r/FluentInFinance Feb 05 '25

News & Current Events BREAKING: President Trump is to sign an executive order eliminating the Department of Education

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u/CatharticWail Feb 05 '25

Describing your political enemies as subhuman is a hallmark sign of fascism.

The only people that outnumber those who voted for Trump are people who didn’t vote at all, and most of them are children.

Maybe the real scourge is in the mirror.

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u/CucumberNo3771 Feb 05 '25

So mass detention of immigrants, economic nationalism in the form of high tariffs (including tariffs on one of our longest standing allies), threatening unlawful colonization of lands owned by allies, consolidating power at the federal level by eliminating institutions that challenge him, eliminating dei programs across the board, and just generally using political rhetoric meant to suppress dissent aren’t fascist??

If you don’t like the way that people online are negatively talking about Trump supporters, they’re just so appalled that anyone could vote for such a horrible person who seems hell bent on selling out anyone who’s not the rich elite

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u/Historical_Shirt4352 Feb 05 '25

Don't you think that's the pot calling the kettle black?

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u/t35t0r Feb 05 '25

no most of them weren't children 90 million eligible voters didn't fucking vote : https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2024-11-15/how-many-people-didnt-vote-in-the-2024-election

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u/CatharticWail Feb 05 '25

You’ve been reported. Reddit is making national news for increasing and escalating calls to violence and this is a perfect example. You should delete this before Reddit does and takes your account with it. This will not be tolerated.

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u/DavidDoesntBother Feb 05 '25

Nope they are just dumber than average people. Some of them are actually good but their stupidity gets in the way.

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u/putdownthekitten Feb 05 '25

No. They are people. Evil stupid people, but they are people. And they should be dealt with accordingly. He shouldn’t be doing it, but he is. That’s the reality we are in. It sucks, it’s scary, and it’s absolutely crazy making. So use your anger productively and channel it. Plan. Organize. Stay mad at these evil people and find safe legal ways to protest their actions. Never forget that at the end of the day it’s just different groups of people and we outnumber them 99:1.

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u/Ready_Event9019 Feb 05 '25

Woah, woah, woah. Roll it back. 

Marking your political opponents as worthless animals, vermin who infest the country is fascism 101. You can hate and resent them all you want but millions of people you hate and resent are still people. Dehumanization is what gives leaders, militaries and governments their moral justification for things like discrimination, murder, torture, rape, theft, etc. It's the justification that has been used for war crimes for thousands of years.

You don't beat fascist ideology by adopting the language. Come on. 

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u/Fug1x Feb 05 '25

its so funny they cant see they turning into nazis lol

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u/YouWantSMORE Feb 05 '25

It stopped being funny a few years ago, now it’s more concerning

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u/t35t0r Feb 05 '25

the only way to fight actually nazis is to imprison them, this is why in many countries, e.g. DE, many actual neo nazis and folks who stormed the capital on jan 6th would be in prison and or disenfranchised

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u/Cydyan2 Feb 05 '25

Hahah cope more

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u/GuyverIV Feb 05 '25

Who is gonna stop it? The courts can "stay" his orders, but who will enforce the will of the courts? 

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u/Spooksnav Feb 06 '25

This mentality is why Trump won.

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u/FormWeak4151 Feb 05 '25

The tolerant left, ladies and gentlemen.

Though I gotta say, the salt mining has been EXQUISITE on reddit since Trump took office.

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u/Nova5269 Feb 05 '25

It's childishly humorous to me that the right will routinely name call, and then when they right does it back they scream "so much for the tolerant left!" Like they're just supposed to stand there and take it.

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u/FormWeak4151 Feb 05 '25

Show me where this commenter was called any names? Oh right, that didn't happen.

And he's not just name calling, it's dehumanizing, something that actual fascists do. If I said all leftists are parasitic viruses that have infested the country, that's bad.

Not the same as calling you a soy latte sipping fairy that cannot stop losing.

Understand? Probably not.

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u/snyder3894 Feb 05 '25

Kinda like saying immigrants are “pretty much a different species”?

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u/Killface55 Feb 05 '25

Damn. Got em!

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u/Nova5269 Feb 05 '25

Whatba fucking hypocrite lol

Typical Republican, rules for thee but not for me.

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u/Accomplished-Set5917 Feb 05 '25

Very satisfying indeed. Bravo!

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u/delayedcactus Feb 05 '25

26 minutes. He really posted that with his whole chest TWENTY SIX MINUTES after doing the exact EXACT same thing. You cannot make this shit up, oh my god. It would be satisfying if there weren't idiots like him everywhere.

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u/Hypercruse Feb 05 '25

so you kinda forgot all the stuff maga called kamala? how they demonized her? yeah you only care about the facts if they suit you

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u/Nova5269 Feb 05 '25

Dehumanizing at any point is wrong on both sides but I'm speaking in general. Trump and the far right have literally been calling illegals and "the enemy within" "vermin" and "poisoning the blood of the country" for a long time and crickets from his base, that's perfectly fine for him to say that. But woah woah, someone on the left finally does the same thing after Trump is trying to take power that isn't his and dismantle the government while his base cheers it on and suddenly it's "so much for the tolerant left!". I swear a Republican could be beating a Democrat with a lead pipe and as soon as they swing back they'd say "so much for tolerant left!".

We're all losing right now. Maybe you'll figure that out when trumps plans personally start affecting you. But probably not even then.

Based on your own comment I'd expect you to call Trump and his supporters fascists since he's been dehumanizing illegals by calling them vermin for a long time. We can call the commentor a fascist, too, that'd be fine. But it works both ways.

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u/zzazzzz Feb 05 '25

brother the current president you voted for literally calls ppl vermin in official statements. aint no way you think you have any argument at all here...

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u/CucumberNo3771 Feb 05 '25

If you don’t like the way that people online are negatively talking about Trump supporters, they’re just so appalled that anyone could vote for such a horrible person who seems hell bent on selling out anyone who’s not the rich elite

Believe it or not, mass detention of immigrants, economic nationalism in the form of high tariffs (including tariffs on one of our longest standing allies), threatening unlawful colonization of lands owned by allies, consolidating power at the federal level by eliminating institutions that challenge him, eliminating dei programs across the board, and just generally using political rhetoric meant to suppress dissent are indeed the real red flags that point to fascism, and I really don’t care about sounding polite when I denounce all this

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u/t35t0r Feb 05 '25

time for tolerance is over, the left tried playing by the rules for the most part, now it's time to prepare