I have said "ope" watching a slow motion car crash. Same idea. It's a very versatile sound in the Midwestern vernacular.

So, in that context, "ope" might absolutely be the kinda thing someone from certain parts of the Midwest would say, to watching an armored up Gestapo pig slip on ice and land on his ass. Like, it fits perfectly, particularly with a touch of sarcasm. As in "ope, that is unfortunate for you, but I am giggling inside."

It's hard to explain. First of all, it's pronounced like "nope" but with no n. It's not really a "word" so much as a "sound" we make to acknowledge a number of social situations that might otherwise require drawn out and uncomfortable conversations. Stuff like "wow, I just watched you drop your hotdog right in front of me and that sucks, but also it was not my hotdog." Or "it is very awkward that we both reached for this door handle at the exact same time but let's not share life stories."

There will not be elections Trump and the Nazi party can lose; not in a year, not in 3 years. The Gestapo will shoot people in the street; what happened to Good was not an accident.

Whatever your calculus on what you should or shouldn't do is from there, you will get the wrong answer if you don't accept those two very obvious facts.

I ain't for pretend. It's a very unhealthy way to live.

I mean you DON'T know how to uprising right, clearly. But that's not what's breaking my heart man. What's breaking my heart is the reasons why you're still pretty sure the liberal "democratic" order and their way of doing things is gonna pull this out of the fire. The reasons why it is not time to break glass in case of emergency. Those? Are heartbreaking.

You not being good at what you'll need to be good at before this is all over, is pretty much how everyone in history like you started out

*shrugs*

There's a whole segment on geoengineering in Naomi Klein's "This Changes Everything."

I suggest you read it. She's not wrong about most of her central thesis except the part where she assumed we've stop the billionaires before they doomed us all.

Actually, afaict, Trump's foreign policy (and thus US foreign policy) appears to be mostly based around enacting a plan cooked up by Nazis, including importantly Musk's grandpa. It's absolutely unhinged, but it's the only thing that makes Trump's actions make sense. And since the Venezuela invasion, I've seen a LOT of well connected fash propagandists bringing it up.

https://theconversation.com/a-1930s-movement-wanted-to-merge-the-us-canada-and-greenland-heres-why-it-has-modern-resonances-252587

This more or less makes Trump's actions make sense; no other doctrine or pattern fits.

Every single person involved in ICE's murder in Minny, should be arrested immediately. The guy who fired the shot, his fellow Gestapo pigs standing there, the captain who ordered them to the scene, and all the way up to a head of DHS, Kristi Noem, who hired fucking Proud Boys, gave them a gun and a badge, and told them to go illegally stop and intimidate brown people in an American city - which is absolutely why that 37 year old INNOCENT WOMAN is dead today.

Will they be arrested? Right.

Brey, when I tell you something people in power did is illegal, the point is not that I have some kinda faith in the rule of law. I'm trying to show you that there is no rule of law, only power; and one of the easiest ways to demonstrate that is to show you powerful people, clearly breaking the law, and facing no consequences.

What happens if a program YOU wrote starts spitting up CSAM images? Right. Fucking jail. Right to jail. That's the point of saying "this is illegal."

Check the date - this was only August of that year.

https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2020/08/28/stop-making-excuses-trump-is-definitely-a-fascist-and-here-is-the-evidence/

Brey, you have NO IDEA how much shit society has memory holed from the year before January 6th. Trump did so much open Hitler shit in his last year that you need a fucking Excel sheet to track it all.

Brey, all I'm telling you is that Trump thinks he's emperor now because nobody stopped him, and projecting out what that means.

You don't have to get mad on behalf of your sniveling leaders. I was born in Detroit, this fucking guy, this Hitler? He's MY responsibility in the same way he is the responsibility of every American.

There are no innocent people here, we have all fucked up large by not toppling the Pig Empire beforehand.

(The likelihood that Trump is lying here is almost nil. Sometime in the next 8 hours, he's going to have to prove he has Maduro and not even Marco Rubio is dumb enough to botch that. We have kidnapped the president of another country because we want their oil. Full stop.)

Trump is now saying they've captured Maduro, the President of Venezuela. On what authority? Who knows. We're just gonna make some shit up right? So what does it even matter why he says he did it. But yeah we apparently just did a Bin Laden raid while we were bombing Caracas.

So cool that most of society around me has forgotten to hate the CIA...

@zeefdrukmeester Wild; I did not notice - but I think you might be right.

Headline: "Donald Trump wants the US back on the moon before his term ends."

Me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goh2x_G0ct4&list=RDgoh2x_G0ct4&start_radio=1

So, put what I just said together:

If Trump needs at least 40% of the ppl to love nazism, and his natural base of fascists who will support him no matter what because he's a fascist too is more like 30-33%... that 7% of people who're dumb enough to be curious, are the hinge point between what you see now, and the literal 3rd Reich.

(The "voting age" part here is less about voting, and more about the fact that America hates its own children enough that young people have a noticeably suppressed effect on American discourse and political activity. It's not about elections; it's about the fact that if you're going to use the military to occupy your own country and make yourself God Emperor, you kinda need a certain percentage of the ppl to think that's a good idea and not fight it. History says it's about 40.)

No I mean the thing is fascists know they're voting for and supporting fascism. They might not be willing to say it out loud, but they know it (again, I was raised by a guy who would ABSOLUTELY be a Trumpbot today).

The difference between flailing, panicked, travshammockery Trump, and "literally Hitler" Trump is truly that 10% of the adult population who tells you things like "I voted for Trump because he gets pussy" and "he's a smart billionaire who will run the country like a business" etc

I have met some religious people during this whole fascist takeover who are great people, and they too, have almost universally abandoned their Church because well, all them nazis.

So it's not like I'm saying "Christianity = Nazism." But American Christianity? Seems to have gone over lock stock and barrel, to Nazism.

I'm a Catholic by baptism but not by practice. I know where all the bodies are buried and that we've picked the Nazis over poor people every time we could.