Summary

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warned that the Trump is deliberately overwhelming the public with chaotic news to induce passivity.

Citing Steve Bannon’s “flood the zone” strategy and historian Michiko Kakutani’s comparison of Trump to Mussolini and Hitler, she argued that Trump uses the internet to spread disinformation, much like past dictators used film and radio.

Urging people to stay engaged, she emphasized that collective resistance can slow harmful policies and that small acts of opposition make a difference.

    • pyrflie@lemm.ee
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      “People who have a vote cast it.”

      Biden shat the bed so hard people were willing to endure fascism to punish him and his allies.

      Make no mistake multiple demographics want him and his admin dead. Voting against him and “his bitch” was not a problem.

      Dems needed a reason to win and they pissed it away in foreign politics and continuing Trump’s border policy.

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    I just saw someone on Lemmy say the other day something along the lines of “he’s only been in there a month”

    Hell, at that point it was barely 2 WEEKS.

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    Lol no it’s not. He wants you to see all the shit they’re exposing

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    You know why I’m burnt out? Because I don’t see hardly any Democrats pushing the fuck back.

    I see a bunch of Democrat voting for Republican bills knowing they’re fucking horrible. I see and hear a bunch of Democrats voting for his unqualified nominees and then taking about bipartisanship. I see Fetterman slobbing all over Trump’s toadstool supporting ethnic cleansing all fucking day long with not a single move to kick his stroked ass out. I don’t see Democrats doing fuck all.

    I can handle bad news, I can’t stand the spinless, enabling Democrats.

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      They’ve been pushing back for 8 years. They are exhausted after Biden continued Trump policies.

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      AOC talked about exactly this in her video (it’s over an hour long, but when you have time, I’d say it’s worth a watch). There was a specific effort to start this madness after Congress adjourned for the week, and there’s been a scramble to get back for continued pushback.

      And, even for democrats we presume to fight for these issues, there is complacency where people only whine on social media without making themselves known directly to their representatives. That’s important both for people in Democrat, and Republican districts, to make it known their constituents are not blind to these problems.

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      And the media! When Musk did a Nazi salute they all fell all over each other to run cover for him and “both sides” the issue. When his obvious government wrecking DOGE agency torches important programs it’s just presented as a “tough efficiency program”. The whole mainstream media is trying to pretend everything is normal.

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        To be fair, I don’t think the overall USA really cared about nor directly responded to the OG Nazis until… 12/7/1941? Of course, that was just the Nazi allies.

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    I’m glad to hear it coming from her.

    Because it is burning me out fast. I need to take a break, especially right now because of so much on my plate. But then I can re engage.

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      You know why leftists are burnt out, they spent 4 years fighting Biden when he continued Trump policies. You want support, support us.

      You want to keep losing continue with us as your main opposition. We can all die together. Your corporate donors won’t protect you from the Reps.

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      Who are you talking to? Who talks like this? Is this some “familiar AI bot” thing m

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    Trump’s first term was like this for me. Every day was like watching a car crash and waiting, praying for someone to do something.

    I told myself I wasn’t going to do it this time, but we’ve gone from the slow-moving car crash of the first term to a full-on NASCAR accident happening every day. Not paying attention feels like they’re winning, but there’s only so much I can take

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    I haven’t slept decently since the election night. 90% of my nights is waking up in the middle of the night.

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    Do you guys ever sit there and kinda feel numb?

    You know eventually things may escalate and things feel like if that happens, it’ll start a very bloody and horrific result. And when that happens a lot of things will drastically change.

    A beginning of horror - Just because humans do always what they do in history - especially leaders.

    They’ve known for so long what they could have done to make things better. But they choose not to everyday. Why do a lot of them go bad? Why does this always happen? Are we all doomed to repeat a cycle until the Earth dies?

    Just a cycle of greedy humans making others suffer.

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      Exactly. People need to stay focused. Trump and his henchmen are going to do everything they can to keep the masses fighting amongst each other while they rob us blind. This is what “class war, not culture war” means.

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        That’s both party’s strategy since Reagan got his former opposition on the take.

        Thats what both parties are bribed for.

        Stoke social issue wedges and protect our oligarchs grift economy from us.

        You can have scapegoating and oligarchal exploitation or affirmation ribbons and oligarchal exploitation. That has been the extent of our voter’s power for half a century.

        Im glad the Dems support trans rights, and vote for them as harm reduction, but don’t pretend DNC neoliberal democrats give a shit about a poor Trans person’s right not to die in an underpass of exposure for the crime of being poor as a warning to the other poors.

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      I have started to want this to become an extension of hate speech laws - if a lawmaker makes remarks or policy advances that target a specific marginalized protected class (eg, race, sexuality) while also engaged in other policy decisions, they must provide EXTREMELY compelling evidence of those policy advances (just about always impossible) or face extended criminal prosecution for attempting to use the threats as a distraction.