nobody on the top really believes their own ideology

Source?

But the perception of being silenced

They are constantly invited to talk shows, news interviews, get frontpages of national magazines etc. and they are still convinced they are silenced.

The article talks about income (the headline seems a bit confusing), the wiki about net worth?

We marched together for the eight hour day though.

Also: be careful who you vote into office.

Even if that is “the propaganda” (which I have not seen in this thread btw): your counterproposition is not to dispose of the whole one-dimensional “which atrocity is worse” bullshit, but instead formalizing it by speaking of tiers and arguing that the holocaust wasn’t that bad. That’s dehumanizing, has no value at all (it’s not like a “tier 2 genocide” it somehow more okay) and instead opens the doors for Nazi apologia and antisemtism and derails the discussion.

I don’t know how else to say it, but: the unique aspects of the Holocaust are what makes the Holocaust unique.

Making up “tiers” of mass murder or genocide is dehumanizing. There is no point in trying to compare these atrocities - except of course if someone wants to say e.g. “Well, the holocaust wasn’t that bad”.

You need to provide sources. For example: most Germans knew about concentration camps and the mass murder (source).

a fascist state in its infancy

I don’t think the OP in the screenshot is describing a loving partnership though - the emotional support described is very much one sided.

It was “refuse to leave their post” ;)

I doubt that it will stop the fascists if the good guys quit though.

If they were trolling at this level, I would.

“Lynching is an extrajudicial killing by a group.” Wikipedia (content warning - prominently displayed picture of a lynching victim)

I know the US is different than Europe, that’s why I mentioned my POV.

And I still don’t really understand it, because the numbers are really very different. Oklahoma City (without the metropolitan area) is about as big as my as my hometown Bremen. We just had protests because our chancellor-to-be collaborated with the fascist party - we were about 1500 people, with about 24 hours notice. Big protests are up to 25000-50000 people. And as you said, other protests in the US were way bigger.

So I don’t think “time for preparation” is an important factor, especially as it is not really a surprise that Trump became president and is doing shitty things. Unless protests in the US are more complicated for some reason I don’t see yet?

From an outside perspective, I would guess it’s more about work culture - people being burnt out, no protections from getting fired. This might lead to less of a protest culture culture overall maybe. Which is also weird, because the US also has seen some very well known and successful protest movements.

Bonus: current Hollwood movies always seem to make it a point that the protagonist is very much trying to not get involved. I wonder what that says about the (current) culture in the US.

Do you have any numbers? Because the numbers for the 50501 protests seem really small to me as a German.

Props to those who organize and participate of course!

almost bragging how little time they took after their kids were born

I had a coworker bragging about lying to his wife that he couldn’t take time off. This is fucked up on so many levels: why even have a kid? Why do you lie to your wife? Why are you telling people you barey know (I had been there for like two weeks) that you lie to your wife? WTF?

I feel like I’m missing something.

Maybe they’re insecure? They don’t know what to do with the new kid, and instead of figuring it out together with their partner they run back to the things they know and hide behind a fake martyrdom. I wonder how many of them will in a few months or years say that women are “naturals” when it comes to taking care of kids.

Congrats on the kid and on being an actual dad!

Write your code as if the next person that works with it is a violent psychopath who knows where you live.

In a war there are (at least) two sides that are fighting. This is more like a massacre.

Not just the economy. He’s also getting a lot of people killed, injured and traumatized.

It honestly felt like watching a rational adult deal with his children complaining they can’t have a sleepover or something.

Except the children’s behavior will also get a lot of people killed and possibly a whole nation enslaved.