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People who don’t mainline political news genuinely don’t get this.
It’s literally Big Brother. This is a surveillance state telling you how to do everything.
Those people have also not read 1984 and either won’t get the reference or think it’s a reality show reference
ny first thought was Mussolini
Mussolini, Mussolini on the wall, who’s trains run the most on time of all?
Easy, Switzerland!
What do I win? Not being shot? Yay!
If you ignore the whole dictatorship thing, that actually looks bad ass. Trump’s style is so damn ugly and boring. If I’m living in a dystopian fascist dictatorship the least they can do is look cool!
I find it ironic that there’s a reply about people who don’t read it not getting 1984 as a reply to this. The surveillance is a minor part of 1984. It’s largely about them controlling thought. They control language and the media to make it almost impossible to speak against them. “Big Brother” is the meme that gets repeated (I think because it was the only part that fit conservative thought, so they made that what 1984 is instead of it being against them), but it isn’t the important lesson to be taken from it.
Fair point - these were 2 separate thoughts. First, Big Brother is the face scowling down at us all, right out of the book. Second, that the US is right now a surveillance state and this is one of the more visible aspects of the virtue signaling and telling people to love the Great Leader.
Which means they have a bullet with my name on it.
Better than living with so much cringe the rest of my life.
And autism is supposed to be socially awkward.
Imagine having such a fragile ego you need to remind people you have the power not them. The power to what? Shoot us? That doesn’t give you power, that just makes you evil.
Kudos to the photographer. That pic is dystopian AF.
I’m sure the photographer would point out they literally just photographed reality. It’s reality that’s dystopian
No argument there; I guess I was aiming my compliment more towards the framing and composition of the pic, not so much the subject.
Yep. So glad I’m not american…
Reminds me of when Trump was in office the first time and Biden was running. Trumpers started posting pics of empty store shelves, (from all of the panic-buying and COVID shortages) and captioning them like “this will be America under Biden”. My brother in Christ you just drove to the store and took a photo of reality under Trump… And reality under Trump looks like empty store shelves.
All they need is a symbol of some sort plastered everywhere and America will officially hit Nazi Germany level
That looks like FREEDOM to Me!
-Someone who Lives in a State where you CANT paint Sidewalks and CANT speak after 10PM and CANT read Books with Rainbows in them!
CANT speak after 10PM
Im not aware of this one.
i believe he could be referring to texas allegedly trying to ban “expressing yourself” on colleges after 10pm.
It’s not allegedly, they signed it into law.
This article was published on June 5. Since then, Gov. Greg Abbott has signed Senate Bill 2972 into law. It will take effect Sept. 1.
I’m genuinely curious if students at colleges in Texas mass mobilize. What happens when the majority of colleges’ student bodies are arrested and taken off campus? Is that a significant enough shock to tame these god damn fascists?
Well that’s an obvious protest right there. Having a trumpet shit rally, and end it at exactly 10:00 p.m.
Who is protesting in the middle of the night anyway?
We’re not exaggerating. SB 2972 would require public universities in Texas to adopt policies prohibiting “engaging in expressive activities on campus between the hours of 10 p.m. and 8 a.m.” Expressive activity includes “any speech or expressive conduct” protected by the First Amendment or Texas Constitution.
Again, is anyone here, on Lemmy, surprised by this shit?
Yes, America lives under democracy, however, did you ever stop to consider that business operates under authoritarianism? So we take someone who is aggressively capitalistic, has run and owned several businesses, even had a TV show that’s known for the phrase “you’re fired”, and put them in charge. Then we’re surprised when this person who has basically been head of several authoritarian businesses, starts acting like an authoritarian regime?
I don’t think so Tim.
None of this is surprising to me in the least.
And people voted for this.
People been voting for this every election since this slave colony was stolen.
“Hybrid regime” is the best phrase to describe the US right now.
Not a total dictatorship, yet, but very authoritarian, but somehow just not authoritarian enough for someone to be granted political asylum in, say, the EU, but nevertheless, very authoritarian.
I wonder at what point the EU would actually take this regime seriously and start granting asylum.
This isn’t about you. The left leaning folks fail so hard at politics because you all think you’re the main character. As if you’re the last stop on the information path. All this crazy stuff that happens gets consumed by you and then stops. We’re suppose to do stuff with this information not just kill it after we have a quick view of it. So saying “is anyone surprised” misses the point here. It’s not about information for you or others personally. The point isn’t to inform just so you’re aware. Its so you do something with it.
In fairness, it does seem like the kind of extreme that would come up in a video game. You’d at least expect some subtlety in real life, rather than outright drapes with the guy’s face on, and a positive word slapped on.
Like putting his business logo up.
If there’s anyone in your life that still doesn’t get that Donald Trump is a fascist, then they are a cultist and a photo won’t have any effect.
This is early 1930s Germany. They’re lost. They’re gone. They’re going to have to be beaten into submission like every other fascist movement ever.
We had a chance to go down another path. We passed on that opportunity.
In europe there are many old people who obviously aren‘t cultists, but still say “well he did alot of good things for his country” or “well the woke youth would run society to the ground”. So yeah, Trumpism isn‘t only a cult problem, but a cultural one.
Which is why I‘m very cynical about what will happen when the White House toddler finally bites the cheeto dust.
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This is so pathetic.
This is North Korean levels of cringe.
Well USA created North Korea so no surprise here.
American doing Americanism Americanly
Damn, reminds me of Evil Foreign Country Full of Bad Foreigners.
American presidents have never been dictators before, at least not in the US itself. They support dictators and overthrow legitimately elected governments but not at home.
American presidents have never been dictators before
I mean, tell that to Andrew Jackson. Or William McKinley. Or Jefferson Davis. However you square it, the Confederacy at least was an undeniable dictatorship that controlled half the country.
Even outside the Civil War, the Presidency has been an imperial office. American presidents have a well-defined line of succession and a party mechanism to guarantee the position of ex-presidents within the plutocracy once they leave office. But we’ve had plenty of periods in which a single party dominated the White House and governed at the head of a completely subservient legislature.
The period from Jackson to Taylor was indistinguishable from any military dictatorship you’d find in 20th century Europe or Latin America. The era from Hayes to Eisenhower was functionally an armed occupation, from the perspective of any African-American or Latin American or East Asian migrant. The 19th/20th turn-of-the-century labor revolts were pockmarked with American military firing on factory workers, miners, and farmers until they fled, died, or were forced back to subsistence living. What else do you call that?
This guy histories. 🤌🏼
idk what the fuss is about this is totally normal where I’m from:
Where is this from?
From the movie adaptation of the book “1984” from the year 1984.
It’s from the country of Airstrip One, Oceania
This is literally Palazzo Braschi in 1930s Italy.
Can we skip ahead to the part with the gas station?
Time for train stations and piano wire
woah spoiler alert! some people wanna see how this fascism thing is gonna go first
this really isn’t going to be the thing that convinces them. ya’ll need to realize that the cult LIKES this
I have not the first doubt in my mind that somebody has jacked off to the idea of how upset somebody else’s about this.
you know that’s the point. really gotta stop giving them reaction porn that motivates it all. remember all those tiktoks with the corny teehee guys just filming themselves wearing their diddler hats in public, mugging at the camera because they’re triggin’ da libz? I always thought fascism would be ushered in by people a little more serious but reality is disappointing.
Fascists have always been this stupid.
They just did not have social media share their stupidity in the past.
idk trumps approval ratings are sinking pretty fast
https://www.economist.com/interactive/trump-approval-trackerI really don’t think approval ratings effect reality. his core people are people who don’t really engage with all that
Y’all
He was forced to do that otherwise his friends Kim and Vlad wouldn’t stop to make fun of him. They already ridiculed him in the group chat for the low energy military parade for his birthday
But this is still small. Even smaller than the flag! (Which is hung flipped, on the wrong side?)
They are still laughing because look how small he looks compared to the Vlad one! Did he wanted to save money? Cheapskate!
Now he has to put his photo in every classroom and replace the Lincoln statue
“Holy small dick energy, Batman. That man must feel a huge need to compensate for something.”
“He may have a small penis Robin, but he is also a fascist, a pedophile, a traitor and an incredible piece of entitled shit. We must never forget that.”
Holy doll hands, Batman!
Why do those look like Yu-Gi-Oh cards lmao
Child Rapist Mango Mussolini
For this comment you go straight to the concentration camps.
Straight to the cremation chambers…fuck might have just given them ideas 🥺
It is becoming apparent that despite all the wailing and gnashing of teeth, everyone is actually ok with all his shit
This is so over the top. Has anybody considered that it could be an act to distract from something even more sinister?
What’s more sinister than being a fascist in the middle of the takeover of a country?
It’s not even a country. The US has individual states larger than most european countries. This is domination of a small continent, with the largest army, with guns pointing at everyone
As a citizen who did not vote for this I’m very scared. What you say is true and I’m at the lowest level of poverty and I have a mental disability. I know I’m very early on in the chopping block and I have no clue what to do or how to escape this hell.
I would like to know.
As a guess it could be the risk of AI if people don’t control it as society, a new nuclear strategy that accepts nuclear winter, the final stage of capitalism that takes away everything, the introduction of a surveillance state, or on a positive note, a distraction from the opportunities that people have. But none convinces me.
AI doesn’t exist and will not exist possibly ever, but everything else (and much much more) is basically a result of some fascist taking over a big country with a bunch of resources.
Yes. And yes it is.
The key difference between this Trump presidency and the last, is that the people backing him this time have weaponized his stupidity. They are definitely doing some really nefarious shit while he runs around playing dictator. They started by getting rid of every watchdog group within the government, and then eviscerated every department that had access to massive amounts of money. So, just like the $12billion dollars in actual cash that mysteriously disappeared during GWs presidency, we are going to find the literal trillions of dollars that were in the coffers of those governmental departments somehow magically gone without a trace.It is going to take decades for people to even get a basic understanding of all the nefarious shit it’s going down right now.
If he were smarter, maybe. We already know he has wet dreams about being a dictator, this is just him living his fantasy.
Biden could be president while losing his smarts. Is Trump calling the shots?
That’s why this is scary. The dems managed to hide bidens decline until he spoke at length. We know trumps brain is soup and we know he’s the one calling the shots because the results of his melted brain actually become reality, and other republicans have to scramble to explain why his latest unhinged executive order is actually the greatest thing ever and totally not unconstitutional at all.
