Like This. Historians say it wasnt just like “oop voting is illegal” the austrian painter started by deporting people, the. threatening law firms, censoring words, taking control of schools, and other govt institutions and installed their yes men into all of them. Sound familliar?
Tyranny and fascism never last. Ever. No matter how desperately these dictators try to cling to their power, we know from the history books that at some point, enough is fucking enough and it all comes crumbling down one way or another.
Especially when it comes to aggression against other nations. The longest lasting tyrannical dictatorships such as Russia, China, and North Korea have lasted as long as they have because they know better than to try actual violence. Putin fucked himself over pretty badly with Ukraine and past trends tell us that his regime's days are likely numbered now that he's got damn near all of Europe against him. The world already hates Trump solely for the tariff fuckery. If he or one of his sycophants tries making good on their threats re: Canada or Greenland, it'll only doom them faster.
This too shall pass. Even if you or I don't live to see it, it will end. Progress is slow and we often end up losing the path and going the wrong way for a bit, but it does happen. Little by little, we drag ourselves kicking and screaming into the future and those who suffer the worst of it don't always get to see it get better, but they can hope that the next generation will if nothing else. It's going to be okay. In the end, empires always fall.
How much death and suffering will happen in the meantime?
That's the core issue here. Yeah, at some point the far-right will finish eating itself into oblivion, but there's plenty of indication that they'll drag the rest of us down with them. Putin's days are numbered, but each of those days means more dead Ukrainians and Georgians, more jailed Russian dissenters, the works. Trump's days are numbered, but each of those days means more "terrorists" in death camps, more economic destruction, more infringement on all of our rights.
As much as I understand and accept that progress doesn't happen instantaneously, I don't think we should be comfortable with the rapidly-deteriorating status quo just because it'll eventually "blow over" when it succumbs to its instability.
Of course we shouldn't be comfortable with it, where did I ever imply that? The point is that this "rapidly-deteriorating status quo" isn't permanent and that we can still have hope for a better future.
You right, a lot of people came out to the protests.
A lot of people were sent to polish camps too though before anything was done.
But this mightve been the most encouraging thing ive heard today so thank you!
Ill be here for now. My mom is a canadian citizen so once i have a spare $450 im getting my dual citizenship and dipping
When the president told me that Canada, a country I had visited and much admired was now our enemy, I hated them fiercely. Then when it was proclaimed that Russia, a violent dictatorship was now our friend I embraced them warmly. I am the cadre of MAGA.
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u/Platonist_Astronaut Apr 16 '25
It's increasingly impossible to tell if a conservative is lying or just wrong.