Project 2025’s 180-Day Playbook is a remarkably detailed guide to turning the United States into a fascist’s paradise.
Keep in mind though, that there’s a LOT of bad-faith propaganda-shilling accounts right here on lemmy desperately trying to convince you that both sides are equally as bad and not to vote this year.
Best advice is to report and block them when they share their misinformation and don’t fall for it.
I’m sure we all know who I’m talking about.
Yep. I’ve had multiple people suggest that Biden would be just as bad when it came to the rights of queer people. The sad thing is, some people get convinced by that.
Some people really will believe anything about someone they don’t like. Like I’m not a Biden fan, but he has been solidly ok for a US President
He’s sure as hell better than the alternative on offer.
Exactly. I can hold my breath and vote for a candidate I don’t like if his opponent is a fascist. Especially one so brazen.
We didn’t get here by fascists holding their vote unless the right went right enough. They spread their ideology and encouraged people to see it as bit enough of a problem to abandon their single issue while indoctrinating enough people into their camp to gain the ability to primary in sufficiently fascist candidates.
We on the far left need to become a dependable voting block that is worth courting then start winning primaries.
Someone just earlier today told me that Biden and Trump’s policies were exactly the same except maybe on abortion. They 100% believe that. I don’t know if they’re stupid, ignorant, or evil.
I address those people with “Fuck Putin.”
Please do not take this as a rejection of the necessity to fuck that bastard, but these people most likely have no connection to him. They are your own, homegrown problem that you need to deal with. And given the numbers, in a non-violent way, unless you really are into civil wars.
Lol have you seen hexbear recently? They are outright rooting for Russia to steamroll Ukraine. They don’t even hide it. The whole thing is so obviously a (very stupid) Russian psyop it’s honestly a bit shocking more people can’t see it plainly.
Nope, i have the whole instance blocked - enough shit in my life without them. It is actually quite amusing how the hard right ppl in Russia and the US are somehow gravitating to each other. Given the fact that they also hate each other for being from the enemy states (they always have very strong beliefs on the subject of who is the enemy), it is puzzling how they can voluntarily be so close in other aspects.
Whatever you say, Ivan. Dasvidaniya.
You got my name wrong, but that is ok. It was not Putin who voted for Trump, and not him who keeps supporting him even now. Though Putin must feel really good about them, I am sure. Anyway, keep daydreaming your country into collapse if you like. This empire must also end, as all of them.
I have gotten a ban for reporting very obvious right wing trolls flying under the thinnest veneer of “leftist” ideology. It’s pretty clear that this is a top down issue on certain instances
Not surprised at all. I’ll bet I even know what community that happened in. I’ve had mods threaten me to stop reporting these trolls or I’d get banned.
I just don’t interact with that community anymore.
I keep telling people- the queer genocide that has already begun with Republican restrictions on trans rights and medical care is going to ramp way up and encompass queer people as a whole. Including my daughter.
And yet I keep being told I’m excusing genocide by voting for Biden in order to stop Trump from killing her.
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I dont think it will be that extreme, being a liberal in America will be like being a liberal in America during the red scare.
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How quick we forget…
https://www.vox.com/23899688/2024-election-republican-primary-death-threats-trump
Bro he shot teargas at protestors for a shitty photo-op and that wasn’t even the worst of it, also, that implies that getting the red scare treatment wasn’t a hell unto itself, people had their lives ruined by that shit on the reg.
Do you think this might be conflating internet-style “genocide” with the kind of genocide that involves gunning people down at an aid truck while they queue for food during a famine?
Moot point as I really don’t think either party would be doing anything to stop the crisis. I do think we should be more careful with how we dilute language, though.
Not all genocides involve shooting people at an aid truck.
Some US laws have been described, including by journalists Emily St. James and Katelyn Jones, as meeting criteria mentioned in the United Nations definition of genocide, including laws banning gender-affirming care (“causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part”), and those allowing child protective services to pursue child abuse claims against the parents of children receiving gender-affirming care and remove said children (“forcibly transferring children of the group to another group”).[26][27]
Transgender healthcare bans in the US have been condemned by medical organizations. A report published by Yale School of Medicine in response to bans on gender-affirming care in Alabama and Texas argued that the bans were no more ethical than a prohibition on healthcare for any other life-threatening medical condition.[28] The president of World Professional Association of Transgender Health wrote an opinion article in the New York Times stating her view that these laws constituted an effort to “rid the world of transgender people.”[29] Similar sentiments were expressed in a WPATH public communique: “Anti-transgender health care legislation is not about protections for children but about eliminating transgender persons on a micro and macro scale.”[30]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_genocide#United_States
WASHINGTON — The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) — the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights organization — denounced the onslaught of transphobic statements threaded throughout the annual CPAC political gathering this past weekend. For several days extremist politicians and commentators peppered hateful statements toward trans people casually through remarks on unrelated topics. The wave of hatred culminated with a speech in which a Daily Wire commentator called for the “eradication” of transgender people.
The social conservative wish list calls for ending abortion, diversity and inclusion efforts, protections for LGBTQ people, and most importantly, banning any and all LGBTQ content. In fact, “The Mandate for Leadership” makes eradicating LGBTQ people from public life its top priority. Its No. 1 promise is to “restore the family as the centerpiece of American life and protect our children.” They are explicit in how they plan to do so, as you’ll see in the paragraph below. They plan to proceed by declaring any and all LGBTQ content to be pornographic in nature.
“Pornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children, for instance, is not a political Gordian knot inextricably binding up disparate claims about free speech, property rights, sexual liberation, and child welfare. It has no claim to First Amendment protection. Its purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters of women. Their product is as addictive as any illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime. Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders. And telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered.”
https://www.damemagazine.com/2023/08/14/the-gop-has-a-master-plan-to-criminalize-being-trans/
And if you think Joe Biden is in favor of any of that, you’re insane.
I am getting really fucking tired of people telling me I should sacrifice my daughter to this genocide because there’s another genocide somewhere else. Along with people like you denying it’s even happening so you can accuse people like me of supporting a different genocide.
Well, don’t get hysterical. I don’t want to kill your child, and I’m not accusing you of supporting… anything, really.
Denying that an ongoing genocide perpetuated by Republicans that my child will be caught up in if Trump gets elected isn’t even happening implies that, at the very least, you don’t give a shit if my child dies and that voting for Biden wouldn’t help anyway.
Because it’s either that or you are totally ignorant of many years of Republican attitudes towards queer people in the U.S. and the many attempts to erase them from society which are only gaining steam.
And I am giving you the benefit of the doubt that you don’t live under a rock.
I don’t live in the USA, no.
Okay, so then maybe don’t deny a genocide you’ve just been informed exists just because you don’t live in that country.
You spend too much time on the internet.
Between Trump installing 3 Supreme Court Justices, having his SC cronies overturn and I quote “SETTLED LAW” on Roe V. Wade and PP V. Casey, giving Putin access to one or plural NOC lists, withholding military aid to Ukraine because he knew that Putin was going to launch a full scale invasion, divulging classified info to Russian diplomats in the White House, asking Russian hackers to hack Hilary’s campaign, are the American people angry yet?
None of us is ready to take action without the mob to shield us with relative anonymity and numbers. A great deal of the government’s effect in our lives is to disconnect us from each other and give us the impression we depend on it instead. It is quite a persuasive fallacy.
But yes, we’re angry, we’re just kept in a perpetual state of frustrated will.
are the American people angry yet?
Yes. But only about illegal immigration.
Funny how the whole ‘Make America Great Again’ helped only the rich. And the country that was aided the most was Russia with this movement.
I hate being right sometimes. Pretty soon interracial marriage will somehow be a topic again.
Trump is already talking about how American bloodlines are getting too muddy. It’s already here, they just haven’t said the quiet part out loud yet.
Don’t forget. Black people love him!! 🤪
There was an association for Jews who liked Hitler
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_German_National_Jews
He made them sneakers!
“You people like your sneakers!”
Some of the shit he said during that speech… “my favorite color is black.” “I can only see black people.” “I’m just rapping with you.”
And then Jimmy Kimmel got a shot of the audience- a sea of white faces.
Clarence Thomas and His Elaborate Ruse That Dismantled a Nation Because He Was Too Much of a Coward to File for Divorce
Why would he divorce her? She’s his insurance.
For a moment there I thought you were talking about Henry the eighth
No, that’s just the title of latest manga by Junji Ito
Convservatives never not plan to ban abortion. The time of year does not matter.
But now people are realizing they can succeed. It’s become more than an existential issue. And not a winning one for them so far.
If any state decides to do this, then it deserves to suffer a brain drain of LBGTQ people and allies who will gladly take their immeasurable skills and talents elsewhere. In short, doing something like this is a good way to ensure the death of one’s state.
However, the “I am moving to another state” or whatever tactic is shortsighted, and not everyone can afford it. The better tactic is to organize political action, protest and VOTE Democrat. The only political party in any meaningful position to favor LGBT+ rights is the Democrats.
Moving to another state is more than just affordability anyway. People shouldn’t have to give up their homes and everything they’ve known. So many states with far right legislatures have a gerrymandered to hell population that’s 45% very liberal. Half of the population is just being completely disregarded and considered subhuman.
And the last thing we should do is bunch ourselves up in one spot, or even in one State. That’s just doing their work for them. all they’d have to do if we moved to one State or one general area is to build walls around it. They’d follow Israel’s example and keep us all in one spot, genociding us through attrition. Cut us off from food and utilities, blockade our ports so supplies from other countries can’t get in, cut us off from communications so we can’t tell nobody what’s going on, and watch from the top of their walls as we die.
That’s their plan. They want to cement minority rule by consolidating Democrats into fewer states so they will always win the electoral college. Only having hateful idiots in their state is a pro for them, not a con. It gives them more power.
Good point! I am seriously considering moving to a swing state.
These P25 people are just so…hateful. Carrying all that hate seems like it would not be fun.
I remember when republicans were about less government. Pepperidge farms remembers….
I don’t think they ever truly were. They’ve always supported the expansion of the military and police, having shit loads of foreign military bases, controlling women, controlling the LGBTQ+. The only way they could ever be considered to be wanting less government is in the form of their laissez-faire, pro-privitization economic policy, which just lets corporations do whatever the hell they like. So all it is, is trading one form of control to another. Instead of government controlling things, corporations control everything.
The GOP platform is, and always has been anti-freedom.
At the risk of sounding like Peterson (but reversed right to left), it’s always been about an in group that deserves to rule, and an out group that people punish. It’s that simple with them, why all the hypocrisy. It’s literally that simple. I’m a good guy, they’re bad, they disagree with me, that means they’re bad and should be punished. Zero sum game stuff
Absolutely agreed.
I remember when republicans were about less government.
They never really were. They’ve always been the party of corporate cronyism, with “less government” only ever applying to institutions from which they couldn’t generate profit.
Small government has only ever meant minimal regulation. It means nothing when it comes to civil rights or liberties.
I wish it meant minimal regulation.
But set aside abortion and immigration. I’m seeing some crazy efforts to regulate the solar and wind energy industries. I’m seeing efforts to restrict how municipal governments can operate education and transportation infrastructure. In Austin TX, the state government threatened to take over the municipal police department. In Houston TX, they removed the Independent School District and installed their own flacks. Texas law prohibits state agencies and political subdivisions (“Governmental Entities”) from contracting with businesses that boycott energy companies, discriminate against firearm entities or associations, or boycott Israel, which has an enormous impact on the statewide financial system.
So, I’m seeing lots of statewide regulation.
Its 2016 all over again.
Every effort to drag the Democratic party over to any kind of popular position is getting labeled as a betrayal. Every effort to oppose Republicans at the state and local level is denounced as uncivil. And as soon as the dust settles in November, the national media will fall in love with the winner, and grow increasingly irate at anyone critical of this abysmally unpopular tumor of a Presidency.
starting next january
¿??? Thsi started like, 10 years ago!
More like 50. They wrote their playbook in the 1970s, and have finally started seeing the fruits of their labor. If we can shut them down hard in this election, and the midterms, and the next election, the GOP may finally die. That doesn’t mean these people will stop trying to take control. They brainwash their kids into being true believers. This isn’t politics to them, it’s a holy war.
Every election I ask myself can these choices even get worse (as in presidential candidates). My question is always answered exactly 4 years later with an unequivocal “yes.”
I want to die. I just want to live.
Never interrupt your enemy while they’re making a mistake. Carry on!
I think you need to see this meme: https://lemmy.world/post/12640726
Yeah but at least they will stop the genocide in Gaza, right?
Absolutely. By January of next year all the Palestinians should be dead and the genocide will be ended.
I know you gotta sell ads, but how fucked is it the one on this article was promoting a shirt that says, „if you want to make everything electric, start at the border wall.“
I don’t get it. What does that mean?
Electrify the border wall to zap the people who managed to get past the river boobytrapped with razor wire.
Wow. I don’t even want to know who would wear a shirt like that.
About 62 million Americans if the last national poll was accurate.
