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Just because an island has a smaller population doesn't make it any more or less predisposed to egalitarianism, nor do large populations have to be predisposed to authoritarianism.

Time for peace is long gone, we've already let it get too far at this point.

I'd like to believe that there are good cops out there that will be like "hey wait a minute" and when push comes to shove they'll be some of the greatest allies of the people, who protects the people and not just the powerful. I'd like to believe.

I see a lot of neoliberal fascist democrats in this thread, seeing a lot more of them on lemmy.world now. They'll sooner blame a "tankie" on the internet than their own beloved party who sold out to fascists. Neolibs still haven't figured out that red/blue are just two sides of the same fascist coin, and are quick to turn on other leftists (because they're actually right wing af)

It has to be a takeover of the Democratic party.

Who and which billionaire would do that?

Ayo send me the link to lemmy's stock charts

Have a BBQ with them and team up. - Police and Fascists

I don't understand your excitement. Why do you say 'PLEASE' to watching Proud Boys and local police having a friendly BBQ with eachother?

It's also worth mentioning the consolation in the fact that fascism always fails, eats itself alive, and collapses. It's inherently unstable and unsustainable. It can collectivize a lot of power real fast, and do a lot of damage as a result, but it never lasts. Human beings need to cooperate, and hyper competitive individualism creates false loyalty and betrayals, minimal trust, minimal cooperation. Great pains and efforts, and the use of their power, is always spent trying to fight against human nature to maintain their order. Human nature always prevails.

She'll be MLK Jr'd before she becomes any sort of real voice. We can't rely on idolising individuals anymore, that's what fascists do.

WW2 was between Russians and Germans. All the other stuff was barely a side character subplot compared to the Eastern front.

For example, in the Western front the German forces dealt more casualities to US and UK troops than the Allies did to the Axis by quite a lot too. Reading stories and diaries of American troops they would remark how astonishing it is that their German POWs were all either very young, or very old, either way remarkably unfit for combat. German command in the Western front was in shambles, because the vast majority of their efforts were going to the Eastern front. More Germans died in the battle of Stalingrad alone than in the entirety of the Western front. There were sieges in the Baltics that made Omaha Beach seem like a pretty lucky bet. The Belarusian grassroots genocide by Germans is hardly talked about, yet were just as brutal as they were against jews. The Siege of Leningrad is the type of nightmare fuel, hell on earth that Spielberg would never dream of touching. The West puts so much self importance about their fight against the German Nazi Machine, meanwhile it was the communists who did all the work while Western capitalists profited every step of the way since the beginning. And as you pointed out, America had and still has a strong Nazi following, also curiously backed by billionaires.

Now the collective West is the new Nazi party, and like it or not it's up to Russia and China to stop them again.

EDIT - Just wanted to point out that a lot of the horrors of the Eastern front is equally blamed on Stalin too, Baltic people hate Germany and Russia the same for WW2. Every side of WW2 sucked horrendous ass, and nobody won in WW2 (except for capitalists)