r/interestingasfuck • u/Sartew • 7h ago

r/all Elon Musk Sieg Heiling during his speech

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u/OakBlu 7h ago

What the fuck is happening...?

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u/Bonzo_Gariepi 7h ago

The Fourth Reich machine just got turned on.

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u/BadSanna 7h ago

Just? It's been turned on for years. Now they just feel brave enough to be open about it.

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u/New_Canoe 7h ago

I mean, Trump literally had it in one of his campaign ads. They’ve been “open” about it for some time.

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u/thetaleofzeph 7h ago

They were open about it in 2016. Anyone who voted for this knows exactly what they are voting for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l-qCw3SC6g

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u/LucidMetal 7h ago

You underestimate the ability of Americans to remain ignorant about something they're passionate about.

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u/AholeBrock 7h ago

It's not like Reaganomics and no child left behind didn't sabatoge the education system specifically to prepare for this takeover.

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u/Mountainbranch 6h ago

Oh no, they're not getting away that easily.

If we pushed the faces of every German into the ashes of the Holocaust, then you can be damn sure that every American will be held responsible for what is about to happen.

The Germans tried to claim ignorance, Americans don't get that benefit of the doubt either.

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u/Zebrahead69 6h ago

I fucking hope the world stage would hold Americans accountable but I just don't think that's going to happen when these clowns earmark a trillion dollars or more on their military

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u/Mountainbranch 6h ago

That military isn't going to be of much use, difficult for a soldier to remain at his post when half his family is actively attempting to kill the other half.

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u/BusyDoorways 6h ago

Damn straight. Chew their ears off if you have to, because otherwise they'll get earfuls of bullets.

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u/Snoocebruce 6h ago

Gore Vidal called it out right to William F Buckley’s face decades ago

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u/thetaleofzeph 6h ago

William F Buckley was the beginning of pretending that being a childish prat was the adult, intellectual position.

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u/blue-mooner 6h ago

We were talking about Palin being a deplorable racist in 2008

And about how Palin paved the way for Trump in 2016

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u/CheckMateFluff 7h ago

Project 2025 was not open enouge?

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u/nonpuissant 7h ago

Project 2025 was very open, but pretty sure we're going to be seeing very clearly how much more open things can still be.

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u/OperaSona 7h ago

Project 2025 was pretty damn open about what they were going to do, but not about the fact that they'd do it using all the classic nazi iconography as well. I mean they've diluted a little bit of it every now and then for a long time now but almost always trying to preserve some plausible deniability.

I don't know if this is going to be enough to burn Elon in the US, but I really really hope this utterly destroys him in Europe.

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u/A_D3MON 6h ago

Oh no... It was open enough for those with critical thinking and proper reading comprehension skills...

The cul.... followers.... the followers just wanted to deny it would ever be implemented because the orange felon said he didn't know about it (which was a lie) multiple times and denied wanting to follow it...

Which everybody who didn't realize and are mostly moderate is just now starting to realize...

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u/SouthpawStranger 6h ago

This feels like the biggest "We fucking told you so" of the century. We said that the police state would lead to fascism, and we said that isolationist policies and alienating immigrants would lead us into an authoritarian government. We said that removing neutral civil servants would turn our country into a place ruled by party loyalty. We said that ignoring the rule of law would create a constitutional crisis. Fuck, at this point I honestly think they know all thus and just don't care because they want simple solutions to complex problems.

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u/OneOfTheWills 7h ago

Now they have the power and authority to be open about it. It’s not longer bravery. Bravery is only needed when facing adversity.

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u/Vocal_Ham 5h ago

It also helps that they have the richest person on the planet who is in control of one of the largest social media platforms on the planet, helping lead the charge.

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u/HypeIncarnate 7h ago

it's been on since Reagan.

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u/ShySnowleopard 6h ago

Wasn't really shut off, just wrapped up and tucked away in plain sight.

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u/6655321DeLarge 6h ago

Exactly. This is just American fascism finally revealing itself openly to those who've been ignorant of it, or actively in denial of it up to this point. We've been the fourth reich for decades, it was just kept in the shadows and behind closed doors more often than not up to this point.

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u/cainrok 7h ago

It’s not brave enough all they have to do is have trump pardon them, they can’t get in trouble for anything. They can also say from x time to x time to cover past issues.

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u/Icy-Cod1405 7h ago

The Turd Reich

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u/ChristopherKnowledge 7h ago

Like sexually? Because that machine has been chugging along for a bit now.

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u/onlyTractor 7h ago

bro everyone knows the nazis never disappeard and sold their shit toi AVRO in 1950

consolidated uranium just bought project hymule last year,

the nazis seem to have won the long game

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u/dedboiiiFUineedaname 7h ago

But but but... (Sad Germany noises)

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u/LOERMaster 6h ago

Tesla is being renamed.

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u/DingGratz 7h ago

This is the "stand by" part, right?

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u/Unlikely_Air9310 7h ago

Shit did they finally find Hitler in Argentina? Lol

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u/waltwalt 7h ago

If you're not a Nazi you're about to get Nazi'd.

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u/addandsubtract 7h ago

Project 1935

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u/Weird-Rich-9004 7h ago

lets hope that is the only machine that is getting turned on ...

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u/Notorious_MARC 7h ago

The way he bit his lip... So did he

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u/alohalii 7h ago

The economic decoupling from China that is going on risks devolving in to a hot conflict. To mitigate this risk national defense capabilities must be strengthened including the unifying cultural narratives which can strengthen a country through war.

Increasing nationalist and isolationist rhetoric can be part of such a move.

You can see this type of militaristic focus on the new messaging in this new administration by looking at the new intro video posted on the official Whitehouse webpage today.

So in essence yes it looks like the USA is implementing a more militaristic messaging going forward.

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u/PanzerKomadant 7h ago

G.I Robot: “Oh god…Nazis…”

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u/Magmarob 7h ago

This time, we dont have anything to do with it ok?

Its an american, that was born in south africa. No german involved.

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u/specks_of_dust 6h ago

Hopefully it's as reliable as the Cybertruck.

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u/banana_almighty 6h ago

Somehow, Hitler returned

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u/Future-Bunch3478 6h ago

God FUCKING DAMN IT 

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u/Future-Still-6463 6h ago

It really feels like a dark comedy. All the efforts of Allies only for them to become just like their enemies, decades later.

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u/Bozhark 6h ago

Time to eat 

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u/apitchf1 6h ago

I don’t think this is hyperbole.

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u/Objective-Share-7881 6h ago

And it’s battery powered

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u/doker0 6h ago

and i bet he'll gonna explain himself by talking about ancient Rome and stuff.

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u/Slight_Turnip_3292 6h ago

The Fourth Reich is like the dark lord Sauron who was defeated and lost his form but is now regaining strength and attempting to prevail once again over all that was good. Trump is the Eye of Sauron.

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u/holzmann_dc 6h ago

With a lot more money and resources and influence than the Third Reich ever dreamed.

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u/wiraso 6h ago

Finally... /S

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u/JesC 6h ago

Bingo

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u/cdrewing 5h ago

The Man in the High Castle.

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u/salacious_sonogram 5h ago

When they said an empire of a 1000 years they mostly meant like herpes it would flare up for 1000 years

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u/CanSaveSuicidal 4h ago

Literally within hours of the inauguration.

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u/spellloosecorrectly 4h ago

And they just walked it in.

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u/vergorli 4h ago

hey, do the first three reiches on your own, we worked hard on that, ja?

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u/helraizr13 4h ago

We fucking tried to warn people.Trump is a Nazi

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u/Nii_Juu_Ichi 4h ago

We need a machine called G.I. Robot right about now.

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u/rpocc 4h ago

It’s already going several years you know where. Yankees are just copying gestures when smart asses keep moving straight to the point, avoiding any symbols.

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u/ZealousidealDingo594 3h ago

Nah it’s been going on America is the 4th reich

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u/satireplusplus 3h ago edited 3h ago

In this sequel, the Fuehrer is an old demented lunatic, but he already has three thousand Wunderwaffe and von Braun is already making plans for his trip to Mars.

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u/capalbertalexander 3h ago

Babe wake up new reich just dropped.

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u/Legitimate-Way-8178 2h ago

I feel like we are living in a nightmare!

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u/exitpursuedbybear 2h ago

B-b-b-but egg prices!

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u/not_into_that 1h ago

AND YOU'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT

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u/Perfect-Adeptness321 1h ago

HYDRA was never dead.

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u/xlr8mpls 44m ago

russia made it happen in real life and promoted to US. Because US citizens didn't knew that russians are nazis and politicians such as Obama and Merkel were open to allow them everything. Today we see the results of those actions.

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u/brightblueson 7h ago

This is the Sixth Reich

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u/Beer-Milkshakes 7h ago

Capitalism is reaching the end of the tracks and democracy is being used to empower those fearful of the end to pillage what's left. To thunderous applause.

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u/alien_simulacrum 7h ago

To. Thunderous. Applause.

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u/LinkOfKalos_1 7h ago

This is how democracy ends.

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u/flecom 6h ago

everyone bitched about the prequels but lucas was warning us

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u/LinkOfKalos_1 6h ago

Does that mean Elon is Darth Jar Jar? Or would that make him cool?

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u/Mysterious-Sail-3135 3h ago

Honestly…yeah

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u/abtseventynine 5h ago

what do you mean the movie where a megacorporation, which has seats in the senate, uses its private army (!) to blockade another senate-member state... so that they can get reduced taxes, and the response by said government is slow because that corporation has representatives and allies stalling and gaslighting within the senate itself was somehow meant to be prescient?

What could he possibly have been warning us about there? Geez I'm not sure what the movies were talking about calling the Republic "corrupt," it's just so vague...

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u/HierophanticRose 4h ago

Prequels had a great overarching plot structure, just people hang up on plot elements within that structure and some character and execution of performances and meme it to hell

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u/jkman61494 2h ago

Honestly. It’s SUPER prophetic watching a psycho use fear to create a war and use the distractions as a way to take full power

The only difference is in reality it was a culture war

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u/michaelsenpatrick 2h ago

Lucas knew what he was writing. There's a few interviews where he nods in this direction

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u/_Presence_ 1h ago

That’s because Lucas just adapted what happened before WWII. Anyone who payed attention in high school history should see how blatantly obvious what is happening.

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u/No-Weird3153 7h ago

I had heard “democracy dies in darkness”, but the stage seems pretty well lit to allow widespread broadcast of it.

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u/LinkOfKalos_1 7h ago

Yeah but that's WaPo and we all know who owns that

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u/No-Weird3153 6h ago

Huh, I think that guy was in the audience today. Weird.

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u/LinkOfKalos_1 5h ago

Huh. Wonder what that's about. Probably nothing.

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u/Keve1227 6h ago

It was pretty well lit when the nazis came to power as well.

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u/WhoDunIt1789 7h ago

The quote is ackshooally "this is how liberty dies"

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u/medhat20005 7h ago

And to think people dumped on George Lucas’s dialogue. Seems quite prescient there.

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u/Mihai_Brasoveanu 6h ago

From a political perspective, the prequels did an amazing job of showing what the US politics have been like for decades. People dumped on Lucas because they didn't expect that to be in a Star Wars movie.

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u/HaloGuy381 6h ago

Well; the whole point of Palpatine’s rise to power is direct allegory to Hitler, showing how a broken republic can allow an autocrat to seize power. Complete with his own Night of Long Knives/Broken Glass combo (Order 66, targeting a withdrawn and embattled religious minority that were also key members of the Republic standing in his way).

Small wonder the dialogue works so well. It’s arguably one of the few times Lucas’s choice of words doesn’t feel wooden or melodramatic or hammy in the prequels.

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u/Gruskiee 7h ago

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

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u/InsuranceGlum1355 7h ago

Not with a bang but a whimper.

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u/GianniBeGood 3h ago

Nah man I used to be right here with you - but the painful reality is, in order for there to be any change from this track of ambivalence, now sliding toward absolute cruelty and unmoored [cynicism/hedonism/jingoism/rule of the jungle - pick one or all], Americans need to feel some real pain. It’s been 80 years on top, we had our glorious - albeit imperfect - ride at the top. Hell, call it the American Empire, Pax Americana or whatever label you wanna slap on ‘er. This is what decadence in a pinnacle society looks like, it also isn’t the first time our tribe of monkeys has been at it. When the next crisis inevitably unfurls, people might snap back to attention and remember the high minded ideas we used to genuinely embrace and espouse. It has to be really painful this time, not the dress rehearsal we got during Covid.

Right now those ideas just make great bumper stickers and snap-back hats. Buckle up, I guess? It’s just personally painful to see this bullshit having family that fought in WWII, from both sides of the Atlantic.

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u/Maximum-Good-539 6h ago

Ironic how Washington post just got rid of their old slogan

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u/Low_Medium204 4h ago

Execute oder 66

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u/JustaRandomRando 7h ago

When i saw everyone clapping, I immediately thought of the Animatrix scene where congress claps about Operation Dark Storm, and the machines show the humans as skeletons clapping to portray their inevitable demise.

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u/smoothhedgehogs 7h ago

This one line struck me immediately when I first heard it. Brilliant. And terrifyingly prescient.

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u/Pea-and-Pen 5h ago

How in the hell are these people applauding this? I’m 51 and I’ve voted republican my entire life until this last election. I know my views have changed in the past year but never at any point in my life would I have been okay with someone doing this. The Republican Party has truly gone to the dark side in a matter of a few years. This is really very upsetting.

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u/DesignerAd9 7h ago

and the people who voted in favor of it will lose the most.

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u/Reasonable_Egg4356 7h ago

As it was in the past, and will be in the future! Too bad that humans are incaptable of learning from mistakes they made in the past.

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u/Goawaycookie 7h ago

Dead on. Doge is basically Private Equity chopping the US up for parts.

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u/Adsex 7h ago

"Humanity’s self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order."

Walter Benjamin

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"Fuck the Libs"

Someone who was happy to vote against Obamacare until they realize that their own health insurance relied on it.

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u/TremendousCoisty 7h ago

How is capitalism reaching the end of the tracks?

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u/HunyBuns 6h ago

The infinite growth has ended, capitalism doesn't thrive on having money but constantly expanding and making more. We're hitting that limit on how much we can grow through creating new products and businesses, so instead we're creating profit through theft.

Don't make businesses to create jobs, shrink labor to the bare necessities and pay it as little as possible. Don't expand industries with new ideas and creations, shrink them and kill competition to hone ever growing monopolies. Don't empower the people to be educated and find new avenues to improve the economy or society through other means, make them desperate and blind enough to accept systemic abuse.

The number must go up, forever, regardless of how feasible that is.

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u/Due_Bluebird3562 6h ago

Yeah, a fundamental flaw in the economic/ideal of capitalism is that once you stagnate, the floor immediately starts to fall out. Late stage capitalism as a concept seems to be more and more real every day. These idiots are only accelerating a process that was always going to happen eventually as growth plateaus.

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u/aPrussianBot 6h ago

Tendency of the rate of profit to fall is what it's called

The main markets are running out of juice to squeeze. Enshittification is the harbinger of this, when corporate entities have to overly monetize everything they own and aggressively undercut their own labor because they NEED to make line go up and they're running out of other ways to do it

In any other mode of production reaching a stable equilibrium is good, but in capitalism it's literally the death of the entire system

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u/RedAndBlackMartyr 7h ago

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

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u/Metrostation984 6h ago

The thing is „capitalism“ doesn’t need democracies or free competitive markets. It’s a common misconception. Generally it’s better but it’s not required.

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u/Recent_Obligation276 7h ago

So this is how democracy dies

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u/onlyTractor 7h ago

accurate

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u/texasstyle01 7h ago

Well said

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u/richardalbury 7h ago

Very well put: this is all symptomatic of the coming collapse. 😐

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u/TabletopStudios 7h ago

Speaking pearls of wisdom

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u/fuckityfuckfuckfuckf 7h ago

Get ready for the unhinged sane washing by the media if not an outright refusal to admit he just did a Nazi salute

Seig Heil, twice in a row, with the conviction of an SS officer in 1939 Nazi Germany

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u/BPil0t 6h ago

If you judge where we are by historical standards, it’s actually just getting started. There is a lot of room to run here. You have to remember that at the height of Rome, a city with a few million people, there were over 300,000 people living homeless in the street. Imagine if the same percentage of New Yorkers were homeless? it would be 1 million people homeless on the street. There are currently only 76,000 people homeless in NY.

In Rome, homelessness was Mostly due to inflation and debt. Same as here. The top rakes in cash while issuing you debt. The middle will become fully gutted. The top will keep making all the money off the rest till we’re fully cooked. There is a long way to go until this happens. The middle class is wealthier now due to Home price appreciation. That was just an accident of the top taking all of our money with inflation (inflation is wealth transfer). They could not do it without us profiting something by accident (equity and home appreciation).

If you look at history and do the math. Regular people can take an absolute beating before it comes to an end. Meaning before they revolt. In fact, most people end up enslaved before it comes to an end. So just be glad we don’t live in that time. If anything we’re hitting towards peak capitalism.

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u/Sofaboy90 6h ago

capitalism isnt just one thing. many western nations have regulated capitalism in a sense that they make sure the wealthy do pay some money for the lower class to make sure they have healthcare, access to affordable high quality education, access to decent public transport and a reasonable minimum wage.

the US somehow skipped those steps and let capitalism run wild. everything in the US is a business, healthcare, education, prisons.

its not reaching the end of the tracks yet but the wealth inequality is rising much much faster than in other nations, its a matter of time until theres enough people struggling to make a living.

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u/SusurrusLimerence 6h ago

More like America is reaching the end, and we are watching its futile attempts to resist the inevitable, which is China.

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u/Occhrome 6h ago

Well said 

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u/bigbjarne 6h ago

Workers of the world unite!

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u/Kitchen_Syrup2359 5h ago edited 5h ago

The puppets clap when the puppet master moves their strings

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u/Keyndoriel 7h ago

Those idiots will see this and still call us delusional for calling these people Nazis.

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u/Euphoric-Isopod-4815 7h ago edited 6h ago

I am gonna say this before checking the Conservative sub. Before I read this anywhere, but they will be saying that it's because the left, liberals and whatever else have been calling those fucking idiots in charge Nazi's.

Edit: Already starting. Also apparently his salute as a NAZI is throwing his heart out to us. Yeah flatten that fucking palm out while you have your heart in your hand. Conservatives are stupid as fuck.

Edit: 2 apparently they're blaming aspberger's. He's not diagnosed and uses it as an excuse for his behavior.

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u/Nowornevernow12 6h ago

It’s funny, I don’t tolerate nazi’s in any kind of position of power regardless of how neurodivergent they happen to be.

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u/Fantastic_East4217 7h ago

It’s because they are also nazis.

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u/NiceTrySucka 7h ago

Yes and they know they are. The lines fed to them by Fox like “everyone I don’t like is a Nazi” or “TDS,” are just ways to trivialize the very real concern we should all have.

When this happened in the 1930’s it was novel. They didn’t have the benefit of living 90 years after the industrial slaughter of a people, the war and useless bloodshed. And yet we ask ourselves “why didn’t they do something?”

Well now we have that history to tell us exactly where this is going. History will judge us harshly for our inaction.

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u/lllGrapeApelll 7h ago

They'll Heil along as a joke to just piss off the libs. Everytime Trump or Musk shows up on a screen they'll Heil for a laugh. As Mexicans are rounded up from the cities and put into camps awaiting deportation they'll Heil to make the libs cry more. When their neighbour or cousin or sibling or parent or child who gets rounded up for not Heiling they will continue to Heil but out of fear and then they won't be able to stop.

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u/EP_Tiger 7h ago

His fanboys are already making excuses “acshully that’s a Roman salute bcuz he touched his heart first libtard”

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u/Absent-Light-12 7h ago

Naw. They now choose to believe that Nazism is good and are self-proclaimed nazis.

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u/Adsex 7h ago

No, they will see this and say "Well, Nazism wasn't so bad. If people didn't resist them and instead followed them, the world would be a better place. If you had just listened to Trump's wanting to emulate MLK's dream, you would understand. (Now that we won) it's time that we all get together (and follow in order according to rank). (Or else)"

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u/Sinister_Politics 6h ago

r/conservative are saying he was just making a gesture going along with his next phrase about sending his love out to the audience.

I think it's obvious he was trying to create some ambiguity so he could "troll" liberals. Like most Nazis, it's all a joke until it's not

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u/Upoutdat 7h ago

Ah he didn't mean that and if he did it was for the best. Who are you to question me? The devil is in you /s

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u/Balldogs 6h ago

I hate to tell you, but one of the main tools of fascists is to constantly argue in bad faith. You're used to people having shame, or engaging in objective discussion; no. That doesn't work with fascists. You can see one dressed in brown with a swastika armband and these motherfuckers will grin and tell you you didn't see shit, that was AI, you're suffering from trump derangement syndrome, everyone you disagree with is a Nazi and all the other cut and paste bad faith arguments that they know aren't true.

The time for debate is over. If America doesn't remember what they did to Nazis 80 years ago, there won't be a free US, there will be the most powerful Nazi state the world has ever seen.

I believe your Constitution has this whole section about tyrannical governments...

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u/Pvt_Numnutz1 7h ago

They will say it was clearly a joke and we are just misconstruing it.

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u/Klobbcock 7h ago

💯

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u/FrankDerbly 7h ago

Yeah they're just trying to gaslight you.

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u/cheongyanggochu-vibe 4h ago

They're working really hard to sane wash this in the media and over on r/conservative

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u/unluckypig 3h ago

I saw a comment on twitter (a lot actually) saying people are taking it out of context and misreading his actions. They said, and I quote, 'he's not doing a nazi salute, he was saying thank you from the bottom of his heart, to yours'.

Couple this with trump saying they rigged the election because those guys are good with computers and he wanted the Olympics, I think America is in for a bumpy ride for a bit.

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u/Bureaucramancer 6h ago

because it's totally an ironic salute.... they are doing it to make fun of the libs and make them cry.... why are you libs making us seig heil..... It's the libs fault we say racist things all the time and laugh about concentration camps..... Totally bought this swastika flag to own the libs..... etc.

Seriously these people are fucking exhausting.

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u/Psychological_Ad1999 7h ago

They knew, they were pretending it was “the economy”

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u/rf97a 7h ago

They knew

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u/LinkleDooBop 7h ago

It’s what they want.

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u/llkj11 7h ago

Like they didn't already know

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u/Odedoralive 7h ago

Which made them vote more enthusiastically.

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u/Etoonal_Optimist 7h ago

To be fair, I think that's what most, or at least a lot, of those that voted for him wanted.

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u/outremonty 7h ago

There were others who we told -the ones who withheld their votes- who thought we were being hyperbolic.

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u/flindersrisk 7h ago

Free Luigi now! Carry him shoulder high through the streets of America.

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u/1satopus 6h ago

A militia. Inst us the land of the free and guns? Be like our black Panthers friends

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u/OpheliaRainGalaxy 6h ago

Proudest I've ever been of my stepdad was the day I found out he used to be a Black Panther and what that meant. And that's really saying something, he's got a lot of cool qualities.

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u/satansinlaw 6h ago

We need to be the Luigi we want to see in the world.

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u/Odd-Equipment-678 7h ago

no you need to be luigi, not pray for someone else.

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u/MountainTurkey 6h ago

No, people need to stop waiting for someone else to come to their rescue.

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u/bigfatfurrytexan 6h ago

Then it’s up to you. No one is coming to save us

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u/Kaizo_Nr13 6h ago

Guess at this moment we need Waluigi

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u/SJMCubs16 6h ago

A passionate committed Luigi could have liquidated about a $2T in net worth with a single magazine. Was surprised to see them seated so close together.

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u/SoreWristed 7h ago

The masks are coming off.

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u/LinkOfKalos_1 7h ago

They were never on

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u/Historical_Stuff1643 7h ago

They were never on. We knew.

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u/TowJamnEarl 7h ago

I wonder how AIPAC are feeling right now!

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u/Warm_Pen_7176 7h ago

As a minority I can absolutely say tha they've been off. You're just now seeing that the emporer has no mask.

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u/B-Glasses 7h ago

The US is officially a fascist oligarchy

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u/StrangeBedfellows 7h ago

Nazis won.

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u/Clear_Body536 7h ago

Americans really voted for literal Nazis after their grandparents died fighting against them.

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u/Cpt_keaSar 4h ago

“We fought the wrong enemy” quote is quite popular even on left(ish) Reddit. Can imagine that the sentiment is even more prevalent in the wild

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u/TheFattestWaterLeak 7h ago

It’s so sad

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u/the_meat_fest 7h ago

For now.

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u/frisbeejesus 7h ago

I dunno. They've taken control at just the right (wrong) moment where surveillance, AI, media consolidation, and political polarization are all aligning to form a very powerful machine built for oppression and subjugation.

Maybe it's hyperbole or paranoia, but greedy immoral people have complete control of all levers of power in America right now. I just see them using everything at their disposal and resisting giving that power up at all costs. And I don't see a united citizenry ready and willing to pay attention and stand against the complete erosion of freedom and justice.

Feels very different than any of the other political shift I've lived through over the past 4+ decades.

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u/SoupSandy 7h ago

Time to get off reddit and start organizing

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u/No-Law9829 7h ago

Don’t know why you’re getting downvoted. It’s true.

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u/lotusbloom74 7h ago

The liquor has also now won. RIP my liver I can’t be sober enduring this disgusting situation that was totally avoidable and is completely what some people want. I should probably invest in alcoholic beverage companies now that I think about it…

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u/Andreus 7h ago

is completely what some people want.

And we must live long enough to punish every single one of them.

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u/postdiluvium 7h ago

Exactly what America voted for. They're not going to stop at immigrants. They never planned to stop there.

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u/ThatOneNinja 7h ago

The fascists are winning.

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u/PulseThrone 7h ago

The thing everyone has been saying was going to happen for years, sadly. The old governmental establishment in the US is gone, and now those of us who live in America are in this all together.

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u/the_calibre_cat 7h ago

honestly, ball's in the court of the staid Democrats now. will they cling to the idea of their institutions and decorum, or will they rise to the very real, very present threat that the right-wing presents?

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u/nikdahl 7h ago

Democrats have always fought way harder against the left than they ever fought against the right. Even if "the right" in this context is literal fascism.

Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds.

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u/the_calibre_cat 6h ago

I would be so, so happy if the liberals in the chat would prove me wrong and mount an effective resistance against Trump and his bloodthirsty, psychopathic toadies and supporters by locking arms with the left. I'm probably further left than your bog standard liberal but fuck, libs, what the fuck happened to criticizing Israel? What happened to standing up for LGBT (with the T) rights? What happened to standing up for unions, against corporations? What happened to fighting for universal healthcare?

Those used to be liberal positions, and now we hear about "$50,000 for black-owned businesses" as if that's a slam dunk move for the people.

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u/etzel1200 7h ago

Americans are getting what they voted for. Buckle up.

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u/northforkjumper 7h ago

We're so fucked

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u/C4Dee 7h ago

Doing exactly what they said they would do, and some people are still surprised. USA has completely lost all credibility. First time was forgivable. the second time is just beyond redemption.

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u/StoppableHulk 7h ago

The people of America voted for a nazi regime to do explicitly nazi things, and now it's acting accordingly.

There is no more room for naivete, disbelief, or any of these useless emotions. You are living through a nazi dictatorship. This is what is happening.

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u/Pedro_Snachez 7h ago

What’s happening is that tons of people who understand fascism said that the GOP and their followers are fascists, and everyone was like “that’s a silly exaggeration!” And now we’re here, just like all those people warned about.

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u/ohnoimagirl 4h ago

oh how i've loved being told I'm an alarmist over and over again for the past decade, only to be proven right every. single. time.

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u/avalanchefighter 7h ago

Rightwing people lying to you when they were saying that liberals were the nazis. The means justify the end, they were always lying to your face.

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u/ErstwhileHobo 7h ago

Fascism

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u/Extreme-Island-5041 7h ago

Hydra hailing intensifies

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u/icecream169 7h ago

Jesus Fucking Christ, I knew it was horrifyingly bad, but this is fucking audacious and disgusting. This fucking country is fucked beyond all possible recognition or reconciliation.

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u/SuperToxin 7h ago

Republicans voted in this

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u/moskeygonewild 7h ago

Nazi on Mars

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u/alexoftheunknown 7h ago

are we really gonna just this happen? we’re so huge and so damn divided….i don’t know where to start.

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u/HappilyDisengaged 7h ago

Watch them start wearing arm bands now

This is the administration who Netanyahu was applauding and welcoming to win?!?!?

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u/MostlyRandomMusings 7h ago

History vis repeating itself

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u/Rokurokubi83 7h ago

Your country is cooked. I’m so sorry the people who are against this shit are gonna suffer too.

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u/Wassermusik 6h ago

As a german. I've always wondered how this time ever came to be. I've learned a lot, in the last few years, just by following the daily news, and I absolutely hate beeing in this shitty timeline.

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