• dharwin
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    852 years ago

    The US is sleepwalking into fascism. Well, don’t say we didn’t warn you.

    • Kool_Newt
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      672 years ago

      Half of us are being dragged, the other half is pulling us. It’s illegal for the ones being dragged to protect themselves from the ones pulling us as we live in a state.

      Then there’s the leftist non-voters who seem to think that if you don’t choose Republican or Democrat we default to peaceful communism.

      • TechyDad
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        322 years ago

        I’d say it’s more like 40% of us are being dragged by 25% of us while 35% watch on, refusing to participate either way despite the fact that they’ll be dragged in next.

    • @Pratai@lemmy.ca
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      322 years ago

      Oh, the fascists are waking wide-eyed awake straight into it. And they’re dragging the rest of us with them.

    • @Sanctus@lemmy.world
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      282 years ago

      I’m wide awake, my heart is pounding, and my vocal chords are shredded from the screaming. Not all of us are asleep. 1/3rd of the country actually wants this.

      • @grue@lemmy.world
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        342 years ago

        1/3rd of the country actually wants this.

        Not-so-fun fact: in 1930s Germany, the highest the Nazi Party ever performed in a national vote was 37%.

    • @PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world
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      232 years ago

      It’s not sleepwalking if we all know that it’s happening and are screaming about it, but nobody in power is doing anything to stop it.

      • @dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        122 years ago

        Fact is, like any normal distribution, 2/3 if American voters are uneducated centrists that dont understand how their system of government works or what the meaning of scary political words mean. To them, the world is just fine, but that Biden feller made me sleepy so fuck him.

        Most Americans have no idea what is waiting for them on January 21st 2025.

          • I disappointingly keep finding out people at work support him and now I just assume no matter how decent someone might appear… they probably deep down are shit. I have to awkwardly avoid conversations about their dumb world views whenever politics come up. It’s concerning the number of every day people that want this shit.