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[–] Australis13@fedia.io 32 points 1 week ago

The horrifying thing is that they are just getting started.

[–] Hux@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That was on the corner of Electric Ave and Mason Street in Somerville, MA. I used to live very near there.

I also expect the community to form some sort of vigilance committee to get volunteers on the streets to do what the person who was recording doing, only hopefully with more presence.

[–] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

So far people are only willing to wave signs, complain on the internet, and waggle their fingers at Republicans.

These MAGA dipshits don't respect you and ICE won't either, so nothing short of something equivalent to the Black Panther Party having armed civilians doing patrols protecting their local neighbors countering jack-booted law enforcement is going to work.

[–] veniasilente@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Something like catching the oppressors for public displays and having some guillotines around would also help. The MAGA dipshits are only proud when they are hiding behind their online handles or protected by the safety of "I was just following orders", but I severely doubt they'd flaunt their principles that much when stuck with the IRL consequences of their actions addressed at their names and faces (and necks).

[–] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'd love to live in your fantasy world where enough Leftists exist that own firearms and not complete and absolute pathetic pussies to do this. But this won't happen within our lifetime thanks to the pacifist culture that dominates Democrat and Leftist culture in the USA

[–] FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Now USAdians can apreciate what you have been doing to the rest of the world. Hope you enjoy

[–] Celediel@slrpnk.net 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, because the people being targeted now are the same people who were targeting others outside the US. 🙄 What an absolute garbage take.

[–] FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Thats some kindergarden level argument here

[–] Umbrias@beehaw.org 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No i think their point is exactly right. for example, Reagan wouldnt be disappeared tomorrow, it's exactly the people who are against the imperialism!

[–] FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, kindergarden kids can be right and still be in the kindergarden. Maybe experiencing fascism in a more "in the flesh" way can teach you guys a lesson that the rest of the world is waiting for way too long for you to learn

[–] Umbrias@beehaw.org 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

kindergarden logic is hoping for immense suffering, genocide, and slavery, to "teach a lesson". kindergarden logic is thinking the us sliding into full blown fascism doesnt make the geopolitical landscape of the world far more oppressive. i recommend you think for half a second before openly advocating for genocide.

[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I don't think they advocated for it, I think they said, "now that you have it, learn from it".

[–] Umbrias@beehaw.org 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

by their comments, apparently the rest of the world has been hoping the us would fully fall to internal fascism and genocide its minorities like immigrants, trans people, political dissenters, and most likely far more. this is just advocacy for genocide.

[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I looked through their comments going back 2 months, and I can't find that. They are clearly very bitter and anti-US, but I don't see anything from them that is anti-minority. The US is en route to doing those things you listed, and yet I don't see us on the Left out using force to prevent it currently. I think they are just indelicately stating their hope that our current trajectory is enough to wake us up collectively as Americans from our ineffectiveness in opposing our government's evils abroad.

[–] Umbrias@beehaw.org 1 points 5 days ago

The comment directly above mine that you responded to has "a lesson the rest of the world has been waiting for you to learn". and the first comment is "hope you enjoy", among others. No, they arent directly stating they want the people being harmed to be genocided, but they are giddy at the idea and are acting like it's a good thing. indelicate, maybe, effectively advocation for genocide, yes, intended or not (i assume not).

leftists certainly are out in great numbers and more by the day, unprecedented protests that are working but it's not nearly enough, no.

[–] LoveAndDeathrock@beehaw.org 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Who is going to learn from this? The people who voted for this? The people whose entire narrative revolves around a sense of victimhood? Even as they're being wronged by this government they still don't get it. And people who are disproportionately affected by Trump's rule are not going to be WASP republican voters, they're going to be Black, brown, queer, disabled, immigrants, and so on.

Nothing is going to be learned here and the people most severely impacted by this nor did they want or deserve this. So chomping at the bit for "just desserts," comes off as quite misguided.

[–] FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

https://lemmy.ml/post/27770905

Tell me what this kid did to deserve that

[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Who is going to learn from this?

This video is blowing up, so it's not like only Beehaw users are going to see it. Plenty of Centrists and neolib democrats are seeing this behavior, and it has the potential to disabuse them of the notion that the US government is good. Will some of them look at it and just think, "anyone but Trump and this wouldn't happen"? Sure, but plenty will realize that this is the same government that did Rodney King, Kent State, Blair Mountain, etc (as well as all the international abuses and evil we enable and perpetrate), and it's just a matter of time before it turns on them.

So chomping at the bit for “just desserts,”

Once again, saying "look at what they're actively doing to you right now, that's what they've been doing to us non-Americans all along", is not advocating or wishing for that abuse, it's advocating and wishing for people to wake up to the abuse.

[–] FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The logic actually is like that: you made the world a shitpile, now its happening to you too. I hope you learn from it

Edit:

Here, for you https://lemmy.ml/post/27770905

[–] Umbrias@beehaw.org 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

im not sure you understand my and others' responses based on this. in the lead up to any genocide, do you think it makes sense to tell the soon to be slaughtered and enslaved, especially the ones who have been fighting against it, "hope you learn from this"? you are just advocating for cruelty against your political allies out of rightful anger at the perpetrators.

[–] FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

First, you are the one saying this will be a genocide. I think you are going to experience fascism. If you confuse those things, its understandable but you should inform yourself about better. For many years your country made hell all over the world and mostly nobody did anything to stop it. USAdians think that voting for klansmala herpes is fighting against fascism, as if whats happening in "israel" rn isnt fascism, as if she wasnt the one promoting the genocide in gaza. I hope you learn the lesson from the consequences of your (or the lack of) actions

[–] Umbrias@beehaw.org 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

the only thing im learning is what it feels like when uninformed people from the us comment on political events and trajectories in some country they barely skimmed the wikipedia article on.

[–] FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Youre up to some unpleasant surprises. Take care and beware of cops

[–] Umbrias@beehaw.org 1 points 5 days ago

informative advice, people in the us had no idea cops could be bad before, thank you. ill pass it along.

[–] derbis@beehaw.org 8 points 1 week ago

This is not the instance for trash talk

[–] Crotaro@beehaw.org 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Immediately downloaded the video just in case it gets taken down!

I'm German and my father is such a Trump fanboy, it's sickening. I used to immediately debunk the hyperlinks he'd send to facebook or group chats, but he's been pretty quiet to me lately. I have lost all hope of changing his stubborn mind until actual mass executions are committed, so I'm just collecting all this shit to throw in his face afterwards to at least get the satisfaction of showing him why I was against this coming regime long before mass executions.

[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I spent a semester in Niedersachsen in Gymnasium (for those unfamiliar with the German education system, there isn't just one type of secondary institution, though I can't imagine being an exchange student for Hauptschule), and the American education system still did a decent job of covering Hitler's rise, but with glaring holes.

Actually living there, you get a lot of context. Not that we were hanging out at the Rauchpavilion discussing the Third Reich or anything, but interactions in the '90s were still strongly informed by the Nazi era. A primary example is that anyone who claimed to be proud to be German was inherently ostracized.

All of this is ultimately throat clearing to arrive at: This is worse than Americans have been led to believe (in combination with declining education standards).

Much worse.

When you've been spending time among people whose parents lived through the Nazi era, you hear the sorts of stories we're now seeing hit the news daily. Daily. It doesn't get better from here.

[–] Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Let's be honest... Most of these people are so far gone that even mass executions with be normalized.

"He's only.executing the bad ones!“

[–] Crotaro@beehaw.org 1 points 5 days ago

Unfortunately, you're probably right

[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This might be the new high bar for scary action by this admin.

[–] remington@beehaw.org 17 points 1 week ago

Their first political prisoner, as far as I know, was Mahmoud Khalil.

[–] Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Fascists in action huh. We need more of this kind of footage.

We need to catch these fascist tripping in a George Floyd type incident. Get people upset enough to commit to action. This seems too calm for people to get enraged.

Her lawyer said: “We are unaware of her whereabouts and have not been able to contact her,” “No charges have been filed against Rumeysa to date that we are aware of.”

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

Very evil. Some irony in that they want to make it illegal for protesters to wear masks. Past any point of return for zionist fascism in America. Too much bipartisan unity in supporting it, and then "next they will come for some others, and opposition will still say nothing."