There’s a peculiar form of blindness that comes from prolonged safety. Like a frog in slowly heating water, people who have known only stability become incapable of recognizing existential th…

“[…] what we’re witnessing now is the systematic dismantling of this entire architecture of peace—not through external defeat, but through internal surrender”

  • Placebonickname@lemmy.world
    44·
    2 days ago

    I hope that some day the GOP will be like the Nazi and the Confederates. We will not have their flags hung over schools, or wear their emblems openly in public.

    • Azal@pawb.social
      6·
      1 day ago

      I hope that some day the GOP will be like the Nazi and the Confederates.

      How to say you didn’t live in the United States South without saying you didn’t live in the South.

    • xyzzy@lemm.ee
      3·
      1 day ago

      But before they became so reviled we fought wars to kill as many of them as we could.

      1860s 1940s 2020s

      On schedule?

    • jonne@infosec.pub
      192·
      2 days ago

      Which is a shame for what was the party of Lincoln that literally fought for abolition.

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        20·
        2 days ago

        Republicans are not the fucking “party of Lincoln” and haven’t been since Nixon’s “Southern strategy.” Stop repeating their lies.

        • jonne@infosec.pub
          1·
          2 days ago

          Note that I used the past tense for a reason. It’s not a lie, they just became fascists.

        • Placebonickname@lemmy.world
          22·
          2 days ago

          The party of Lincoln was out there waving confederate flags at NASCAR events and protesting the black girl who stared in the “little mermaid”…how odd….

          Anyway.

    • gravitas_deficiencyEnglish
      15·
      2 days ago

      The thing about the confeds is that there were multiple generations that were brought up to revere them in very large swathes of the US. And that’s a core part of how the fuck we got here in the first place.

      • Placebonickname@lemmy.world
        9·
        2 days ago

        Interesting fact… If you go through Department of War records, there are no medals of any type issued to Soldiers from the south. Wanna know why? Cause they were never part of the US Military, they were a rebellion that attempted to change, attack, and suppress the law of the land using violence and force.

        • gravitas_deficiencyEnglish
          8·
          2 days ago

          I mean, of course. But at the same time there are shitloads of statues of and military bases named after confederate heroes in the south. Official recognition is not the same as colloquial and societal recognition, and the confeds sure as shit had that since reconstruction was kneecapped following Lincoln’s assassination.

          • Get_Off_My_WLAN@fedia.io
            2·
            2 days ago

            At least the names of all the bases named after Confederates were changed a few years ago. West Point also renamed things that were named after Lee (which only existed because for the sake of Reconciliation after the war).