The world is turning far right and fascism is going to be the defining characteristic of the 2020s.

[CASHAPP]

Egypt had a military coup that turned into a personality cult, has had mass murders of protesters, sham trials where hundreds were sentenced to death simultaneously, is imprisoning journalists and disappearing people.

Philippines has a borderline insane president who has given the police full authority to create death squads and kill whoever they want, inside custody or not, while jailing his biggest critics on crazy charges.

India elected a riot mob leader as prime minister, who appointed a violent fundamentalist Hindu priest to run the largest state, just openly shot down four suspects in custody to nationwide praise, has multiple high-level politicians calling for the elimination of all Christians, Muslims, and secularists from the country, and just passed a bill designed to deport any Muslim who can't prove his family's ancestry in India back to the 1960s (a time when most people didn't even get birth certificates) even if he and his parents can all prove their own births in the contry.

Thailand had a military coup overthrow legit election results for the fifth time in the last two decades, created a personality cult around the military general in charge, permanently suspended democracy, and the government has taken to constantly blaming foreigners and refugees for all the nation's problems.

Cambodia has a former Khmer Rouge official (the most violent, evil government possibly of the entire second half of the 20th century) who has completely taken over dictatorial control of the country, eliminates those he sees as threats, and is slowly pulling a noose around any government function that doesn't serve him.

Burma is run by an identity-focused military junta which has taken more and more violent measures to eliminate ethnic and religious groups that don't align with the majority leaders.

Hungary, Turkey, Saudi Arabia....it's all over the place.

What do you think will happen in the African nations? Maybe I’m naively optimistic but I believe they will be anti neofascist. I see an “African Spring” type of uprising in Africa with the youth gaining power. But this doesn’t falter like the supposed Arab Spring did

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

My mom was like if I were you I'd move to another country

I'm like where???

Find a country with social security agreements with the US and will recognize dual citizenship

This way you could live there and still receive benefits

 

[Professor Emeritus]

What do you think will happen in the African nations? Maybe I’m naively optimistic but I believe they will be anti neofascist. I see an “African Spring” type of uprising in Africa with the youth gaining power. But this doesn’t falter like the supposed Arab Spring did

The best I can say is that there's no need that Africa follow the trend in the rest of the world. The worst I can say it that the status quo is awful and I don't see particular hope for the uprising you speak of. I pray that it COULD happen, it's not like we saw the Arab Spring coming. But who will start it?

South Sudan has depressed me recently, South Africa has really really disappointed me, Ethiopia/Eritrea was so unnecessary, Kenya could be a place of so much hope but the governments can't get their shyt together, Nigeria keeps wallowing in a broken system....

I've always have a deep personal hope, perhaps irrational, in Ghana. They're in a reasonably decent place right now and could get even better. But what would it look like for Ghana to have the kind of success as a nation that impacted other African nations in a positive way? That's what I want to see, and don't yet know how to see.

 

[Unknown Poster]

this virus is quickening the process.
Most of the world's population locked down.
Governments using the virus to take power grabs and cancel/postpone elections.

 

[Wild self]

I actually think that COVID19 is when the fascist governments failed to contain, and it will topple their regimes. Brazil is about to overthrow their PM, UK plummeted into a great recession, and even the US gonna vote out the GOP on all levels of the government in November

 

[AquaCityBoy]

the US gonna vote out the GOP on all levels of the government in November

Eh, I'm not sure sure. Trump has done great jedi mind tricks on his base to convince them that it's the evil democratic governors and senators who want to take away their freedoms in an attempt to make him look bad.

 

[Wild self]

Eh, I'm not sure sure. Trump has done great jedi mind tricks on his base to convince them that it's the evil democratic governors and senators who want to take away their freedoms in an attempt to make him look bad.

And its not working much at all. If you hate Trump from 2016, you never gonna like him ever. He is losing major, major ground everywhere. Name one demographic he has improved on. Name just one.

 

[Unknown Poster]

Find a country with social security agreements with the US and will recognize dual citizenship

This way you could live there and still receive benefits

Trump nipped that in the bud real fast.

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

Eh, I'm not sure sure. Trump has done great jedi mind tricks on his base to convince them that it's the evil democratic governors and senators who want to take away their freedoms in an attempt to make him look bad.

Why you not sure? Have the GOP won anything since the 2018 congressional and governor elections? A lot of gop Govenors lost their seats.. What happen a month ago in Wisconsin? GOP WI Supreme Court incumbent lost his seat.. So what makes you think Trump winning in November?

You paying attention? Mitch never show his hand and lately he been in a no fukks given more even saying states and cities should go bankrupt including his.. Does that sound like a man who thinks his going to maintain control of the senate? these are the facts

 

[Unknown Poster]

Even Germany is looking at America like....Wow.

 

[Unknown Poster]

Eh, I'm not sure sure. Trump has done great jedi mind tricks on his base to convince them that it's the evil democratic governors and senators who want to take away their freedoms in an attempt to make him look bad.

Ain't this the truth.

I was in conversation online with this older gentleman from Geneva a couple of days ago. He pointed out the observation that the people who protest right wing government oppression, and tyranny, are the same ones who support right wing government oppression. Trump really has convinced his base otherwise, it's a fascist jedi mind trick indeed. Going all the way back to the days of Hitler.

 

[Unknown Poster]

Is there really a rise in racism?

Or, at least in the US and UK for example, a degradation of the integrity of our elections has lead to the fascist parties being able to gain illegitimate power?

Your list of countries includes many countries that have never or very briefly had a non authoritarian govt:

Brazil, 30 yrs of democracy
Italy, arguably always been an oligarchy but was authoritarian until after WW2
Russia spent like a decade as a democracy during it's history, I believe
Korea, China have always been authoritarian
South America and Nigeria have a relatively short history of self determination in government and were being repressed for centuries prior


In US and UK people have always been racist as well, but they are doing a great job leveraging social media and hacking election booths to get a big platform these last few years

These lockdown protests make some of those white protesters protesting school integration back in the day look like disneyland.



They got full body armor and guns, automatic weapons, swastika flags, confederate flags, basically not only celebrating white racism and white privilege, but making thinly veiled threatening messages to democratic state governments...

Make no mistake though...those cats want Boogaloo...the Big Luau....read about it. Civil War part 2. But to be honest, this is thinly veiled code for a race war. Most people in the know realize whenever these white Trump supporting militia cats talk about overthrowing the government (the same ones they support and voted for), that's code for racial violence against non-whites...especially black people.

 

[BaggerofTea]

The pendulum
Harder you push one way the harder it swings back the other.

I wish we’d focus on working our way back to the middle.

The problem is there there is no pendulum swing.

We descended from right wing madness to moderate politics back to right wing madness again


Twitter/Social media has no bearing in the actual political/economic forces that make decisions in this world.

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

Trump nipped that in the bud real fast.

Have social security agreements been dissolved?

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

The problem is there there is no pendulum swing.

We descended from right wing madness to moderate politics back to right wing madness again


Twitter/Social media has no bearing in the actual political/economic forces that make decisions in this world.

Yup

Nikkas just say anything