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ancianita

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12. This video was posted about a week ago.
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 07:23 PM
Aug 2025
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016410633

Starting from 28:44 to the end, it shows the pretty scary moves being made through deepfakes to normalize the very idea of fascism and the violence behind it.

Quoting the narrator at the 28:44 point...
"... Everything is ... spectacle, masking politics through optics and emotionalization in order to make it suitable for mass consumption.
We truly live in the dumbest timeline imaginable... Turning everything into ironic movable content has made everything meaningless. The restraints on fascist rhetoric are gone.
The previously unthinkable is now normalized.
No shame. No consequences. And No wonder no one takes you seriously when you call something fascist.
Because you're right -- it has lost its meaning.
Which is the point.

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The Dem response I want to see [View all] edhopper Aug 2025 OP
I would love if Dems started using the word "fascism" choie Aug 2025 #1
So true edhopper Aug 2025 #2
And throwing in the literal "fuck"... maspaha Aug 2025 #7
This video was posted about a week ago. ancianita Aug 2025 #12
My take on this is ... yes it's very scary FakeNoose Aug 2025 #14
"all the way to 28:44" is the history of how the aesthetics were right wing developed, is all. ancianita Aug 2025 #16
Rec'd for the passion senseandsensibility Aug 2025 #3
True edhopper Aug 2025 #4
Oh yeah senseandsensibility Aug 2025 #5
Nah, I think we need the profanity. hamsterjill Aug 2025 #15
Personally... DET Aug 2025 #20
Opinion noted. hamsterjill Aug 2025 #21
Then why not run for office and respond like that? W_HAMILTON Aug 2025 #6
Yes! Cirsium Aug 2025 #8
This message was self-deleted by its author Celerity Aug 2025 #11
Because I have edhopper Aug 2025 #18
Kick orangecrush Aug 2025 #9
Thank you. hamsterjill Aug 2025 #10
Apart from making you feel good, how do you think that would change anything? onenote Aug 2025 #13
I guarantee edhopper Aug 2025 #19
And I guarantee it wouldn't change how Mike Johnson onenote Aug 2025 #22
That is true edhopper Aug 2025 #23
Yes! WiVoter Aug 2025 #17
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