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by dathinab 487 days ago
what you missing is that it's not about literal Nazis

it's about seeing exactly the same kind of patterns and dynamics as during the rise of the 3rd riche

i.e. by every objective measurable metric the US is currently falling to autocracy and fascism

Will that be "literal Nazis" taking over the US, no most likely not. But might it become bad for most US citizens and the World in general to a really really bad point, then yes every thing is pointing in that direction.

If you then add in how much tension both the world economy and geopolitics is in (since years getting worse) it would be strange to assume we aren't at sever risk of WW3 in some form (could be a cold war or similar, too).

Look at how the US is currently trying to get right of a absurd high amount of people (nearly twice as many as Jews where killed by Nazi Germany) most of which do not have a home to go back to and probably most of which other countries don't want to take in (in context of forced deportations, due to such people e.g. being jobless as they had to leave their job behind). And then look at how they started building/expanding Guantanamo and how the current head of state is constantly using dehumanizing language and look on how some of the people he puts in power have outed themself as being very inhuman and cruel in their world view. And then think how is this _not_ going to end in a catastrophe. Not necessary on the level of industrialized mass killing. But really there is no way this is going to end well.

By now the question isn't if people die, but how many digits.

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> what you missing is that it's not about literal Nazis

Although Musk gave a Nazi-style salute twice and Nazi flag bearers are not chucked out of MAGA/Trump rallies.