• gAlienLifeform@lemmy.worldOP
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        Nah, the GOP is a fucked death cult circling the drain and hemorrhaging supporters. Americans on average are about as cool as they have been in a while. It sucks that it takes seeing the ICEstapo horror show play out in front of them for months is what it took, but they’re more pro-immigrarion now than they have been in years. Say what you will about the absolute numbers, the trajectory of public opinion overall is good.

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          So why resist them if they are doomed to fail?

          Are you watching different news than me? This “fucked” cult just coordinated over years to successfully capture the government, and started doing ethnic cleansing in short order.

          Claiming that the fascists are doomed to fail seems naive at this point in the fascist descent.

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            Fascists are always doomed to fail cause it’s an incredibly shitty way to actually run a country.

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              4 hours ago

              So then why did we have to sacrifice an entire generation to kill fascists in World War II?

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            21 hours ago

            Why resist if we are doomed to fail? Things are bad but this is a winnable fight with the people on our side and they’re coming our way more and more with every stupid atrocity this dipshit government commits.

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              4 hours ago

              Who’s saying we are doomed to fail?

              Things are bad but this is a winnable fight with the people on our side

              This goes completely contrary to what you’ve said so far. Everything you’ve said so far makes it sound like you think this is an unlosable fight.

              There is a lot at stake here, and there’s no guarantee this fascist doom spiral is just going to fizzle out on its own. The goal now is to get as many people armed as possible.

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                Everything you’ve said so far makes it sound like you think this is an unlosable fight.

                Well, I do actually believe that, sort of. I think fascism given a long enough timeline inevitably sows the seeds of its own destruction and will radicalize everyone living under it to the point that they’re willing to kill and die fighting it. However, the longer that takes to happen the more people and communities that will be irrevocably destroyed by the fascists, so I definitely do agree there is a lot at stake here and we need to push this process along as quickly as it can go whether or not it’s inevitable.