• TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Geez! Why is this shit happening everywhere? It’s like fascists got a direct connection to a lot of people’s brains.

    • Something Burger 🍔@jlai.lu
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      1 year ago

      Billionaires buying newspapers and TV channels in order to propagate their ideas. They like fascism better than socialism.

    • BastingChemina@slrpnk.net
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      1 year ago

      My take is that there is a link to the fact that energy is getting harder to access

      The economy is directly related to energy, economic growth is linked to energy consumption growth. As long as we had plenty of fossil fuel easily available to economy was booming, the “American dream” period was also the period when the US was had a lot of oil field easily exploitable.

      Thanks to this fossil fuel energy life was getting better every year for everyone. Everyone was getting a “bigger slice of cake” every year. In this context we’ve seen a lot of social progress.

      Now energy is less accessible and most of the economic growth is going toward the 1% - 0.1% richest. So the “slice of cake” is now stagnating or even shrinking for most of the population. In this context fascism is tempting.

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          1 year ago

          Trump clearly is fascist (and so is Bolsonaro, for the sake of argument), but that’s just two samples. Whereas e.g. france got rid of that Napoleon dude (you know who I mean) in favor of Macron.

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            1 year ago

            I was making a much more narrow argument that the pandemic might have been averted entirely if not for the specific Trump policy I linked.

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          1 year ago

          The pandemic got exacerbated in the US because of Trump’s dumbfuck negationist policies, but even countries with far tougher positions suffered pretty bad cases of COVID.

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            1 year ago

            The CDC teams Trump shut down were designed to find new pathogens and stop them before they became pandemics. They might have prevented it from ever even leaving China and therefore saved the entire world from it, if they hadn’t been dismissed.

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        1 year ago

        There was no Covid until late 2019, Trump, Alex Jones, Putin and other’s followers can’t use it as a Defense.