• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    About a decade late. People like myself were mocked for years for trying to warn people about this.

    Wish I could say I felt vindicated. Really, I’m just sad.

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      I was one who dismissed you (or those like you). Now my penance is trying to get others just as ignorant as I was to believe.

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        At this point anyone who pretends like they don’t know Trump is a fascist is either suffering from severe cognitive impairment and should seek medical attention, or more likely a fascist themselves. You don’t get to live through the past 6 months and play the “but i didn’t knoooooowwwww :((((((” card.

        Pick a side and fight, but don’t pretend that the fascist regime will go away with hearts and minds and a nice little conversation. These people know what they’re doing, and they’ll happily kill you to keep doing it. Resist or don’t but don’t pretend that this will go away by just motivating people to turn out next election cycle.

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      Okay, Cassandra.

      But also me too. Problem is if people listen then it doesn’t happen and it never would’ve and everyone went nuts over nothing. If they don’t listen, everything goes to hell and we have to learn the hard way.

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      I still don’t feel vindicated. I’m questioning my sanity because the rest of the world doesn’t seem to be taking the fascism in America seriously yet

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        I think most of the world gets it. The fascism-deniers are a bunch of Americans that didn’t pay attention in history class.

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          I’m in Canada and have talked to people still visiting the states as if everything is normal and who aren’t taking my fears of concentration camps seriously