Just Tom... 🐁When I was young, in the immediate aftermath of WWII, I was brought up to believe that we had defeated Fascism. Now I am old, I realise that those battles have to be fought over and over again. Never in my lifetime have I felt so despondent about the future.
Blotreport: YES@tompearce49 Me neither. However, we have to keep fighting against those who want to repeat history.
tangle@tompearce49 if it helps at all, i believed the same thing as a 90s baby. as the far right has had a resurgence during my youth and adulthood, one of the things that gives me hope is remembering that fascism *has* been beaten before. it might not be a one-time fight but it's a fight that can be won!
Seasiders2@tompearce49 I’d like to say I disagree, however what’s mine is mine, and what’s yours is mine is the way of the world because greed is good. To quote the film Wall Street. Hatred is fostered to improve media profits. Common sense is uncommon. The voiceless are mute, and academics are ignored. My time is not now. In the end I agree with you. Awful, awful, awful….
anitavondannen@tompearce49 Yes, people never evolved. They never got out of their animal behavioral habits. Nothing’s going to change. That’s why we’re doomed.
Unprecedented 2023@tompearce49 😭😭😭🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 So sorry.
code_monk@tompearce49 fear not. we ALWAYS win
Joe Hill 🇵🇸🇺🇦@code_monk @tompearce49 We May win the battle (2024) but we won’t win the war. We put off dealing with climate change past the tipping point. The world is going to be a very different place in 25-30 years.
@Joe_Hill @tompearce49 i agree. But we have come back from worse. We let things get real bad for too long, but we always recover. We have actually survived (localized) climate change before. We didn't learn ALL the lessons we needed to, but we learned some of them.
@tompearce49 Me, too Tom. Me,too.
Fascism is a chronic illness of humanity. We always need to attend to it.
Grandpa Don@tompearce49
I hear ya.
I hear ya.
Moonslime@tompearce49 On the bright side we’re on the cusp of an actual multiracial democracy, something the world has never seen. I like to think of today’s fascists as an extinction burst of a dying lifestyle.
@Moonslime @tompearce49 You sure that's the bright side? The other side of that question is why have democracies not lasted more than a few lifetimes?
The defeat of one particular fascism was only by handing much of Europe over to another brand of totalitarianism with most of the same bad characteristics.
And when that one collapsed, it didn't take long for another fascist to arise in Russia.
Studio 8502 
@tompearce49 as with the American civil war, too much mercy was shown, and now the bill comes due.
Michael Porter@tompearce49 The war might have been won (then), but human nature is a constant.
Rhinos Worry Me has moved"We're taught that after the war the Nazis vanished without a trace
But batallions of fascists still dream of a master race"
Now listening to:
Chumbawamba - On the day the nazi died
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=2CUQu5K8lp8
They're here and they're there and they're everywhere
(Repeat)
We're taught that after the war the Nazis vanished without a trace
But batallions of fascists still dream of a master race
The history books they tell of their defeat in forty-five
But they all come out of the woodwork on the day the Nazi died
They say the prisoner of Spandau was a symbol of defeat
Whilst Hess remained imprisoned and the fascists they were beat
So the promise of an aryan world would never materialise
So why did they all come out of the woodwork on the day the Nazi died
They're here and they're there and they're everywhere
(Repeat)
The world is riddled with maggots--the maggots are getting fat
They're making a tasty meal of all the bosses and bureacrats
They're taking over the board rooms and they're fat and full of pride
And they all came out of the woodwork on the day the Nazi died
So if you meet with these historians I'll tell you what to say
Tell them that the Nazis never really went away
They're out there burning houses down and peddling racist lies
And we'll never rest again until every Nazi dies
ChookMother 🇦🇺🦘@tompearce49 Though I was born in 1952, when I was growing up there was still so much retrospective analysis of the rise of the Third Reich and the Horror of the Holocaust was still reverberating.
Without that background, later generations can hear what Trump and others say, and think "Hey, that's a good idea". They have no awareness of the consequences and they never imagine that they themselves could become the victims of an authoritarian regime, only the beneficiaries.
Stefen Auris@tompearce49 don't despair, it's cyclical like many things in nature. Just as there's no need to be afraid of the seasons changing, we will continue the fight against evil and goodness will prevail.
Melinda@tompearce49
You are not alone in feeling this way. It is so terribly sad that people are being conned into voting for the far right, and ironic that the far right use patriotism as a weapon.
You are not alone in feeling this way. It is so terribly sad that people are being conned into voting for the far right, and ironic that the far right use patriotism as a weapon.
Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧It’s the same as shitty people at work. They can be temporarily deterred, but they always come back with some new (old) shitiness to suck up resources while advancing their own shitty personal agenda.
PNW Deb@tompearce49 Me too, Tom. Me too.
Dagnabbit, Pascaline! 💥@tompearce49 ❤❤❤ Keep your spark alive ❤❤❤
Elizabeth Moore🇨🇦@tompearce49 I definitely think fascism and Nazism has not gone away. WWII may have ended the physical fighting but the ideas from that time (fascism) hasn’t. It was just lying in wait for a time when people seem dissatisfied with what is out there which seems to be now to resurface. I guess we will fight again and it will probably involve a physical fight whether we like it or not.
@Lpm1 Sadly I begin to feel the same. Even a couple of years ago it seemed unduly Cassandra-like to speak of fascism and a fascist resurgence (thus Godwin's law). Nobody invokes Godwin these days.
PeterD 🇩🇪 🇨🇦
Danneau@tompearce49
Full snark: What's a future? My father was engaged against fascism both at home and abroad, full-on radical as he actively supported the lesser of two evils. Later, he settled in to a comfortable existence catering to the well-off. It's an increasingly difficult existence in society the farther out one lands in the fringes.
Full snark: What's a future? My father was engaged against fascism both at home and abroad, full-on radical as he actively supported the lesser of two evils. Later, he settled in to a comfortable existence catering to the well-off. It's an increasingly difficult existence in society the farther out one lands in the fringes.