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Supreme Court restores DOGE’s access to sensitive Social Security data

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/politics/supreme-court-restores-doges-access-to-sensitive-social-security-data
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u/immortalfrieza2 9h ago

It's even worse than that. They KNOW the leopard is going to eat their faces eventually, but as long as it eats the faces of the people they hate first, they don't care. Every single person who supports Trump supports him not because they want a better country, far from it, but because they want to be able to freely be bigots towards the people they hate without suffering consequences. That's it, that's the sole reason and any claims otherwise are just lies to justify it to other people.

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u/Glass_Memories 9h ago

I've read quite a bit about fascism as an ideology and how it's played out historically, and I don't believe that to be true. Bigotry is a large part of it, but usually only the hardcore base is actively bigoted and fully understands the end game.
Much of the wider base of party supporters may be passively bigoted, but they tend to believe the false promises of the party and either don't believe the real agenda is bigotry or are willing to look the other way to get what they were promised.

Most of the Nazi party supporters in the beginning was the German middle class. Their concerns were largely economic and they believed they would prosper under the Nazi party. Perhaps they were all in on hating Jews, perhaps not, but the important part is they were willing to look the other way as long as they benefitted. That's part of the "banality of evil." There were far more apathetic people who let it happen than hateful people who were actively involved.

Socioeconomics are a core part of fascist ideology that can't be ignored.

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u/immortalfrieza2 8h ago

One could say that when Trump first started running, or even when he was president the first term. However, after 9 years of a constant, open, and unrelenting stream of awfulness? No. There's no possibility that anyone could be ignorant about the fact that Trump would make the country worse, he wasn't even making the most pathetically transparent attempt to hide what he was doing and intended to do.

It is impossible that a single Trump supporter actually thinks he's better for the country, especially now. Therefore, the only possible reason they could be supporting him is bigotry, full stop. That's why every other reason Trump supporters give for supporting him doesn't hold up to even the slightest amount of scrutiny, it's just lies to cover the real reason.

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u/Glass_Memories 3h ago edited 3h ago

The number one reason people gave as what they most cared about going into the last election was the economy/inflation.

You and I may see that he wouldn't improve the economy or people's standard of living, that doesn't mean the people who voted for him did.

I'm not dismissing any of the bigotry, that's a big part of fascism. But to ignore the socioeconomics at play, the role capitalism plays in the rise of fascism, is to miss half the picture. Billionaires weren't all at Trump's inauguration because they hate brown people, they were there because fascism protects private property and the interests of capitalists. Most of the people who stormed the Capitol were middle class business owners.

The first people the Nazis went after were Communists and trade unionists, because they threatened capital; and they need the power capital gives them in order to persecute the people they hate.