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RockRaven

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2. Unfortunately "national-socialist" is not the critique/slur/warning it ought to be

Reply to DetlefK (Original post)

Thu Mar 13, 2025, 03:23 AM

Mar 2025

with today's willfully-dumbfucked American populace.

Also, we could probably get the overwhelming majority of American eligible voters to agree with that label -- after laborious education and explanation in most cases -- and we would still see ~30% saying "sounds good!" and ~40% saying "fuck it, I'm staying home" as we did four months ago.

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Opinion: The US is moving towards a national-socialist economy. [View all] DetlefK Mar 2025 OP

tRump's "short term pain" is his "Let them eat cake" statement. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2025 #1

Unfortunately "national-socialist" is not the critique/slur/warning it ought to be RockRaven Mar 2025 #2

We would be lucky if what these fascist oligarchs were trying to pull was remotely akin to national socialism AZJonnie Mar 2025 #3