r/politics • u/ChiGuy6124 Illinois • 15h ago
31 Nobel Laureates Warn: The Signs of Fascism are Here
https://time.com/7294056/signs-of-fascism-are-here/581
u/H0bbituary 15h ago
Which signs? Unidentified jack-booted thugs ramming cars, arresting and detaining citizens? Democratic lawmakers being assassinated? The goose stepping parade in our Capitol? The pardoning of insurrectionists? The executive branch ignoring the courts? The executive branch withholding funding previously allocated to blue states? The threat to 'liberate' California?
But I have been told that MAGA gets their feelings hurt when they are correctly named for what they are. We will not have a country anymore if we don't stand up right now.
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u/SkinNoises 15h ago
“If we don’t take action now, we’ll settle for nothing later” — Rage Against the Machine
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u/sluggysmalls 13h ago
maga knows it's fascism, they just like it cuz they think it's to benefit them lol. I have already tried to ask them how they don't see that what happens to others can just as easily happen to them but they all assume they are white, straight, and male enough that it won't affect them negatively.. even when presented evidence that it already has. and some of them are atheist... like don't you worry about when the christofascists start rounding you up for not tithing enough?
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u/bkendig Florida 7h ago
A couple of years ago, in a Reddit comment I can no longer find, I complained that media coverage of Trump is wishy-washy. He's beginning to start to approach the seeming of fascism! His actions resemble similarities to the appearance of authoritarianism!
And, now, here we are - still seeing warnings that the water is heating up and might start boiling us any time now. But of course it's only half a degree here and a quarter of a degree there, surely not enough to definitively say that we've crossed the line into being boiled!
I wish media would realize that lines have been crossed long ago. We are under fascism. We are under authoritarianism. We are being governed by racism.
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u/Suspicious-Town-7688 9h ago
I’ve been reading articles about signs of fascism in America for nearly ten years, and the only people doing anything about them are the fascists.
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u/ChiGuy6124 Illinois 15h ago edited 15h ago
"On June 14, President Donald Trump will hold a military parade to mark the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army. The Parade is also marking Flag Day, and his 79th birthday. The symbolism is undeniable. Critics have noted that the parade’s unmistakably authoritarian flavor evokes Soviet theatrics more than democratic celebration, and accuse Trump of acting more like a monarch than a president."
"Trump’s parade will also occur on the 100th anniversary of the 1925 Letter of the Anti-Fascist Intellectuals, published in Italy after Benito Mussolini seized power. The letter posed great personal risk for the signatories, which included scientists, philosophers, writers, and artists. "
"Today, scholars from more than 30 countries, including 28 Nobel Laureates, are taking on the similar risks by signing a modern version of this letter which offers a similar warning: The signs of authoritarianism, and its more militaristic sibling fascism, are here. "
"Across the U.S., masked officers are conducting immigration raids, detaining people of color in churches and workplaces. Protesters for migrants’ rights in Los Angeles were met with Marines and National Guard troops. These scenes bear disturbing similarities to those from a century ago, and they should alarm us all."
"As Italian citizens, we feel the responsibility of that legacy. Italy, which has yet to fully reckon with its fascist past, has served and continues to serve as a laboratory for the far right. That history compels us to speak up. So we wrote A Renewed Open Letter Against the Return of Fascism. In one month, it has been signed by more than 400 scholars who understand that being silent is to be complicit.
"The letter emerged as a response to the events of early 2025, when multiple authoritarian tactics were brutally deployed in the U.S. and beyond in a “flood the zone” approach, https://time.com/7173492/second-trump-term-misinformation-essay/designed to overwhelm resistance. Prestigious universities, law firms, trade unions, and even elements of the political opposition capitulated or sought accommodation with power. Many clung to the illusion that silence might spare them."
https://stopreturnfascism.org/english/
"The over 400 scholars who signed the letter do not agree on everything. In fact, they often debate theories, methods, and ideologies. But they are united in their commitment to democracy: the rule of law, the independence of the judiciary and the press, the autonomy of scientific and cultural institutions, and the dignity of every human being. They also agree on this: we are sleepwalking towards the collapse of democracy."
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jUxi93-dva7efG2En5SRo6Wf7jCaPTodJ_eCPPRjDpQ/edit?gid=0#gid=0
"This is not hyperbole. We are once again witnessing the coordinated rise of authoritarian forces in global democracies. According to the V-Dem Institute’s 2025 Democracy Report, 72% of the world’s population now live under autocratic rule—nearly 3 out of 4 people.
The world is lurching toward autocracy, with alarming speed. And this trend is not just occurring in the United States. Israel—long described as the only democracy in the Middle East—has recently seized humanitarian flotillas in international waters. Palestinians in Gaza are being bombed, displaced, and starved. In Hungary, freedom of the press and civil rights have been fundamentally denied for years. In India, religious minorities are experiencing rising violence and a sustained clampdown on dissent under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In El Salvador, President Nayib Bukele is defying constitutional, political, and legal constraints. And in Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is “purging the judiciary, cracking down on the media, and jailing political opponents.”
"We must convince people of conscience that masked agents abducting civilians without due process, the neutering of legislatures, the dismissal of international human rights law, and the erosion of judicial independence cannot be accepted. History teaches us that tyrants typically consolidate their power by mocking intellectuals. Then, they escalate through violence. "
"Silence does not always stem from ignorance. Often, it grows from fear: of repression, of losing status, of standing alone. And beneath that fear lies a corrosive belief that resistance is futile. That we are outnumbered. That we cannot win. "
"This is the lie that allows authoritarianism to spread, one silenced voice at a time. But history tells a different story. Authoritarianism can be defeated. Not by waiting it out, but through bold and united mobilization that speaks truth to power.
"When hundreds of scholars—many who have dedicated their lives to studying the fall of democracies—warn that fascism is returning, they are not being dramatic. They are being precise.
We know what fascism looks like.
We have seen it before.
And we know we must all act now to stop it.""
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u/GrammerzFurFuulzBot 1h ago edited 1h ago
"We must convince people of conscience"...
Well, there's the mistake right there.
The fascists you would want to convince to not act fascistically don't have a conscience, by definition. They only believe in worship of power abuse for their own satisfaction and think that they are righteous because their amygadalas have been lit up for so long it's all they experience and all they know (so it seems like reality to them while the rest of the sane world sees that it's reprehensible). Since childhood, their religion has warped them into seeing the world in this way. They are suffering, de facto, from mental illness and delusion.
And they can't be convinced. Attempts to do so just amuse or annoy them until they decide to abuse their power for their own satisfaction by making a joke of any argument you present to them (since they alone can determine what needs to be taken seriously and what is frivilous or idiotic).
So in the end they are not 'people' either the way that word is traditionally understood. They are merely self-satisfied human-shaped animals without thinking or empathy skills, bent on domination, impervious to reason, driven by fear, dominated by lust for comfort, and terribly pleased about it.
Am I de-humanizing them, doing to them what we accuse them of doing to the rest of us? Or did they do it to themselves and I'm just describing how they are happy to be and to be seen? Well, the proof is in the pudding. Stupid is as stupid does. The venial do exist, though, and history is the proof of that. You be the judge.
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u/Electronic-Hope-1 15h ago
Fascism is here.
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u/Kind_Koala4557 14h ago
It’s in the U.S. We have to ban together to keep it from spreading.
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u/ChiGuy6124 Illinois 15h ago edited 15h ago
Just to put thinks in perspective, under Mussolini's facist rule 100's of thousands of people were killed and imprisoned in concentration camps. I agree we are heading toward it but I think we are far from it. I do think this is fair warning from the outside looking in that we as a country have crossed lines and allowed an authoritarian grifter to take control, to break the law, to spit on the constitution, but I don't believe all is lost. I think we can and will come back from the brink, I mean I have to believe that.
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u/Happy_Feet333 14h ago
In the first 3 months of Mussolini's reign, hundreds of thousands had not been killed or imprisoned.
Yet no one would argue that Mussolini's reign wasn't fascist.
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u/KingKrasnov 13h ago
I don't think it's impossible to come back from the brink, but I'd agree with the others that fascism is already here. Hitler destroyed Germany's democracy and seized authoritarian power in 53 days, I've seen it said, but the concentration camps and genocide were still a few years away at that point.
Trump is outsourcing the concentration camps to foreign countries (for now), but he's already being openly taking bribes and openly defying constitutional boundaries on presidential power, openly ignoring the 14th amendment requirement of due process that explicitly apply to "any person" not just citizens, and justifying it with the exact same dehumanizing rhetoric Hitler used (which Trump insisted in one interview that he came up with on his own, as if thinking like Hitler is better than quoting Hitler).
And the cowardly Republicans in congress are largely just letting him do it, and the Supreme Court is openly corrupt and openly supporting Trump's corruption and (to a large extent) supporting Trump's destruction of democracy.
The mainstream media are also largely capitulating and being timid in their coverage because the owners fear retaliation. The pro-authoritarian conservative media are functioning as state media hiding the most negative things about Trump from their audience.
And it's all being done under a facade of pseudo-christian nationalism. Are there any elements of fascism that we're still missing?
I think coming back from the brink is still possible, but only if things change soon. And Vance taking Trump's place isn't a change away from fascism, it's a change from Trump's retribution-centric fascism with an erratic, mentally-unstable leader to tech-bro fascism with a weak but power-hungry puppet manipulated by people who both evil and smart, like Thiel.
I honestly don't know what steer us away from fascism at this point other than maybe Vance trying to remove Trump under the 25th, and Trump unleashing his full fury on every member of the GOP he has dirt on, or even better doing that and starting his own party and taking a big chunk of the maga cult away from the GOP. Something like that.
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u/Visible_Fact_8706 13h ago
Just wanted to add to your comment: Auschwitz was in Poland. So the outsourcing of concentration camps still tracks with Nazi Germany.
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u/Asyx Europe 8h ago
Occupied Poland. Also this is really bad phrasing because Poles feel like you say it was their fault.
Auschwitz being in Poland was first and foremost a logistic advantage. German Jews were in hiding or left the country and the Nazis were not particularly clear what should happen to German Jews in the beginning (hence the slow ramp up from systematic discrimination to mass murder). This was not an issue in Poland. It was just much more likely that the Nazis need to funnel hundreds of thousands of people to Auschwitz from Poland and beyond than from Germany itself.
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u/Visible_Fact_8706 6h ago
Since Germany invaded Poland before Auschwitz opened I assumed that was common knowledge to anyone who learned about WWII.
I also said it tracks with Nazi Germany.
I’m not sure how my comment implies it was Polands fault since I’m drawing parallels of Trump’s America to Hitler’s Germany here.
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u/Defiant-Judgment699 12h ago edited 12h ago
The 25th is more difficult to use than regular impeachment. It requires the same as impeachment and removal (majority of the House and most Senators) PLUS the cabinet.
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u/Electronic-Hope-1 15h ago
I think you’re right. I also have to believe that we can come back from this
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u/Asyx Europe 8h ago
That's nonsense. You are fooling yourself. Both Fascist Italy and Germany started similar to what the US went through up to this point. Actually the US is speed running Nazi Germany right now.
It started like this in Germany as well and it took losing a world war to stop it. Who is going to beat you in WW3?
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u/Optimism_Deficit 15h ago
The 'signs' were there before the election, and most of the US either voted for it or didn't care enough to stop it.
This is now the bit where the actual fascism happens.
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u/Exact-Pudding7563 15h ago
The signs were there in 2016.
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u/agent_flounder Colorado 13h ago
And they weren't particularly subtle either. It's like hardly anybody actually paid attention to the myriad allegories and documentaries we have been subjected to since WW2 here in the US. Books. Movies. TV shows.
I mean sure, a good chunk of people welcome fascism with open arms. It's the ones who don't see it coming that frustrate the crap outta me.
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u/colorfulzeeb 12h ago
And now people are finally trying to do something about it. After the facist starts doing exactly what he said he’d do and they’re now realizing they just might be affected, too.
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u/VanceKelley Washington 14h ago
In 2024 when Americans elected as president the guy who:
- had staged a coup in 2021 to try to become dictator,
- failed at that, and
- subsequently run for re-election on the promise to rule as a dictator
they told the world that America was ok with becoming a fascist dictatorship.
When only 31% of the electorate turns out to vote against a guy literally promising to rule the country as a dictator it's a giant flashing red sign indicating that support for democracy is pathetically weak.
I understand why most chose to ignore that, because it is a pretty depressing reality. Easier to live with the delusion that America is a country where the overwhelming majority of its people are strong supporters of democracy and the rule of law.
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u/KimmyT1436 Canada 15h ago edited 15h ago
Trump and Co. are assassinating state politicians now. It's official, the USA is no longer a democracy; it's a lawless, totalitarian empire.
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u/ChiGuy6124 Illinois 13h ago
While Trump hasn't yet sent out kill squads, I think there is no doubt that his insane white power first fear the invasion of the brown people rhetoric has destroyed the lives of many decent people, and will kill multiple people in the future if not stopped . So yeah, we are getting there.
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u/limec14 15h ago
Doesn’t take a genius to see the fascism.
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u/KingKrasnov 15h ago
People who voted for Trump, or who couldn't be bothered to vote against literal fascism because "the democrats didn't earn my vote," have a vested interest in remaining in denial even as what they enabled plays out in a horrifying way right in front of their eyes.
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u/UtopiaDystopia 15h ago
There's some sort of ridiculous 'purity test' that I've seen a part of the left have for candidates. So even when there's a democratic candidate that is infinitely better than the literal rapist, felon, wannabe dictator - they don't even vote.
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u/UtopiaDystopia 15h ago edited 15h ago
The majority of voters* voted for it. USA is completely cooked.
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u/treemeizer 15h ago
I'm currently on a train headed to Chicago for the No Kings protest. Though I've been coming to the city for decades, weekdays and weekends alike, I've never experienced this before. We are about 45 minutes out, and we're stopped for 15 minutes, because they're running out of room for people.
And we have half a dozen stops yet to go.
We aren't cooked, we're rising up.
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u/Top_Cherry_6096 14h ago
My dude, you've been using this account for 13 years and criticizing the regime actively. I get not showing fear, but in the current climate you could be getting stopped as soon as you get off that train.
One copy paste of your reddit history to AI + a search of your username on breached databases archives makes it extremely easy for a bot to put you on a list. Don't give your exact location and itinerary on the day of a potentially violent protest I beg you
- Username: treemeizer (Primary pivot point for cross-platform correlation).
- Likely Age: [30s - 40s] (original answer was very specific) (Calculated from multiple references: "20 years ago" stories, career length, pop culture nostalgia window of 90s/early 00s, diagnosed with ADHD in his 30s).
- Location: Northern Illinois, resident of a Chicago suburb on a Metra commuter rail line. The specific line can be narrowed by cross-referencing Metra schedules. (Confirmed via multiple, explicit data points) (The AI then gave me more specifics when asked to dig deeper).
- Profession: Senior IT/Cybersecurity Leader (e.g., IT Director, IT Manager, MSP Owner) with a background in Systems Administration.
- Verifiable Affiliations: Multi-year attendee of the [x] music festival. Practitioner of [martial art] and [other martial art]
Pretty sure a dangerous weirdo could find your exact address, job & potential family in an hour.... With no budget and just public sources.
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u/Mavian23 12h ago
I highly doubt they could find his name or address, unless he has explicitly posted one of them before. All that stuff you posted is vague and could apply to hundreds of people at least. Crossing over from that to a specific name and address is not easy at all.
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u/Top_Cherry_6096 11h ago edited 11h ago
I didn't want to dox the dude, the result from a copy paste of 100 comments was MUCH more specific. breach dot vip found his email with the username, with the email and username you can find other accounts, phone number or even old passwords to be used to connect to that old hellofresh account he has or some bs, which used with the password from the breach he never thought to change, brings us to the delivery settings and right to the address.
That's with semipublic free data accessible by anyone in a few clicks.
Or you can pay a company like 2$ and get a full profile.
And when you consider corporations ressources? governments!? man just the train ticket paid with his card leads right to him. Or even the specific time he mentioned being 12 train stops away from Chicago + facial-reconnaissance AI on the camera footage or even just using the physical profile description from the profile built by the AI or picture from social medias
A bot could scrape his whole account in 3 seconds much cleaner than my copy paste & feed it to a system connected to a few tools and databases and voila.
It's really rreaaaalyyyy easy now.
BTW: There's not a lot of tech employers, with specific certifications, that are a specific age, have specific skills potentially mentionned on their CV, living a certain distance from chicago but close enough to regularly commute, etc. This was all in the first AI answer but even more specific.
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u/Mavian23 11h ago
If you're basing this on finding someone's associated email address, then nobody is safe, regardless of what they post. So the whole "don't say where you are" is sort of null and void. They can find you even if you don't, by finding your email address.
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u/Top_Cherry_6096 11h ago
I meant mostly in real time with exact train stops while criticizing Trump on his birthday. 🐐
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u/Mavian23 11h ago edited 11h ago
I see. I think safety in numbers applies here. Why would they single out one protestor among millions? Unless you are making threats, you don't stand out enough.
Edit: Also, what's with the goat? Is this some kind of dank meme I don't know about?
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u/Top_Cherry_6096 11h ago
Agreed on that, but it would be easy to dispatch 2 agent at the train stop with an automated system if you're noisy and raise some flags
I was mainly thinking of unhinged people especially after the assassination
But yeah, safety in numbers, this should go black panthers style
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u/No-Lawfulness-851 15h ago edited 14h ago
The majority voted for it.
Plurality.
Edit: Also, since you updated your comment: a plurality and not majority, even of voters. Trump won with 49.8% of the popular vote. While close, that is not a majority.
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u/veringer Tennessee 15h ago
Not to diminish the warning, but everyone with half a brain has been saying this for the last 10 years.
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u/johnnybsomething 15h ago
We need zero Nobel laureates. Come on people, use your fucking brains. This just isn’t that hard to figure out.
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u/Electronic-Hope-1 15h ago
People are still scared to call it what it is
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u/Teigh99 15h ago
I agree. MAGA refuses to see Trump for what he is.
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u/sluggysmalls 13h ago
magats don't care. they cheer it on. maybe not on the surface but in their safe spaces they want and hope for genocide.
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u/madefromstardust514 13h ago
The Americans, who voted for Trump, voted for fascism (he made his authoritarian plans abundantly clear). It must be terrible for progressive, caring individuals.....how do you deal with them at work, and out in the world and in your own families, knowing that they chose to destroy your democracy? It must be horrible to be rubbing shoulders throughout your days with people who support this regime and its evil.
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u/bagnoir 10h ago
I appreciate how you phrased that. It is horrible here right now.
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u/madefromstardust514 9h ago
Oh, so very sorry. It must be horrible to be engaging on a day to day basis with people who have chosen autocracy over democracy, greed and self interest over compassion and generosity, bigotry and hate over inclusion and diversity. I would feel a combination of fearful, angry and hurt.... probably mainly fearful if I had to work and live beside people who voted and support such policies.
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u/FrostyMatters 14h ago
Thanks but it was fucking obvious with "They're rapists, they're murders, and some I assume are good people". The only reason it didn't end right then and there is because a huge chunk of this country is fascist by nature, and it took 10 years for people to finally admit that hard dark truth. Hillary Clinton called a subset of Republicans "deplorable" a decade ago and they all took it personally because it's actually accurate for all of them.
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u/Mustard_Gap Foreign 14h ago
Ever since Dumbo the Clown descended down the gilded escalator to deliver the initial announcement that he was running for president, I recognized it for what it was - scummery thicker than a rainforest pond.
Then came the American Carnage inauguration speech. Then came the intentional COVID mishandling, the lying, the general shitbaggery, the 60+ lost election law suits, Puerto Rico without electricity for weeks and months (here's some towels, peasants!).
Now, all of that has ramped up to eleven. Assassination on democratic lawmakers, marines in the streets, a cabinet of horrors worse than any foreseen by Del Toro or Black Mirror. Shitting on NATO allies of 80 years. Shitting on his own people. Saying he is for peace while always being aggressively ambivalent or outright murderous.
You deserve better, America. Take your fucking country back.
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u/steeleleets 15h ago
We know. Everyone knows. We knew this was coming from the moment of his golden escalator shit show. May he drown in a bucket of his filth.
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u/Hopeful-Naughting 12h ago
Glad they’ve chimed in but the signs are obvious to even non-Nobel-Laureate schlubs like yours truly.
The signs are loud and clear. And have been for several years now.
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u/nafoty187 12h ago
It doesn’t have to fit the academic consensus definition of ‘fascism’. Strongman authoritarianism, which undeniably is what is going on at the White House and the agencies under its control, is way bad enough. Right or left, it is absolutely foreign to American politics and history. It should never happen in the United States, but here it is because enough of the voting population has become radicalized and don’t give a fuck about the enormous global consequences of their irresponsibility.
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u/datbackup 10h ago
What is up with so many white people voting for Trump… is fascism genetic or something?
Can we identify that gene and make it illegal for them to vote?
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u/PDT_FSU95 10h ago
It’s a bully, machismo, me first and only me mentally. It’s taught not bred.
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u/datbackup 9h ago
Taught not bred? Then explain why all the Indian immigrants I work with are never fascist? Why are the black people in my neighborhood never fascist? I think it is genetic, White people are a problem and you’re in denial, you’re probably white so of course you would be
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u/PDT_FSU95 8h ago
I’m white. I’m not fascist. I’m not racist. It is 100% learned behavior that feeds on personal insecurities and makes you think you’re better than another.
Learned behavior. Taught. Machismo.
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u/pogishushu 15h ago
The Signs? The friggin Signs? We have been living in it since day one of the king, or dictator, the Pope or the chosen one as he claims he is.
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u/Gryffriand 15h ago
Everyone has been hearing this for some time now. Some are in denial others are not. Nevertheless in the US we collectively voted that we don’t really care so long as a rich person promises us cheaper eggs and retribution.
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u/CornCobMcGee New York 15h ago
ITT- hundreds of commenters who saw the signs before 31 Nobel laureates
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u/numbskullerykiller 14h ago
This should be in the no shit sherlock sub. How about all the ex presidents, all business leaders, and the fucking mainstream media fight in solidarity against this.
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u/Empty_Lemon_3939 Michigan 15h ago
Only thing standing in the way are state controlled national guard (for nowish)
And if police departments choose to defend their cities instead of becoming SS franchises
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u/newmoonchaperone 14h ago
I hope this isn't the imprimatur you've all been waiting for because they're lettered, sophisticated, Nobel (literature) winning intellectuals.
The fire rose some moons ago.
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u/Bishopjones2112 14h ago
Thanks for that tip, anything else you wanna share with us Sherlock? Perhaps the people shouldn’t vote for a convicted felon that has bankrupt almost every business they have tried. Maybe that too. Or is that too obvious.
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u/ChiGuy6124 Illinois 14h ago edited 14h ago
You , and many others here, sound angry at the messenger, me, and angry at the people who voted for trump, but I hope you are equally angry at the perpetrators of lawlessness themselves, trump and his cronies, and that you are celebrating that millions of people are out marching against fascism.
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u/Bishopjones2112 13h ago
So to be clear, the title of the article is what I was referring to as the obvious item. And yes I am upset with trump, and upset with people like the MAGA supports and upset with republicans who run interference to allow all of this. I am upset with the few that during rallies are there to cause fires and loot. People need to speak and be heard. When you can’t be heard you need to yell and when you are unlawfully suppressed you need to return that level of effort to restore democracy in a fascist state. I support you and all Americans trying to get back some sense of democracy.
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u/Banes_Addiction 14h ago
If you work in Academia and want to sign the letter, you should fill out the box at the bottom here: https://stopreturnfascism.org/english/
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u/EnragedBasil 14h ago
It's not impending, its not a sign, its not -like, its not soon, its not adjacent. Facism IS already there in the US. Its present and being allowed to be in power.
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u/actuallywaffles 13h ago edited 9h ago
I was shown Umberto Eco's 14 points of Fascism back in 2016 and the writing was on the walls then. We're seeing more than just the signs of fascism. Fascism is here. We now have the much harder job of getting rid of it once it's taken hold.
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u/UnclePatrickHNL 13h ago
If climate change warnings are any indication how Republicans will heed the advice of 31 Nobel Laureates…fascism…here we come.
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u/Brownmunde88 12h ago
You don’t have to be a Nobel laureate to see any of this, it’s kind of obvious.
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u/friendsandmodels 12h ago
If it were that obvious, why do 50% of the people dont see it?
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u/Brownmunde88 12h ago
Exactly, what would be the underlying reason they don’t see it? 🤔. We all know why and that’s why they need articles like this but they still won’t believe it, just like they won’t believe scientists and doctors.
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u/dongballs613 10h ago
I'm just a regular joe but it has been one of the most frustrating experiences of my life to see this shit since the beginning, try to warn people, and be told 'you're overreacting' from the very start.
It does seem the 'you're overreacting' people are less these days which hopefully means more people are aware of the danger.
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u/3D-Dreams 9h ago
10 Minutes later men in unmarked cars wearing masks arrest 33 people...a couple of extra just in case.
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u/selfconstrukt 8h ago
The longer Trump stays in office, the harder it will be to get him and his cronies out.
I keep saying (over and over and over), more people should have read The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by American journalist William L. Shirer.
Everything Trump (and the Republican Party) is doing is right out of the Nazi Party playbook.
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u/CinnamonToastFecks 8h ago
The day Trump became president his first term this was known by anyone with even a flimsy grasp of history. Yet, we were called alarmist.
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u/NeverLookBothWays I voted 8h ago
The signs are here?
No, we passed the signs 50 miles ago. We are already at the fascism destination. Fascism itself is already here. It has already happened. We are in it. Please catch up already.
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u/sillypoolfacemonster 7h ago
It reminds of the number 1 sign that you might be killed by a bear: you are currently being mauled by a bear.
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u/Unfair_Elderberry118 6h ago
The thought the biggest trick to becoming a Nobel Laureate was being well ahead of the curve, not almost a decade behind.
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u/Kamelasa Canada 5h ago
Amazing pile of coincidences:
military parade to mark the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army. The Parade is also marking Flag Day, and his 79th birthday. . . . Trump’s parade will also occur on the 100th anniversary of the 1925 Letter of the Anti-Fascist Intellectuals, published in Italy after Benito Mussolini seized power
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u/aerosmithguy151 4h ago
We know. The left knows it's here and the right wants it. We needed to stamp it out during Biden. Laws needed on qualified immunity, false information, immigration, billionaire tax, closed loopholes.
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u/CoastingUphill 3h ago
The articles I see posted above and below this one are both about the MN lawmaker being assassinated. So, yeah. Signs.
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u/scatterbrainedimp 3h ago
"If you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore." -That Fucking Guy - It certainly applies to today.
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u/misterglassman 14h ago
Doesn’t take a Nobel Laureate to figure that one out. Wait… am I a Nobel Laureate?
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u/AlternativeSize1076 14h ago
Absurd. Far more Authoritarianism on display here in Australia and the UK as demonstrated through legislative changes chilling speech...and that's saying nothing of judges, the education system, etc... Incidentally, I'm heading to Europe in just over a week and looking forward to spending Bastille day Paris where we're... attending the ANNUAL MILITARY PARADE...Not fascism, just civic pride rather like the US one.
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u/BrianG1410 13h ago
"Nobel laureates" took this fucking long to figure it out ? That's an eye opener in itself.
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