Sounds to me like America’s going to fully take the mask off and go fascist in a year or two.

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    It will be Project 2029 if the Republicans don’t win and the Democrats will use that to justify running someone just as demonic as Genocide Joe.

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      THIS time it’s the most important election of our lifetimes! Don’t dare voting for third party, wait until next time.

      Next time: now this one is the most important…

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    The USA is already fascist. The slaughter of the indigenous population and settling of the west was the direct inspiration for Nazi wars of aggression and elimination of the Slavic population in Eastern Europe. The arming of Nazis in Ukraine and genocidal Zionists in occupied Palestine - what mask? There is no mask. It’s outright an open fascism.

    Project 2025 is being used as a reason to vote for a fascist genocidal Biden by a lot of people right now. I’m sorry the Republicans want to do some bad things but I don’t see how any of that is worse than the fucking actual genocide happening right now

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      Fascism is the late stage of settler-colonial development, it comes after the primitive accumulation on the so-called frontier. Fascism is when frontier runs out and that settler-colonial conquest is reapplied internally to marginalize groups in order to continue the extraction of superprofit, such as the US’s genocidal prison industrial complex and the racist undocumented immigrant apartheid and even stuff like banning abortion and gender affirming care (i.e. reaffirming rigid gender roles and family structures by force). When Zionists start rounding up Israelis into labor prisons to exploit then they, too, will have reached the fascist stage of development.

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    Yeah, barbarism is looking increasingly likely. Even if Biden wins he won’t do much to stop it, as he has made clear in his current term.

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      Hell, Biden has done so much to accelerate it, if anything. Whether fascism comes waving the cross and flag, or waving a rainbow flag and talking about how inclusive it is (just pinkwashing with little to no substance- as with Isn’treal, the Democrats, the occasional PR stunts the US tries in Ukraine like that trans spokesperson or that pride parade, or with “liberals” across the west) at this point I think it’s just a matter of which optics the west decides to embrace in its return to outright fascism.

      And I say that as someone who falls under a whole spiel of intersectionalities (trans, POC, technically immigrant, etc) and is a staunch progressive myself- it’s just two different shades of equal barbarism, if anything the latter strikes me as more insidious and disgusting- in a manner comparable to, I imagine, how anti-Zionist Jewish people feel seeing their people’s suffering be twisted into such an abomination that inflicts the same on others.

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    The thing about Project 2025 I’m a little annoyed about is it’s not official Trump campaign policy, it’s from the Heritage Foundation; His official plan is “Agenda47”, it’s extremely similar in content, but basically never mentioned.

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    Surprised they aren’t going to fabricate some massive terrorist attack or another war to help it go down easier.

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      Yet.

      Remember, they expanded the draft age just last week. You know, for no reason at all. /s

      Liberals are gonna be seething if their kids eventually get drafted for a hot war with China under Trump. It’ll be our job to remind them that the draft expansion was introduced by a fucking Democrat.

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      It’s not November yet, there’s still time.

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    Fascists don’t set a date, they’ve been saying they want to do this for ages now. It’s just used by the dems as another fearmongering strategy to win votes. The republicans will be as horrible as they always are.

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    What will change to make it fascist that’s not currently the case?

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    The Heritage Foundation faction of the conservative movement has had roughly these goals for quite a while, the best case (electoral) scenario is kicking the can down the road to Project 2029.

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    I mean a country which in and of itself is been prominent in conducting the most deplorable violence on so many countries. Trying to curb any civil rights for the people the country subjugated. Regardless of its turmoils external or internal they kept what the imperialist west and its ambitons intact. And they kept going several lengths to keep it intact.

    What I am trying to say is I don’t think america is going mask off in 2 years. If its history any indication it was off all the time.

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    I had a plan to bring my Filipino American aunt and her family out of America. Project 2025 is repeating the 1933. Regardless of whoever wins the presidential election, that proposal will be in effect.