Of course I get downvoted on Lemmy, a congregation of misfits, mental illness, social outcasts, contrarians, and political extremists. People who live a healthy, well adjusted, and happy life are not on Lemmy.
Emotional regulation is a skill that can be learned. You have agency and are not just a passive victim of circumstance. Life is not easy, but suffering and unhappiness is optional.
Stress comes from inside you, not the outside.
The Nazis didn’t go through with their more radical socialist demands like land reforms. They also crushed the unions.
Huge state run job programs practically meant everybody had a job. There were rent freezes, expansions of health insurance, work accident insurance, cheap credit for newlyweds, etc. were expanded continuously. Kraft durch Freude allowed ordinary people to travel and go on holiday for the first time. Youth organizations were compulsory and offered a lot of learning, social activities, outdoor camping, hikes, music education and such.
The primary goal of the Nazis was a war of expansion. Their ideology only cares for the nation, not the individual. Industry leaders and all aspects of life had to follow the same ideology and who didn’t follow was crushed. Everyone is expected to sacrifice everything and dedicate their life to the leader, party, state.
Trumpism cares about making the rich richer, holding on to power, and some racist WASP supremacy one the side. Keeping their voter base happy or protecting them in materialist ways is not there.
The Nazis and Italian fascists made sure to spend on social programs and worker benefits to keep support from the population.
Trumpism does the opposite. Which will be their downfall. Can’t stay in power on hate and culture wars alone.
Well adjusted healthy people living a happy life don’t waste their time arguing in comment sections.
Trump building a ballroom no skirting the bureaucracy is one the lest bad things he has done. I‘m actually surprised he hasn’t started construction of a much more monumental building in Washington or elsewhere. Trump loves building and autocrats love to build monuments to their ego.
Matrix is a usability nightmare. Messages that can’t be decrypted are a common occurrence.
A meathead veteran running on a left populist platform is how you can get some of the MAGA working class votes. Platner is the opposite of an elite well spoken academic, than can actually appeal to the proletariat and petit bourgeoisie.
The first woman president will be republican.
Hitler was vegetarian.
For more serious differences see what happened after they took power. The state governments were immediately taken over by central government. Under Trump the state governments are able to hold on to power and actually mount resistance. There’s also no totalitarian measures to centralize all unions or other organizations into one. Trumpism is very American and harkens back to the gilded age oligarchy. Nazis and fascism wanted a revolutionary new modern society. Musk and Thiel are the parts of MAGA that have this component a bit. They are the avant-garde, but not the core of Trumpism.
Trump said: „start building“ and someone made sure they got started.
Trump himself has called his political opponents fascists.
There’s a pretty big ideological difference between Italian fascists and NSDAP Nazis. Trumpism works in even other ways.
Arguing about Nazi and fascist comparisons is a waste of time. It’s better to talk about actually bad things Trump and his ilk are doing and talk about doing.
Constant Nazi and Hitler comparisons do little to illuminate this.
Trumpism is very American in ways that Nazism and Fascism were not.
Some examples: Mussolini and Hitler had came from a humble background. They both were veterans of WW1 and relatively young when starting their political career. Trump is an old man billionaire deeply connected to the establishment. Nazis and Fascists instituted broad social programs and improvements for the working class. Trump does the opposite. Fascism and Nazism were progressive and revolutionary. Trumpism is more reactionary. Sure, there are also parallels that can be drawn.
Trump has more in common with Victor Orban, Putin, Juan Péron, or many of the long list of Latin American dictators.
Nazi, just like fascist has become an almost generic insult to hurl at people who want to enforce rules, you don’t like.
This goes back to the original Nazi times even. The German communists labeled the social democracy as social fascists for years. Of course the social democrats and communists ended up in the same concentration camps later on.
Trumpism is working towards more authoritarian tyranny.
This is for Qatar‘s help in pressuring Hamas to sign the deal to the end the Gaza war.
Training bases like that are often put in remote areas where low flying and the noise doesn’t disturb that many people. Qatar is tiny and they can’t really practice at home that well.
It’s a Qatari Air Force base for Training.
You put all your hope into the generals recognizing MAGA as the domestic enemy. It could easily go the other way.
Fuck the Poles, Estonians, and so on who didn’t want to risk living under Moscow‘s boot once again, or what? They can decide themselves who they want to ally with and NATO was where they felt safe. Without EU and NATO, Russia would have taken the Baltic states 20 years ago.
For people like you only world powers matter.
Everything the West does is imperialism. Everything the enemies of the west do is not.
It’s very simple for them.
I respect him for his linguistics, not his politics.