Yep, that’s where we’re at. The thought of it is always playing in the back of my mind, a constant anxiety.
TedCruzAteMyBabies on
Brink????
thistimelineisweird on
It’s already happened. Whether they get away with it is a completely different story.
monkeywithgun on
Disarmed prone man executed by multiple unidentified agents. ‘Brink’? Seems a bit more like midst…
Mental-Bee-2576 on
It’s already happened. The question is do we fight back, or just let them do it?
No one is coming to save us. Congress, the courts, the media, the corporations……none will do anything meaningful to stop it.
It’s up to us the people to fight back, just like Minnesotans are doing. And to do it now, before the swarm of SS soldiers enters our state next.
It’s going to be hard. It’s going to be disjointed. It’s going to be ugly. But it’s our only chance to save the country.
Succubus-Love on
Is this ragebait? It’s like saying “we’re on the bring of a winter storm” AFTER the stormfront has moved through.
Really-ChillDude on
They literally said that’s was the end game…. And no one listened. Now people are acting surprised.
It’s disgusting, and republicans are still cheering for it
youveruinedtheactgob on
Can’t even see brink in the rearview
HenryValMorgenstern on
This isn’t the brink. It’s already begun. As long as Congress and The Senate continue to do nothing, America as we know it will die.
This is a dark era.
Bromance_Rayder on
I think the rest of the world is truly shocked by just how placid Americans have been proven to be. Like a herd of cattle being led to the abattoir.
The French would have burned Paris to the ground by now.
saalistaja on
We’re well on the other side of that now.
marcusmosh on
Why are all these news outlets pretending to have only heard of what’s been happening for months?
Avoidtolls on
It’s what 70 million people voted for and 89 million “didn’t think it would matter” and didn’t show up or were mad and protesting Gaza.
Unfortunately, It’s way too late to learn and citizens are being rounded up and executed.
People were warned. Now they have to get mad enough to stop the system either by strike or withdrawing their money from the bank.
RoarEmotions on
American media still can’t face up to reality.
Aggravating_Rise_179 on
Liberals told these people this and they all claimed we were being too crazy…
8bitmorals on
No shit. If only some people saw the writing on the wall.
InsomniaticWanderer on
It’s not on the brink.
We’re there.
Sagittarius-A_Star on
No shit
Emotional-Channel-42 on
Accurate ten years ago.
Lurker-DaySaint on
Honey, it already did
nonsensestuff on
Is this article from 8 years ago?
antifragile on
Its already happened! 30% of the population, the mass media, the tech oligarchs and billionaire class are cheering it on. The remaining 70% can turn it around and win but it will be scary and dangerous.
Few_Ticket6959 on
Feels like??? Its here.
Crestina on
Jesus christ. America was on the brink of an authoritarian takeover in 2020. In 2024 the takeover succeeded.
Anyone in the press waking up to this *now* should just fkn change profession already.
astroboy_35 on
Nope, past it awhile ago, actually! Thanks for asking!
RomanBlue_ on
The article says acting as if they’ve made some sort of brave, bold breakthrough WHEN WE KNEW THIS WOULD HAPPEN YEARS AGO IF YOU ELECTED THIS MAN. EVERYONE KNEW THIS.
I swear to god reading US news headlines as an outsider makes you feel genuinely insane. How divorced from reality so much of the US seems to be these days is unbelievable.
It’s a good article that makes an important point but jesus christ. This was all laid out years ago, every expert on authoritarianism, every person who even has a fraction of a whiff of that shit in their life was ringing alarm bells, YEARS AGO, every step down the path, people were shouting from the goddamned rooftops. And here we are.
The rampant cynicism, the social disconnects, the pollution and politicization of truth, the flooding of public discourse with fear, the collapse of public and collective meaning, the flooding of wealth and private interest in politics, the unbelievable expansion and consolidation of literally unfathomable wealth inequality, the fetishization of crime fighting, prioritizing mass incarceration, the slow degradation of social groups and political groups into the enemy and tribalism, the partisan takeover of courts, the partisan takeover of electoral processes and maps, the mass re-interpretation of the spirit and twisting of the letter of the law, the weaponizations of law, the accusations in the mirror, the reduction of the idea of politics as a fight between the selfish, the “everyone’s the same” anyway, the flooding of politics with virtue and purity testing, outrage and cancelling, the mass democratic burnout, the cult of personality, the fearmongering, the accusations of foreign threats, the perpetual national emergency, the abuse of emergency power, the casting of national security as imminently threatened, the accusations of terrorists, of drug lords, the lies about tiny minorities being national threats, the purging of the military, the purging of the jag corp and military lawyers, the purging of military leaders, and now, at last, the funding of partisan federal forces. One of the most foundational source of power of all authoritarianism – revolutionaries, partisans, brownshirts, Gestapo, Stasi, NKVD, KGB, SAVAK, SEBIN, Mukhabarat, Securitate, DINA – every regime needs one, and America is getting one. Why the hell would *border security* need **75bn**(!!!) dollars in funding? And be distributed deep into the country? Why would they need fucking masks? They aren’t just thugs or your backyard proud boys, it’s organized state repression, it’s the start of a secret police, another push of the envelope, happening in real time right before your eyes. First the excuse are undocumented immigrants, then naturalized immigrants and citizens, and now apparently domestic terrorists, all of whom are apparently graver and graver threats and more and more common – another shift in the goalpost, another inch of fearmongering – what will the next “threat” be? Give it another year, what would they be doing? Another two?
Like good grief, every, single, FUCKING STEP, there were people shouting from the rooftops, and yet MOST PEOPLE DID NOTHING.
This alarm should have been present ON THE FIRST STEP, NOT THE LAST. FUCK. YOU’VE GIVEN THESE PEOPLE YEARS TO DO THIS, YOU LET THEM GET AWAY WITH IT FOR YEARS.
Sorry if I seem angry but the sheer gulf between american reality and american exceptionalism sometimes is just absolutely unbelievable. Like HOW is this a new realization, JUST NOW????
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Brink, you say? On the “brink”?
…Where we’re going, we won’t need “brinks”…
Yep, that’s where we’re at. The thought of it is always playing in the back of my mind, a constant anxiety.
Brink????
It’s already happened. Whether they get away with it is a completely different story.
Disarmed prone man executed by multiple unidentified agents. ‘Brink’? Seems a bit more like midst…
It’s already happened. The question is do we fight back, or just let them do it?
No one is coming to save us. Congress, the courts, the media, the corporations……none will do anything meaningful to stop it.
It’s up to us the people to fight back, just like Minnesotans are doing. And to do it now, before the swarm of SS soldiers enters our state next.
It’s going to be hard. It’s going to be disjointed. It’s going to be ugly. But it’s our only chance to save the country.
Is this ragebait? It’s like saying “we’re on the bring of a winter storm” AFTER the stormfront has moved through.
They literally said that’s was the end game…. And no one listened. Now people are acting surprised.
It’s disgusting, and republicans are still cheering for it
Can’t even see brink in the rearview
This isn’t the brink. It’s already begun. As long as Congress and The Senate continue to do nothing, America as we know it will die.
This is a dark era.
I think the rest of the world is truly shocked by just how placid Americans have been proven to be. Like a herd of cattle being led to the abattoir.
The French would have burned Paris to the ground by now.
We’re well on the other side of that now.
Why are all these news outlets pretending to have only heard of what’s been happening for months?
It’s what 70 million people voted for and 89 million “didn’t think it would matter” and didn’t show up or were mad and protesting Gaza.
Unfortunately, It’s way too late to learn and citizens are being rounded up and executed.
People were warned. Now they have to get mad enough to stop the system either by strike or withdrawing their money from the bank.
American media still can’t face up to reality.
Liberals told these people this and they all claimed we were being too crazy…
No shit. If only some people saw the writing on the wall.
It’s not on the brink.
We’re there.
No shit
Accurate ten years ago.
Honey, it already did
Is this article from 8 years ago?
Its already happened! 30% of the population, the mass media, the tech oligarchs and billionaire class are cheering it on. The remaining 70% can turn it around and win but it will be scary and dangerous.
Feels like??? Its here.
Jesus christ. America was on the brink of an authoritarian takeover in 2020. In 2024 the takeover succeeded.
Anyone in the press waking up to this *now* should just fkn change profession already.
Nope, past it awhile ago, actually! Thanks for asking!
The article says acting as if they’ve made some sort of brave, bold breakthrough WHEN WE KNEW THIS WOULD HAPPEN YEARS AGO IF YOU ELECTED THIS MAN. EVERYONE KNEW THIS.
I swear to god reading US news headlines as an outsider makes you feel genuinely insane. How divorced from reality so much of the US seems to be these days is unbelievable.
It’s a good article that makes an important point but jesus christ. This was all laid out years ago, every expert on authoritarianism, every person who even has a fraction of a whiff of that shit in their life was ringing alarm bells, YEARS AGO, every step down the path, people were shouting from the goddamned rooftops. And here we are.
The rampant cynicism, the social disconnects, the pollution and politicization of truth, the flooding of public discourse with fear, the collapse of public and collective meaning, the flooding of wealth and private interest in politics, the unbelievable expansion and consolidation of literally unfathomable wealth inequality, the fetishization of crime fighting, prioritizing mass incarceration, the slow degradation of social groups and political groups into the enemy and tribalism, the partisan takeover of courts, the partisan takeover of electoral processes and maps, the mass re-interpretation of the spirit and twisting of the letter of the law, the weaponizations of law, the accusations in the mirror, the reduction of the idea of politics as a fight between the selfish, the “everyone’s the same” anyway, the flooding of politics with virtue and purity testing, outrage and cancelling, the mass democratic burnout, the cult of personality, the fearmongering, the accusations of foreign threats, the perpetual national emergency, the abuse of emergency power, the casting of national security as imminently threatened, the accusations of terrorists, of drug lords, the lies about tiny minorities being national threats, the purging of the military, the purging of the jag corp and military lawyers, the purging of military leaders, and now, at last, the funding of partisan federal forces. One of the most foundational source of power of all authoritarianism – revolutionaries, partisans, brownshirts, Gestapo, Stasi, NKVD, KGB, SAVAK, SEBIN, Mukhabarat, Securitate, DINA – every regime needs one, and America is getting one. Why the hell would *border security* need **75bn**(!!!) dollars in funding? And be distributed deep into the country? Why would they need fucking masks? They aren’t just thugs or your backyard proud boys, it’s organized state repression, it’s the start of a secret police, another push of the envelope, happening in real time right before your eyes. First the excuse are undocumented immigrants, then naturalized immigrants and citizens, and now apparently domestic terrorists, all of whom are apparently graver and graver threats and more and more common – another shift in the goalpost, another inch of fearmongering – what will the next “threat” be? Give it another year, what would they be doing? Another two?
Like good grief, every, single, FUCKING STEP, there were people shouting from the rooftops, and yet MOST PEOPLE DID NOTHING.
This alarm should have been present ON THE FIRST STEP, NOT THE LAST. FUCK. YOU’VE GIVEN THESE PEOPLE YEARS TO DO THIS, YOU LET THEM GET AWAY WITH IT FOR YEARS.
Sorry if I seem angry but the sheer gulf between american reality and american exceptionalism sometimes is just absolutely unbelievable. Like HOW is this a new realization, JUST NOW????