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[–] reiterationstation@lemm.ee 23 points 1 day ago (5 children)

No. No I’m not allowing “I doubt many people knew this would happen” no. Plenty of us did nothing but scream for decades. You shooed us away. You sided with them because we were inconvenient to you.

[–] Draces@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

You're saying "you" to the people that were shouting it. You're shouting into an echo chamber. Maybe go say it to them

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 19 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I mean even people who were screaming didn't think American democracy would start falling this quickly. I mean did you expect him to start arresting dissenters within a month and a half of his inauguration?

[–] My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean did you expect him to start arresting dissenters within a month and a half of his inauguration?

Actually, yes. Absolutely. I read portions of P2025. I expected the insurrection act and martial law to happen by now, though. Not sure why it didn't occur after the Hands Off demonstrations, except perhaps it would have meant more publicity and lent credibility to the opposition, which seems to have been intentionally ignored and marginalized by major media so far.

[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

except perhaps it would have meant more publicity and lent credibility to the opposition, which seems to have been intentionally ignored and marginalized by major media so far.

This is one of the things bothering me the most. Yeah yeah owned by billionaires who support Trump. But this is our media, it's one of the things I grew up being taught helped preserve our democracy.

And yet they spent years sanewashing Trump and are now failing to adequately cover the resistance to Trump.

Are those principled folks who resigned publicly the only ones who remember why they are here?

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago

Capitalism ruined our media

[–] My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Trump is a drama factory. Drama makes clickable headlines and glues eyes to screens. Trump is good for the business interests of news.

The timeline of the Nazi takeover is public and very clear. The project 2025 details were public and very clear. It was more of a "I didn't want to believe it" and not "who could have known" thing. Which is understandable but clearly not the same.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago

Speak for yourself

[–] 24_at_the_withers@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Yes. I don't believe much of anything he says, but "dictator on day one" was very obviously his real plan.

[–] coaxil@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah straight up assumed this was going to happen pretty much as it has been, I'm not even a yank and this was so so very obviously going to be the outcome.....

[–] KMAMURI@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Some of are still screaming and being unheard.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

Plenty of us did nothing

[–] honeynut@lemm.ee -3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

excuse me for trying to save our democracy from tankies that were trying to delegitimize it

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

Everything that was supposed to come true under communism has come true under capitalism.