I’ve pointed this out elsewhere, but if I’m going to have something of a megaphone, this needs to be endlessly pointed out. What is happening is not normal, and the more we normalize it, the more they win.

We are in the late Weimar. Some 248 years was a good run, but this is no longer a democracy, and the sooner people realize that, the better.

This is not hyperbole. And fuck off with “we were always a republic.” So was Rome until exactly this inflection point. Learn some fucking history.

  • Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.orgOPMEnglish
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    20 hours ago

    One of the things that happened with Germany post WWII was devolution to the states, partially to avoid this again, partially because, well, they were occupied. It was so weird to me when I’d get change in the '90s still reading Bank Deutscher Laender sted Bundesrepublik Deutschland.

    I lived in Stadtkreis Hameln, Y’all have heard of this. The Pied Piper led kids into the Weser … you just know it as Hamelin. I had to go over the Oberweserdampfshifffahrt to get to Gymnasium daily from Haverbeck. The three f’s are not an error. German nouns are fun.

    Why am I focusing on Germany? Well, it’s a useful model. No one thought the Weimar Republic could collapse so fast, and, I mean …

    This is bad. There’s precedent, and it’s not good. This is alarming. And I keep saying that because it keeps being true.

    Germany wasn’t really fully formed at that point. They had the Alsace and parts of Poland (this is to be expected given the Prussian origins). The wars forced Germany into the shape it’s in now, which is not an excuse the U.S. has to offer.

    We’re apparently considering Canada and Greenland as the Sudetenland?

    I see no way around the country breaking apart. This is too far, too fast. Cascadia may result. Once California, Oregon and Washington (let the irony sink in) are uninterested in being part of the country any longer … there’s no longer any bulwark against endless GOP domination. That’s why we wait until polls close on PST before making national calls. If you’re just going to do it on Mountain, that’s a thoroughly uninteresting result. Arizona’s the only wild card there.