• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Um…guys? Are we going to talk about this? Because…seriously. He’s trying to shut down, silence, and censor media. That’s literally a fascist move. That’s straight from the fascist playbook. The nazi’s LITERALLY did this. So instead, Radio London would broadcast in french. They’d open and close each broadcast with a series of nonsensical phrases they called “personal messages”. What was otherwise disguised as the station listeners calling the station with messages like “Pierre dit bonjour” or “Pierre says hello”. Just seemingly innocent phrases that listeners would call in, so other listeners could hear them. Personal messages. And on one random night, a night that could have been any other night, a very special personal message went out.

    “Blessent mon coeur d’une langueur monotone”

    Which if you didn’t know it’s meaning, would seem harmless enough, if not a bit random. However, those in the french resistance knew it well. It was their signal to grab arms and join the fight. Because this random night just happened to be June 5th 1944. A night now famous among those who know their history. However you may also know it by another name. D-Day.

    I bring all this up to mention the fact that all of that was necessary to do on Radio London, because all radio stations in France, were now occupied and ruled my the nazi’s at that time. The nazi’s shut down and censored any actual French media.

    Which is what trump is doing right now. Shutting down and censoring media, while being the president of a nation that has for literal centuries prided itself on being the home of free speech. I just want you to consider the irony here, and take in the full scale of what’s happening right now. We are actively taking more and more steps each day to becoming a full on fascist state. Does anyone not see this? Is everybody forgetting history? I feel like it’s obvious. It’s on full display. They’re not attempting to hide it. They’re just going through with it.

    It’s reminding me of that scene with heath ledger as joker saying if you execute a plan, and somebody unexpectly dies, everybody loses their mind. But if you state a plan is intended to have a few deaths, then nobody panics when people die.

    I feel like that’s what’s going on right now. In 2024 we learned about project 2025. Details leaked. And now that people are used to the ideas, they accept them more easily, despite knowing the actual plans are terrible plans that shouldn’t be plans. But they ARE plans. So everybody is just going along with it.