Everyone should know the 14 points of fascism, in this case its #11.
https://public.websites.umich.edu/~rsc/Editorials/fascism.html
11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts
Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free _expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts.
seriously makes me want to stop working all together. why bother contributing or paying taxes or any of it. the rich are just going to squeeze every drop of blood out of me while they continue to elect shitheads like MAGA. why bother? let the whole thing burn to the ground.
No one is going to fight for their country. Americans have been trained since birth to obey their employers and government. they have no idea how to effect change.
there will be a few more completely useless protests, a completely rigged mid-term, most likely another 9/11 on american soil, and none of that will be enough to motivate americans.
we are truly doomed. beaten by a group of pedophiles and Israeli spys.
Becuase mice dont object to random, potentially lethal experiments.
This is exactly what happened to russia after the cold war. Its going to be desstating to the economy. The next 20 years belong to china and europe.
This sounds bad, but once the teens and grandparents find lemmy, then its game over. It happened to facebook and it happened to reddit. The masses cause a sort of averaging out of content.
How do we keep the fediverse niche?
everyone should know the 14 points of facism. disdain for intellectuals and the arts is a key feature.