I feel like we're living in the movie Don't Look Up.
If you haven't seen the movie, it's on Netflix and it was nominated for Best Picture in 2021. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a scientist who discovers that a giant meteor is heading towards earth and will end all life as we know it.
But the biggest threat to humanity isn't a meteor. It's a megalomaniacal mad man with a global domination complex and his finger on nuclear weapons named Vladimir Putin who is currently residing in the Kremlin and refusing to give up power. He surrounds himself with genocidal maniacs like Demitiri Medvedev. And he's killed anyone who dares to speak out against him.
He's also knocking off the world's super powers one by one by weaponizing propaganda and turning people against each other, and steering countries towards fascist and authoritarian policies, and installing murderous wannabe dictators in countries like Turkey and Hungary. He tried it in the UK with Boris Johnson, Brazil with Bolsonaro, and the US with Trump. Right wing propaganda is a seriously powerful drug and people who fall under its' spell are constantly looking for their next fix.
But the propaganda wars are working in his favor. We live in a world where facts are replaced with conspiracy theories, and history is replaced with alternate history. Where up is down, good is bad, black is white. I never thought I'd live in a world where so many people think that Hitler is the good guy. What the hell did we fight World War II for then? Hate sells, and right now it's selling well. It's a very profitable business to be in. I learned in middle school history that propaganda was bad. Never thought I'd see what we are currently seeing, ever.
Seeing people turn in favor of Vladimir Putin and against the Ukraine is seriously disheartening. Seeing white supremacist groups like the Proud Boys enact terror on drag shows because Tucker Carlson told them to is also disheartening. Watching schools boards flip by getting crazy people elected who think that they're doing "god's will" banning books and CRT is truly beyond the pale. Seeing what Ron Desantis is doing to Florida and Greg Abbott in Texas is absolutely criminal. The right wing is becoming a very dangerous cult by embracing authoritarianism and merging with hardcore religious fascist ideals. The merger of church and state in the United States would be devastating beyond belief, and it would sink this country into a new dark age.
And it's also sickening to see people scream that they want freedom in one breath, while claiming they want a dictatorship in the next. That they believe in Christianity, but the real Jesus would be tarred and feathered and kicked out of today's version of Christianity because he'd be too "woke".
But I feel like I'm Leonardo DiCaprio in that scene where he's yelling at the news reporters that the meteor is coming for earth and it's going to wipe out humanity, and they want to go about living their lives like it's no big deal. We should be rising up as one to fight this genocidal hatemongerer and stop him from taking over the world. That's what we did in World War II. Trump and the MAGAs really showed how much America is divided and that if we continue down this path we won't be able to stand up against him as he finishes off Ukraine and moves towards Europe.
I see people spouting Fox News and other right wing conspiracy theory crap in public all the time and I just want to scream "YOU'RE ENABLING DICTATORS!!!! THERE'S A GUY TRYING TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD AND YOU ALL ARE FALLING FOR IT!!!!". We're witnessing the meteor take over fast. And we have to stop it any way we can, but too many people are distracted by the shiny objects on Fox News and Infowars. If we don't stand up to Putin now, he might just succeed. Turn off the propaganda. As the late, great George Carlin would say, that's bullshit, and it's bad for you.
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like tfg and all his enablers facing charges or in jail for Jan 6th. 
Then there would be no stopping him. Ukraine showed the world what a joke the Russian military is. Imagine if Putin had willing participants and a few allies to back him up...
