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> It's March 2025 and the US has gone full-fascism.

It's amazing to see people say things like this as if the US was any different before. Trump just put an honest face on fascism and imperialism. Before, they were exercised in a 'polite', polished manner. Even by Obama who stomped down the Occupy Wall Street.

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It's amazing to be the one saying it! I'm generally reflective and reluctant to take up slogans. But once the jackboots started proudly and openly signalling it on the world stage, it got a bit difficult to keep pretending otherwise. God knows we all tried. For at least 10 years anyone who spoke of what they saw coming was attacked, banned, piled-on and ridiculed.... all those "Good People" (many of them here) did the fascists work for them. It's understandable. Nobody wants to feel uncomfortable, right? But now is the time for more self-honesty.

Yes, it was different before. The status quo may have been fascistic and certainly imperialist but still would have been far more preferable to what's coming.

So you prefer the pretense of civility to the honesty of reality.

Occupy protesters who got curbstomped on the ground by police would disagree.

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