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It comes a month after President Trump’s executive order to remove what he calls “improper ideology” from Smithsonian museums.

And they’re letting it happen. It’s unbelievable.

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I used to roll my eyes at all the “sheeple” comments, but to be honest, looking at what’s happening in the US recently and seeing how many people just capitulate to the bullies I’m not so sure anymore… It’s just really sad and depressing :(

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You forget that like 40% of people in the US are fine with this. It’s more depressing when you realize the reason people aren’t fighting back is because they’re fine with it.

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I wouldn’t say 40% are “fine with this”. Its more like 40% of Americans are some combination of: Uneducated by design, Brainwashed by decades of propaganda, Kept so far in poverty they can’t focus on anything but their next paycheck, indoctrinated into toxic religious communities, etc. The current state of the US, has been carefully molded and shaped into what it is now by the fascists in power.

As for people not fighting back? Some are. Not enough of course, but that goes back to keeping people in poverty. It would take me, for example, 7 hours of driving just to get to my state capitol to protest. Not to mention a couple hundred $ in gas. People working two jobs and living paycheck to paycheck just can’t do that realistically.

I hate that my country has turned into this fascist shithole and wish that more people would rally and fight. I hate that I’m sitting here making excuses for these people but I’m really trying not to lose my humanity in all this. The sad truth of the matter, though, is that people won’t fight unless their life is disrupted so much that it snaps them out of their survival mentality. Bread and Circuses and all that.

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Over 60 percent of Germans also didn’t agree with the Nazis.

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21 points

If any and all institutions fought hard, we’d have a better world

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Home of the brave… what a fucking joke

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Fuck OFF. You know exactly what to do- it’s what your countrymen did, more than once, when they accomplished the things all of you have spent a couple centuries loudly taking credit for.

Do you think there weren’t colonists who were worried that rebellion would cost them their livelihoods? Do you think your grandparents fought the Nazis risk-free? You aren’t special. Your shitty job that you hate isn’t special. They were real people- you understand that, right? Everyone who ever stood up for anything consequential had plenty to lose.

For as long as I live, I never want to hear another American crowing about their oh-so-grand revolutionary spirit. But, sure, whatever- wait until your country decides to invade us and hope that we’ll take action since you spent three decades watching with your thumbs up your asses and failing to do anything while the rest of us accurately explained to you precisely what was going to happen.

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You’re supposed to fight the small battles that come your way. You’re supposed to refuse to do the bad thing.

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This attitude is understandable but it is exactly the attitude that enables faschism. Germany in the 1930s is calling. The existential crisis, the fatalism, The call for a leader to make everything better. The time for change without risks is gone. Stakes gonna get much higher wirh time if the opposition does not move fast. Everybody has to get involved.

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That is a great example of propaganda.

It reads like a normal comment, but it’s literally intended to suppress any attempts at resistance by pretending there’s nothing that can be done.

And the scary part is that the person who posted it might have fallen for it themselves and believed it when they posted.

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None of us want to lose our housing, our jobs, or our lives,

Then you can go on doing nothing until you’re conscripted to invade Canada.

And if we manage to do so, who the hell is gonna take his place? JD Vance? Some other fascist?

You’re looking down a revolution here; why is your first reflex to name JD Vance? Put whoever you goddamn like in charge that’s the whole point.

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Your position is absolutely understandable. What you and your fellow citizens can do are

  • attending protests
  • battling the administration if you are the administrator of some company/agency/museum that the government wants to dismantle
  • making your voice be heard on social media as well

The government wants you as apathetic as possible. Don’t let them be right

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Yes what just go into fascism because it’s hard to resist.

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CaN’t fIGhT fAsCiSm cAUsE yOu gOtTa mAkE a BuCk.

LOL murikkkans love to talk the big talk about tyranny but when fascism is right in their face it’s nothing but excuses.

🤡

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Turns out it is Hate not Heritage.

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Who could have seen this coming?

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The heritage society only cares about white haaairiteeege

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The utter destruction of the republic continues apace. Russia’s published plan was always to do this US in by inflaming racial tensions. I’d imagine this is just the next step in the playbook.

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Foundations of geopolitics Alexander durgan

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You should’ve voted then.

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Did you read somewhere that they didn’t?

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Yes. And added a tag. It makes such posts as these very…weird, to say the least.

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I shouldve helped in the genocide? So we lost by one vote? Darn I guess this is on me then, although to be fair my state went for harris and we dont use the general vote count for anything, but thats not the point for you is it. Because you arent here with any realistic points.

Funny story, my state was called for Harris before even one vote was reported.

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“helped in the genocide”

jesus christ, dude.

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6 points

Hold up. You didn’t vote in your local elections for third parties though? You just didn’t vote at all? And have opinions? I don’t get it

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Ah so trump made the genocide better? Funny story no states were called before votes were reported.

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Omg I thought this was the onion. Fuck.

Fuck everything about this.

Donate here (I think, check for yourself ):

https://www.maah.org/donate-collections

https://thegivingblock.com/resources/charities-for-black-history-month/

https://www.charitywatch.org/top-rated-charities

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I will only give money to people who do shit. Luigi got my money.

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We’re at the point where its not going to be safe and cuddly. Say no, make the administration attack you. Its bigger than ourselves time bois.

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