r/behindthebastards Nov 06 '24

It Could Happen Here Fuck you Reddit

1.7k Upvotes

So much of what I see on reddit is: "calm down, it's going to be fine." "now do you see reddit is an echo chamber" "this is the Dems fault"

Yes the Dems are to blame.

It is stupidly naive to assume an electorate that is dumb enough to elect him is dumb enough to let him take total control.

Reddit didn't gaslight me into thinking Trump is a fascist because it's an echo chamber, HE fuckin told me he is. He has promised to hurt people. Fucking listen when people tell you who they are.

r/behindthebastards Jul 18 '24

It Could Happen Here They all look so cute in their jackets!!

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2.0k Upvotes

r/behindthebastards 2d ago

It Could Happen Here This is by far Trumps most unhinged Christmas message

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990 Upvotes

Like by a mile

r/behindthebastards Jun 07 '24

It Could Happen Here I really wish leftists wouldn’t view voting as a statement of support for the candidate, rather than picking the policies you least hate.

1.0k Upvotes

The other day Mia made fun of liberals saying we still need to vote for Biden because Trump will be way worse on Palestinian, even though Biden is basically supporting a genocide at this point.

…..The thing is they’re not wrong, letting trump win will be objectively worse

r/behindthebastards Oct 29 '24

It Could Happen Here Prepare ya'll, shit's gonna get real spicy in the next couple of months.

979 Upvotes

Trump and the GOP have had 4 years to learn from their mistakes in 2020 and the challenges that will come to any outcome that doesn't support trump in this election is going to be rough. The brooks brothers riot is just a rough template for the shit that's coming. In the past 2 days we've seen ballot drop boxes burnt in Portland and Vancouver WA. Multiple accounts have been coming out Texas about early voter intimidation.

Jan 6th isn't likely to happen again, what's likely going to happen is much more decentralized and focused on election facilities and specifically focused on stopping the counting of votes, or simply fucking up the voting process enough that they can claim its invalid. Burning ballot boxes, disrupting counting facilities, all these give weight to the real goal. Votes don't matter and should be disregarded.

Trump is counting on the house of representatives and the supreme court to declare him president, full stop. Expect all manner of fuckery to get him the cover to justify them making that choice.

r/behindthebastards Aug 19 '24

It Could Happen Here Dear Mia and Robert

621 Upvotes

Please, please please please. Please learn how to pronounce Kamala Harris's name. Regardless of how you feel about her policies, the right is mispronouncing her name as a racist dogwhistle. Please pronounce it correctly. It's KAhm-Ah-lah, not Kuhm-ALL-ah.

Edit: Lmao my phonetics are rightfully drawing some criticism. Someone in the comments spelled it "Comma-la" which makes a lot more sense than what I wrote above. Cheers

Edit 2: Racism is one of many reasons why we should strive to pronounce her name correctly. I do not think Robert, Mia, or anyone at CZM is purposefully doing this, and I certainly do not think they are racist themselves. Cheers x2.

r/behindthebastards 8d ago

It Could Happen Here Three pumps, one cream

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726 Upvotes

r/behindthebastards Jul 30 '24

It Could Happen Here I really loved Robert’s sort of defence Biden because something I’ve been saying for a while is “I think they’re both war criminals, but I think Biden is capable of very basic compassion and love in a way trump just isn’t”

856 Upvotes

Like I genuinely think if Trump could somehow ensure his victory in November by killing Trump Jr or Baron he’d do it. Biden’s not a good man but if he was faced with a similar choice he’d say “no”. In spite of all his crimes Biden has remained human, Trump has not

r/behindthebastards May 09 '24

It Could Happen Here A group calling themselves Rachel Corrie’s Ghost Brigade torched 17 cop cars in Portland. Their official statement is lit

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888 Upvotes

r/behindthebastards Nov 07 '24

It Could Happen Here They're planning a Depression, right?

484 Upvotes

By they I mean the libertarian policy staff, philosophers and bean counters of the incoming American government. They're following every choice that made the downturn of 1929 turn into a full-blown Great Depression, which resulted in people throughout world tolerating cancelled elections and dictatorships.

Look at Herbert Hoover's economic policy after Black Tuesday 1929, where all America's bubbles burst. There's a number of bubbles now, but people tend not to notice because we keep them inflating artificially. Housing is the best example. Not sustainable, but not changing, even in a free market. Anyway, here are the Hoover policies that really caused the bagel to hit the fan:

Tariffs. The Smoot-Hawley Act placed a fee on all goods imported to America, which made things even tougher for average people. It was a protectionist policy that came with the conservative slogan America First. You can actually see the phrase in Dr Seuss's satire cartoons from the time.

Cash is King. Hoover nicely asked businesses to keep wages high and for larger banks to bail out smaller ones. When they didn't, rather than codifying anything, he shrugged his shoulders and taxed all transactions that weren't cash. The banks emptied and about 5,000 of them quickly went under.

Mass deportations. He blamed what was now becoming a Depression on the Mexicans.

Now, I'm not American. I'm an Aussie who studied Fascism as part of my Comms degree (although my alma mater is a sister to U of Texas and Yale, does that count?). But this critical distance has let me see some very familiar things developing. My country was one of the hardest hit economically, but overall not as hard as where my grandparents grew up: Italy. Elections were already on the way out there, but oh boy in the early '30s it made their isolationism look like a glass of water in the desert to neighbouring nations.

Now, you've noticed that these libertarian chuds are also monarchists. This is simple when you consider what's in it for them: aristocracy. When the first monarchies fell or were bound by constitutions in the Industrial Age, those aristocrats became businesspeople and, eventually, high society families. Oligarchs, basically. These days we call them billionaires. But imagine if their wealth was written into law and came with inherent power. That's the motivator.

Anyway, may the odds be ever in your favour. I especially recommend Dr Seuss's cartoon Booby Trap.

r/behindthebastards Feb 19 '24

It Could Happen Here concerning news about mia

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880 Upvotes

it’s always the ones you least suspect

r/behindthebastards Oct 07 '24

It Could Happen Here Great news if you’ve ever wanted to own actual humans.

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1.3k Upvotes

r/behindthebastards Apr 26 '24

It Could Happen Here What scams/rip-offs have been so normalized that people no longer think they are scams/rip-offs?

329 Upvotes

car based suburbia. fuck you if you can't drive

r/behindthebastards 28d ago

It Could Happen Here Does post election feel like post 911 for anyone else?

348 Upvotes

From the news coverage on Election Day (newscasters seemingly surprised and trying to explain something that doesn’t make sense to them) to the several week aftermath (people’s conversations not really mentioning it, people falling in line with common rhetoric and normalizing what is going on without questioning it), it all feels as surreal as 911 was to me as an early 20 something. I’ve been trying to figure out the common thread. I think it has to do with a profound uncertainty of the future. I don’t know why I didn’t feel this to the extent during the pandemic. Maybe because it looks like experts were taking reasonable at the time steps.

I don’t know. Am I the only one feeling this way?

r/behindthebastards Jul 18 '24

It Could Happen Here 2016 rnc

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1.0k Upvotes

Recently I remember reading a comment about Robert at the 2016 rnc talking about how he was scared for Eric Andre’s life as they were pulling him off stage. There was a shot where op said they could just make out the side of Robert’s face in the shot. I found a better shot of him on Eric Andre’s IG where he reposted the video. Sorry if this has already been discussed or posted into oblivion but this is the first time I’ve seen a super clear shot of Robert while Eric was getting manhandled.

r/behindthebastards Jan 04 '24

It Could Happen Here Chomping on some Chomsky

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580 Upvotes

I always appreciate Robert’s reminders not place people in power on pedestals. Every time I hear about Chomskys connection to Epstine, I want to take his books off of my shelf.

Is it just me or do these actions feel like they undermine so much of Chomsky’s work.

Also, I can’t help but say “Chomp, Chomp, Chomp, Chomping on some Chompsky” every time I say his name.

r/behindthebastards Nov 12 '24

It Could Happen Here Congress to vote on law that gives Secretary of Treasury the power to revoke tax-exempt status of non-profits because fuck them, that's why.

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494 Upvotes

r/behindthebastards 6d ago

It Could Happen Here United Health’s share price dropped $100 since the death of CEO Brian Thompson

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430 Upvotes

Probably for more reason than one but still…

r/behindthebastards Jun 11 '24

It Could Happen Here Rajat Khare is attempting to sanitize Reddit of the truth.

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659 Upvotes

r/behindthebastards Sep 10 '24

It Could Happen Here Trump says his plan to expel millions of immigrants will be a ‘bloody story’

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r/behindthebastards Nov 25 '24

It Could Happen Here Thinking of you

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698 Upvotes

r/behindthebastards 22d ago

It Could Happen Here Molly Conger has such an insanely good reading/podcast voice

394 Upvotes

I was listening to It could happen here weekly 158 and it was crazy how much my attention was commanded when Molly was reading a section from Talia Lavin's book

Please do some audiobook work Molly 👉🏻👈🏻

r/behindthebastards Oct 08 '24

It Could Happen Here There’s no reasoning with these people

239 Upvotes

I thought that eventually people would change their minds on climate change when it finally affected them. But no. They are now saying Dems control the weather and are intentionally hitting Republican counties.

I can’t reason with these people. If you sincerely believe the Dems are in control of the weather…I don’t know. I just don’t know anymore.

r/behindthebastards Jul 02 '24

It Could Happen Here actually thinking about leaving for the first time

203 Upvotes

yes, we all saw these supreme court rulings coming. I’ve still been crying on and off. I’m a proud american because of the people, but our democracy isn’t dying slowly anymore. I used to be really grateful that I was materially secure in the united states, and that I had stuff like books and medicine and shampoo. it feels like all of that has gone out the window very quickly— which is how authoritarianism works.

this is the first time I’ve actually ever really considered emigrating abroad. unfortunately, I didn’t get a GPA from my college and I don’t have a degree in the fields they need.

I know people immigrate all the time (my grandparents did), but as an autistic person this is especially terrifying. I’m young, I have older parents and grandparents that I need to take with me. my mom keeps saying a year but I don’t think she understand we may not HAVE a year. I’m relatively privileged but I may not be privileged enough for this.

if you’ve immigrated abroad with a family or a similar situation to mine, I would appreciate some encouragement. I’ve been (understandably) depressed for a week.

r/behindthebastards Nov 09 '24

It Could Happen Here The first rule of Fight Club…

337 Upvotes

I understand the desire to speak out, organize, and resist our new christofacist overlords. But I am going to encourage you to be discreet. Don’t make yourself a target for those assholes. These walls have ears. And silence can be one hell of a weapon when used intentionally.

Put your own life vest on first. Get trained on food, first aid, and self defense. Bullets, beans, bandaids. Do that, and you’ll be ready to take care of those around you when the time comes.

But take a deep breath. You only have control over the 3’ radius around your body at any point in time. Make sure you’re having a positive impact on that space. I can’t tell you it’s all going to be ok. So do something with that 3’ of space every day to make sure you’re prepared for the worst.

And always: remember the first rule of Fight Club. Don’t let them know what you know until it’s far too late for them to reconsider their life choices.