20-01-2025. This is a real image

  • baltakatei@sopuli.xyz
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    37 minutes ago

    The US didn’t even get the excuse of being forced to pay obscenely high war reparations to justify their fascism. Instead, it’s dissatisfaction with inflation which, in turn, is the predictable combination of the exponential depletion of scarce resources (real estate, water) and the consolidation of property into the hands of an ultra wealthy minority. If one must frame the emergence of fascism in a “war” context, then the cause is plutocrat beligerantes strategically fighting a social class war while most of everyone else think it’s a culture war.

  • drivepiler@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    Ngl, I was sceptical since still images are not a good representation of what’s really going on when people are moving around, but then I checked out the video. Good lord, he even did it twice.

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    13 hours ago

    Next he’ll be wearing a swastika on his arm and claiming “oh this is just a whirling log, a symbol of prosperity and peace”. And also “oh this is just a very black uniform that Hugo Boss made for me”

  • WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    I wondering if he did it to win a bet: “Hey man, we already get away with some fucken outlandish shit, and people ate that up. I bet you that you can’t get away with throwing out a nazi salute on live tv”

    fElon: hold my K…

  • DukeHawthorne@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    And it’s day fucking 1! We still have (at least) four more YEARS of this!

    I’m reminded of Trump’s first term, when we all thought it couldn’t possibly get any worse, and yet it always did keep getting worse.

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    19 hours ago

    Musk went from being the Henry Ford of our times to the Henry Ford of our times.

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    14 hours ago

    Reminder that ~270 170 million Americans allowed this to happen.