Are we now in full blown fascist totalitarianism?

[Jarhyn]

Someone that says Truth Social and Twitter are free speech "extremists" cannot be taken seriously.

How aren't they?

They don't even approximate free speech. It's all about MAGA speech, not free speech for the opposition.

I am aside here, DrZ typifies what I would consider "The European Problem": certain behaviors are so normalized and ubiquitous across Europe that they become unable to see it, much like how I imagine it might be hard for a mideval Londoner to identify quite how bad the smell of shit in the streets was.

They have just been living in that mess so long it just seems normal, and maybe it IS normal.

So while Europe has just as mangled awful history and fairly horrific prejudices, they're all things they blithely fail to notice because they're endemic like shit in the streets of 1700's London.

I heard people in NL taking the same positions that I the US, over the course of my life, became MAGA.

I have no doubt that if when Trump had unlimited has sufficient power he's going to be banning liberal speech, freedom of assembly for liberals, ban liberal leaning press and would will be executing liberals in the streets.

FTFY.

He's not even a year into his (nominal) four year term yet. And his power has been growing very rapidly, and with little effective push-back.

And directly accelerating in the described direction.

And Ems just refuses to see it.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

What could go wrong?

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/politics/dominion-voting-systems-bought-election-ballots

Also I'm totally for not using electronic voting systems, but seems clear what's happening here.

It's much easier to tamper with paper ballots than with a properly journaling electronic system. Ours had ginormous paper rolls that you could see your vote was printed onto--you can't tamper with the totals without replacing the tapes also.

And it's now renamed Liberty Vote.

https://thehill.com/business/5547784-dominion-voting-systems-liberty-vote/

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Does anyone doubt that they intend to lead the US into full blown fascism, if no one stops them? Does anyone doubt that that may not be possible, given how much power over all branches of government that they now hold?

it’s up to voters to change things.

There won't be another honest election.