Momentous week of GOP debate, Trump's arrest gets "horse race" coverage when the story's not about an election, but authoritarianism.

Will Bunch expresses what I’ve been thinking since Trump was elected. American democracy is under attack from within. The fascists who yearn for an authoritarian government in the media are promoting it, and the media who supposedly don’t support it fail to recognize it. They are busy trying to follow the political playbook of the 20th century.

  • @negativeyoda
    30•10 months ago

    Yeah, like the time when we talked Hitler down politely and appeased him and everything was totally fine after

    • Queen HawlSeraEnglish
      20•10 months ago

      Don’t you remember? He was herding crippled jewish homosexuals into the camps like a cowboy herds cattle, when suddenly Kylie Jenner showed up and was like “Chill out Hitler, have a Pepsi!”

      It was a Diet Pepsi, that’s why they called it D-Day

      (I am being insanely sarcastic)

    • @[email protected]
      -16•10 months ago

      Yeah, and like that time that one of those armchair internet heroes actually faced a neo nazi without pissing their pants.

      Oh wait, that never happened.

      You know what has happened, loads of times, though? Judges and juries sending people to jail for assault and battery after they punched somebody for no reason.

      That none of you here understand that simple principle tells me that you still have a lot to learn about the real world.

      • @negativeyoda
        8•10 months ago

        I live in Portland. I’ve been confronted face to face by plenty of you assholes over the past few years.

        Somehow I’m still walking free. I must be the exception that proves the rule

        • @[email protected]
          -3•10 months ago

          you assholes

          Thank you for making the point that “punch a Nazi” is really really bad because assholes like YOU immediately conflate everyone who disagrees with you with Nazis too.

          But so you’re saying that you’ve assaulted many people already for no reason. You weren’t sttacked, you weren’t defending yourself, you simply saw someone with an opinion or attitude that you didn’t like, and you assaulted them.

          Yeah, you’re a horrible violent criminal and you should be in jail. Probably get mental help too. In any case, you’re much much worse than your average neonazi

          • @negativeyoda
            5•10 months ago

            I was confronted by checks notes um. Nazis. Proud Boys, Patriot Front… literal same shit. They came into my city and menaced people. I didn’t seek them out.

            I’m still here and thriving. Somehow your heroes are all getting jailed.

            Shitty Nazi apologists thinking I’m an awful person isn’t the drunk you think it is

            • @[email protected]
              1•10 months ago

              Did I ever say neo Nazi’s are heroes? Poiint me where.

              I’m saying you cannot assault people. Literally all I did, and judges, juries and police are all in agreement on that.

              So you are more in.favor of an anarchistic society where vigilantism is a thing of the day. I’m sure there’s no way that could backfire or cause innocent people to be swept up in it. You’re pretty much what you say you are against, really.