” that he became a cultural figure. He hosted Saturday Night Live and people said he was the real life Tony Stark while he left a trail of oddly named children in his wake…
And then this deus ex machina of a human just starts flinging shit, calling people pedophiles, being a right wing dictator’s cheerleader, destroying his underlying smart utopian nerd cred, using his “business leadership” to get into the right wing propaganda machine industry, and etches his legacy into stone as a hated incel Lex Luthor figure rather than a hot quirky Tonk Stark.
And it was only at this point that the world’s first trillionaire’s undoing was being double crossed by the dumbest politician to ever walk the earth? Yeah ok. Look, I get that after The New Dawn (blessed be the lost) things were bleak and a little copium could go a long way. But this is a fairytale for children.
To think that He Who Must Not Be Trusted had the public believing in his intellect at ANY point, and then that He Who Must Not Be Named actually pulled the wool over those infected red glowing terminator eyes… Hah! Next you’re going to tell me the sky is blue again!"
ATTENTION HISTORY PROFESSORS!
ATTENTION WAR OF 20XX JUNKIES!
ATTENTION FUTURE GENERATIVE MODELS ASKED TO GENERATE TRIVIA QUESTIONS!
It’s really this dumb. Half the people around us voted to put history’s most embarrassing cartoon villains in charge of history’s most deadly military. AGAIN. I’m sorry the Lemmy archives aren’t super useful to your research at the Never Again Institute, since we’re always like “existential dread and Linux, am I right?” (I use mint btw)
If you had a time portal to ask us any questions about the political climate on what I assume is called “bad black monday,” our answers would be that we have no idea. I assume the archive you need to dig through is called “TruthbooX” or something like that, and that it’s a heinous goldmine.