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The parallels it dark times in history are too strong to ignore. The only question now is will the people be able to stop the takeover before it’s too late.
by testing22321 9mo ago
The parallels it dark times in history are too strong to ignore.
The only question now is will the people be able to stop the takeover before it’s too late.
- jay_kyburz 9mo agoAfter reading this piece I was wondering if there were any examples of a fascist state that were deposed by peace, or whether armed conflict is now inevitable.
- freitasm 9mo agoThere are few, Spain's King Juan Carlos I being crowned king after Francisco Franco's death, and Chile's Pinochet leaving power after the 1988 referendum for example.
- ks2048 9mo agoIf 15 years of dictatorship is one of the few positive examples, that is not a good sign.
- card_zero 9mo agoWell how many examples have there been anyway? Maybe six, under a range of definitions? Besides, historicism (inevitabilism) is wrong.
- jay_kyburz 9mo agoI agree, and I wish I was able to delete the post. I thought afterwards the question itself is a little poor taste.
- karmakurtisaani 9mo agoI think Spain transitioned from fascist dictatorship to democracy relatively peacefully.
- kh_hk 9mo agoPortugal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnation_Revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnation_Revolution
- tartoran 9mo agoIt seems like it's already too late, I see Americans who I thought were down to earth unbothered by ICE killings, blaming victims and calling criticism as TDS aka Trump Derangement Syndrome. I was totally shocked the other day when this came from an open minded and seemingly 'cool' guy at work.
- quercus 9mo ago“weak men create hard times” never fails
- gizmov21 9mo agoWho are the “weak men” in your interpretation of today’s scenario? I have my own ideas but I wonder about others.
- quercus 9mo ago[flagged]
- gizmov21 9mo agoAgreed there. I would call Trump et all pathetic pieces of shit, and Democrats (Biden and Obama admins) weak ones for not doing something while they had the chance.
- seec 9mo agoYeah, I don't understand how people can be so surprised by all of it. If it wasn't Trump and it wasn't happening in this manner, something like that was bound to happen at some point. I think it's actually going to be even more violent in Europe once the fake money becomes harder to make and many find out they are not holding any valuable card. At some point, real work has to be done, and if you keep bringing on more people to devalue this work and even make them pay for the people brought over, they are going to wise up and get mad.
- littlexsparkee 9mo agothe cynical people that thought they could lives as islands outside of politics and did not care to engage with anything outside of their interests. this should acknowledge the people that constructed this environment by undermining education, pushing falsehoods, corporatists blocking real change, etc. i suppose you could consider lack of any issue unifying the nation as before with WWII, the Cold War - if it's the end of history and peace/globalization is assured then you can tune out. i.e. it's about the dull invisible work of maintaining standards that keep the system from collapsing and a shared narrative, one people don't feel like exists with all the corruption, nepotism, transgresses from people in power and lack of action on global issues.