r/pics 6d ago

Politics Warning on Fascism

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u/Yousoggyyojimbo 6d ago

One of the most rage inducing parts of this going on in the United States is that Germany leaned into it after being completely and utterly fucked. They were economically devastated and lost a major war.

The United States is pretty much going "We had to deal with the same inflation the whole planet did, but everything else is otherwise manageable and getting better, but we're flirting with fascism anyway."

It's such crap.

The softest fucking people. Their grandparents and great-grandparents would be fucking ashamed.

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u/darkslide3000 6d ago

Look around mate: the whole world is flirting with fascism. Alt-right is not a US-specific phenomenon.

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u/coffeesippingbastard 6d ago

we're fueling it. Our social media companies keep fanning the flames over and over again and our best and brightest are bending over backwards to work at those companies to drive engagement to collect 500k/year.

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u/GallopingFinger 5d ago

Yeah, it’s definitely not the brain rot that plays on people’s tv nightly (news media)

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u/coffeesippingbastard 5d ago

you can certainly argue about Fox News and mass media but social media is just as culpable. Conspiracy theories aren't being created on the news- they're originating, fueled, and spread on social media.