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Compared to a society that has given up their guns and tolerates the amount of government violence against its own citizens, I'd take America any day.

smackeyacky 5y ago
You are welcome to it. The US sliding into fascism is only helped by that kind of black and white worldview that is so uniquely American.
- impendingchange 5y ago
  Oh? And how is it "sliding into fascism" under the current government?
  - smackeyacky 5y ago
    Inaction. You've had your beer hall putsch in the capitol building, racism has become publically acceptable again at levels that are starting to resemble the 1950s. Brown shirts are patrolling your streets in the guise of white pride and trying to suppress minority protests, egged on by a yellow media and an out of control social media experiment that has gone very wrong. Your political parties seem to think they can control and use the radical elements of their support base to shore up their waning popularity. There are tens of thousands of highly trained ex soldiers, radicalised and looking for a fight, left abandoned after their service for pointless wars that did nothing but give them PTSD and other unresolved trauma. On top of which you have a disenfranchised generation of kids overburdened with education and health care debt, scared to quit their jobs or the useless medical system will abandon or bankrupt them. Edit: and lots of weapons in an increasingly divided community that was supposed to use them to keep their government honest, but only use them to shoot each other. Edit2: Missing the hyper-inflation part of things but perhaps instead of the hyper-inflation being currency based, it's property based and adding to the misery of the generations that missed the boat. Can't afford to even rent where they work. Its weimar germany all over again.

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Compared to a society that has given up their guns and tolerates the amount of government violence against its own citizens, I'd take America any day.

by impendingchange 5y ago

smackeyacky 5y ago
You are welcome to it. The US sliding into fascism is only helped by that kind of black and white worldview that is so uniquely American.
- impendingchange 5y ago
  Oh? And how is it "sliding into fascism" under the current government?
  - smackeyacky 5y ago
    Inaction. You've had your beer hall putsch in the capitol building, racism has become publically acceptable again at levels that are starting to resemble the 1950s. Brown shirts are patrolling your streets in the guise of white pride and trying to suppress minority protests, egged on by a yellow media and an out of control social media experiment that has gone very wrong. Your political parties seem to think they can control and use the radical elements of their support base to shore up their waning popularity. There are tens of thousands of highly trained ex soldiers, radicalised and looking for a fight, left abandoned after their service for pointless wars that did nothing but give them PTSD and other unresolved trauma. On top of which you have a disenfranchised generation of kids overburdened with education and health care debt, scared to quit their jobs or the useless medical system will abandon or bankrupt them. Edit: and lots of weapons in an increasingly divided community that was supposed to use them to keep their government honest, but only use them to shoot each other. Edit2: Missing the hyper-inflation part of things but perhaps instead of the hyper-inflation being currency based, it's property based and adding to the misery of the generations that missed the boat. Can't afford to even rent where they work. Its weimar germany all over again.