If there’s anyone in your life that still doesn’t get that Donald Trump is a fascist, then they are a cultist and a photo won’t have any effect.
This is early 1930s Germany. They’re lost. They’re gone. They’re going to have to be beaten into submission like every other fascist movement ever.
We had a chance to go down another path. We passed on that opportunity.
In europe there are many old people who obviously aren‘t cultists, but still say “well he did alot of good things for his country” or “well the woke youth would run society to the ground”. So yeah, Trumpism isn‘t only a cult problem, but a cultural one.
Which is why I‘m very cynical about what will happen when the White House toddler finally bites the cheeto dust.
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Again, is anyone here, on Lemmy, surprised by this shit?
Yes, America lives under democracy, however, did you ever stop to consider that business operates under authoritarianism? So we take someone who is aggressively capitalistic, has run and owned several businesses, even had a TV show that’s known for the phrase “you’re fired”, and put them in charge. Then we’re surprised when this person who has basically been head of several authoritarian businesses, starts acting like an authoritarian regime?
I don’t think so Tim.
None of this is surprising to me in the least.
And people voted for this.
People been voting for this every election since this slave colony was stolen.
“Hybrid regime” is the best phrase to describe the US right now.
Not a total dictatorship, yet, but very authoritarian, but somehow just not authoritarian enough for someone to be granted political asylum in, say, the EU, but nevertheless, very authoritarian.
I wonder at what point the EU would actually take this regime seriously and start granting asylum.
This isn’t about you. The left leaning folks fail so hard at politics because you all think you’re the main character. As if you’re the last stop on the information path. All this crazy stuff that happens gets consumed by you and then stops. We’re suppose to do stuff with this information not just kill it after we have a quick view of it. So saying “is anyone surprised” misses the point here. It’s not about information for you or others personally. The point isn’t to inform just so you’re aware. Its so you do something with it.
In fairness, it does seem like the kind of extreme that would come up in a video game. You’d at least expect some subtlety in real life, rather than outright drapes with the guy’s face on, and a positive word slapped on.
Like putting his business logo up.
He was forced to do that otherwise his friends Kim and Vlad wouldn’t stop to make fun of him. They already ridiculed him in the group chat for the low energy military parade for his birthday
But this is still small. Even smaller than the flag! (Which is hung flipped, on the wrong side?)
They are still laughing because look how small he looks compared to the Vlad one! Did he wanted to save money? Cheapskate!
Now he has to put his photo in every classroom and replace the Lincoln statue
idk what the fuss is about this is totally normal where I’m from:
Where is this from?
From the movie adaptation of the book “1984” from the year 1984.
It’s from the country of Airstrip One, Oceania
This photo would have more of an effect if there was a credible source for it. I can’t even read the banner to Google it. I had to reverse image search.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/27/national-guard-chicago-crime/
This trend of screenshots rather than links degrades discourse.
It says “American Workers First”.
The picture comes from the WSJ article linked to in the Mastodon post. https://archive.is/QDS8P
For me the first page of a Google search does not link to stories with this image with the military standing in front. Except for one link to the Boston Globe which displays for a second before paywall blocking.
That is why the general netiquette is to share the link in the first place.
That link was not clickable from OP because it was a screenshot. I manually typed it in but forgot to use uppercase so it returned a Hillary Twitter thread https://archive.is/qds8p
Of course I know what the banner says now because I found a decent source which I have in my comment.
“trump banner dc”
You’ll find it to be a very effective search engine query.
Kudos to the photographer. That pic is dystopian AF.
I’m sure the photographer would point out they literally just photographed reality. It’s reality that’s dystopian
Reminds me of when Trump was in office the first time and Biden was running. Trumpers started posting pics of empty store shelves, (from all of the panic-buying and COVID shortages) and captioning them like “this will be America under Biden”. My brother in Christ you just drove to the store and took a photo of reality under Trump… And reality under Trump looks like empty store shelves.
No argument there; I guess I was aiming my compliment more towards the framing and composition of the pic, not so much the subject.
Yep. So glad I’m not american…
All they need is a symbol of some sort plastered everywhere and America will officially hit Nazi Germany level
People who don’t mainline political news genuinely don’t get this.
It’s literally Big Brother. This is a surveillance state telling you how to do everything.
Those people have also not read 1984 and either won’t get the reference or think it’s a reality show reference
ny first thought was Mussolini
Mussolini, Mussolini on the wall, who’s trains run the most on time of all?
Easy, Switzerland!
What do I win? Not being shot? Yay!
If you ignore the whole dictatorship thing, that actually looks bad ass. Trump’s style is so damn ugly and boring. If I’m living in a dystopian fascist dictatorship the least they can do is look cool!
I find it ironic that there’s a reply about people who don’t read it not getting 1984 as a reply to this. The surveillance is a minor part of 1984. It’s largely about them controlling thought. They control language and the media to make it almost impossible to speak against them. “Big Brother” is the meme that gets repeated (I think because it was the only part that fit conservative thought, so they made that what 1984 is instead of it being against them), but it isn’t the important lesson to be taken from it.
Fair point - these were 2 separate thoughts. First, Big Brother is the face scowling down at us all, right out of the book. Second, that the US is right now a surveillance state and this is one of the more visible aspects of the virtue signaling and telling people to love the Great Leader.
Which means they have a bullet with my name on it.
Better than living with so much cringe the rest of my life.
And autism is supposed to be socially awkward.
Imagine having such a fragile ego you need to remind people you have the power not them. The power to what? Shoot us? That doesn’t give you power, that just makes you evil.
That looks like FREEDOM to Me!
-Someone who Lives in a State where you CANT paint Sidewalks and CANT speak after 10PM and CANT read Books with Rainbows in them!
CANT speak after 10PM
Im not aware of this one.
i believe he could be referring to texas allegedly trying to ban “expressing yourself” on colleges after 10pm.
It’s not allegedly, they signed it into law.
This article was published on June 5. Since then, Gov. Greg Abbott has signed Senate Bill 2972 into law. It will take effect Sept. 1.
I’m genuinely curious if students at colleges in Texas mass mobilize. What happens when the majority of colleges’ student bodies are arrested and taken off campus? Is that a significant enough shock to tame these god damn fascists?
Well that’s an obvious protest right there. Having a trumpet shit rally, and end it at exactly 10:00 p.m.
Who is protesting in the middle of the night anyway?
We’re not exaggerating. SB 2972 would require public universities in Texas to adopt policies prohibiting “engaging in expressive activities on campus between the hours of 10 p.m. and 8 a.m.” Expressive activity includes “any speech or expressive conduct” protected by the First Amendment or Texas Constitution.
This is so pathetic.
This is North Korean levels of cringe.
American doing Americanism Americanly
Damn, reminds me of Evil Foreign Country Full of Bad Foreigners.
American presidents have never been dictators before, at least not in the US itself. They support dictators and overthrow legitimately elected governments but not at home.
American presidents have never been dictators before
I mean, tell that to Andrew Jackson. Or William McKinley. Or Jefferson Davis. However you square it, the Confederacy at least was an undeniable dictatorship that controlled half the country.
Even outside the Civil War, the Presidency has been an imperial office. American presidents have a well-defined line of succession and a party mechanism to guarantee the position of ex-presidents within the plutocracy once they leave office. But we’ve had plenty of periods in which a single party dominated the White House and governed at the head of a completely subservient legislature.
The period from Jackson to Taylor was indistinguishable from any military dictatorship you’d find in 20th century Europe or Latin America. The era from Hayes to Eisenhower was functionally an armed occupation, from the perspective of any African-American or Latin American or East Asian migrant. The 19th/20th turn-of-the-century labor revolts were pockmarked with American military firing on factory workers, miners, and farmers until they fled, died, or were forced back to subsistence living. What else do you call that?
Well USA created North Korea so no surprise here.
Time to break out the projectors.
Light it up!
Except a little " under the nose…
Maga hats probably look at that and feel good. Their in-group is strong and winning. That’s all that matters to them.
Stupid is as stupid does.
also the fact the news doesnt report things “arnt going wrong” under trump.
The comparatively small font on, “American Workers,” really makes it seem like it’s saying, “Trump First.” …which I’m sure is an accident.
“Holy small dick energy, Batman. That man must feel a huge need to compensate for something.”
“He may have a small penis Robin, but he is also a fascist, a pedophile, a traitor and an incredible piece of entitled shit. We must never forget that.”
If this was a screenshot from a game with a fictional president, people would call it “very on the nose”. Maybe someone with photoshop skills can make that edit, to ask Trump supporters what that president reminds them, then switch in the original with Trump (of course many will think the original is the fake).
Edit: maybe a better one:
This is literally Palazzo Braschi in 1930s Italy.
Can we skip ahead to the part with the gas station?
Time for train stations and piano wire
woah spoiler alert! some people wanna see how this fascism thing is gonna go first
