I mean, itll be Project 2029 in 4 years.
Keep voting.
I was just thinking today that this will never go away. I then realized that this ideologic poison has existed far longer than I have, and will sadly exist much longer than I will. I'm not sure what to do with that other than always stand up when I can, do what I can, and hope for the best. We have great potential.
I disagree with the sentiment that it'll never go away
It may always be there, but it can certainly be sapped of all its power and reduced to an anemic husk of its most destructive self
We must simply muster the will to see our nation to such a state where it is not only achievable, but electorally effortless, something that should be easy enough considering how several of their top agenda items basically boil down to "stop people's votes from counting truly equally to ours in terms of electoral impact."
It devolves into a monarchy, it's the exact thing this country was founded to protect against. Some asshole and his buddies, sorry ladies they don't let you in the GOB club, will rule over everyone with the backing of the army and there won't be anything any of us can do about it. Vote while you can.
Trump is the fascism vaccine: He is the figurehead for malevolent forces that have been at work for many many years in the twisty tunnels underneath City America, and are now strong enough to come up onto the regular streets -- but he comes in weakened form. He's enough of a neutered fool to give the system time to learn to recognize the danger, and react accordingly in the future when it comes about for real. If it had been anyone else on January 6th, with competent, prepared execution that any adult who'd spent his career surviving in politics would have done, then all the people in the federal government who'd tried to stand in his way would already be in prison, and US-hosted Lemmy instances would already be required by law to interface with the software that monitored for unpatriotic postings and users. Also Gaza would, I think, be a massive graveyard, a haunting, mostly-empty place that most of the world tried not to think about.
I am 0% joking or exaggerating about any of that. It doesn't mean that Project 2025 is safe by any means, but this is actually the safest possible means and details by which it could come to us, and if we can't deal with this version, then that's on us.
The struggle of Good and Evil is such that Good must always fight against Evil and win repeatedly. Evil will never be destroyed. We just have to fight and win every time it emerges.
On the contrary though, Evil just needs to win once. And while it isn't a permanent win, an era of Evil lasts much longer than an era of Good.
All we can do is decide what to do with the time we have left. Voting every year to keep evil at the bottom where they belong is the easiest thing we can do.
Everyone should be voting in every election, regardless of the existence of an attack on democracy and basic rights and freedoms.
I'm ignorant because I'm getting old. I also feed the capitalist machine by working too much. What is project 2025?
Yes I could look it up, but I want to hear it from people not fucking biased shit bags.
To avoid charges of bias, how about direct quotes from their own manifesto:
Environmentalism “is not a political cause, but a pseudo-religion meant to baptize liberals’ ruthless pursuit of absolute power in the holy water of environmental virtue. At its very heart, environmental extremism is decidedly anti-human
The next conservative President must make the institutions of American civil society hard targets for woke culture warriors. This starts with deleting the terms sexual orientation and gender identity (“SOGI”), diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”), gender, gender equality, gender equity, gender awareness, gender-sensi- tive, abortion, reproductive health, reproductive rights, and any other term used to deprive Americans of their First Amendment rights out of every federal rule, agency regulation, contract, grant, regulation, and piece of legislation that exists.
Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned.
Rescind regulations prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, transgender status, and sex characteristics.
Contemporary elites have even repurposed the worst ingredients of 1970s `radical chic’ to build the totalitarian cult known today as “The Great Awokening”
Eliminate the heat-and-eat loophole. States can artificially boost a household’s food stamp benefit by using the heat-and-eat loophole. The amount of food stamps a household receives is based on its “countable” income (income minus certain deductions). Households that receive benefits from the Low-Income Heat and Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) are eligible for a larger utility deduction. In order to make households eligible for the higher deduction, and thus for greater food stamp benefits, states have distributed LIHEAP checks for amounts as small as $1 to food stamp recipients.
the USDA should not provide meals to students during the summer unless students are taking summer-school classes. Currently, students can get meals from schools even if they are not in summer school, which has, in effect, turned school meals into a federal catering program. Restore programs to their original intent and reject efforts to create universal free school meals.
Eliminate the Head Start program. Head Start, originally established and funded to support low-income families, is fraught with scandal and abuse.
Every single one of the shitbags that wrote this deserves to be shot, as a service to humanity.
Sorry, not sorry.
While I didn't not believe, I had to look it up myself to verify that this is true. I kept seeing it but held out some semblance of hope.
Anyways, here's the full 900+ page 'mandate' that anyone can read or (not) buy a physical copy: https://www.project2025.org/policy/
Of all the crimes in that list, trying to make "Great Awokening" happen has me facepalming the hardest
Shit bags.
Aren't they supposed to hide all that shit behind tax bills and whatnot? Shouldn't they at least sprinkle in a little bit of not-evil in there?
maga-oriented platform/agenda structured toward replacing existing checks and balances in government with ideological extremism, using violent force against political opponents, using minorities such as people of color, immigrants, and the trans community as a to-be-feared “other” as justification. literally mask-off fascism, in other words.
if you have time to kill, this creator does an excellent job of providing a leveled and cogent explanation. it’s quite depressing though so don’t watch if youve had a bad one. :)
edit: oops wrong link
Nice post. Also if anyone has time to kill I've got a list ready.
I am a communist. Take that to mean what you will and assume whatever implicit bias to what I’m about to write that suits you.
During trumps presidency, the administration attempted to do a bunch of stuff through executive orders and administrative state action. Some of that was successful, some of it was a failure. Before Covid, the line of thinking seemed to be that the failures were from either oppositional administrators or sclerotic institutions and couldn’t be reasonably overcome. if anyone remembers the rhetoric back then there was a lot of stuff we associate with fascism and naziism because it represented creating a structure of parallel power to government so that when government was unwilling or unable to take action that structure could step in and perform.
No need to discipline the weirmacht into perpetrating krystallnacht when the ss will do it.
Once Covid happened, either through a shock to the system or through hidden competence, the administrative state was shown to be capable of huge feats of logistics, information dissemination (importantly sometimes misinformation dissemination), media control and direct interaction in citizens lives.
Now that the dust has settled for better or worse, the people who were willing to stoke groups like the proud boys and events like unite the right have turned their attention to the clearly capable administrative state.
No need to manage a fickle paramilitary organization if you can actually just mobilize the weirmacht, you know?
Project 2025 is just that, a plan to use the administrative state to accomplish republican policy goals successfully. While the rhetoric and policy in it is often waved around to motivate people, the important part is that post Covid it represents a plan to use the state power that defined Covid to get those policies enacted.
This whole site is biased shitbags tho.
You should vote in every election so we don’t end up in this situation.
This. Leftist candidates won't be viable until far right candidates aren't. We're choosing between "I'll be a dictator" vs "democracy will continue" and the fascist is a likely outcome. The window has to move left to "democracy will continue" vs "maybe we can make things better". If you're holding out for a communist to be elected, that ain't happening in our lifetime. The revolution is not coming. Revolution only comes when life is utterly intolerable and the capitalists know better than to let that happen.
Our only real hope is to shift things that way over generations.
no, if your "democracy will continue" involves supporting a genocidal maniac regardless of your other options, then your hands are just as stained as that of your government and that of the nazi-zionist state it's supporting
to rephrase, if you a Leftist (socialist, communist, anarchist, not a liberal) stoops so low as to vote for a genocidal or imperialist government to preserve fascist and inhumane values you don't share, you're just as responsible for the policies these governments enacts, be it land-grabbing, systemic discrimination, imperialist and genocidal foreign policies and the rest
those same policies would later be used against you, as when there's no outer group left to stomp on, they'll turn on you, case in point, draconic spy laws once used against brown ppl, muslims and other foreigners are now being used against americans
revolutions aren't painstakingly planned, you prepare for it and embrace it when it happens
to op above, you must be quite priviledged to be in a position where "life isn't utterly intolerable" that little minority...
Definitely gonna be voting but I won't be happy about it.
Both of my parents, and most of my friends didn't vote and laugh about it like it won't mean shit. I hope they at least vote in November
Your parents and friends might be stupid. I know I fought hard to convince my friends to vote when I was young and I don't think I got a single person to start voting.
I gave them all shit for it. The did not care. But they'll readily bitch about how fucked the GOP is and how things need to change.
Only you can prevent democracy fires
Just vote for them
It will be Project 2029 after this election. Yes, vote for the democrats, but if you think positive change will happen just by voting then you haven't learned anything from leftist predecessors.
Actual, meaningful change can only happen when the state is at a legitimate state of strain, from outside revolutionary pressure, whether that be from mass worker strikes, protests, or other such upheavels of the status quo.
While I disagree with plenty of the Biden administration’s actions, including the recent Title VII FISA and especially the support of Israel, let’s look at the positive change that has happened that you say won’t happen in the future:
- Expanded overtime for workers
- student loan debt relief
- returned net neutrality
- the first otc birth control pill
- the inflation reduction act, which also pushed green/renewable energy (there’s a LOT of environmental stuff in this act)
- more anti-redlining rules
- crackdown on junk fees and overdraft fees
- ability to audit Chinese companies (nod to trump on this one, too)
- reform electoral count act, hopefully preventing more shenanigans like trump initiated to pressure officials to change the count.
- conservation and preservation of the Colorado River
- support for small farms and food producers
- penalties for some schools leaving students in debt
- the CHIPS and Science act to bring chip production back to the US and boost US tech R&D
- boosting cancer research with ARPA-H
- made it harder to bust unions
- approved billions in infrastructure improvements and repairs
And plenty more improvements such as protection of land from drilling, strengthening alliances, boosting cybersecurity, etc.
Incremental, slight concessions and tweaks to the decaying Capitalist system will not improve things. It's a slow, stagnating death.
For example, there is no meaningful reason that America does not have a robust system of high-speed rail other than lobbying from the automotive industry. Same with Universal healthcare and the pharma industry, same with public housing and landlords.
Biden tossing scraps while people starve and continuing the US Capitalist project will not result in meaningful improvements. Even if Biden had unlimited power, America would continue stagnating as wages fail to keep up with productivity and the third world is super-exploited for domestic super-profits.
"Hey, if we let Republicans destroy our country, it will actually help us in the long run. Trust me bro."
Yeah fuck that bullshit.
genocide this year so genociding continues to be a thing
- weak liberals who are too comfortable in their ill-gotten wealth and would do anything to protect their falling apart fascist state
.ml advocating for not voting and allowing fascism to deepen? Tracks
Choosing the second-worst option so the first-worst doesn't win isn't supporting the second. If you want to make a difference, don't abstain from voting. Help 3rd parties early-campaign.
I live in a state without abortion access. Please do keep telling me how I'm trying to "protect a fascist state" by fighting for the right to protect my fucking body.
Obvious information warfare is obvious. Get a better act.
Fr, this will be commented on in their next performance review.
"Where do you see yourself disinformationing in the next five years?"
