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No I’m not catastrophising.

The world is slowly lurching towards a fully fascist led America, India, Hungary, Russia, Netherlands, Germany, Italy and Argentina.

Instead people are either ignorant or blaming “wokeism”* for their problems.

I have no clue what to do and this is literally a car crash in slow motion.

I’m despondent because I’m going to be crushed under the boot when the time comes and my morals get in the way of my survival instinct.

Humans are repeating the mistakes of the past. It’s just so anxiety inducing.

*Woke is a useless term promulgated by fascists to dog whistle the things they really want to hate - feminism, socialism, LGBTQIA+, immigration, brown/black people, equality and diversity.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You can add France in your list.

Our next leader will probably be a fascist, and the root cause is (to some degrees) our current government.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

Much of it is a function of late stage capitalism and climate change. We know we can't change so we know we are doomed. The moral contract of society is completely broken.

My plan is to build a boat that is powered by solar panels. Generate enough electricity to move around the world and have power for making water, heat, cooking, air condition, my PC battle station, some greenhouse areas. Be able to build, maintain and repair everything myself and have enough spares to last until EOL. Just exit society, become an island and watch the nukes go off from the ocean. Welcome to [email protected]

Probably humanity will muddle through somehow and after much genocide we'll learn.

[–] psycho_driver 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That is a cool idea. Be sure to video document it so we have a real found footage horror film if things don't work out.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago

Slowly?

(Don’t forget Israel!)

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago
[–] FlashMobOfOne 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

There's nothing you can do, at least outside of your local community. It's still possible to be a decent human being and help people with your own two hands.

At this point the only thing that would have stopped this would have been Joe Biden radically shifting to the left and laser-focusing on lifting the poor and middle class, to the extent that their new quality of life would make it unthinkable to vote Trump.

Instead, the opposite is true. Biden's spent the bulk of his time making arms deals and funding other countries' wars, and homelessness jumped 12% in 2023. Hell, in a year half of the US will have literally criminalized abortion in all cases, because Idaho got away with it already.

Fascism isn't some looming specter. It's here.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (13 children)

If only this was that simple. A "Democratic country" doesn't just wake up one day vote for a bad guy and become fascist. This has been happening all over the world for last few decades. All the past politician created few policies out of fear, out of ignorance, out of greed, and out of malice that edged us towards this. And now most of the people have accepted this blatant abuse of our freedom, our privacy, our democracy as just part of life. There is nothing that anyone can do to stop this. Because we don't bother reading EULA because we don't demand the companies the governments to do better we just sign away our rights our freedom because we have better things to do.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

People are powerless and the cash flow is working against the ones aware of it.

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[–] yokonzo 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If I got through the end of the world in 2012 I can get through this

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Joke? Some people say that the Mayans were right and the world did end in 2012; it's just that it takes a long time for a system this big to fully stop functioning

[–] Coreidan 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

That still doesn’t make sense. The world didn’t end in 2016. We are still here.

Nothing magical happened in 2016 that hasn’t been happening for the last 50 years. It’s a slow grind to the bottom.

You could argue that 2008 was the end of the world or 2001. Both events has led the economic strife you’re seeing today which is really what collapse looks like. Both those events supersede anything that happened in 2016.

If anything this is a self fulfilling prophecy and nothing to do with Mayans. It’s a silly argument to make.

Edit: the Mayan calendar ended 2012. Not 2016. I can’t remember anything special happening in 2012.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yes, fully agree, we're living in post apocalypse times :( Climate crisis will cause more casualties, and the rising fascism will do so as well. There's usual housing crisis, and the hyped A.I. as well among others.

In your list of countries you can add Belgium as well. In fact today it is hard to think of a country in Europe which has shown zero far right or fascism sentiments nowadays. It is difficult to focus on positive things but things like solidarity, keeping in touch with like minded people, de-growth, D.I.Y. and de-googling can help.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I've been saying this since 2015.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Hungary is seriously fucked up at the moment but calling it fascism is a huge stretch. It's not like these fuckers actually believe in anything, they'll just do whatever gets them the votes and the cash. Not that the tendencies aren't worrying (in fact I've left the country because of them), but it's not a full blown dictatorship yet. Source: am Hungarian.

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[–] BlackNo1 14 points 11 months ago (8 children)

i believe in anarchy

organize

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The beginning was harmbe. 2024 is just how far we have strayed from God

[–] Fungah 11 points 11 months ago

My dick is still out

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

Add France to your list mate. If it doesn't happen in 2027, it will happen on the next election cycle.

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