Glad he did an episode on this. People need an accessible and digestible way of understanding the threat of Project 2025.
Yeah, neoliberals are destroying the left, but I'll take them over an authoritarian theocracy.
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If you have a VPN you can set it to Czech Republic or another country where the show doesn't air and you can watch the full episode on youtube, on monday.
Ya I've been setting mine to Brazil for that exact reason. The episodes show up on my freetube when I'm normally in the us/canada but I can't watch them otherwise without that "unavailable in your region" crap.
Geo-locking content sucks.
This is the most depressing, saddening topic Oliver has covered... so far. Even if Democrats win, conservatives won't sleep, it will be Project 2029, 2033, 2037, etc. They will keep chipping away and enshitifying everything little by little while Democrats in power and have free reign when they're back in power. One of the most upsetting things is how Democrats won't do anything to prevent or undo it.
Democracy, rule of law...none of these are the norm in human history, they are not even intuitive concepts. It takes effort to keep alive against human and historical forces that keep pulling us back into becoming authoritarian shitholes. The great delusion is that since Fukuyama many thought liberal democracy was the inevitable final state whatever stupid shit we do with it...it's not.
Holy shit. This is extremely concerning. Project 2025 and Trump is Nazi level fascism. Like this is happening for real.
From a Canadian perspective, it's very scary because our conservative party is basically Republicans light. And right now they are very strong in the polls. The Canadian conservative leader, Pierre Poilievre, is a suck up to other conservative leaders and willing to emulate whatever they do because he's got no real personality and no real plan.
So having a Nazi like situation down with with him as leader of Canada poses a real fucking threat.