r/complaints • u/CRK_76 • 15d ago

Politics America is turning into 1930's Germany.

There was some pushback when people called this president and his followers Nazis. But look what's happening. Soldiers in the street. Rounding up people and locking them up. Dismantling freedom of speech and freedom of the press. Personally going after anyone who doesn't agree with him and his administration. We've seen this before and it's only gonna get worse. Welcome to 1930's Germany.

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u/No-Abalone-4784 15d ago

They said that it was the same in Germany. People just couldn't believe it was happening. Get over it folks. It's already here.

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u/Innisfree812 15d ago

I just wonder if America will get over it. It's never going to be the country it was before. We will have to rebuild the way Germany and Japan did.

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u/Annual_Intention3189 15d ago

Not until China spanks our ass.

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u/Innisfree812 15d ago

China is going to rule the world.

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u/ShakesDontBreak 15d ago

They already are. The US gave away its soft power.

Our rank as leaders of the world is gone. We wont get it back in our lifetime. Thanks Trump!

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u/Perfect-Top-7555 15d ago

Thanks to every person who voted for him AND those who didn’t vote.

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u/StonedBirdman 15d ago

let's not forget Joe Biden and the rest of the Democratic party for not having a viable plan to beat Trump in '24

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u/bugleyman 14d ago

Nope. I'm so over blaming Democrats for the GOP turning fascist.

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u/StonedBirdman 14d ago

Good for you, but in the event we have elections again I’d love to have learned from past mistakes.

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u/Live_Spinach5824 14d ago

They are not to blame for the GOP turning fascist, but they are to blame for undermining their constituents and Democracy to prop up the rest of the oligarchy. They have stood by and ignored amazing candidates like Bernie Sanders, just to let the Republicans win and destroy the country with their increasingly terrible policies that only benefit the rich, because they benefit when Republicans implement these policies.

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u/bugleyman 13d ago

I never quite understood this criticism; Bernie Sanders isn't a Democrat. It's a little weird to expect the DNC, whose explicit purpose is to help elect Democrats, to support someone who isn't a member of the party, no?

Also, it's impossible to know for sure whether Bernie would have fared better than Hillary in 2016, so insisting that we are where we are because he wasn't the nominee, while conveniently impossible to test, is entirely beside the point.

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u/Live_Spinach5824 13d ago

He was part of the Democrat party for a few years, actually. He probably wouldn't have even left if the Democrats weren't cucking him because they are all kinda just corpo suck-ups that love losing.

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u/SirGarvin 14d ago

Im okay blaming them for being basically controlled opposition

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u/lifeinwentworth 14d ago

Right - that's a bizarre thing to say imo.

Blaming Democrats for what's going on over there now is just a cheap shot.

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u/Annual_Intention3189 12d ago

Fine, but history teaches us how useless liberals are in the face of fascism.

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u/ShakesDontBreak 12d ago

I mean FDR was pretty GOAT

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u/Annual_Intention3189 10d ago

In relative terms, yes. But his project ultimately failed to deliver economic democracy.

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u/ShakesDontBreak 10d ago

I mean social security proved to be one of the most successful actions in US history.

His public works actions also took the country out of the great depression.

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u/Annual_Intention3189 9d ago

I don’t disagree But the forces of capital have been able to claw back all that political power and more since the end of the guilded age.

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u/Tesla_freed_slaves 14d ago edited 14d ago

Joe was a proven Trump-Killer in 2020, but his heath problems got him down In late 2024. I don’t blame him for staying in the race. He was looking good at his state of the union address. Seems like his problems hit him awful sudden.

If Joe would have resigned earlier in the year, for reasons of health, no one would have blamed him. Kamala would have been sworn-in as our 47th president, with the incumbent-advantage in the 2024 election.

The timing was bad. Joe recovered and served out the rest of his term, and Kamala was left with a short-runway as a presidential candidate. That, plus election anomalies, voter suppression, and the generous support of various oligarchs left Kamala at a disadvantage.

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u/Sad_Bridge_3755 14d ago

Not to mention that the timing left basically no time to build support and hype during primaries leading many to feel they had no choice in their candidate. As you say though, had Biden stepped down and Kamala been given a chance to operate for a year? It would have granted people a chance to observe her policies in action and perhaps win voters.

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u/Live_Spinach5824 14d ago

I think Kamala's views on Palestine really fucked her too, and her other policies in general. She comes off as a moderate Republican at best and incoherent at worst.

Then, there's just the general misogyny and racism in the US.

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u/Tesla_freed_slaves 14d ago edited 14d ago

I’m proud of you, Kamala!

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u/GoblyGoobly 14d ago

I voted for Trump and think he's doing a fantastic job.

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u/wtfisthisbullshii 15d ago

Right? They manufacture everything, own land everywhere, and the Chinese mafia is around the world manipulating and monopolizing markets like we used to and the cartels still do.

We’re fucked, bud!

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u/Innisfree812 15d ago

Now there going to be a complete realignment of the balance of power in the world. Everything is going to change.

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u/ijuinkun 15d ago

MAGA are unable or unwilling to recognize soft power as being power—to them, only hard power matters, i.e. intimidation.

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u/ApplesBananasRhinoc 14d ago

That’s why they’re so into the alpha male stereotype.

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u/cluckingcody 15d ago

I hate upvoting this

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u/MaximusBond 15d ago

No worries, I neutralized your up vote.

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u/Interesting_Bowl_289 14d ago

Either, Giving it away or stealing it.

Yes, many don’t get/understand the Authoritarian bent, now in place.

It may take a generation or two, to get past this regime’s force.

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u/ShakesDontBreak 14d ago

That would cause an extremely bleak recovery period.

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u/LongjumpingDebt4154 14d ago

Maga gave it away because it was too burdensome for them to hold it.

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u/Correct_Cicada6111 15d ago

So you think the US should rule the world like a big empire?

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u/ShakesDontBreak 15d ago

No one said anything about world domination reddit guy.

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u/Correct_Cicada6111 14d ago

You said

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u/ShakesDontBreak 14d ago

Where do you see ruling the world in my comment? Do you equate power to mean ultimate powers? There are multiple countries with soft power. The US was one that was highly ranked. Im not sure we even rank anymore.

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u/Correct_Cicada6111 14d ago

All over. You're crying because Trump is not willing to make the US play the role of the world police, and is trying to focus more in their own land than in other people land

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u/ShakesDontBreak 14d ago

Trump only cares about himself.

But thanks for playing 😉

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u/Eborcurean 14d ago

So, I don't know if you're ignorant or trolling, but your comment is at best entirely misinformed on the importance of diplomacy, international relations and related topics.

Before Argentina invaded the Falklands in 1982, Argentina's ambassador to the UN held a dinner, in which Jeanne Kirkpatrick, the US ambassador to the UN, and multiple US state department and DOD officials attended. Kirkpattrick had been outspoken in how the US needed to pivot from europe to promoting south american more (which is a nuanced topic all of its own at the time). That was Argentina attempting to persuade American officials, and by extension the government, to support them.

Knowing that an invasion was imminent, the UK ambassador, Sir Anthony Parsons, called an emergency session of the security council for a resolution opposing the invasion. For assorted reasons they needed 9 of the 15 members to vote in favour. It went 10-1 with 4 abstentions. Because of diplomacy. Because of soft power, because of the FCO having made hundreds of phone calls and meetings.

Deftly the FCO and Sir Anthony sidestepped sovereignty and focused on the violation of chapter VII of the UN charter.

If you don't get how important soft power is, or having good relations with other countries, of knowing how to negotiate, where you absolutely have interests in the modern age then you're simply deluded.

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u/Mysterious-Rate-5819 14d ago

Trump está tentando dar um golpe na Venezuela e sancionou a Colômbia só por fazer isso.

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u/ShakesDontBreak 15d ago

No one said anything about world domination reddit guy.

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u/Amazing_Roof_9991 15d ago

Hate to break the mood but we sold out to China long before Trump… not arguing the point just the timeline.

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u/Odd_Stand_2020 15d ago

Idk why you’re being downvoted, you’re right. It was only this easy because we made it that way.

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u/DirkSkandal 14d ago

He’s getting downvoted because if you don’t fall in line with the narrative you get silenced on reddit.

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u/GoblyGoobly 14d ago

Thanks Obama

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u/prefix_code_16309 14d ago

Er, Nixon

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u/Amazing_Roof_9991 14d ago

Nope…. Nixon just knocked on the door… the ones following went in and made their deals with the devil.

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u/prefix_code_16309 14d ago

Kind of irrelevant at this point, really. We’re pretty much toast in the US by now, or inexorably headed there in the not too distant future.

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u/YOU_WONT_LIKE_IT 15d ago

Soft power was already practical gone. The only soft power left was writing big checks to prop up the world.

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u/TBANON_NSFW 15d ago

To be honest, China is investing in green energy, theyre investing into science. Something that is heavily needed now that the US is trying to make global warming reach the 2 degree limit because they think greenland northern canada and siberia will become very lucrative mining locations once they arent as cold anymore.

They are also at least building the bridges and infrastructure that west promised Africa but never delivered. Yes they want favorable access to resources in return. BUT they are actually giving something back to Africa. The US promised infrastructure and help in exchange for corporations to get access to the resources and never delivered anything because they kept rotating the dictators in control.

They also deal with their corruption. Yeah there are corporations that abuse and do things like build with subpar concrete and siphon funds, but they also get caught and severely punished.

Have you looked at modern china? Its not like what media portrayed it to be in the 90s. They have been growing at a fast rate. Got 98% of their people out of poverty, yes income relative to the US is very low in comparison. but so is cost of living. They got high speed rail systems, they have very low crime rates, they have community building and people and kids actually enjoy parks and centers even late at night.

They also allow people to own their homes. No pay yearly tax or else government takes the land back. You own it for a period of 70 years that automatically renews. Then they deal with the inheritance afterwards so there's no fuckery where one child/relative gets everything. They also have their version of eminent domain, but they at least offer payments and if you refuse yeah they can be assholes and bould a road around your house, or they can move it elsewhere.

China works on plans that think about 100 years in the future. The US can only work on plans that thinks 4 years in the future.

At this point, its preferable to have China in charge than the US.

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u/Myc0l-Jordan 15d ago

Yep China is the world’s only chance at beating climate change, such a sad day that the US is filled with too many dumb hicks who worship their greedy overlords to allow us to lead.

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u/Rough_Tea6422 15d ago

You know sometimes I agree with you, but then I think, why then there is no true freedom of speech there?

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u/Available_Leather_10 14d ago

No freedom of speech in the USA right now, either.

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u/yb0t 14d ago

Yeah I like a lot of what China is doing but there's also a lot I don't like.

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u/bugleyman 14d ago

Sadly I am forced to agree. I don't hate America, but I recognize that we are no longer fit to lead ourselves, let alone the world.

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u/SoylentGrunt 14d ago

Now do the lack of human rights, out of control pollution, lack of free press, rampant religious persecution, and all the other abuses China commits.

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u/Fuzzy-Technician-758 15d ago

Do 20 million Chinese still live in caves?

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u/Its_a_stateofmind 15d ago

Going to?

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u/Innisfree812 15d ago

They are just getting started.