Anti fascists are usually the first targets of fascists. Maybe it’s not common knowledge, but the first Nazi concentration camps were for political prisoners. Predominantly leftist antifascists. Open opposition to the Nazis was usually a death sentence… thought not as much as being Jewish or Slavic. The crime of antifascism was not as severe as being racially impure. If you were Aryan, they still nominally wanted you to stick around and make babies.
Anyone who is familiar with the Nazi rise to power has been sounding the alarm bells ever since Trump won the election. He has been open about his intentions to create a fascist America. He is currently in the process of nazifying the American federal government (firing everyone who would oppose him and hiring only ultra-nationalist white supremacist allies). He is also currently in the process of solidifying white supremacy and American exceptionalism as official government institutions (destroying all documentation on queer people and racial minorities, destroying all public acknowledgment of black Americans and women who had significant roles in American history). He is also in the process of turning ICE and the Department of Homeland Security into private militias of the government sent out to round up dissidents. He is openly discussing mass murder and imperialist war mongering. His government is torpedoing relationships with all non-fascist nations and attempting to assert some kind of inherent superiority of American people on an international political scale.
These round ups will escalate. Like the nazis they will begin rounding up other people too. It won’t stop with political prisoners. It will extend to all Palestinians, all Muslims, all queer people. It’s already functionally extended to all immigrants from Mexico or Southern America, and even legal descendants of immigrants from those places. The math is clear. Trump is creating a fascist dictatorship. The time to get out is now, while you have the chance. Those outroads won’t last forever. We are watching one of the most significant political epochs of the modern era begin. Unlike anything seen since the second world war. I think we will all probably look back on this time in shock and horror at how systematically every possible safeguard to prevent this failed. I do not blame this man at all for fleeing. I have been considering fleeing the continent entirely. I’m in Canada. But I know how these things go. I’m not anxious to stick around and find out what happens to trans women in occupied Canada.
Anti fascists are usually the first targets of fascists. Maybe it’s not common knowledge, but the first Nazi concentration camps were for political prisoners. Predominantly leftist antifascists. Open opposition to the Nazis was usually a death sentence… thought not as much as being Jewish or Slavic. The crime of antifascism was not as severe as being racially impure. If you were Aryan, they still nominally wanted you to stick around and make babies.
Anyone who is familiar with the Nazi rise to power has been sounding the alarm bells ever since Trump won the election. He has been open about his intentions to create a fascist America. He is currently in the process of nazifying the American federal government (firing everyone who would oppose him and hiring only ultra-nationalist white supremacist allies). He is also currently in the process of solidifying white supremacy and American exceptionalism as official government institutions (destroying all documentation on queer people and racial minorities, destroying all public acknowledgment of black Americans and women who had significant roles in American history). He is also in the process of turning ICE and the Department of Homeland Security into private militias of the government sent out to round up dissidents. He is openly discussing mass murder and imperialist war mongering. His government is torpedoing relationships with all non-fascist nations and attempting to assert some kind of inherent superiority of American people on an international political scale.
These round ups will escalate. Like the nazis they will begin rounding up other people too. It won’t stop with political prisoners. It will extend to all Palestinians, all Muslims, all queer people. It’s already functionally extended to all immigrants from Mexico or Southern America, and even legal descendants of immigrants from those places. The math is clear. Trump is creating a fascist dictatorship. The time to get out is now, while you have the chance. Those outroads won’t last forever. We are watching one of the most significant political epochs of the modern era begin. Unlike anything seen since the second world war. I think we will all probably look back on this time in shock and horror at how systematically every possible safeguard to prevent this failed. I do not blame this man at all for fleeing. I have been considering fleeing the continent entirely. I’m in Canada. But I know how these things go. I’m not anxious to stick around and find out what happens to trans women in occupied Canada.