• BillDaCatt@kbin.social
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    I think instead of saying “nobody is paying attention” it would be better to say that this kind of rhetoric makes him unfit to serve in any capacity.

    His attempted insurrection has disqualified him from holding any elected office. He should not be on the ballot in any State. The only news that we should be reading about Trump is what a sad loser he really is and, in my opinion, has always been.

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      The only news we should be reading is about him being behind bars, but unfortunately it seems he’ll die before that ever happens

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        I’d be fine with that, too. If his crimes and unethical behavior don’t catch up to him, maybe the “hamberders” will…

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    “Nobody is paying attention”

    Meanwhile every article you read and every political meme depicts him as a Nazi. No, I think we are well aware of what he is, dude.

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      You know that interview with Kanye and Alex Jones where Yedolf starts saying a bunch of Nazi shit and Alex tries to coach him on how to dogwhistle it, but Mr Western Cultural Supremacy just starts saying it louder?

      It’s like that. Everyone with a clue beforehand knew what was up, but now even the people with no clue at all can’t honestly deny it, not even the most generously slack-jawed “centrist.”

      Of course, they still will, because they’re not honest, and that’s what some people just can’t wrap their heads around:

      Conservatives aren’t honest, and do not operate on principles of good faith. There are still those who will deny his Nazi rhetoric is Nazi rhetoric, but they’re just lying.

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        Enforcing the status of America as a hegemon has required the export of fascism since the 50s. The way it’s commodified is very similar to how “anti-capitalism” is commodified, it’s not the thing that causes fascism it’s like a cultural manifestation of this.

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      That’s why he does it too, “nobody is paying attention” when it’s the biggest thing helping to define his political brand.

      I think they’re confusing “not paying attention” with “not doing anything.” If the fear is genuine why isn’t there a popular front against Trump? People talk online as though they’re very concerned but you don’t really see anything happening to mount a resistance. Are people signing up to campaign for the Democrats over this, or are they just posting memes about it? Is it that nothing can be done and people feel completely powerless? Maybe everyone is just dug in at this point and we just have to watch this happen. In any case it’s pathetic to constantly hear how worried everyone is about fascist Trump while nothing is done about it. It’s like everyone is just reacting to politics happening and have no political agency of their own.

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      “what he is”… A former president? Because he sure as fuck isn’t a Nazi

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    Literally everyone is paying attention. Half of the population just loves Nazi rhetoric though because it makes them feel like winners, when in reality, they’re a bunch of cousin fuckers with IQs under 95. They don’t understand what the Republican party stands for traditionally, they don’t understand the religion they promote, they don’t understand how their own electoral system works (FPTP w/ EC), and they don’t know a damn thing about history.

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      They don’t understand what the Republican party stands for traditionally

      Freedom. Unlike the Democrats that originally stood for slavery

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    We’re all paying attention, the problem is that those who vehemently support him just literally don’t care and will vote for him anyway. He wasn’t wrong when he made the comment that he could shoot somebody in the middle of the street and get away with it. He literally orchestrated and attempted coups and got people killed because he threw a temper tantrum and couldn’t stand the thought of not getting his way.

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    Nazi has been so overused that people aren’t listening to the word now that there is a valid thing to apply it too. They assume it’s the same overblown rhetoric.

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      People were subjected to straight fascism from 2020 through 2022 and did nothing. They’ll put up with anything

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      You’re not wrong. I remember how Bush, McCain, Romney, Obama, Clinton, and others were called Nazis at different points. While it was never really taken seriously then (as it shouldn’t have been), the term has become virtually meaningless. Where the term was reserved for the worst-of-the-worst, for years, it was invoked at the slightest disagreement. Now that there’s a literal Nazi-adjacent person running and getting called out for it, it falls flat.

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    Trump isn’t the only one. You have this trend all over the world. People know that it’s looking like Nazi. But,

    The government’s inaction on foreseeable issues stemmed from a reliance on neoliberal principles, holding onto the notion that capitalism’s magic would resolve all problems—a perspective maintained for the past three decades.

    Trump and others are the solution that they didn’t try. Plot twist, it won’t change, Nazi were capitalist. But, it’s like choosing between the worst and the really bad.

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    Nobody in his sect is paying attention. The rest of the world is looking at this with anxiety.

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    As usual, centrists and news orgs who don’t want to call out the fascism Nazi parade for what it is don’t want to ostracize the potential Republicans who don’t think they’re Nazis by voting in Nazis.

    Nobody’s paying attention!!! Well, they are and you hear it loud and clear everywhere.

    Democrats are horrified and disgusted, ready to fight tooth and nail. While Republicans are goose stepping their way through the Capital smearing shit on the walls trying to overthrow elections.

    Gotta pretend like there’s still good people voting in Nazis that might change their mind though! Not that they’re voting in greasy BO old man shit smelling fascist dictators because they want fascist dictators.

    And right on time! MiGrAnT CaRaVaNs are being peddled again.

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    This article would be more appropriate for the politics community, since it is an opinion article from the interview of Peter Simi regarding Trump.

    I would not consider this as news.

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      Yeah that’s why newspapers refused to carry editorials, reader letters, and opinion pieces in general, because no one cares what the popular reactions to events are.

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        Newspapers can publish more than news… There’s also flyers for the local supermarket chain in there as well… Chicken being on sale this weekend isn’t particularly news either. Oh and also comics… Are the comics news too?