Yes. It was. Along with putting Japanese Americans in internment camps, Black people did not have the right to vote as Jim Crow was still in effect. Nor did Native Nations people have the right to vote until the 1980s. There's also this:

There's literally a museum you can visit at heart mountain that extensively covers how fascist it is to put a bunch of native born US citizens behind barbed wire for the sin of commiting exactly zero crimes whatsoever and you can visit it whenever you want

People have got to examine US history closer and notice there’s only been a relatively small span of time where we could reasonably not be considered fascist. There are people alive today who can remember when they were given the right to vote.

reminder that Hitler admired the United States for our genocide of Native Americans!

"So youre saying the last time we did concentration camps we were bad guys?" Do you hear yourself?

I mean, yeah. Locking people up for how they were born was wrong then and it's wrong now. What about that do you think WASN'T a fascist tool? Go ahead, explain your stance.

Yes. The Germans got most of their worst ideas from America and Canada

Imagine living in 2025 and still clutching your pearls when someone says the US wasn’t the saintly hero of WWII

You're in for a hell of a read once you crack a book.

Coddling a delusion that AI will be sentient soon, so we should be nice to it (and by extension the people who like it) while ignoring the real world bigotry and genocide happening to REAL humans is pretty callous and ludicrous.

The people who are most driving this narrative this are not doing this because they want to end systems of oppression. It is because they want humans in service to them as if they were robots.

I wonder how Indiana got its name and also how come the people it's named a slur for don't even have a res here and anyhow did you know Indiana had the world's first mandatory sterilization of undesirables law? www.wfyi.org/programs/ind...

No, we cannot defeat fascism with a national cultural mindset that SOME people deserve to be kidnapped and caged, ESPECIALLY not when the prevailing reason justifying that is "FOR THEIR OWN GOOD" cuz they're "too crazy/on too many drugs" do u even know what "bodily autonomy" IS??

Yes. We were also oppressing Black people as second-class citizens and outlawed/institutionized/crimimalized gay and trans people. We were DEFINITELY a fascist country. And now we are again. What's the 'gotcha' here?

"was this incredibly fascist thing that is widely considered a stain on our national history fascist???"

People have been describing the terror that is the United States for literal centuries. What's in a name? Your country is as bad as they come, but with great PR, and a people violent and faithless. Fascist? Who cares? You're just evil

American historian here Yes, that would be a direct example of the US historically implementing fascism. Targeting a minority group and throwing innocent people in camps, all over their skin color You gain nothing by ignoring the obvious authoritarian regime Trump’s currently trying to institute

yes it was, the Nazis quite famously told the US they got their ideas from us

Galicia with Palestine. Tremendous demonstration today in solidarity with the Palestinian people and against genocide. Palestine will win! 🇵🇸 It's not a war, it's a genocide!

Are you for real? Yeah, it's pretty fucking fash to round up a bunch of American citizens based on their skin color and ancestry

... yes. That was also fascist.

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48757/... Change a few words around and it applies 40ish years later...

✡️🇵🇸 Zionism is a Godless movement created by people who abhorred and wanted to eradicate Judaism. Judaism is around for more than 3,000 years. The Torah is our guide, our beating heart and what makes us ‘proud’ to be Jewish. Judaism is NOT Zionism (Credit: Jewish Voice)

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You. Are. Allowed. To. Insult. The. Police. It’s a core First Amendment principle. This is utterly lawless behavior, for which there will be no (short-term) consequences. That he does it so casually, as they are walking away, in front of cameras. Rightly confident in his impunity.

I miss when YouTube was just a cool website to share videos.

Way to go, YouTube, this will make listening to music on your app unbearable.

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Fuuuuccccckkkk this nonsense. I think Starmer should pay this out of his own pocket for not having the guts to tell Trump to go fuck himself.

the mods of this place will strangle it to death trying to avoid it having the reputation it already has and unavoidably will always have

OpenAI, one of the most prominent AI companies in the world, just released a model trained BLATANTLY on stolen IP. It's obvious that rights are being violated, and it's also obvious that existing enforcement is not preventing these violations: they press onward. The EU must enforce its rules

This thread is bittersweet. Nice words, even forceful ones. But it's ultimately a reflection of how powerless trans/ally voices are in Labour now. I see no way that Labour will abandon its transphobic crusade, and certainly no chance it will ever live down what it's already done. Join the Greens.

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🚨BREAKING 40 years ago Margaret Thatcher abolished rent controls in Scotland. The Scottish Parliament just passed a Bill introduced by the Scottish Greens, which will allow them once more! This will keep rents affordable and offer safety and stability to renters. 🙌

Forty percent of US voters think Israel is intentionally killing civilians in Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/forty-percent-us-voters-think-israel-intentionally-killing-civilians

And all that because he wants to win over a bunch of mostly ex-Tory Reform voters who hate Labour and always have and always will lmao. He's so fucking clueless, it's incredible.

If "AI" was as valuable as they say it is, they wouldn't be selling it to you. They'd be using it themselves in secret to make the next Minecraft, the next Avatar, the next Hello Kitty and then they'd sell that to you. They're trying to sell you a sick goose, while pretending it lays golden eggs.

Here's our Labour prime minister throwing the Labour Mayor of London, along with the entire British Muslim community, under the bus so as to not upset America's fascist president.

And that's not even touching on the Reform comments. Starmer seems to be absolutely determined to completely alienate the voters who put Labour in power. He's dicked over the unions, he's dicked over LGBT+ people, he's dicked over POC, he's dicked over disabled people... he's unstoppable, man.

These idiots have no idea how important universities are to the modern British economy and the towns and cities in which they are based. On average, a British university returns £14 for every £1 of public investment. So yes, let's slaughter these golden geese and scorch our economy.

It upsets them so hard to raise issues like, "can we stop prioritising the needs of those who already have the most?" The politics of privilege will damn us all into the inequalities that make that minority feel like gods.

Not knowing the exact form the anti-immigrant policies labour will come up with are, isn't the retort you think it is

We made it to another Friday. Good job, everyone.

They pepper sprayed us after this. We washed our faces and are back to singing we shall overcome. They’ll never win.

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these states would love to be done with recognition, and no further introspection or material change. if they can go a week or even a day without people asking why the fuck we recognize a state we're actively helping israel annihilate, then they can get away with any superficial, empty concessions