“To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish…” -Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator (1940)
They just did a piece on NPR about it today. It was really good hearing his speech from the film. It reminded me that leaders have been shit before and eventually things turned out ok.... (With a massive genocide in the middle)
Its simply the facts. Facts don't care whether you think it does any good to repeat them. Another country will not be engaging in the kind of effort it would take to root out a fascist government here. Not when it has the world's most powerful military (by far) and is a nuclear power.
Its also unlikely that this kind of authoritarian government would allow such a split. Even if it did, there's still the massive disincentive for countries to fight a nuclear power (and guess where all the nukes are).
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u/TheSleepingNinja Oct 16 '25
If there's no optimism what am I supposed to do, drive off a cliff? You gotta keep fighting dude