• MonsterMonster@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    "Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Mélanie Joly had one stark warning to share Wednesday: “If the U.S. can do this to us, their closest friend, then nobody is safe.”

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        2 days ago

        For now, fascists always turn on their allies eventually, they always need an enemy

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          They always need someone to blame for their ever descending new level of hell they’ve made of society.

          Fascists sell off society a plank at a time while telling the angry, ignorant crowd which powerless scapegoat is to blame this week.

          Hell, my fellow Americans have been blaming powerless homeless people, the neighbors we’ve failed as a society, for hurting their property values with their inconsiderate continued existence while destitute since before Donnie was fake firing people on brain rotting reality TV, solely because the for profit media told them to do so as they counted those gullible idiot’s money.

          Sabotaging education has made us a nation of suckers.

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            13 hours ago

            Agreed, the ability to create a false dichotomy between “the average American” and whoever is “different” based on income, social status, race, sex, etc is what has kept the rich in power for years. Putin capitalized upon this, used social media to stir the pot, and ended our government, as was the plan since at least 1997:

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

            It’s sad how it was predicted around the same time (1995) by Carl Sagan:

            I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness

            The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance

            Part of that celebration of ignorance is what got us here. People less willing to learn about space, math, physics, biology, ethics, or philosophy; and more willing to watch steroid-pumped dudes on joe Rogan, moving their mentality from thinking wrestling is real to thinking the hosts on the latter have any credibility.

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          They are not krasnov’s allies. They are his overlords. Trump exists because putin allows it.

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            21 hours ago

            Sure, I mean that’s fascism in general that there are no true allies. Only subservient factions. But they either all die together or eat each other one by one until they die, it’s the historical route of fascists.