Comment by Sammi
9 hours ago
We are so way beyond any reasonable "you gotta break some eggs to make an omelette" arguments, and those are cheap talking points that I could have gotten on fox news that you are mindlessly repeating. You are tossing the baby out with the bathwater destroying all checks and balances as you go. This is the death of reason and nuance. This is how autocracy gets a foot in the door. This is the beginning of the end of democracy. And you're cheering on the autocrats.
You should be afraid of one thing. The sane-looking replacement of Trump.
When the fascists conclude the take-over is complete, they will prop up someone with a more acceptable appearance, and the public will be relieved. The media will keep a narrow focus on just the drama of actualities. But still, a tyranny installed, democracy gone. And people will accept it as the new normal. Everyone will keep normalizing everything, the rituals of democracy as a smokescreen for the powerful.
You act like our institutions haven't already been ineffectual smokescreens for power to work behind the scenes. Trump's election is the most democratic thing to happen in decades. People are just shocked to find out that an elected representative actually has the power to do things other than sitting there like a puppet.
This is the work of decades long degradation, of pushing narratives, of selecting people into positions.
Yes it has been a slippery slope. And now an avalanche, like planned.
The work is you. You should be fed with so many distractions, so many logical fallacies, such that in the end you will say
They are the few. You are the numerous. So you should excuse them for what they do. You just did.
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This generation of people that voted for Trump will be remembered as the Nazi generation. It will be a betrayal to all mankind and we all will pay the price for it. But especially the grand children of those who voted for fascism in a Nazi regime in America.
That is the lucky case, when people will want to recognize it.
Steve Bannon did the Hitler salute after shouting "fight fight fight" on CPAC. That is the alliance of conservatives.
People keep making excuses. But have mercy upon them, as they do not know what they do. "Social media" are a hellish combination of drug and a pathway for psyops. Americans now rather own the neighbor they have seen on "social media" than saving their own house.
There is a small frame of time left. When enough people in the media are willing to kill off their career, they can overthrow corporate owners and tell the people that the spades are indeed the spades. But it will be suicide, at least for their career. (Even the army is purged now, not a discussion topic on HN so I guess many don't even know.)
Europe needs to cut themselves off from the oligarch networks, as the pandemic might spread there too.