I don't care what history has to say about us to high schoolers in 2060, I'm living in a country that will eventually hang me for posting this. The world needs to get it's shit together and stop this train.
this post was submitted on 06 Jan 2026
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If you live in the US Empire, you can be a part of the movement to end it. Especially with the Empire's recent aggression against Venezuela, now is a good time to get active! Join an org like the PSL! They're already organizing anti-war protests, and even had one on Saturday.
I dont mean to detract from your point at all here... In fact, PSL is my favorite org in recent memory, but I have yet to join out of fear.
I hope this comment doesn't come across as FUD because I certainly don't want to steer people away from organizing, but.... do you ever fear that getting your name on paperwork in one of these orgs could jeopardize your safety? Shit is happening so fast in America right now that I am straight up afraid of organizing. Im thinking of a scenario where PSL headquarters gets raided, and everyone who shows up on an active members list gets shipped to El Salvador.
Kind of a disjointed reply, but I guess all I really wanted to say is that shit is getting really scary right now, and I'm not even part of a vulnerable group. I'm afraid.
Maybe the answer is that, yes, joining a leftist organization during fascist descent does incur massive risks, but that is the necessary burden that American leftists must take for the sake of the people we are oppressing? Maybe now is the time to be brave?
I get your point and share your worries, but I ended up concluding that I will regret more aiding the descent to fascism than being a casualty of it.
Think of all the people that survived Nazi Germany while being a collaborator and seeing all the horrors their cowardice helped occur.
I don't think this people would have happy lives after that, I know I wouldn't.
Furthermore, I believe that if I don't act now when is somewhat safe, I will act latter down the line and would definitely get killed.
Is your choice.
Your fears are 100% valid. PSL has a strong public-facing presense as its own shield, it's the honesty and integrity of PSL that keeps the public more on its side. However, there's also the Action Network, an informal, secondary level of membership with minimal requirements that means you just volunteer when the opportunity arises, and aren't a disciplined cadre. This is also a valid form of organizing, both the mass organization and the dedicated cadre are necessary!
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The world needs to get its shit together and stop this train.
No. Americans need to get their shit together and stop this train. Fix your own fucking problems.
The same is true of the US Empire's vassals, like Canada. The sooner the west transitions to socialism and away from late-stage imperialism, the sooner the world can heal.
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Give me any nazi atrocity and I can provide an example of the US doing it, and probably far worse and on a larger scale.
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American Business has bought in. Here is Hilton hotels distancing themselves from one of their hotels that turned away ICE agents.
Boycott Hilton until they start exercising their third amendment rights.
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its been known to be worse than germany for hundreds of years, hitler based his concentration camps and the holocaust in part on the american treatment of indigenous people.
they killed tens of millions of people with muskets, 6 shooters, repeaters, and disease, on horses, and trains. all the while enslaving an entire race of human beings in the process. which arguably was the main reason they could enrich and modernize their country in the first place. free labour.
america has always ALWAYS been the bad guy. they just had really really good "marketing" and military strength for the last century.
what is happening now are the final flailings of a dying empire. it will stretch itself thin, bankrupt itself, crash the dollar, fuck the global economy, and be picked apart by oligarchs until mentioning the word "union" gets you shot on the spot, not by a robot police officer, but your fellow "patriot" between spoon fulls of soylent green.
the rot is far too deep, and the purification of chaos is, unfortunately, the only remedy, and an imminant one at that. whether we agree or not, like it or not, its coming, its here. and thats just the way it has to be, apparantly.
any social progress may have to wait a few decades, maybe even centuries depending on the outcome of WW3. if at all.
but, EVENTUALLY, if we survive it. there will be a social revolution, and hopefully that one creates a better life for those alive to live it. likely still just a handfull will enjoy everything life has to offer and more. but maybe, just maybe the masses will take back whats theirs and live fully again.
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Considering the country was founded on the greatest genocide history has ever seen and chattel slavery, this should have been the case the whole time.
So I can't see most of the comments here on hexbear, but In going to assume you have a bunch of libs agreeing that yes Trump has made it worse, a few comrades pointing out the US has always been like this, and then a shitton of dumbass lemmitors spouting ahistorical red-scare arguments in response to those comrades.
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History has been kind to it so far despite its crimes since inception
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Can read. Not upset. We probably kill more innocent s since the fall of the third riech then they have.
it's funny because the literacy rate is so low
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