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usonian

(24,280 posts)
2. Are WE waiting for them to kick in the door and shit on our tables? The time to take action is LAST YEAR.
Wed Aug 6, 2025, 12:31 AM
Aug 2025

Oh, but someone is wrong on the internet, and I must admonish them right now.

Now hear this:
Goddam it, we already have secret police and concentration camps.
Repeat:
Goddam it, we already have secret police and concentration camps.

Are we waiting for Leni Riefenstahl to stage a new military parade?


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The fascists have a playbook. Do we?
The fascist playbook has been acted out for years.
Here are some explanations.

10 Small Steps: Executing the Fascist Playbook
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/10-small-steps-executing-the-fascist-playbook_b_585dfec2e4b04d7df167cfab

The Fascists’ Playbook
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/05/08/the-fascists-playbook/

The latest version of this is the constant chaos, quite deliberate. Plan expanded here.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220295160

WE ARE HERE, RIGHT FUCKING NOW, and unless the courts or we the people stop this takeover, we are in Nazi America for years:
WHY?

THAT'S WHY

THAT'S WHY

THAT'S WHY

General Strike Info
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10114325 (Activist HQ)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220438506 (GD)

Goddam it, we already have secret police and concentration camps.

IT MUST STOP NOW

Every day of acquiescence makes an end to fascism more costly in lost freedom and LIVES.



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The shit is hitting the fan right now, as wildly unconstitutional acts are being pulled.
Either the courts send in marshalls, or we shut it down. (my opinion)
Why?
Things have already gone too far for business as usual.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220489632

We have secret police.
We have concentration camps.

He will keep pushing until someone pushes back.
He's creating a crisis hoping for violence. He knows only thuggery, hate, mob violence, blackmail and threats.
He doesn't know the power of concerted moral indignation and fortitude.
Where is the FORCE OF NATURE to crash his ride?

We, the people?
Legislators?
Unions?
Young people?
Victims of his pedo-pals?

There's not a minute to waste.
Because every minute costs lives.



usonian

(24,280 posts)
8. Right now? It's like invading Normandy as individuals in rowboats. No leader to marshall all our forces.
Wed Aug 6, 2025, 11:27 AM
Aug 2025
We, the people?
Legislators?
Unions?
Young people?
Victims of his pedo-pals?


In between elections, it's a vacuum, and we have only organizations like indivisible and others.

Whereas, the RW has permanent propaganda and other operations going 24 by 7 by 365.

This is why so many of us are gripping.

We are powerful together. and conversely.

DSandra

(1,718 posts)
7. The worst thing is that there were so many red flags and voters ignored them...
Wed Aug 6, 2025, 11:21 AM
Aug 2025

or voters have the memory of a goldfish. Maybe there are also too many low information voters?

One the media probably didn't talk too much about but alarmed me the first time I read it was when Ivana Trump, Trump's first wife, told the press as far back as the early 90's that Trump had a book of Hitler's speeches beside his bed that he would read from time to time. Thus, Trump all along has been a fan of Hitler. This was brought up again since at least 2016.

maxrandb

(17,333 posts)
3. No, these are the kind of people
Wed Aug 6, 2025, 07:09 AM
Aug 2025

that would see a turd laying on the table, and tell you; "it's ok to pick it up with your bare hands, as long as you grab it by the clean end"

MadameButterfly

(3,891 posts)
4. go to the Indivisible webiste and sign up for their final of 3 sessions on non-violent
Wed Aug 6, 2025, 10:34 AM
Aug 2025

resistance. Sign up for a few of their weekly sessions where you can ask questions of the founders. engage actively in the resistance. Complaining won't do it anymore.

If you want to do something it has to be organized and strategic. You don't just throw a moletov cocktail (like the other side did) and expect things to come out better. If we strike, or demonstrate, or whatever, it needs to be effective. Or we blow our opportunity.

Our window of time is small. But we still have a voice. We need to use it.

Initech

(108,131 posts)
5. LMAO, Trump is the extremely dangerous idiot with terrible policies.
Wed Aug 6, 2025, 11:01 AM
Aug 2025

Anyone who says otherwise has been brainwashed by Fox and other right wing bullshit.

RT Atlanta

(2,702 posts)
9. Wait 'til NOAA is unable to accurately predict hurricanes
Wed Aug 6, 2025, 11:57 AM
Aug 2025

FL, AL, MS, LA and TX should all have 'come to Jesus' moments after that.

Unfortunately, elections have consequences (even for those of us who did not affirmatively vote for a republican)

MagickMuffin

(18,276 posts)
10. Anne Finch, Why you worried about tariffs selling antiques?
Wed Aug 6, 2025, 12:52 PM
Aug 2025


Nothing to import so there shouldn’t be any issues with your business because of tariffs.

Perhaps you aren’t selling anything is people are holding onto their money and not buying your antiques.

Plus you are an extremely selfish person. “I don’t care about the country if I can’t make my house payments” therein lies your only concern concerns yourself and not the concerns of our country.


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