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I'm starting to really consider the whole "reality is a simulation" angle, and whoever is running the game has put in a cheat code. (not really really, but more than I ever have before)

It's like a shitty unrealistic movie plot has unfolded over the past decade. And every time it looks like maybe things are heading back on track, BOOM, we get another event that just turns us right back on the track to crazytown.

I'm having a hard time coming up with anything I can cling to in the hopes that Project 2025 isn't going to go exactly as planned down to the last detail.

How are we not going to become real-world Gilead (but with more racism)?

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[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Project 2025 won't go exactly as planned, but at least half of it will and the rest will sow enough discord during the attempt to run the country into the ground. We will most likely still be the most powerful nation unless we split, just because of the massive population and resources available.

[-] trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

There are two countries on this planet with more than three times you population and enough resources to take over your position of most powerful nation if they stop fucking around and you guys screw up badly enough.

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[-] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

Not a single soul in the government is going to help or save you. I'm sorry you're only realizing this now, but the U.S. government has never been your friend or given a shit about you. It was captured by corporate forces at least 20 years ago, and set down this path to fascism over 40 years ago by Reagan. At this point, you will have to be one of the ones to resist, and you should reach out to local organizations to resist with them.

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You can't push back against the person who doesn't care. These "trump" things aren't likely coming from trump. All he wants is attention. So as long as someone spins an idea to him that will get him attention, he will sign it. He hasn't had an original idea in decades. So you won't see push back in public much. It will happen between the people behind the scenes.

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[-] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I don't have an article about it on hand, but there was one judge who blocked Trump's attempt to remove birthright citizenship.

[-] That_Devil_Girl@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

It's the rich buying off both major political parties in the US. One is paid to implement a fascist oligarchy. The other is paid to pump the breaks on the fascist oligarchy when the population freaks out.

In both cases, political bribery has run amok and unchecked. Neither party is beholden to the will of the people. Low voter turnout means Republicans and oligarchy wins. High voter turnout means Democrats and the same oligarchy wins.

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[-] BlueMagma@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

You are still on the acid trip, just ride it until it's over. It'll be more fun if you just let it do its thing.

[-] PanArab@lemm.ee -1 points 1 week ago

As effective as they were in pushing Biden left

[-] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Buy a gun and practice marksmanship, you limp-wrist coward. Complain online while doing nothing and watch the world burn or do what I do and join an LGBTQ marksmanship club, protest, give back to local community with volunteer hours,.

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[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago

I actually have more hope. Every fascist regime ultimately fell and outside of the billionaire controlled media it will be difficult to burn the records.

The reality is that a two tiered justice system will always create a group of people who feel emboldened. The correct response is to document these people's crimes, and stay mad. If the opportunity to hold them accountable comes, take it.

The democrats still aren't taking this seriously because they will be among the last to be targeted directly. Their friends are still people like Netanyanhu who flout a similar multi tiered justice system.

Work toward building local governments who will push back and provide resources for people who need it.

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I actually have more hope. Every fascist regime ultimately fell

Sometimes it takes a world war to do that.

If the opportunity to hold them accountable comes, take it.

We had that opportunity. Biden and the AG he appointed squandered it, and there's no indication that it won't happen with the next corpodem.

[-] dx1@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If it makes you feel any better, the reality of Biden and Harris being equally complicit in genocide as Trump reveals that the same people were in charge under the last Democrat administrations as well. It is in fact a simulation, a simulation of a Republican-run fascist takeover, when in reality the system was already completely compromised, and this is just an ideological pretext to expand authoritarian control.

[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 week ago

I can't let myself believe that. I'm not saying you are wrong, just that I'm not there yet.

[-] dx1@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It is what it is. Let the evidence speak for itself, never let your emotions or what you desire to be true cloud your judgment.

[-] PanArab@lemm.ee 0 points 1 week ago
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