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It is becoming apparent that despite all the wailing and gnashing of teeth, everyone is actually ok with all his shit
He was forced to do that otherwise his friends Kim and Vlad wouldn’t stop to make fun of him. They already ridiculed him in the group chat for the low energy military parade for his birthday
But this is still small. Even smaller than the flag! (Which is hung flipped, on the wrong side?)
They are still laughing because look how small he looks compared to the Vlad one! Did he wanted to save money? Cheapskate!
Now he has to put his photo in every classroom and replace the Lincoln statue
This photo would have more of an effect if there was a credible source for it. I can’t even read the banner to Google it. I had to reverse image search.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/27/national-guard-chicago-crime/
This trend of screenshots rather than links degrades discourse.
It says “American Workers First”.
The picture comes from the WSJ article linked to in the Mastodon post. https://archive.is/QDS8P
For me the first page of a Google search does not link to stories with this image with the military standing in front. Except for one link to the Boston Globe which displays for a second before paywall blocking.
That is why the general netiquette is to share the link in the first place.
That link was not clickable from OP because it was a screenshot. I manually typed it in but forgot to use uppercase so it returned a Hillary Twitter thread https://archive.is/qds8p
Of course I know what the banner says now because I found a decent source which I have in my comment.
“trump banner dc”
You’ll find it to be a very effective search engine query.
If you haven’t removed people from your life who DONT know that Trump and his cohort is a menace then… what’s the point here now?
Either they are a future ____ , or just let them be.
If there’s anyone in your life that still doesn’t get that Donald Trump is a fascist, then they are a cultist and a photo won’t have any effect.
This is early 1930s Germany. They’re lost. They’re gone. They’re going to have to be beaten into submission like every other fascist movement ever.
We had a chance to go down another path. We passed on that opportunity.
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In europe there are many old people who obviously aren‘t cultists, but still say “well he did alot of good things for his country” or “well the woke youth would run society to the ground”. So yeah, Trumpism isn‘t only a cult problem, but a cultural one.
Which is why I‘m very cynical about what will happen when the White House toddler finally bites the cheeto dust.
idk what the fuss is about this is totally normal where I’m from:
Where is this from?
From the movie adaptation of the book “1984” from the year 1984.
It’s from the country of Airstrip One, Oceania
Again, is anyone here, on Lemmy, surprised by this shit?
Yes, America lives under democracy, however, did you ever stop to consider that business operates under authoritarianism? So we take someone who is aggressively capitalistic, has run and owned several businesses, even had a TV show that’s known for the phrase “you’re fired”, and put them in charge. Then we’re surprised when this person who has basically been head of several authoritarian businesses, starts acting like an authoritarian regime?
I don’t think so Tim.
None of this is surprising to me in the least.
And people voted for this.
People been voting for this every election since this slave colony was stolen.
“Hybrid regime” is the best phrase to describe the US right now.
Not a total dictatorship, yet, but very authoritarian, but somehow just not authoritarian enough for someone to be granted political asylum in, say, the EU, but nevertheless, very authoritarian.
I wonder at what point the EU would actually take this regime seriously and start granting asylum.
This isn’t about you. The left leaning folks fail so hard at politics because you all think you’re the main character. As if you’re the last stop on the information path. All this crazy stuff that happens gets consumed by you and then stops. We’re suppose to do stuff with this information not just kill it after we have a quick view of it. So saying “is anyone surprised” misses the point here. It’s not about information for you or others personally. The point isn’t to inform just so you’re aware. Its so you do something with it.
In fairness, it does seem like the kind of extreme that would come up in a video game. You’d at least expect some subtlety in real life, rather than outright drapes with the guy’s face on, and a positive word slapped on.
Like putting his business logo up.
If this was a screenshot from a game with a fictional president, people would call it “very on the nose”. Maybe someone with photoshop skills can make that edit, to ask Trump supporters what that president reminds them, then switch in the original with Trump (of course many will think the original is the fake).
Edit: maybe a better one:
Time to break out the projectors.
Light it up!
Except a little " under the nose…
The comparatively small font on, “American Workers,” really makes it seem like it’s saying, “Trump First.” …which I’m sure is an accident.
Bet they burn real nice
Fash gonna fash.
So these flags were made in the USA right? Trump does support manufacturing in the USA, right ?? Or is the truth like his MAGA hats these flags also made in China 🙄
Kudos to the photographer. That pic is dystopian AF.
I’m sure the photographer would point out they literally just photographed reality. It’s reality that’s dystopian
Reminds me of when Trump was in office the first time and Biden was running. Trumpers started posting pics of empty store shelves, (from all of the panic-buying and COVID shortages) and captioning them like “this will be America under Biden”. My brother in Christ you just drove to the store and took a photo of reality under Trump… And reality under Trump looks like empty store shelves.
No argument there; I guess I was aiming my compliment more towards the framing and composition of the pic, not so much the subject.
Yep. So glad I’m not american…
All they need is a symbol of some sort plastered everywhere and America will officially hit Nazi Germany level
“Holy small dick energy, Batman. That man must feel a huge need to compensate for something.”
“He may have a small penis Robin, but he is also a fascist, a pedophile, a traitor and an incredible piece of entitled shit. We must never forget that.”
Holy doll hands, Batman!
