• IHave69XiBucks@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 months ago

      Its surreal. As a kid when i learned about Nazi Germany id think wow how could anyone go along with that? Now as an adult some of the people i used to trust as a kid are literal brownshirts.

      It doesnt even feel real sometimes. And yet here we are.

      • TreadOnMe [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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        2 months ago

        It’s because Americans have been trained to think fascism is spectacular (a myth pushed by fascists themselves) so the mundane nature of everyday fascism doesn’t really affect them.

        • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]@hexbear.net
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          A lot of time and energy was spent trying to paint fascism as an inherently foreign entity that comes into their midst. They will quote that whole “holding a Bible and wearing the flag” line and still imagine it as some kind of disguise it wears and not the form it takes when it sprouts from within.