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An international (English speaking) socialist Lemmy community free of the "ML" influence of instances like lemmy.ml and lemmygrad. This is a place for undogmatic shitposting and memes from a progressive, anti-capitalist and truly anti-imperialist perspective, regardless of specific ideology.

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“If you want an analogy for the present state of America it’s perhaps not an out-and-out fascist regime, but a Vichy regime,” wrote John Ganz, a left-leaning author, in a Substack newsletter on 21 January. “It’s partly fascist but mostly just a reactionary and defeatist catch-all. It’s a regime born of capitulation and of defeat: of the slow and then sudden collapse of the longstanding institutions of a great democracy whose defenders turned out to be senile and unable to cope with or understand modern politics.”

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[–] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

…collapse of the longstanding institutions of a great democracy…

Yeah a ‘great democracy’ that was designed to serve landowners and merchants and scans through to make sure huh, yep, still seems designed for landlords and corporations.

[–] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Pretty much all modern States exist to serve the owners of capital. But I get your point, it's not like it had very much further to fall in that direction since it was 90% of the way there already.

[–] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 weeks ago

I still support the Vichy comparison, great take

[–] The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 7 points 3 weeks ago

Dems have been the party of complicity for years now.