We went through this and story line 90 years ago … a wannabe dictator threatened people and people laughed at him as a loud mouthed blow hard.
Everyone kept laughing at him thinking that he wouldn’t go any further, every time he went too far.
It’s far easier to stop this insanity now, no matter how hard people might think it is, then to try to deal with it when it goes too far.
And no it doesn’t mean resorting to violence on anyone … people everywhere just have to speak up more, organize more, and tell their political leaders that they don’t want this and it has to stop.
The thing is that fascists don’t let you use the democratic process to keep them out. They chip away at it by eroding trust in courts, the law, institutions - anyone but them. Then they use those incremental gains in power to chip more and more until they can fully co-opt power.
I guess what I’m saying is if telling our leaders doesn’t work, options are limited.
The longer people wait, the less options there are … the longer people just don’t say or protest or shout out in the streets, the less likely they will be allowed to later on.
There is no need to wait until things go so far that violence is the only choice … the time to speak is now because if all this gets too carried away, at one point, no amount of speaking will matter any more. And the way things are progressing, everyone is waiting for the eventual end before they will actually say anything or protest anything or even speak up.
It’s sad to watch because it is just history repeating … everyone can see and understand it but no one seems to want to do anything about.
Oh, hold on. Let me go call Jim Jordan and tell him I don’t like this. I’m sure he’ll get on it right away.
Ooo, Trumpy scared
Problem is that a bunch of his supporters are going to take this as an excuse to murder people
Those people were probably going to do that anyway.
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This story is a hoax, in his speech it is obvious that he talks about a bloodbath for car manufacturers in the US against Chinese competition.
Not that obvious:
He added: “Now, if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a blood bath for the whole — that’s going to be the least of it. It’s going to be a blood bath for the country.”
That can be said, that he meant the auto industry the first time, and then “the most of it” will be the whole USA
Anyone who’s heard Trump speak before knows good and well that he does little tangents like that in the middle of his sentences. He doesn’t stay on topic and that was a completely different thought he just shoe horned in the middle of the sentence like he often does. He’s clearly not referring to the car industry.
He was talking about car manufacturers before and after that quote, if you isolate sentences it’s easy to make them sound like whatever you want.
You could say that he meant “It’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole auto industry – that’s going to be the least of it” and in that case country means country. But you can’t be sure because he didn’t finish his sentence— wait, where did we hear that
I never get why his critics do that. He says so much stupid shit, there’s absolutely no need to pull something out of context and discredit yourself.
🪙 You get a lemmy gold from me
The only blood that will be shed are from the obese red hat wearing mob who try to start shit.
He forgot his meds again didn’t he…
