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I just love how we as a country went from normalizing 'Lock her Up!' to essentially 'lock everyone up that isn't us' in 5 years. (more thoughts)

Posted by Jovian (aka Jovian) Mar 2 '23, 10:16

ya know, I remember when I watched the very disturbing and harrowing Prime series The Man in the High Castle and at the time I found it a big stretch how easily and happily America turned itself into a Nazi state.

Not even remotely the case any more.

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Philip K Dick couldnt bring himself to write a sequel to that classic because he hated nazis so much. -- nm - mud Mar 2, 11:01
the (relative) progress of the last 60 years is the American exception, not the norm. this is just reversion to our historical mean -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 2, 10:31 2
- yes - Jovian Mar 2, 10:35
- (In a just world, Gangs of New York would be the go-to reference for America’s collective consciousness about who we have always been) -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 2, 10:34
so what's the solution? -- nm - colin Mar 2, 10:21 10
- There isnt one. We are through the looking glass. -- nm - Jovian Mar 2, 10:27 9
  - I mean, if Im fantasizing for a sec that I had Captain Marvel or Superman or Sentry like powers, it would be corrected by the end of the week. -- nm - Jovian Mar 2, 10:28 3
    - fight fire with fire? -- nm - colin Mar 2, 10:34 2
      - an actual New World Order, Dr Doom style. -- nm - Jovian Mar 2, 10:36 1
        
        lol it'd be pretty much Hydra's plan in Cap: Winter Soldier - Jovian Mar 2, 10:39
  - how did we solve it last time? -- (edited) - colin Mar 2, 10:27 4
    - fascism is an import. We've never had to solve it here. -- nm - Jovian Mar 2, 10:33 3
      - oh, that's not true. fascists exists everywhere. (edited, fascists is more accurate to my meaning that fascism.) -- nm* - Andie Mar 2, 10:54
      - there was a rise in fascism in the US as a political idea in the 1920s-40s. it kind of died out as an overt idea, but reared its head - colin Mar 2, 10:41 1
        
        oh I know - Jovian Mar 2, 10:51

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