It’s not like any candidate was actually good but they did pick the worst one.

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    It’s funny, they say fascism happens in slow motion and no one expects it to actually happen until it’s to late.

    I really feel like we’re watching it happen in America.

    Everyone’s laughing at Trump’s stupidity while the systems to stop fascism are slowly destroyed behind the scenes.

    Feels like he’s just a distraction from what’s actually happening.

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      No one’s laughing at trump’s shit anymore. Anyone with at least a lukewarm iq and even a cursory knowledge of history can see his fascism. It’s just the system is rigged to give regressive areas more voting power

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        At this point it likely doesn’t matter. The US has fucked itself so hard. They’ll either fall or spend decades trying to get back to where they were.

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      It does happen in slow motion, and every single time, some people see it happening. They march and wave their arms shouting FASCISM! whilst their neighbours call them hyperbolic.

      If you read contemporaneous accounts, you can feel the frustration.

      Or… I thought I could feel the frustration, until I’d lived it. Now it’s doubly frustrating. I keep wracking my brain, wondering what I can do that they didn’t. I can’t stop this, so I keep saying ‘if you were a German in the 1930s, knowing what you know now, what would you do?’

      I don’t know the answer to that. I know many Germans saw it coming and couldn’t stop it.

      What the fuck can we do? Because it is absolutely coming.