Pretty clear when the federal govt is demading your voting info among other things in order to stop them from terrorizing you
Imaginary-Ad-7919 on
aggressive minimalism
Simple-Ring2073 on
The reddit bots have been struggling to come up with a defense the last 24 hours.
LuvKrahft on
It’s crazy, two years ago when maga was outside Disneyworld waving Nazi and confederate flags right next to Trump campaign flags, people and the media were saying you can’t call them fascists.
The “good people on both sides” was also one of those Nazi red flags that got ignored.
You have to choose which side you are on because there are only two sides at this point: Liberty or Tyranny.
Odd_Ant5 on
“When the facts change, I change my mind. Recent events have brought Trump’s governing style into sharper focus.”
Nothing fucking changed it’s just further along. The direction was always perfectly clear to those of us not actively closing our eyes and ears.
The second sentence belies this: “brought…into sharper focus”. The reporter is using this turn of phrase to literally admit it was always there but pathologically both-sidesing journos can’t see it coming or won’t clearly call a thing what it is.
God I hate the media
kosmonavt-alyosha on
They’ve been telling us this all along. Nothing new here.
HurinGaldorson on
Ya think?
Cymbalsandthimbles on
The Atlantic is just now saying this? They are collaborators with the regime for waiting this long. Fence sitting centrists disgust me.
AINonsense on
Is this headline from 2017?
Tasty-Performer6669 on
Republicans endorsed all of this. Republicans are fascist traitors to the US Constitution full stop
lumberjack_jeff on
Finally. Welcome to the party, pal.
Godwins law has been dead for a long time now.
ButterscotchTop194 on
Keep up, Atlantic. It’s been blatantly obvious for many years that MAGA is a fascist movement.
Glad you finally caught up. *slow clap*
Indyrage on
Calling a horse a horse and a fascist a fascists doesn’t sell papers, or look like punditry. It looks like common sense.
The Atlantic is mostly allergic to common sense with amazing takes this past year like “no genocide or famine in Gaza” and “military parade wasn’t fascism”
But are as always late to the party of fact.
TFunke365 on
So disingenuous. Trump has ticked the boxes of fascism for over a decade now.
MalevolentTapir on
The idea we shouldn’t call one of the most stereotypical examples of a Fascist movement what it is, was always stupid. It’s hard to see how it was anything but self-interested bad faith, or just deep and unashamed ignorance, from the professional opinion havers in the media and some of our “moderate” politicians.
Unless you believe you just can’t use the term except to refer to the Italian Fascist party of the early 20th century, there is no argument.
PlanetoftheAtheists on
We are one terrorist attack or pandemic away from going full dictatorship.
CrimsonHeretic on
Not just any fascism, it’s literally Nazism.
Eusocial_sloth3 on
Before we call it fascism, let’s get Jon Stewart’s opinion while he interviews Bill O’Reilly about “cooling the temperatures.” /s
Content-Car-1708 on
“When racism comes to America it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross”
Rings true today for sure. Often attributed to Sinclair Lewis but the true origin may be unknown.
_mynameisclarence on
Oh, now it’s okay to call it that? Not over the past two years as it’s been developing with a clear end goal of a fascist regime???? Fucking he’ll.
RainbowandHoneybee on
I felt like it as a joke first time around. Now the joke turned into a nightmare.It’s just so surreal.
Various_Occasions on
Always Has Been.jpeg
Prometheusf3ar on
The Republican Party and their collaborators need to be disbanded and jailed like the mafia. No society can tolerate these monsters.
TrincoSmith on
we’ve been telling you all this was the plan since reagan
kmm198700 on
Is there a free article?
nonubiz on
Who’s next ( first they came for them and I said nothing )
JimboNovus on
That’s a great picture of the ear that got shot.
CzarWest on
Woah, welcome to reality mainstream news!!
arod7432 on
Nazi fucking fascist SCUM. FUCK MAGA.
FUCK TRUMP. FUCK ICE.
LIBERALS WERE RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING‼️‼️😤💯
fancydad on
“How do we not see this coming…”
WhuppdyDoo on
As a foreigner looking at the American opposition to the regime, I just can’t help get the impression that even now you are half-hearted. Even now you are innocent, seemingly deliberately so, about all the levers you can pull. the buttons you can press.
I can honestly think, off the top of my head, at least a dozen strategies for undermining the regime, all of which you are not adopting.
Where is the poster campaign in small towns, where the Trump supporters reside? The goal isn’t necessarily to change their minds. It’s to cause them embarrassment on the second order level, on the know-you-know level, to alter the social dynamics of their group.
Again, I would’ve thought something like this pretty obvious, such that any remotely determined political movement would trying this kind of trick. namely going into their strongholds to cause them embarrassment. It’s what the political right do all the time with their propaganda ads.
I just don’t know how to explain the lack of creativity, the fecklessness. of the opposition. The psychology is a mystery to me. Maybe you’ve spent so long on empty virtue signalling, that you have absolutely no idea about how to do anything worthwhile … maybe you even think it’s uncool to do something that actually has substance to it as opposed to just being completely empty virtue-signalling. I don’t know. But I have just never known any opposition to a fascist regime so weak. spineless, feckless and unimaginative. And you don’t even have a firmly established fascist regime yet. There is no indication yet that your jobs are in danger. A few people have been murdered but with millions of you out there you have some safety in numbers. Get a spine. Get a brain. Do something.
Even by writing a few of these posts I have done more than the vast majority of you and I’m not American.
whoisnotinmykitchen on
Amazing that America has gone full fascist in only 1 year.
You guys really need to start investing in education, almost half your voters are clearly idiots.
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Representative democracy ❌️
Where a few tell millions what to do.
Direct democracy ✅️
Where millions tell the few what to do.
22,000 ICE agents currently with a $74 Billion dollar budget.
This is what 22,000 abusive/murdering goons looks like:
[https://blog.lime.link/visualizing-crowd-sizes/](https://blog.lime.link/visualizing-crowd-sizes/)
Pretty clear when the federal govt is demading your voting info among other things in order to stop them from terrorizing you
aggressive minimalism
The reddit bots have been struggling to come up with a defense the last 24 hours.
It’s crazy, two years ago when maga was outside Disneyworld waving Nazi and confederate flags right next to Trump campaign flags, people and the media were saying you can’t call them fascists.
The “good people on both sides” was also one of those Nazi red flags that got ignored.
No shit they’re fucking fascists.
We don’t need other labels: they’re Republicans.
[You are here](https://youtu.be/dcVoPsjZXdo?si=aPAkb31EQn3l-0Fc&t=5)
You have to choose which side you are on because there are only two sides at this point: Liberty or Tyranny.
“When the facts change, I change my mind. Recent events have brought Trump’s governing style into sharper focus.”
Nothing fucking changed it’s just further along. The direction was always perfectly clear to those of us not actively closing our eyes and ears.
The second sentence belies this: “brought…into sharper focus”. The reporter is using this turn of phrase to literally admit it was always there but pathologically both-sidesing journos can’t see it coming or won’t clearly call a thing what it is.
God I hate the media
They’ve been telling us this all along. Nothing new here.
Ya think?
The Atlantic is just now saying this? They are collaborators with the regime for waiting this long. Fence sitting centrists disgust me.
Is this headline from 2017?
Republicans endorsed all of this. Republicans are fascist traitors to the US Constitution full stop
Finally. Welcome to the party, pal.
Godwins law has been dead for a long time now.
Keep up, Atlantic. It’s been blatantly obvious for many years that MAGA is a fascist movement.
Glad you finally caught up. *slow clap*
Calling a horse a horse and a fascist a fascists doesn’t sell papers, or look like punditry. It looks like common sense.
The Atlantic is mostly allergic to common sense with amazing takes this past year like “no genocide or famine in Gaza” and “military parade wasn’t fascism”
But are as always late to the party of fact.
So disingenuous. Trump has ticked the boxes of fascism for over a decade now.
The idea we shouldn’t call one of the most stereotypical examples of a Fascist movement what it is, was always stupid. It’s hard to see how it was anything but self-interested bad faith, or just deep and unashamed ignorance, from the professional opinion havers in the media and some of our “moderate” politicians.
Unless you believe you just can’t use the term except to refer to the Italian Fascist party of the early 20th century, there is no argument.
We are one terrorist attack or pandemic away from going full dictatorship.
Not just any fascism, it’s literally Nazism.
Before we call it fascism, let’s get Jon Stewart’s opinion while he interviews Bill O’Reilly about “cooling the temperatures.” /s
“When racism comes to America it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross”
Rings true today for sure. Often attributed to Sinclair Lewis but the true origin may be unknown.
Oh, now it’s okay to call it that? Not over the past two years as it’s been developing with a clear end goal of a fascist regime???? Fucking he’ll.
I felt like it as a joke first time around. Now the joke turned into a nightmare.It’s just so surreal.
Always Has Been.jpeg
The Republican Party and their collaborators need to be disbanded and jailed like the mafia. No society can tolerate these monsters.
we’ve been telling you all this was the plan since reagan
Is there a free article?
Who’s next ( first they came for them and I said nothing )
That’s a great picture of the ear that got shot.
Woah, welcome to reality mainstream news!!
Nazi fucking fascist SCUM. FUCK MAGA.
FUCK TRUMP. FUCK ICE.
LIBERALS WERE RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING‼️‼️😤💯
“How do we not see this coming…”
As a foreigner looking at the American opposition to the regime, I just can’t help get the impression that even now you are half-hearted. Even now you are innocent, seemingly deliberately so, about all the levers you can pull. the buttons you can press.
I can honestly think, off the top of my head, at least a dozen strategies for undermining the regime, all of which you are not adopting.
Where is the poster campaign in small towns, where the Trump supporters reside? The goal isn’t necessarily to change their minds. It’s to cause them embarrassment on the second order level, on the know-you-know level, to alter the social dynamics of their group.
Again, I would’ve thought something like this pretty obvious, such that any remotely determined political movement would trying this kind of trick. namely going into their strongholds to cause them embarrassment. It’s what the political right do all the time with their propaganda ads.
I just don’t know how to explain the lack of creativity, the fecklessness. of the opposition. The psychology is a mystery to me. Maybe you’ve spent so long on empty virtue signalling, that you have absolutely no idea about how to do anything worthwhile … maybe you even think it’s uncool to do something that actually has substance to it as opposed to just being completely empty virtue-signalling. I don’t know. But I have just never known any opposition to a fascist regime so weak. spineless, feckless and unimaginative. And you don’t even have a firmly established fascist regime yet. There is no indication yet that your jobs are in danger. A few people have been murdered but with millions of you out there you have some safety in numbers. Get a spine. Get a brain. Do something.
Even by writing a few of these posts I have done more than the vast majority of you and I’m not American.
Amazing that America has gone full fascist in only 1 year.
You guys really need to start investing in education, almost half your voters are clearly idiots.