• Tryptaminev@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    I do not life in the US. However because of US hegemony and my country being a suck up to the US i have to follow what is going on there.

    But in case there is any doubt. The country i live in, which is Germany is corrupt and authoritarian with a complicit public and private media as well as the “center” parties moving further to the right and helping fascism rise faster than ever before. The “liberal” middle class are to a large extent just self delusional racists and the country will become a fascist hellhole in the next ten years.

    So if you have the opportunity, please help spread awareness about all the shit happening here too.

    • DandomRude@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Yes, that’s right. The last European elections at the latest showed impressively that those dull people who are unable to see through the PR campaigns of the powerful are not an exclusive US problem. It is of course absolutely right that we in Europe rely far too much on the Americans and should set stricter limits to their capitalism, which in my opinion is completely out of joint. But I fear that we have already gotten too far into this quagmire. This is precisely why it is all the more important to raise awareness of this and to name those who are actually responsible for falling living standards and growing inequality - the US-type opportunists, the hangers-on and especially the blatant fascists in the ranks of our politicians and our societies. I am not at all convinced that the reasonable people have a shot, but I sure will continue to make an effort.

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      5 months ago

      Politics shift to the right when people feel disparity, and their future looks break. Politics shift left when people feel optimistic about their future.

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        5 months ago

        Which is absolutely fucking stupid because we need leftist politics when the future looks bleak and when the future looks rosy that is the time to be more conservative about change…

        But we’re just human, we do everything ass backwards :/