A historian who is concerned for liberty.
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I know it's dangerously close to "reeducation camps" but sometimes I fantasize about arresting conspiracy theorists and locking them in a place where they're forced to witness and partake in scientific experiments. I also know that's dangerously close to "school". Increase school funding.
It's straight out of Putin's book. He cemented control of the Russian tax department first and then used it against political enemies.
Nuance isn't something the average GOP voter can comprehend.
Did she mean when "Trump staged a shooting, since his ear is fine"?
Let's be realistic. The average citizen has no idea, or gets their news from propaganda networks. They have a notoriously short memory. If the democrats do get back in power if they don't aggressively dismantle the corrupt state they will lose the next election due to "concerns"
I hope the blue states are preparing for civil war. I'm not saying it's imminent, but it is possible, and I think the likes of miller and Thiel would welcome it. Hesgeth is probably preparing for it. It would give them the opportunity to cement their power and execute political dissidents.
Just think of all the members of Congress you could buy if you win.
"dear lord, please find it within your infinite mercy and compassion to only let a couple of people die, amen."
Yep. Better get out there and raise hell to prevent it.
Out fucking rageous. I can't stand what's happening. I hate looking at the USA and knowing that's coming for us too.
I'd say 340m things are capable of stopping trump/this fascist plot, but at least 80-90m think they're on board with it. 100m are too lazy. But that still leaves 100-150m Americans capable of doing what's needed. Strike, march, coordinate. Arm.
This is what I find so hard to understand about this plan to destroy democracy in the USA... They're all old people who have nothing to gain by doing this.
How did the GOP become so infected with such scum? The absolute worst human detritus from top to bottom. Was it the tea party take over? Or was it the Bush years?
Yes.
Nothing happens because all anyone has ever done to stop this, right the way back from 2015, has been to tweet about it or vent on other social media.. very few Americans have ever actually tried to stop this.
I feel like the crisis is here. Trump is the crisis. The heritage Foundation is the crisis. Project 2025 is the crisis. Putin, Miller, Noem, they are all the crisis. It's here
It goes beyond vaccine denying, it's a conscious attempt, across the board, to cause more deaths. They actively want people to die. I just can't fathom it.
This is the root of it. Get money out of politics. Question is how? Ban lobbying and think tanks and they'll just find other ways. Harsh prison sentences? Execution for attempted coups?
So... What to expect next? Implants for supposedly health monitoring reasons that turn out to be just tracking chips that affect your insurance premium?!
You guys are being too harsh, the guy has concerns, okay? Isn't that enough? What more do you want from an elected rep? Thoughts and prayers too?! Cmon, be realistic.
If Americans had balls we wouldn't have to wait until Trump suggests the downtrodden consume brioche.
I'd like to meet someone who thinks things have improved since 2016.
I fucking hate the tactics of deliberately misrepresenting all immigrants, of every stripe, as illegal. Just look at what's happened in the USA, it's deliberate. All immigrants are fair game. "Home growns are next"
Public health is politics. People who say "get politics out of xyz" grind my gears. Politics is integral to everything. People who say that are narrow sighted and bury their heads in the sand when political crises hit, until it directly affects them.
They'll sack the people who report the rise in preventable diseases. Sorry, did I say sack? I meant put them in the work houses and labour camps along with autistic children, immigrants, and "liberals".
French history and the revolution was never my field or interest but I remember in 2018 I read Mary Antoinette, by Antonia Fraser and being struck by the similarities between the deliberately spread lies about her, viz the diamond necklace, and what we'd just seen Hilary Clinton go through.
That's not a problem, it's a strength to be able to hold elected reps to account and dismiss them if they fail to perform... But don't worry, it's not a 'problem' the USA will have again.
Here he goes?! If you didn't know this from Jan 6 then... I dunno what to tell you. Americans need to fix this pronto.
"yeh but it doesn't"
That's more important than you think. The dark money groups destroyed democrats at low levels such as that by 2010 and no one noticed. We're noticing now
I feel like they could just appoint a librarian who hates books to get around that. The law must stipulate that the author is the adjudicator who reads the report and decides if they understood the premise.
Sadly Americans don't seem to have it in them to do what needs to be done
Anyone come to the conclusion that the reason the far right, the GOP, and the NRA etc have all been so vehemently anti gun control, indeed even removing common sense controls, is because they've been waiting for this moment? The far right has captured government. The militia are in charge.
I really hope you're doing something more then sharing on social media, sir.
They are doing something. They're actively working towards fascism. If you want to stop this march to authoritarianism then do something to stop them. "Nothing you can do folks, but the second amendment people maybe there is, I dunno". - God Emperor Trump 2016.
If you got a gun and started shooting people who are not children, maybe get a few friends involved, target the right people and the constitution would be altered pretty quickly. If. The older I get the grumpier I get, and I'm pretty sure I won't ever be allowed into the US again, so I can say it.
"The party that wouldn't have allowed this if they won the election is to blame here..." The GOP has been hijacked by white nationalists. You may not agree with the dem positions but they're not white nationalists, and that's better than the current situation.
Well at least we know now how it works for the gop "influencers".
QAnon managed to capture a lot of gullible fools on the left and turn them towards the right thanks to conspiracy theories.
"Genuine" free speech for me but not for thee. No one should be in any doubt what we're in for under reform since they are doing and saying exactly the same stuff that GOP did for trump.
It's worth adding that the day after the vote (which he ultimately abstained from, having initially voted against the motion calling for the return of kidnapped Ukrainians), he travelled to Russia.
Yes, complete freedom allows criminals to operate. However in the day and age we currently are, the rise of the far right globally, is now the time for a supposedly left wing paper to concern troll for the surveillance state?
And that's how to end the 2nd amendment. Lol
How did Miller become the power behind the throne? Because make no mistake it is him. Can someone make some AI stuff about him owning trump, insulting him behind his back, and then make it go viral? It's their tactics. When they go low, let's go low and fuck up their gang trust
The same Trump who mused on ethically cleansing Gaza to build a holiday resort? You support that guy's plan? Interesting...
Got a link?
Thanks. Being a layman I associate freud with sexy dreams.
If it happens (which it won't because there's going to be no ceasefire) it's a good thing. We should have put troops in the Rhineland and Czechoslovakia in the 30s. This is exactly the same. Stop the aggressor before he becomes too strong.
That's what I came to ask. I don't see the connection.
How is it Freudian?
Not using the money to replenish housing stock was the disaster
If you really are a Rep then get the funk out there and meet with members of the military and begin preparing for the civil war, because the world doesn't want to see the USA glide into fascism unopposed. Stand up to the Republicans, please!
No, Republicans are working hard to destroy democracy so nothing they do again matters because they can't be voted out and democratic voters can't vote D. Democrats are working hard to address affordable housing ... Commendable in a normal political system in a normal era, but this isn't normal
What the fuck? I'm privately educated and I think that's appalling. I would have thought it appalling when I was at school, and I know damned well my school would have thought it appalling. The parents would have thought it appalling. What is wrong with the rich in America? Psychopaths.
Trump supporters should be barred from life 🤷
Officer down, request immediate mayonnaise, I repeat, mayonnaise.
Yeah I haven't heard of a mass protest either and I just can't understand it. If this was France the country would be in flames. And again, yes, today is the most power the people will have and the best chance to stop this. Every day they get stronger
It's not ironic that a fascist is gaslighting the American people and projecting their fascist tactics onto innocent people. It's literally their entire plan. Projection and gaslighting.
Haven't enough people who voted for maga already seen the consequences of their own actions? It's so depressing to think that people are so ill informed they don't even know what's happening and will continue to vote against their own interests
Does that mean Nancy Pelosi can call them off?
Yes, sorry I know he can't just give it away, it was a bit of hyperbole, but it's what he'll be wishing he can do, and I wouldn't put it past him to announce it just to make Ukraine say no
Why am I only just hearing about this? Is he there now? Can we organise a little protest with the kinds of placards that would make the Scottish blush? Because the scots had some really great placards. We should all be trying to out do each other with messages to the fascists
Yep, it was part of the project 25 plan. However coming up soon, trump gives Ukraine to Putin. If American People could be counted on to rise up and protest stuff like this it will take on a huge amount of distracting news cycle time.
In this case I'm wondering if this isn't to build a home crisis to distract from the impending surrender of Ukraine
Are we an echo chamber? No one else seems to be talking like it's the dangerous and most serious escalation it is.
I'm so fucking angry. Politics was making me angry and stressed so I deleted bluesky yesterday... Then today Trump deploys the national guard in DC and people are still discussing it like this isn't a serious precursor to Fascism in the USA. "Just politics as normal, oh that zany trump! What next?"
Yes, yes it is. Why do I feel like 75% of America either doesn't care, doesn't believe it's happening, or supports it?
No, the question is why haven't they been doctored by the trump admin already? I was expecting them to have been released by now with a version of Nixons enemy's list
Do Liverpool shops still refuse to sell the sun? So it's doable
The current president inspired an insurrection that directly lead to the deaths of police officers How do you think that compares to mocking someone for crying? Also let's not pretend the maga folk you're protecting are above mocking anyone
One is white one is dark. Right?
He needs to be arrested... What a mess. It'll never happen
Yes, they're fascists.
I feel like if journalists had done actual journalism over the last 25 years this century might not be shaping up to be the arsepit it seems to be.
I hate how it's just normal now that they say the most offensively racist things and it's just accepted. "Oh yes, he's a fascist enabling white nationalist", 30 years ago that would have been life ending.
The USA needs more Luigi
Everyone should boycott social media
I get that but I feel if no one says anything then their echo chambers will only get louder. I feel a dissenting voice might stop a naive person being sucked into their groupthink cult
Seems to me that a grifter would bump up a project cost by 500m to skim off the top... Also, Trump doesn't look like he has any cognitive issues, he's just a crook. He knows what he's doing
Why have Congress subpoena it? They're under trumps thumb. Just take photos and release it on the internet.
I'm surprised they haven't released a list in obvious Trump's handwriting that says "My list of pedophile friends - by Jeffry Espteen 1. Barack Hussein ImasecretMuslim Obama 3. Bill Clinton 3. Bill gates 5. Elon musk 6. George Soros In the same vein as youtu.be/a7JkgNWBNwE?...
They control all the arms of the state now. If they want to change the truth to be that Obama broke the law they will. No one has stopped them thus far.
I used to think it was Russia/China just sewing division and discord but then came to realise it was American Christian nationalists with some serious dark money backing.
About ten years ago maybe more I got fed up with the rise of conspiracy theories online, it was like they exploded. I collected a list and started sketch the outline of a book about how they're all connected with the goal of discrediting mainstream opinions, promoting religion. But then I had kids.
If any voices to the left of the MAGA cult are saying 'we should move on it's not good for the country etc' then they're controlled opposition and should forever be regarded as such
I can't help but feel something deliberate happened. Someone got paid
I'm glad, because the first thing I did when I saw that post was to Google the artist and assume he was supportive of this and judge him. Now I know he might not be supportive of this
Share this post. Let as many people know how explicitly the far right are announcing themselves and their anti democratic, fascist views. They're not hiding it. Don't bury your heads in the sand. Inform your friends. This is the world today. It's really happening.
I find it scary they can openly have a website saying they'll organise outside of the political institutions because democracy has failed etc. They should all be arrested for sedition. It's open and shut.
Everyone needs to gtfo twitter
It claims they have more gold under there then has been mined globally throughout human history. It's not true.
Some people won't, but the average person will. I've become so disheartened and jaded with the average person lately... so willing to ignore facts etc. In ten years these people will be ignoring the next build up to fascism. Assuming we get out of this one.
More accurate headline: "Democrats conspire with gop to ensure everyone loses, except the gop". www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/n...
He is the man who opened the door to them. He tried to close it but couldn't.
The problem is they covered it, yes, but that was it. "These guys went to Moscow, and coming up, did Hunter Biden grind up children's bones and mix it with heroin to make some kind of super evil drug? We find out with a 2 hour special report with eyewitness testimony".
This along with their CPACs in Hungary just blow my mind how they got away with doing this in plain sight. Almost no one called them out on it with any actual conviction.
How long till we find out their criminal acts, damage/trespass etc, were actually carried out, or at least encouraged by undercover officers?
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