How long will people be in denial that america is now a fascist regime? You all really going to wait until trumps third term until you come to terms with it, arent you?
How long will people be in denial that america is now a fascist regime? You all really going to wait until trumps third term until you come to terms with it, arent you?
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What strikes me about the covid epidemic was how obedient people were. It showed that it was possible to shut down whole societies on a global scale. It was a real crisis that provided an unexpected opportunity for mass propaganda. Political strategists surely took notice. It must have looked possible then to submit a whole population into fascism and that's what we're seeing now. Real power is with the people though. It lays dormant and it merely needs to be awakened by a timely spark.
What? The fact people are willing to protect themselves from a harmful disease is evidence we can be brainwashed? Brains got washed, but they are not the ones you think that got "cleaned". You think it is strange that people followed guidelines put out by professionals in their fields as some form of brainwashing? That's funny, and sad. It's why we put those people in those positions, unlike now, where you have people going against experts and governing by "feelings". This is such a fucking terrible timeline...
I wrote that it was a real crisis and I didn't use the term "brainwash". The fact that people complied to official guidelines is of course a good thing in the event of a pandemic. But there was also overshooting. Not everything made sense. And there was definitely a lack of critical thinking and an absence of open debate. But my point is that it was apparently possible to create a high degree of conformity from above, a useful insight when you're trying to eradicate democracy and supplant it by fascism. How else would you explain the ease of what has been described as a coup for the past 5 months?
A life threatening, highly contagious epidemic, is NOT the time for "open debate"! Sheesh, this wins today's "Stupidest comment on the Internet" award.
A life threatening, highly contagious epidemic, is NOT the time for "open debate"!
Of course it is, unless you advocate authoritarianism
Sheesh, this wins today's "Stupidest comment on the Internet" award.
I didn't realize it's ok here to insult people
You must have not experienced covid in the United States. All I saw here was a hectic shitshow full of scores of people utterly rejecting any semblance of disease guidance - going so far as doing the opposite of whatever the institutions recommended. Then there were a few redeeming groups who decided to play ball - not out of obedience, but out of love and respect for vulnerable groups.
I am indeed from Europe, where streets were at times completely empty and at other times you had to walk in designated lanes. Mask mandates everywhere and unvaccinated people were ostracized.
As they should be.
No they shouldn't
If such a tiny thing like wearing a mask is too much to ask from you, your opinion is not worth shit in this debate.
It means you can't even accept minor inconveniences to save the lives of yourself or others.
If you are so incredibly egotistic, and so incredibly short sighted that you can't even do that, your opinion is obviously garbage and not worth listening to.
I can see that reading comprehension is not your forte
Our perceptions of the covid pandemic wildly differ
They’re following a playbook that is about 100 years old though. This is nothing like Covid.