Speaking on sacred ground in Normandy, the president correctly drew parallels between America’s enemies in World War II and the threats we face domestically and globally today.

With these words Biden addressed the bitter irony that haunted the commemoration ceremonies. While D-Day occurred eight decades ago, America is now just five months from an election that could bring to power a man and a movement who embody and celebrate the twisted authoritarian values of the enemies we sought to defeat so long ago.

Fascism has not gone away. The tactics of the Nazis to employ racism and demagoguery to divide society and enable their seizure of power and their gutting of democratic institutions currently are the playbook of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement.

  • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
    521·
    5 months ago

    This is exactly my largest concern with Trump’s plans for foreign policy:

    Some of those were the members of the GOP MAGA alliance that for months blocked aid to Russia and who have made—much like those who opposed U.S. involvement in the Second World War—“America First” their rallying cry. To them, Biden said, “Isolation was not the answer 80 years ago and is not the answer today.”

    Russia has been committing genocide in Ukraine by abducting over 700,000 Ukrainian children, placed in foster care to be raised as Russians. Trump told Viktor Orbán, the autocratic PM of Hungary, that he would not give a penny to Ukraine if he takes office again.

    Pulling support from Taiwan and the Philippines, in the Taiwan Strait and South China Sea, would result in immediate control of their imports by China and Russia.

    Trump supports Israel in total eradication of Palestinians and suggests they stop recording and reporting the atrocities.

    He previously repealed a law on Israeli settlements on Palestinian territory that Biden has since reinstated. Netanyahu was so grateful that he named a settlement after Trump in Golan Heights.

    Trump plans to give Putin, Xi, and Netanyahu the freedom to take what they want under the guise of isolationism.

    • slurpinderpin@lemmy.world
      357·
      5 months ago

      More of the college crowd needs to see this and really think about their “protest vote” in November. It can and will get much much worse if we don’t vote for Biden.

      Do I want a better Democratic candidate? Of course. I also realize that Joe is leagues better than Trump, despite any deficiencies

      • anticolonialist@lemmy.cafeEnglish
        348·
        5 months ago

        Let it burn and maybe democrats will finally see they are contributing to the rightward fascism we are experiencing.

        A 3rd party vote is not a protest vote, a protest vote is one cast against something, the way Democrats do.

        • LongMember69@lemmy.world
          366·
          5 months ago

          I’ve gotta give you kudos:

          I see you all over these comment sections like it’s your full time job and you consistently have the absolute worst takes. Brain rot GOAT

          • anticolonialist@lemmy.cafeEnglish
            533·
            5 months ago

            Your method isn’t working, that’s like repeatedly banging your head on the wall wondering why the fuck you have a headache.

            • kiku123@feddit.de
              71·
              5 months ago

              I guess I don’t understand. If you don’t vote, then the Democrats will move further right to grab more of the Republican votes…

              • anticolonialist@lemmy.cafeEnglish
                213·
                5 months ago

                Good, let the 2 of the duke it out to see who wins. Theres only room for 1 right wing party in the US.

                Even if I did vote their actions reflect that they dont care what voters think, or that we have any influence on policy

        • ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
          51·
          5 months ago

          People who say “burn it down” always assume theirs won’t be one of the millions of lives this plan ends.

          • anticolonialist@lemmy.cafeEnglish
            210·
            5 months ago

            I know things will be rough in the beginning. But something’s gotta give, this whole red fascist vs blue fascist thing isn’t working out for the working class. We are having the exact same conversations about wages housing, healthcare, education, etc for decades. These were the same issues MLK was fighting for 60 years ago. And we’ve gotten nowhere because white liberals, who he said was the largest stumbling block towards freedom, are too afraid to upset the apple cart. They are afraid of losing THEIR privilege to gain the rights of others

            • ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
              11·
              5 months ago

              If you think there are fascists on both sides, then you don’t know what fascism is. The left definitely has problems, but being fascist isn’t one of them.

              Remember during Covid when supply lines were interrupted, people started hoarding resources, and the store shelves were bare? That was just a comparatively minor disruption compared to what would happen if we “burn it down”. Think seeing children starving in Gaza is horrifying? It would happen here in much larger numbers. Our millions of guns would be turned on us by our neighbors. It would be The Purge in real life. The Rawandan Genocide would be tame by comparison.