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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social

I didn't realize quite how stupid fascism would be when it came to America

jul 1, 2025, 6:30 pm • 1,846 351

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Arcade @arcadesrevenge.bsky.social

Idiocracy. This was foretold.

jul 1, 2025, 6:45 pm • 0 0 • view
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Robin Budd @robinbudd.bsky.social

The Nazis of 30s Germany were smart?

jul 1, 2025, 6:51 pm • 0 0 • view
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Chris Murphy @cmurf.com

This is Team A. Chaotic and incompetent fasciscm. Team B will be much less chaotic and incompetent. Many Americans will see it as calming in comparison. That's the trap.

jul 1, 2025, 6:45 pm • 5 0 • view
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Myanulrich @myanulrich.bsky.social

But it is still extremely dangerous.

jul 1, 2025, 6:44 pm • 0 0 • view
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jakeofnotrades.bsky.social @jakeofnotrades.bsky.social

Idiocracy pretty much nailed that.

jul 1, 2025, 6:37 pm • 0 0 • view
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thepissedoldlady.bsky.social @thepissedoldlady.bsky.social

Wrapped in the flag and waiving a bible. It's insane!

jul 1, 2025, 6:39 pm • 0 0 • view
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Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social

Figured though. It's the reality TV version.

jul 1, 2025, 6:40 pm • 1 0 • view
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wisdomtalker1958.bsky.social @wisdomtalker1958.bsky.social

Studies show people living within a mile of a golf course have 125% more likelihood of Parkinson’s Disease. Pesticides and Fertilizers.. It’s obviously kicked in.

jul 1, 2025, 6:48 pm • 0 0 • view
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cattco4514.bsky.social @cattco4514.bsky.social

This is as close to a moat as he's going to get.

jul 1, 2025, 6:39 pm • 0 0 • view
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Vincent sultenfuss @counselorv.bsky.social

Lewis Sinclair is attributed as saying "When Facism comes to America it will come draped in a flag and bearing a cross". Hes not wearing a cross, but that stupid hat still works like a beacon to the masses

jul 1, 2025, 10:00 pm • 2 0 • view
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athenabird.bsky.social @athenabird.bsky.social

He is fluent in MAGA

jul 1, 2025, 6:40 pm • 0 0 • view
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Andrea Rowe @andyrowe8880.bsky.social

Alligators vs Ovens. At least Trump's version of "Hatler's" fascism has a tad more empathy.

jul 1, 2025, 6:48 pm • 1 0 • view
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Lisa Pierce @labsp61.bsky.social

Is there a limit to how many I can say 'I cannot believe this shit has just gotten worse'???

jul 1, 2025, 6:41 pm • 1 0 • view
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Der Motzmichel auf Bluesky!!! 🇮🇱🇺🇦🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🕊️☮️🍍❤️🤪🚀🖖🏽✌🏽🖕🏼🙈🤡 @andyger.bsky.social

Oh, I can assure you, they are as stupid if not even more here in #europe ... #fascism #nazis

jul 1, 2025, 6:34 pm • 0 0 • view
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lookfurther.bsky.social @lookfurther.bsky.social

Have you seen the Kennedy video about ai doing the drug testing? Now that is extremely stupid.

jul 2, 2025, 1:54 am • 0 0 • view
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lookfurther.bsky.social @lookfurther.bsky.social

Sorry for the screenshot. You have to search this. This is extremely stupid.

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VictoriousYankee @victoriousyankee.bsky.social

News for apes!

jul 1, 2025, 9:18 pm • 0 0 • view
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Nazish Munch @nazishmunch.bsky.social

Cruel, stupid and virtually unlimited, unchecked power. There is no way anyone can fix this.

jul 2, 2025, 4:41 am • 1 0 • view
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MISHIMA ESTROGEN @liebheartthrob.bsky.social

90% of wildlife the moment they see a random ass human "WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?!?!" In all seriousness tho, what?????

jul 1, 2025, 6:47 pm • 0 0 • view
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Garry 🕊️ 🇵🇸 @6761727279.bsky.social

He's always had this infantile brute force strategy. His solution for immigration was building America's very own great wall; now it's alligator moats around concentration camps.

jul 1, 2025, 7:33 pm • 0 0 • view
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NG @ngrippel.com

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RoEaStM @roeastm.bsky.social

Or you could just run him out? Just organise and enormous march on the White House and hound him day and night? Get as close as you can legally and blow airhorns, fireworks, every single day?

jul 1, 2025, 6:42 pm • 2 0 • view
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RoEaStM @roeastm.bsky.social

Yep, the big fat guy from the Apprentice is your dictator. Well done.

jul 1, 2025, 6:40 pm • 1 0 • view
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Fleuron @printersflower.bsky.social

The Beer Hall Putsch was just an early attempt in the German version.

jul 1, 2025, 7:11 pm • 1 0 • view
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Jonny Skedge @skedgehammer.bsky.social

Cruelty is the primary indicator of stupidity in a human. The more cruel, the stupider they are.

jul 1, 2025, 8:30 pm • 1 0 • view
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Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social

The Nazis were just as dull-witted as Trump.

jul 1, 2025, 8:47 pm • 1 0 • view
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jtunes6.bsky.social @jtunes6.bsky.social

💯 We may need a new name for it - fasctupidism or something. It's kind of like that old TV series Hogan's Heroes, where the Nazi's are portrayed as profoundly stupid.

jul 2, 2025, 12:33 am • 1 0 • view
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Daniel Nicolae Dubei @danieldubei.bsky.social

fascism was always stupid, and always will be stupid

jul 1, 2025, 6:50 pm • 0 0 • view
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slackingpro.bsky.social @slackingpro.bsky.social

Conald's leadership leads to stupid in any form.

jul 1, 2025, 6:39 pm • 0 0 • view
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Exclusively BoatSim Content @beasmeeply.bsky.social

We need to resurrect Rod Serling and we need to give him a genie

jul 1, 2025, 6:47 pm • 1 0 • view
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Reinventing_again™ @realityred.bsky.social

Wrapped in a flag and carrying a Bible? C'mon!

jul 1, 2025, 6:32 pm • 6 1 • view
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Bicheyte @bicheyte.bsky.social

Honestly, fascism seems always stupid. A brutal and absurd idological base can only create absurd brutality.

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DistrictofAlex @districtofalex.bsky.social

Smart fascism is an oxymoron

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MrC @scott.bs.lastcallphotography.com

He saw it once of CSI Miami so it's gotta be true

jul 1, 2025, 6:37 pm • 0 0 • view
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Jeannie 💖🦋 @jmpwe14.bsky.social

Horrifying is more like it.

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ghoststryder.bsky.social @ghoststryder.bsky.social

This sick fetishization of mixing the imprisonment, torture and execution of enemies mixed with psychopathic humor sounds wildly similar to the Brazen Bull of Phalaris in ancient Greece.

jul 1, 2025, 8:28 pm • 1 0 • view
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caper55.bsky.social @caper55.bsky.social

Really, have you looked at magaheads?

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mightymikedude.bsky.social @mightymikedude.bsky.social

America will do fascism so over the top and in the most insanely, grotesque way possible…every cabinet member is a ghoul and the GOP a bunch of cucks

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Negative Ev @negativeev.bsky.social

I did. We are absolutely a developmentally disabled country.

jul 1, 2025, 7:24 pm • 1 0 • view
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Antonio Bonasera @antoniobnsr.bsky.social

Fascism is always ridicolous and dangerous.

jul 1, 2025, 6:40 pm • 4 0 • view
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Paul A. @paul.ofthenorth.ca

Stupid fascism is the most common version. We're just lucky it's not the effective and efficient kind. The stupid kind isn't slowed by any sense of morality, ethics, hypocrisy, et al., so that isn't great either.

jul 1, 2025, 6:42 pm • 0 0 • view
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Menagerie Mom @menagerie-mom.bsky.social

Sadly, schools don't seem to teach critical thinking any longer. 😞

jul 1, 2025, 10:08 pm • 1 0 • view
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NinjaMarion Esq. @ninjamarion.bsky.social

I did. These people are morons and the ones supposed to be policing them are power-hungry cowards

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SealedSeven @sealedseven.bsky.social

Everyone first day

Bond jumping on alligators Live and Let Die
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canopyguy.bsky.social @canopyguy.bsky.social

State media

jul 1, 2025, 7:17 pm • 0 0 • view
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TheyCallMeStacey @atraceofstace.bsky.social

Welcome to our immigration plan.

jul 1, 2025, 8:39 pm • 0 0 • view
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Mardanz @mardanz.bsky.social

Fascism is always stupid but scary

jul 1, 2025, 7:07 pm • 1 0 • view
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darkgeorge.bsky.social @darkgeorge.bsky.social

Every dictatorship: - a delirious, unhinged leader, spewing abominations - a line of loyal enablers, happy to make it happen, never questioning - trickles down to local authority, friend, neighbor, brother And then it's you, dissenting, alone, afraid! I did live that. We ARE heading there.

jul 1, 2025, 8:33 pm • 1 0 • view
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Moody Starbuck @moodystarbuck.bsky.social

And how little resistance Americans would put up against it..

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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇮🇪 @heartbreak8765309.bsky.social

$450 million on cages for immigrants? I can think of a lot better things to spend that money on.

jul 1, 2025, 8:26 pm • 1 0 • view
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Rob the D @robsterlobster1.bsky.social

It didn’t come Riding a pale horse. It came wearing a red hat

jul 1, 2025, 6:43 pm • 5 0 • view
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Jeremy Schultz @jeremyschultz.bsky.social

I've also noticed American fascism turned out to be particularly vacuous and dumb.

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McSmc @eternityzlong.bsky.social

He's the Anti-Christ

jul 1, 2025, 6:43 pm • 2 0 • view
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Cuppa Joe @cuppajoe.bsky.social

Wait. Trump will offer a streaming service of the alligators eating the limbs of escapees. Not his original idea, but came up with it watching Hunger Games.

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dethpuck.bsky.social @dethpuck.bsky.social

If everyone just bends over then trump fucks us all. I guess that is the concept.

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John Locke of Boston 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @johnlockeboston.bsky.social

The chyron is stupid because the comment made by the Oppressor-In-Chief is stupid.

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Ann Nordland @aenordland.bsky.social

Fascism is always stupid. And humorless.

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whamlett.bsky.social @whamlett.bsky.social

Cheaper than a moat I guess. Evil.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn @deborahelizabeth.bsky.social

This is a good moment to appreciate a great nonprofit organization: Facing History and Ourselves. There's a lot going right now that we need to oppose. We also need to think about how we are going to prepare the rising generation to reject fascism and uphold human decency. www.facinghistory.org

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Skot Christopherson @skotchris.bsky.social

The real "genius" of MAGA is Trump organizing a loyal following out of the stupidest & most ignorant Americans. Before, Stupid Americans just followed whoever best took care of them. But with Trump they found a voice and focus. Stupid people understand and love fascism's simple, brutal power.

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brynne ridley @brynneridley.bsky.social

The thing about fascism is that it's always stupid. It's also horrible and cruel with a high fatality rate but it's intensely stupid and its leaders are invariably clowns with extraordinary personal flaws who are convinced they are possessed of singular genius

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Stephen Reid @stephenreid1874.bsky.social

Wait 'til he proposes televising it live like some Running Man/Hunger Games/Death Race shit.

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sndgrrl.bsky.social @sndgrrl.bsky.social

He is pants shittingly stupid.

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5plume🪶 @5plume.bsky.social

It's thoroughly MAGA.

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Andy Roberts @scaryfish.bsky.social

Idiocracy wasn't supposed to be a documentary.

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Handlebar-Orion X.🟦ᴺᵉʳᵈʸ ᵖʳᵒᵍʳᵉˢˢᶦᵛᵉ ᵠᵘᵃᵈʳᵒᵒⁿ ʲᵉʷ @handlebarorionx.bsky.social

AND FOX NEWS VIEWERS STILL SUPPORT THIS DUMBFUCK!

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thegreatdeliverer.bsky.social @thegreatdeliverer.bsky.social

We may see innocent people suffer, but on the bright side, we will also definitely see many of his supporters starve, and it will be delightful and justified.

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nanahagg.bsky.social @nanahagg.bsky.social

stupid and cruel

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Steve F. @sfnls.bsky.social

Don't forget #DementiaDon wanted to put moats with gators along his border wall.

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Elena @loverhersports50.bsky.social

I didn't realize how incredibly cruel and inhumane it would be and how many would cheer it on.

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June @juneabug24.bsky.social

He loves the idea. Remember when he wanted a moat with alligators, on the border of Mexico?

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kennethgray.bsky.social @kennethgray.bsky.social

As a former Sovietologist, not surprised at all. Not one bit.

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ddesideria.bsky.social @ddesideria.bsky.social

stupid does not mean unsuccessful

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yellowdog1955.bsky.social @yellowdog1955.bsky.social

Playing to the cruel base.

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DK Dunk @dkdunk.bsky.social

All you needed to do was watch “reality” TV…

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Farage will pay your medical bills @mikdon.bsky.social

They're eating the alligators, they're eating the pythons.

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Severian @fuliginously.bsky.social

the cruelty is the point

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bikeguy2024.bsky.social @bikeguy2024.bsky.social

Please consider how completely inhumane, and stupid he sounds!!!!!

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oclan.bsky.social @oclan.bsky.social

In my opinion they will probably hook up closed circuit to the oval so he can enjoy the carnage

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Rosa Luxemburg @rosaluxemburg53.bsky.social

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coloneltompeeping.bsky.social @coloneltompeeping.bsky.social

Americans are far less formal and posh than those stuck-up European fascists. Americans just cut thought the fluff and hit the essentials.

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