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2024 is going to be the beginning of the end of us all (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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No I’m not catastrophising.

The world is slowly lurching towards a fully fascist led America, India, Hungary, Russia, Netherlands, Germany, Italy and Argentina.

Instead people are either ignorant or blaming “wokeism”* for their problems.

I have no clue what to do and this is literally a car crash in slow motion.

I’m despondent because I’m going to be crushed under the boot when the time comes and my morals get in the way of my survival instinct.

Humans are repeating the mistakes of the past. It’s just so anxiety inducing.

*Woke is a useless term promulgated by fascists to dog whistle the things they really want to hate - feminism, socialism, LGBTQIA+, immigration, brown/black people, equality and diversity.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

Slowly?

(Don’t forget Israel!)

[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago (9 children)

Why is this irrelevant nonsense on the memes community tho.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Don't forget Sweden

[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Maybe we can still win against these fascist assholes

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I feel you, and with climate change it's not like we can just escape them and go else where their stupidity will be the death of us all.

The masses are asses.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Woke is a hijacked term by the facists it literally means to be socially aware of the problems faced by different people in a society

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

No you see, they're discovering that the world is fucked up. As opposed to us who have always known it's fucked up, that's how we get to enjoy our lives 😀

WTF uncle

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If only this was that simple. A "Democratic country" doesn't just wake up one day vote for a bad guy and become fascist. This has been happening all over the world for last few decades. All the past politician created few policies out of fear, out of ignorance, out of greed, and out of malice that edged us towards this. And now most of the people have accepted this blatant abuse of our freedom, our privacy, our democracy as just part of life. There is nothing that anyone can do to stop this. Because we don't bother reading EULA because we don't demand the companies the governments to do better we just sign away our rights our freedom because we have better things to do.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Why do you think this is? What are the root causes?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Fear. It's that simple. An authoritarian mindset is one predicated on fear. After 9/11, Dick Cheney and George H. W. Bush used fear to drive their policies of restrictive freedoms. They pushed these through so they could amass additional powers and push government money towards their friends. Once these freedoms are gone, they almost never come back. The Republican party has been running on a campaign of fear ever since. Quite honestly, they've used fear as their driving force since the '80s. Back then it was fear of the Communists, and then it was fear of 'big government" and then it was fear of immigrants, or "the gays", or restrictions of the second amendment, or caravans of people coming up from South America. Fear is the only thing that they can run on since they have no actual plans to move our country forward.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

But why? What's the actual, underlying, root cause? Fear doesn't appear out of nowhere.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Why do it? Money and power.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So we can track that back and see that the real reason is the system that motivates and allows for accumulation of wealth and power, not necessarily fear alone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Having power over others is certainly not system-unique.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Not unique, certainly, but having a system built on it doesn't seem to be a good idea.

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