Politics => The FSOA => Topic started by: RE on May 17, 2024, 12:34 PM
Title: What American Fascism Would Look Like
Post by: RE on May 17, 2024, 12:34 PM
Haven't yet read any of the articles in this series yet, but I can answer the question with 1 word. UGLY.
Considering the improvements that have been made with surveillance technology, "let me see your papers" of the Nazi era would seem like freedom. I can forsee a law all citizens being required to wear a body cam 24/7, with AI monitoring thee real time audio & video streams for any "Un-Amerikan" activity. The Diner will go from shadow banning to disappeared.
Title: - What American Fascism Would Look Like
Post by: K-Dog on May 17, 2024, 03:51 PM
The New Republic contends we do not have Fascism now, but that Trump will bring it. I can't agree. We already have fascism. Our defense industry controls the state. Trump did not start that, and we have a double dip of genocide, war, and exploitation right now. All with Trump gone.
But if we are getting into sophomoric role play then if Trump gets to be Hitler I want to be Albert Speer. And if their are allegations of slavery in my factories I will see...
Title: - What American Fascism Would Look Like
Post by: RE on May 17, 2024, 07:14 PM
The MIC has been in charge since 1776. The extermination of the aboriginal occupants, non stop wars from 1812, gunboat opening of Japan by Perry, Roosevelt's Rough Riders, 2 World Wars, Vietnam, MENA. Militarism doesn't necessarily mean Fascism though. All the colonial powers were Monarchies, not Fascist states.
Fascism has only been a definable political system since the early 1900s. When did the USA become the FSoA in your opinion?
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Title: First They Came for Columbia
Post by: RE on Mar 15, 2025, 05:59 AM
Definitely getting risky to be pro-Palestinian and anti-ethnic cleansing. Protesting now makes you a terrorist. Don't stand in the way of Trump Casinos on the new Gaza Riviera! Ship the Palestinians to Somalia. Load them in Conex and sail them down the Gulf of Suez.
Will Harvard, Yale or Princeton students and faculty grow a pair and stand up in solidarity with Columbia? Where's the grandchildren of the SDS and the Weathermen? Not Fascism Lite anymore.
Title: - What American Fascism Would Look Like
Post by: K-Dog on Mar 15, 2025, 09:52 AM
The Department of Education opened investigations into dozens of universities Friday, part of President Donald Trump's campaign to pressure the higher education world to fall in line with his administration.
But of course Trump does not want the department of education and is shutting it down right?
No, he is turning it into the Gestapo. Trump hates education, education tells stories he does not lik. trump is big brother and he does not like the original lyrics and must change them to his own.
"Under the spreading chestnut tree, There we sit both you and me, Oh, how happy we will be, Under the spreading chestnut tree." it used to be. Now it is Rosebud time (https://youtu.be/O4mQqVqRB7I) for democracy.
"Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me— There lie they, and here lie we Under the spreading chestnut tree." And everything belongs to the upper class.
The Trump administration has delivered an ultimatum to Columbia University. Permanently end federal funding unless the university cedes control of an international studies department and implements sweeping changes to other campus policies.
The university must immediately place its Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Department under "academic receivership for a minimum of five years."
No explanation of what academic receivership is but I think we can figure it out.
The Mofo must be fired. Trump is out of control and deranged.
And the Sultan Of SpaceX has to be taken off the welfare dole.
Title: - What American Fascism Would Look Like
Post by: RE on Mar 15, 2025, 12:36 PM
Basically, the Trump-Musk Dynamic Duo is the White Supremacist Racist goobermint the "Christian" Right Wing fanatics wet dream fantasy come true. What I find remarkable is that despite all the "checks & balances" we were taught in HS Civics classes protected the Amerikan system of goobermint from being flipped into an authoritarian Dictatorship, it is being completely demolished without so much as a shot being fired. No military Coup d'Etat, just a non-stop machine gun spread of Executive Orders and POOF!, all the legal rights and Constitutional protections we were taught we had are history.
He's been so successful with this approach on the National level, I'm curious how the rest of the world will react when he moves on to rolling over International law and tries to forcibly relocate the Palestinians and Annex Greenland? Will all the rest of the countries out there just sit back and let it happen? He's just about guaranteed to do both these things, he's telegraphed it pretty clearly.
So yea, he needs to be fired, but unless there is a major shift in CONgress, they're not gonna do it. The only other hope would be a Military coup d'etat, or maybe an Asteroid crashing on the White House.
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Title: - What American Fascism Would Look Like
Post by: K-Dog on Mar 15, 2025, 02:51 PM
The first rule of fight club is you don't talk about fight club. The rampant abuse and broken laws would certainly justify vigilantism in a court. Though the argument might not prevail. Luigi has paved the way. Much blood is already on the hands of these psychopaths.
Good speech, but the rule is not explicitly stated.
Here is the rule.
Title: - What American Fascism Would Look Like
Post by: Goldernen Oxernen on Mar 15, 2025, 03:37 PM
Dead guys don't count. Bill Shatner is the only one of those three still taking in air.
He is also Canadian and worried about being deported. I'd say there is a physical resemblance too. (https://chasingthesquirrel.com/doomstead/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gannett-cdn.com%2F-mm-%2F0070323d1308d7ebfe55a2ad0f7804c45c0993a0%2Fc%3D2-0-598-448%26amp%3Br%3Dx408%26amp%3Bc%3D540x405%2Flocal%2F-%2Fmedia%2F2016%2F01%2F21%2FTallahassee%2FTallahassee%2F635889881148186655-IMG-5962.JPG&hash=c6775ba78760f1c0a13089a154578a8ab4d31f1b) Resemblance in height and weight. The nose is different. (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d4/PubTThou01.jpg)
* Nightmare at 20,000 Feet, October 11, 1963, William Shatner played Robert Wilson.
Title: - What American Fascism Would Look Like
Post by: K-Dog on Mar 16, 2025, 09:14 AM
Quote from: K-Dog on May 17, 2024, 03:51 PMThe New Republic contends we do not have Fascism now, but that Trump will bring it. I can't agree. We already have fascism. Our defense industry controls the state. Trump did not start that, and we have a double dip of genocide, war, and exploitation right now. All with Trump gone.
But if we are getting into sophomoric role play then if Trump gets to be Hitler I want to be Albert Speer. And if their are allegations of slavery in my factories I will see...
I have contemplated matching up our current actors to their historical counterparts. I was thinking Elon matches up with Albert Speer for a while, but perhaps this is a better match.
Title: Trump moves to close down Voice of America
Post by: RE on Mar 16, 2025, 12:39 PM
Cross off Freedom of the Press along with Right to Assembly and Birthright Citizenship. You have Free Speech as long as you support Trump though.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvge4l109r3o
Add deportations without Due Process and arrests and detention without criminal charges.
Time to go international! Land the Marines on the beaches of Greenland! Bomb Montreal back to the Stone Age! Make Amerika Great Again!
Trump moves to close down Voice of America
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvge4l109r3o
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Title: When the physicists need burner phones, that’s when you know America’s changed
Post by: RE on Mar 29, 2025, 07:01 PM
Definitely going to see a brain drain under the Trump-Musk Fascist Oligarchy. It will be interesting also to see what else bessides being anti-genocide gets you deported? Against abortion? Fossil fuels? Off to El Salvador!
When the physicists need burner phones, that's when you know America's changed
Title: The rise of end times fascism
Post by: RE on Apr 17, 2025, 07:47 PM
A long and somewhat repetitive analysis of the descent into fascism. The level of detail makes it a worthwhile read despite the fact it needs an editor to cut it by about 50%.
Title: Multiple people in custody after pro-Palestinian demonstration at Columbia Universit
Post by: RE on May 07, 2025, 06:19 PM
(https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/rockcms/2025-05/250507-columbia-university-protest-arrest-ac-730p-193cd8.jpg) This guy just bought a free one way ticket to El Salvador
First real action since the Deportations began. One hopes for the sake of the protesters arrested they are 3 generation deep white kids. Preferably with squeaky clean doctor/lawyer/bizman dads. Otherwise the Trumpenator will drop them on the first plane to El Salvador, never to be heard from again. They're definitely challenging His Trumpness, so hopefully the organizers were able to recruit some White Bread protesters to staff the action. Even they are risking a minimum of expulsion.
IF they manage not to get deported, this should encourage more campus protests, which have been pretty well subdued by the fear & intimidation. Waiting for the blowback from the White House.
Hard not to notice that all the protesters arrested in this photograph are FEMALE. The story fails to mention this salient fact. Another story I read did mention it. I think the strategy being employed is that women are less likely to be deported. Also to demonstrate they are motivated by humanitarian reasons and don''t fit the typical profile of a terrorist in the mind of an Amerikan. Remains to be seen how his Trumpness deals with this.
Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students
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Harvard is the educational bastion of the upper class. Harvard is 'old' money. I searched for info on 'Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification', and the idea that Harvard is violating rules is ludicrous.
In the fall of empires the rich eat their own. In America there is a lot of old money for the Trump team to eat.
If I had a time machine I'd send Kristi Noem back about 500,000 years. Back to where she belongs. Send her back to when homo heidelbergensis cannibals hunted competing tribes for food with stone tools, wooden spears, and chipped flint scraping tools. Note the resemblance, she would fit in. Fucking dog killer.
(https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fgcdn%2Fauthoring%2Fauthoring-images%2F2024%2F04%2F30%2FUSAT%2F73509918007-20230909-t-013221-z-782958407-rc-2-p-43-ajgb-8-r-rtrmadp-3-usatrump.JPG%3Fcrop%3D5499%2C3094%2Cx0%2Cy286%26width%3D3200%26height%3D1801%26format%3Dpjpg%26auto%3Dwebp&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=53f2da4ff04222aef5272ceba3a3d0bb02b776d103169a290c65782fb0378de6) Homo heidelbergensis wearing makeup.
She and Marjorie Taylor Green have the cave woman look.
Title: - What American Fascism Would Look Like
Post by: RE on May 23, 2025, 12:54 AM
Yup. The oldest money in the FSoA. Founded 140 years before the FSoA. Founded before the Dutch founded New Amsterdam, later to be renamed New York when the English took it over. Most SCOTUS justices by far, 22 to 11 from Yale.
The main question here is whether they are gonna stick to the legal system or fix things the old fashioned way?
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Title: Judge blocks Trump administration’s ban on Harvard accepting international students
Post by: RE on May 23, 2025, 01:03 PM
Well, Trumpolini is certainly keeping the lawyers bizzy. Nice to be able to get your lawsuit heard in Federal Court the next day. So now how will His Trumpness re-retaliate? Can we just skip all these steps and go straight to the Black Bag Squad? This bizzness is getting old.
Judge blocks Trump administration's ban on Harvard accepting international students
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Title: Trump deploys 2,000 additional National Guard troops to Los Angeles
Post by: RE on Jun 19, 2025, 05:55 AM
This is fabulously convenient logic. Define immigration as a National Security issue. Thus, anywhere there are immigrants, NS is threatened. The POTUS is responsible for protecting the NS with military force if he deems it necessary. Therefore, the POTUS can deploy the military anywhere there are immigrants, which is everywhere but concentrated in Blue state Big Shities. Thus the POTUS can deploy military troops to patrol all Big Shities. This is the precedent that Trumpolini is setting, and the SCOTUS probably will buy it.
I'll bet His Trumpness deploys a unit of Marines to protect every ICE detention center and dispatch office complete with the grunts carrying M-16s loaded with full metal jacket ammo to deter the graffiti artists. Pretty soon the FSoA will look like Chile under Pinochet.
Trump deploys 2,000 additional National Guard troops to Los Angeles
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Title: Trump waits for the organic false flag, the kind that leaves no trace
Post by: K-Dog on Jun 19, 2025, 10:24 AM
That is why he has them sleeping on floors, to push them over the edge. He only needs one to flip out if the camera angle is right.
Title: Florida building 'Alligator Alcatraz' migrant detention centre in Everglades
Post by: RE on Jun 24, 2025, 09:09 AM
Looks like FL is destined to be the Buchenwald of the FSoA. They don't even need Gas Chambers and Ovens. Just feed the immigrants to the alligators. Or alternatively, deport them to a war zone.
Together, this should pretty effectively shut down the inflow of refugees, since I doubt many want to risk ending up even worse off then they are in their home countries. Gonna be pretty hard to find dishwashers and lettuce pickers though.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0rvq1eg8w9o
Florida building 'Alligator Alcatraz' migrant detention centre in Everglades
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is using a new mobile phone app that can identify someone based on their fingerprints or face by simply pointing a smartphone camera at them. The underlying system used for the facial recognition component of the app is ordinarily used when people enter or exit the U.S. Now, that system is being used inside the U.S. by ICE to identify people in the field.
The news highlights the Trump administration's growing use of sophisticated technology for its mass deportation efforts and ICE's enforcement of its arrest quotas. The document also shows how biometric systems built for one reason can be repurposed for another, a constant fear and critique from civil liberties proponents of facial recognition tools.
"Face recognition technology is notoriously unreliable, frequently generating false matches and resulting in a number of known wrongful arrests across the country. Immigration agents relying on this technology to try to identify people on the street is a recipe for disaster.
Congress has never authorized DHS to use face recognition technology in this way, and the agency should shut this dangerous experiment down," Nathan Freed Wessler, deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, told 404 Media in an email (https://www.404media.co/ice-is-using-a-new-facial-recognition-app-to-identify-people-leaked-emails-show/).
Title: Federal investigation finds Harvard violated civil rights law
Post by: RE on Jun 30, 2025, 05:33 PM
Big surprise. Of course the Fed investigators will find Harvard is antisemiitic, since it's the Fed that is making the accusation. Real impartiality here. Not. The whole concept is absurd, since probably 3/4s of the STEM professors who aren't Chinese are Jewish. As long as Israel continues to successfully define being anti-Israeli policy as automatically making you antisemitic this stupidity will continue. That canard has to be deconstructed and hammered on in every speech by everybody concerned with Palestinian genocide. The Isaeli state is the #1 Terrorist organization in the world, far more violent and deadly than Hamas. Their body count exceeds Hamas by at least 2 orders of magnitude.
Trumpolini is giving ICE a budget of $200B to set up one of these DEATH CAMPS in every state! Forget needing gas chambers and ovens, disease & malnutrition will do the job of killing the desaperecido, and they can dispose of the meat packages feeding the alligators in the swamp. Virtually no oversight and no medical care on site with access only by plane. The Trumpenator makes Hitler look like an amateur. Barely a ripple of outrage from the average Amerikan. Clearly we now know that morality is the leading edge of civilization collapse.
The Grand Opening of an American Concentration Camp
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Title: - What American Fascism Would Look Like
Post by: K-Dog on Jul 02, 2025, 03:43 PM
First Amendment advocates say they've never seen freedom of speech under attack the way it has been in Trump's second term.
Trump has threatened Democratic members of Congress with investigation for criticizing conservatives, pulled federal grants that include language it opposes, sanctioned law firms that represent Trump's political opponents and arrested the organizer of student protests that Trump criticized as "anti-Semitic, and anti-American.
And that is what we know about. What the Heritage Foundation is doing is far more than what we know about.
Your right to say something depends on what the administration thinks of it, and this is no free speech at all.
Who does it.
(https://duckduckgo.com/i/0d25ecc38e33c667.jpg)
Russell Vought (Director of the Office of Management and Budget) Oversees federal spending and agency budgets, including defunding programs deemed to engage in "anti-conservative censorship." Pushed to revoke federal advertising dollars from platforms like YouTube if they were accused of bias, leveraging the "Restoring Free Speech" executive order (Jan. 2025) to cut taxpayer funding for "censorship-enabling" entities.
Stephen Miller (Deputy Chief of Staff) Architect of hardline immigration and culture-war policies. Advocated for using the "Take It Down Act" (pending in Congress as of 2025) to pressure platforms to remove content critical of Trump, including under broad definitions of "non-consensual intimate imagery".
Pam Bondi (Attorney General) Led DOJ efforts to challenge tech platforms' moderation policies. Investigated YouTube under antitrust and Section 230 reform proposals, arguing its moderation constituted "anti-conservative editorial control" 69. Supported lawsuits against platforms for "censorship," mirroring Trump's 2021 lawsuits against Facebook and Google.
John Ratcliffe (CIA Director) Expanded surveillance and counter-misinformation programs. Pressured platforms to remove content labeled "foreign disinformation," which critics argued targeted left-leaning and anti-Trump voices disproportionately.
(https://duckduckgo.com/i/9670e0e565440697.jpg)
Kevin Roberts (Heritage Foundation President) Primary author of Project 2025, which called for reclassifying social media as "common carriers" to limit their moderation powers. Lobbied for Schedule F to replace federal tech regulators with Trump loyalists who would enforce stricter speech controls.
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak for me.
Martin Niemöller
Title: Trump’s Budget Just Passed the Senate. Brace for a Massive Increase in ICE Raids.
Post by: RE on Jul 04, 2025, 05:18 AM
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will have a budget for more officers than the FBI. The nation's immigration detention centers will have more funding than the federal Bureau of Prisons.
Remember also, the FSoA ALREADY incarcerates more people than Stalin did in Russia. It's already the biggest prison system the world has ever seen.
"It is hard for people to imagine what immigration enforcement is going to look like once all this money goes. It already looks really bad and scary, like we're turning into a police state and surveillance state. The orders of magnitude are going to be multiplied."
Not hard for me to imagine. Just think of the Gestapo in Casablanca in 1942, but worse.
Trump's Budget Just Passed the Senate. Brace for a Massive Increase in ICE Raids.
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Title: What American Fascism Would Look Like
Post by: K-Dog on Jul 04, 2025, 03:19 PM
I wish you were exaggerating. I know you are not.
How was an entire people groomed to serve one of the most evil regimes of modern history. What happened in those first few years. How did 'they' do it.
There is history on the subject.
"Volksgemeinschaft is a German term meaning "people's community" or "national community," which was popularized by the Nazi Party to promote a racially unified society where individual interests were subordinate to the collective interests of the nation. This concept aimed to eliminate social divisions and create a sense of unity among the German people, while excluding those deemed "undesirable" based on race or ideology."
The Quiet Revolution: How the Nazis Transformed German Society Before the Holocaust Began
When Adolf Hitler rose to power in 1933, Germany did not suddenly plunge into the horror we now associate with the Nazi regime. Instead, the transformation was slow, calculated, and disturbingly quiet. In those first few years, Hitler did not lead with antisemitic vitriol. Instead, he orchestrated a broad cultural and political realignment under the guise of restoring national pride, economic order, and unity. This calculated restraint helped normalize Nazi ideology, paving the way for later atrocities.
At the heart of this effort was the concept of Volksgemeinschaft — a word meaning "people's community." On the surface, it evoked images of unity, equality, and shared purpose. In a nation wounded by the Treaty of Versailles, economic depression, and political chaos, it was a seductive promise. But the term had a darker intent: to construct a society defined not just by unity, but by exclusion — to separate the so-called "true Germans" from those deemed racially or ideologically impure.
Yet contrary to Nazi propaganda, the average German in 1933 did not harbor violent antisemitic sentiments. Jews were neighbors, shopkeepers, veterans of World War I. Many Germans saw no reason to turn against them. Hitler, ever the tactician, quickly realized this and temporarily downplayed his rhetoric against Jews. Public references to antisemitism faded. The focus shifted instead to economic recovery, infrastructure projects like the Autobahn, and job creation — all designed to win trust and gratitude.
This period was critical. With the Jews out of the immediate spotlight, the Nazis began social engineering from the inside out: reorganizing education, rewriting textbooks, infiltrating youth organizations, and purging civil institutions of dissent. People were rewarded for conformity, and encouraged to report neighbors who spoke against the regime. It wasn't hatred that took root — it was obedience.
This subtle reshaping of moral and social norms set the stage for what would later come. After the population had internalized the logic of obedience to the state, exclusion of the "other", and sacrifice of individual will for national unity, it was easy to activate hatred. A few zealots could be counted on to lead the charge. Break shop windows, burn synagogues, and assault Jewish citizens. Once that spell of normalcy was broken, bystanders followed. Once socially conditioned, they felt nothing wrong with believing and doing what they were told.
By the time the Nazis resumed their antisemitic campaign in 1935 with the Nuremberg Laws, their moral groundwork had been laid. The German people had been reshaped into passive participants for a regime that demanded loyalty above conscience. Obedience for the public good. Morals carefully designed to manipulate a population.
The first quiet years, are essential to understanding the Nazi rise. It wasn't rage that made the rise possible. It was manipulation, gradualism, and a deliberate erosion of independent thought. The chilling lesson is that they succeeded.
Denying that America is going Fascist is academic. The signs are there.
We do not have armed gangs roaming the streets, instead we have substitutes that the Austrian painter/bully who sketched the design for the 'Peoples Car' could not afford. Fascists make promises. Then when they can't deliver, they blame somebody else. Done artfully the public then follows their leader into doom.
Who will be the next scapegoat? How artfully will it be done?
This one is from the Holocaust Museum. Not quite as detailed, it covers more ground than the other. A view from a higher altitude.
Title: No time, no lawyer, no rights: ICE memo sparks panic over third-country deportations
Post by: RE on Jul 14, 2025, 05:23 PM
Basically, combined with the huge budget being dedicated to hiring new Gestapo to staff the ICE legion of masked thugs, absolutely anyone can be desaperecido on a whim, with virtually no recourse. Not just by order from Trumpolini or by mistake, but by any ICE agent with a grudge or desire to get rid of somebody. Say he has the hots for your wife. He and his team can drop in at your job, whisk you to the airport and before the day is out you're standing on the side of the road in cartel country in Mexico or a war zone in Sudan.
Drop a comment on Instagram criticizing Israel or a joke about his his mental acuity goes viral, 12 hours later you're in Nigeria with no passport and an empty wallet.
Trump makes Stalin and ICE makes the KGB look like amateurs.
Title: Big Budget Act Creates a ‘Deportation Industrial Complex’
Post by: RE on Aug 11, 2025, 11:22 AM
Deportation Industrial Complex. Perfect. The new Gestapo will be referred to as DICs.
Can't wait to see the DICs who apply for this job. Probably will come from the same applicant pool as the TSA gets, except to get enouugh of them they'll have to lower the standards below the requirements for a job with the TSA.
Title: What American Fascism looks like
Post by: K-Dog on Aug 11, 2025, 12:25 PM
Every time I go through TSA I have to count on a few extra minutes in the scanning machine so the TSA agents can admire the size of my dick.
It looks like these two have experienced the thrill.
* TSA agents can get overtime as plain clothes gang-stalkers if someone who owns their own political website gets uppity. They can do gang-stalking. ICE agents will get the same perks.
Not exactly plain clothes. The gang stalker uniform is a plain bleached white shirt with black dress pants. By the time you figure out that leaving your phone at home is the only way to not have them get to where you are going before you do, you have already been terrorized.
And if they also know someone in common with you, they can bust themselves should the 'small world' connection gets exposed. That is how you find out where they come from.
Title: The Normalizartion of Amerikan Fascism
Post by: RE on Sep 18, 2025, 11:24 AM
The transition to a Military Dictatorship is just about complete. Combined with the massive expansion of ICE Agents (Gestapo), the National Guard takes on the role of the SS as the miilitary arm of internal political policing that insures the population follows the Party Line and votes correctly. On election day with ICE Agents at every polling station, non-white citizens will at the very least be detained if not deported, making going out to vote a risky move. Fear is already sweeping through the sanctuary cities, can you imagine what it will bee like with troops armed with automatic rifles traveling in APCs are patrolling the poor neighborhoods?
Even if Trumpolini himself doesn't run for POTUS, dollars to doughnuts Don Jr. or Baron Trump will be on the ballot as the figurehead, with Daddy pulling the strings. Remember Papa Doc and Baby Doc in Haiti?
Time has run out to stop the transition via the courts or the electoral system. Even the window dressing of "freedom" is finished in the FSoA.
Trump is deploying the National Guard to Memphis. Experts worry it's becoming normal
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Title: - What American Fascism Would Look Like
Post by: TDoS on Sep 18, 2025, 03:10 PM
Quote from: K-Dog on Aug 11, 2025, 12:25 PMEvery time I go through TSA I have to count on a few extra minutes in the scanning machine so the TSA agents can admire the size of my dick.
So....just the females, or the males as well? So....maybe there are gay folks taking over TSA!!!!! Someone wanna tell the Trumpster so he can get real he-men in there instead!
Out of curiosity, you had mentioned your environmental bona fides by being so enthusiastic as to buy...a heat pump....shouldn't you be avoiding flying like the plague?
Title: - What American Fascism Would Look Like
Post by: RE on Sep 18, 2025, 06:15 PM
Ever use a public urinal? Shower in the HS locker room? Straight guys are always comparing dick size. Girls don't have to be lezzies to compare boob size either.
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Title: - What American Fascism Would Look Like
Post by: TDoS on Sep 18, 2025, 08:11 PM
Yes. I assume most folks would have at one time or another.
Quote from: REShower in the HS locker room?
6 days a week in high school through 3 sport seasons, sure.
Quote from: REStraight guys are always comparing dick size.
Shit really? Maybe in NYC special schools for Illuminati wanna-be's but in the private school I went to nobody seemed to give a shit about that at all. Getting into Annapolis was a big deal, maybe rich folk are less concerned with the size of everyone else's johnson than Illuminati wanna-be's?
Quote from: REGirls don't have to be lezzies to compare boob size either. RE
Don't know girls who compare boob size either. I don't doubt they do, as I have no doubt guys have this thing with their Johnsons.
What does any of this have to do with anything? Other than K-Dog says he has a big Johnson and doesn't mind announcing it to folks as though it matters to someone besides him? And the wife I guess.
I'm more interested in his environment credentials seemingly clashing with his transportion habits.
Title: - What American Fascism Would Look Like
Post by: RE on Sep 19, 2025, 12:08 AM
It's an invasion of privacy issue. Kdog was simply using his abnormally immense sausage as an example. ;D
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If anyone is going to talk about my sausage it is going to be me.
I should send TDOS to the cooler for for this. It with "environment credentials seemingly clashing with his transportion habits" beg for a three day vacation. But I am not going to give his ass the three day suspension thing for these blatant privacy violations this time.
I'm bigger than that.
Title: - What American Fascism Would Look Like
Post by: TDoS on Sep 19, 2025, 04:27 PM
QuoteMakes me a little nervous, posting among men all fascinated with their own equipment.
There are other things you could be doing. Many other things.
Of course. Testing out the new (to me) two wheeler after the new battery went in, double check the drain and fill bolts for the shaft drive (changed fluid two days ago), tested the new grip covers without wearing gloves, no finger tingle on the interstate success, new brake fluid in ol' reliable for a 4000 mile trip (thinking the NASA center in Huntsville), plugs and fuel filter, etc etc.
All of this today.
Goodness...what do you think I am, someone trapped without mobility or thinking of my next environmentally friendly home improvement exercise? I HATE home improvement stuff. I make the kid mow the lawn! I am putting a cover on the outside compressor in a couple weeks maybe. My total involvement this year with house crap.
So not COULD be doing.....HAVE BEEN doing. Tomorrow its tires on the American Iron Mileage Monster for that trip. Engine oil and transfer case and rear differential on the little turbo AWD, probably putting it away within a month, want mostly new fluids in it for storage.
Title: - What American Fascism Would Look Like
Post by: RE on Sep 19, 2025, 11:01 PM
That I know.I'm even more safe because you aren't going anywhere any time soon, and if K-Dog tries to drive here the likelihood of his cage getting to me without needing shipped back to The Fatherland for repairs are slim.
Quote from: REI'd be more concerned about men concerned with the equipment of other men. RE
I'll admit it is a bit weird, the fascination you two have with your Johnsons. But between all us senior citizens, I appear to be the one still traveling and functioning at full capacity in planes, trains, automobiles, motorcycles and working at full professional capacity.
Maybe after I spin down in all these categories I'll develop a Johnson fascination....for lack of much else to do...?
Title: - What American Fascism Would Look Like
Post by: RE on Sep 20, 2025, 12:28 PM
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Title: - What American Fascism Would Look Like
Post by: TDoS on Sep 20, 2025, 05:52 PM
Wow. I was reading some of your tomes over at peakoil.com, how the loquacious have become....video meme posters?
I presume it is wearing, this thing called time? I was reading that WordPress thing where you tried to kickstart...something.....and enunciated occasional bursts of what appeared to be honesty, hopes you had in the past that didn't come to fruition.
I get it, all of us are decades older from the "old" days where suckers for doom and endtimes were green and eager to learn, and what was once what appeared to be endless potential to milk them for some fame, fortune, cash....reality happened and it wasn't what was hoped.
For some anyway. Peak oil made me....and turned into a joke nearly every "expert" you ever dredged up.
I imagine after some of the recent upgrades blamed on the MIB you and k-Dog hvae made sure that you have sub-forums that cannot be seen by all, where you can discuss only the topics you want, only the way you want them discussed, without a meaningful disagreement to be found.
Did you ever think your shot at a result of something..meaningful....on the internet and you big brain would land you were you have? The SUN Foundation, monetizing the internet like others...some of whom weren't even groomed by the Illuminati!! I still giggle when I write down you claiming that one.
I wish I could visit you again, the Spartansburg trip was an alignment of my travel stars, but I haven't been to Anchorage for at least a decade now. I roam the L48 at will, have driven to Alaska a couple of times before but there are still places down here I haven't walked, motorcycled, camped, driven or been amazed at. Plenty of left coast, which is terribly seductive without needing to go back to Alaska.
Maybe I'll just fly, get a rental like I did once, drive around. Seward was beautiful. I want to go to Homer as well. Skagway? Denali if weather permits, Fairbanks, the college in Anchorage where they've asked for my presence before...fond memories. Juneua maybe? On a boat?
Too bad you didn't seem to have much of an urge to wander every chance you had while the RV was running, rather than wasting decades on internet bullshit sessions.
Hell, I've never lived in Alaska but have memories doing exactly that.
Headed north into Antigun Pass on the longest day of the year, at around 2AM. 2004. What a waste, to live in such an interesting place and barely ever leave town. Might run out of lighter fluid to start a campfire and freeze to death or something? ;D
(https://i.imgur.com/6Ms2tHA.jpeg)
Title: - What American Fascism Would Look Like
Post by: RE on Sep 20, 2025, 06:55 PM
Mainly, my neck doesn't like keyboarding, particularly since it takes so long these days. Lack of interesting feedback exacerbates the problem. So I just drop on short comments on happenings on the road to ruin.
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Title: - What American Fascism Would Look Like
Post by: TDoS on Sep 20, 2025, 07:59 PM
I don't get it. How are keyboarding and neck related? Did I miss a medical update at some point?
Quote from: RELack of interesting feedback exacerbates the problem. So I just drop on short comments on happenings on the road to ruin.
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Well, lack of audience would seem to contribute to feedback of any type.
Title: - What American Fascism Would Look Like
Post by: RE on Sep 20, 2025, 10:18 PM
My spinal fusion was in the C3-C5 Vertebrae. Further deterioration of the intervertebral disk cartilage and muscular atrophy limits the amount of time I can hold my head upright in position for keyboarding. I need to spend most of my time leaned back with my head supported.
The solution is to go back to podcasting. Kdog has been working on creating a platform that will incorporate video with a chat function that also accepts call-ins. I've been waiting for that to be ready.
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Title: - What American Fascism Would Look Like
Post by: TDoS on Sep 21, 2025, 07:27 AM
Quote from: RE on Sep 20, 2025, 10:18 PMMy spinal fusion was in the C3-C5 Vertebrae. Further deterioration of the intervertebral disk cartilage and muscular atrophy limits the amount of time I can hold my head upright in position for keyboarding. I need to spend most of my time leaned back with my head supported.
Well shit. My condolences. I must have missed this being mentioned along the way.
Quote from: REThe solution is to go back to podcasting. Kdog has been working on creating a platform that will incorporate video with a chat function that also accepts call-ins. I've been waiting for that to be ready.
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Will it be much different from the Youtube videos, some of those had folks calling in, and commentary/chat stuff as well.
Title: - What American Fascism Would Look Like
Post by: RE on Sep 21, 2025, 11:14 AM
I haven't discussed it. Residents are always complaining about their aches and pains, and it gets annoying to listen to. So I don't bother with chatting up the progressive decrepitude, just major events when they happen.
The new platform should be more interactive with viewers and not dependent on Utube.
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Title: - What American Fascism Would Look Like
Post by: K-Dog on Sep 21, 2025, 03:36 PM
Surly collects interesting articles articles in his newsletter. He has been at it for a while, and I am importing his collection into the Diner.
If you click on the globe in the upper right you can see the new Diner Doomscroll. My new work in progress.
I filter out dead links and direct links to websites - and You-Tube videos. I do not add an article card to the Diner Doomscroll unless it has a publication date which I can find or figure out. If an article can't be dated it is useless.
It is getting popular to neglect to date material and nothing in You Tube is dated in a meaningful way. Idiocracy in action, and I will not be part of it. Dating material is important, and websites that do not date content at all deny reality, they are islands apart, and they belong in fantasy land.
I nix other articles, not many, that I consider propaganda. I and other moderators can do that. I added a couple of cards of my own, but mostly going through all of Surly's choices for 2025 has been a big chore. So far there are 8005 articles in the database, and 15 are chosen at random by the refresh button.
A right-click selection over an article card opens a menu.
I just finished adding the publication date to all 8005 articles. Getting the articles in is only the beginning.
Title: - What American Fascism Would Look Like
Post by: K-Dog on Sep 21, 2025, 03:54 PM
QuoteI appear to be the one still traveling and functioning at full capacity in planes, trains, automobiles, motorcycles and working at full professional capacity. - TDOS
You are a black kettle, in a misplaced attempt at shaming me you were questioning my transportation choices a few days ago.
Do what you want to do, but why the hell would I want to work at 'full professional capacity'. At this point in my life, that would be stupid. Been there and done that.
Concerning 'transportation choices' I was prompted to add a new article card.
The Role of Individual Responsibility in the Transition to Environmental Sustainability Which can be found using the edit menu and the 'search by title' option under the magnifying glass. First select the title above, and then hover over any card entry and press the edit selection in the right click drop down menu. Select title using the card title icon and paste in the title you copied. Then do a search with the magnifying glass (search by title). The card should load and using the 'Show Card' option will add it to the top of the article choices as if it was the first card found in a reload.
Title: - What American Fascism Would Look Like
Post by: TDoS on Sep 21, 2025, 06:35 PM
I could care less about your transportation choices, after all you are apparently a cager and therefore something to be avoided, likely to be dangerous to those not protected by said cage.
What I believe I DID do was comment that someone who claims environmental credit for buying a heat pump apparently flies by airplane often enough to offset said environment credit.
And noted the inconsistency is all.
Quote from: K-DogDo what you want to do, but why the hell would I want to work at 'full professional capacity', at this point in my life that would be stupid. Been there and done that.
Of course. And my response is why in the hell would I NOT continue to work at full professional capacity because it is FUN! Exciting! I have plenty of vacation time available, more than I usually use, when I'm not working but have a terribly interesting, no one has ever thought of it before let alone solved it problem to tackle, it is like...crossword puzzles! Getting a new degree in a different topic, if I really dig down into particulars of a different field. Ride the motorcycle! (A good ride this evening!). I mean, I've seen what retirement can do to some folks. It is like...you retire.....maybe visit China or something, bother the kids, and then...die.
You do appear to write in an irritated manner at times, in what some call the "golden years". The last one I recall was the danish and coffee and gasoline thing because you work part time in some way that doesn't sound worthy of your professional experience and stated education.
Quote from: K-DogConcerning 'transportation choices' I was prompted to add a new article card.
The Role of Individual Responsibility in the Transition to Environmental Sustainability Which can be found using the edit menu and the 'search by title' option under the magnifying glass. First select the title above, and then hover over any card entry and press the edit selection in the right click drop down menu. Select title using the card title icon and paste in the title you copied. Then do a search with the magnifying glass (search by title). The card should load and using the 'Show Card' option will add it to the top of the article choices as if it was the first card found in a reload.
Yeah, I don't even know what these "cards" are. Are they important?
Me, I'm driving for an hour or two this evening to get to an official dark sky location, because it is a new moon and cloud cover it light. Last time I tried this in Arches NP the damn town lights were visible just enough to deduct from seeing the Milky Way.
And I get to do this and not even be retired! And I'll be working at 6AM tomorrow because....there are cool things to discover and reveal and collect accolades for.
Title: - What American Fascism Would Look Like
Post by: RE on Sep 21, 2025, 11:52 PM
Quote from: TDoS on Sep 21, 2025, 06:35 PMAnd I get to do this and not even be retired! And I'll be working at 6AM tomorrow because....there are cool things to discover and reveal and collect accolades for.
Bully for you! What a wonderful life you have!
As annoying as it is hearing my fellow residents moaning and groaning about their various aches and pains, your incessant bragging about how interesting and fulfilling your latter years are is even more grating. My next door neighbor who has a lot of problems excreting let me know in passing at the smoking gazebo that he had a huge and enjoyable shit today. I find your daily details of your existence almost as interesting.