• HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org
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    4 days ago

    :lightbulb:

    If we gave the Project 2025 crew Jira, it cpuld drag the entire operation to a halt.

    Atlassian, your hour of need is at hand. It’s time to Save Democracy! Let us send wave after wave of Scrum Coaches to chase down Musk toadies and demand they play Scheduling Poker before defunding the VA. Do they even have a Definition of Done for conquering Canada?

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    3 days ago

    But Trump told me he didn’t know what Project 2025 was and DEFINITELY wouldn’t Implement it!

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    I wonder what kind of long term damage this will do to the US, why the fuck did shit like this have to happen in my lifetime.

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        No, no. “The non-fascist candidate wasn’t exciting enough! It’s the Democrats’ fault I stayed home while my country burned.”

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          People like those who claim they’re leftists are FAKE leftists as far as I’m concerned. They had a choice between Coca-Cola and hydrochloric acid, but didn’t vote for Coca-Cola because they wanted natural spring water. Any real leftist would vote for the lesser of two evils if placed in that situation.

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            Those specific types of leftists want accelerationism the us. They will encourage you not to vote even. They want trump because they think that Trump will crash the government and the US will either be crippled and unable to exert imperialism or the people will become so disenfranchised they’ll experience class consciousness and there will be a glorious socialist revolution. What they don’t realize is that companies will gobble up power and the US will become corporate feudalism that’s even more awful on the global stage and few citizens will fight back as long as they feel personally safe and can eat.

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          The democrats have failed repeatedly to convince the American people of an alternative vision for the future. Obama provided a vision, but the execution fell short. Not Trump wasn’t good enough of an idea.

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        This is such a gross oversimplification, and the fact it keeps getting repeated is the reason I have no faith in the American people getting out of this. This coup has been in the making for decades, but everyone points to the last 5 minutes as the key point we fucked up.

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      US soft power is gone now. The sheer treachery displayed in this Ukraine move has completely lost the trust of all of its allies. There’s no way anyone can afford to rely on them for anything now.

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      Because the easy times made weak people… People like Trump and Elon. And now the hard times are going to have to forge the strong people… After the weak and wealthy are done harvesting the remaining wealth of America.

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        That whole “hard times make strong men” litany is pro-war gaslighting, not how humanity works.

        The real (main) reason is the corporate takeover of every part of American society, including the parts that were supposed to defend against and denounce it.

        In effect, you have to be a corporation or have a net worth of at least a hundred million dollars in order to have any real autonomy in the US and corporatist fascism is the inevitable result of that.

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          The “weak men” part is the part where people become so complacent, docile, and addicted to convenience that they allow the corporate takeover to happen.

          Weak men creating hard times is happening right now, in real time, right on schedule.

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            That’s still not accurate. Propaganda is much more effective than most people are aware of/willing to admit.

            You don’t have to be weak or stupid to fall victim to effective messaging and when all of the most trusted sources of information repeat the same pro-corporate and anti-worker propaganda for several lifetimes, everyone who’s not actively searching for independent sources (which is probably 25% of Lemmy but 75% of the general public) will inevitably be fooled into believing the lie since that’s the only information they have available

            Calling people weak for that is textbook victim blaming and pretending that all we need to solve the problems is to be “stronger” is the kind of oversimplification used in the lies that got us here.

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    The republic is so unbelievably done.

    Next mid terms the right will sweep the elections with Belarus-levels of fraud, in 4 years there’ll be an amendment to officiate the thousand-years reich.

    In 10 years – world war 3.

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        After the US has thrown Ukraine under the bus and carved it up with Russia, there will be a few quiet years as Europe arms itself and Russia re-arms. Then WW3 will kick off. Fuck knows which side the US will be on.

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          If Trump manages to remove all non loyal officers, an invasion of Canada, Mexico, and Greenland is in the cards over the next two or three years even.

          The chance of the US military fracturing and a resulting civil war is non zero, if the purge of anti MAGA officers fails. California on its own has major bases for the navy, air force, and marines.

          An American civil war would leave the US unable to respond strongly to a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. China could use that opportunity to take the whole first island chain even.

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          Up until recently, I would have believed there was a chance for a few “quiet” years so a war can be started just when the incumbent president is up for reelection. Now that day might never come, so why not start some wars right now, subjugate whatever they can and throw the spoils of war to the population to quell unrest?

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        I don’t think so. I want to believe that they’re doing so much wanton destruction to the federal government’s administrative capacity that we’ll simply (and peacefully) balkanize into a more EU style trade confederation of economically interdependent but legislatively independent nations. If I had to guess causes for a hot shattering of the federation, it’d probably be starting shit in Canada. Nobody but these fucking assholes want to start shit with Canada, and I could see it as an opportunity for regions interested in independence to put out feelers for international recognition and support (and potentially getting it). Under previous administrations, it would have been night impossible, but tweedle dee and tweedle dumb are also taking a huge shit all over the intelligence agencies that would have squashed such movements previously.

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    Excellent website. Scary data source.

    It’s like “Collapse of Western Civilization, 38% complete”

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    I hate that this HAS to exists, this is basically an anxiety tracker. For Herr Trump to deny that he has had anything to do with this, its sure progressing at a steady rate.

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    So they developed some kind of progress bar, that allows the whole world to track the USAs way to fascism? Interesting choice

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    That is both informative and incredibly chilling.

    I actually hadnt had an overview of the scope of Project 2025 until now. But reading this, it seems they thought of “what would a decent, sane and moral person do?” and then plan on doing the exact opposite.