My main worry is individual rightwingers taking revenge on students/immigrants/queers with a mass shooting.
Other worries:
I’m seeing people in Israel say that the anti-Netanyahu protests there are now ‘encourging assassination attempts’. This will lead to a crackdown on any protests all over the world.
The democrats will now roll over and go extremely passive or try to downplay how bad Trump is.
The media refusing to criticize Trump at all from now on.
I see a few right wingers killing college kids, and then red states will hire Blackwater type people to “secure” their blue colleges.
They will inevitably protest and get gunned down, all Trump voters will be cheering their deaths, and we will see more crackdowns on any places of thought.
The US isn’t leader the World in that sense anymore (after what’s happenned in the last decade, most of the World doesn’t look up to America as a “beacon” of Freedom or Democracy) and Israel as a nation politically dominated by an ethno-Fascist ideology for most of its existence and even with ethnic discrimination explicitly enshrined at a Constitutional level, is hardly representative of Democratic nations.
So the idea that following this in America “there will be a crackdown on any protest all over the World” (emphasis mine) smells a lot of “nationalist delusions of grandeur” and seems I’ll informed.
I’ve lived in The Netherlands for almost a decade.
The idea that the Dutch would go along with crackdowns on protests because “Wilders” is hilarious and the idea that they would do so inspired by what’s going on in America is even more so: this is a country that’s had rose buurts (red-light districts) and coffee shops for decades - during the period of peak American cultural dominance, with its weird moralism with strong religious undertones - and where the first leader of the Far Right (from were Wilders’ party descends), Pim Fortuyn, was from the very start very openly gay: what other nation on Earth is so open minded that their Far Right took off under the leadership of an openly gay person?!
I mean, this is the only country I lived in where if somebody is being a disturbance in the train (say, playing music out loud) and refuses to stop when politelly asked for, the entire carriage gets up against that person.
Whilst I’ve been out of that country for over a decade, I think it take an incredible profound shift in their actual culture for people to go along with a crack-down on demonstrations in general, much less because some politician in America got shot at. Now, Germany, on the other hand, I see as far more likely to go down that route since the power elites there already do a number of somewhat-autocratic things towards their population (such as tighter surveillance than most of Europe and the recent “anti-semitism” legislation that’s really about supressing criticism of an ethno-Fascist state) - that place hasn’t actually got rid of certain perspectives amongst the Power Elites that made it so easy for the Nazis to take over.
I mean, I don’t disagree that weak “Democracies” (say, Orban’s Hungary or Modi’s India) might use this as a pretext to crackdown even more on political dissent than they already do (as they would use just about anything that’s even remotelly useful for that purpose), but beyond such highly subverted Democracies and Autocracies, the visible effects of the peculiar intersection of American politics and gun laws aren’t really something that would sway the locals elsewhere into changing their practices of civil society movements and and thresholds of acceptability of suppression of them - I’ve even lived in the UK - which in some ways is the closest to America country in Europe - and what happenned to Trump is the kind of situations that Brits see as “the kind of thing that would never happen here” and would inspire exactly zero pushback against anything in Britain.
Yet another shooting in “one school-shooting a week”-America isn’t really an inspiration for other countries to crack down on anything.
My main worry is individual rightwingers taking revenge on students/immigrants/queers with a mass shooting.
Other worries:
I’m seeing people in Israel say that the anti-Netanyahu protests there are now ‘encourging assassination attempts’. This will lead to a crackdown on any protests all over the world.
The democrats will now roll over and go extremely passive or try to downplay how bad Trump is.
The media refusing to criticize Trump at all from now on.
I see a few right wingers killing college kids, and then red states will hire Blackwater type people to “secure” their blue colleges.
They will inevitably protest and get gunned down, all Trump voters will be cheering their deaths, and we will see more crackdowns on any places of thought.
The US isn’t leader the World in that sense anymore (after what’s happenned in the last decade, most of the World doesn’t look up to America as a “beacon” of Freedom or Democracy) and Israel as a nation politically dominated by an ethno-Fascist ideology for most of its existence and even with ethnic discrimination explicitly enshrined at a Constitutional level, is hardly representative of Democratic nations.
So the idea that following this in America “there will be a crackdown on any protest all over the World” (emphasis mine) smells a lot of “nationalist delusions of grandeur” and seems I’ll informed.
I’m not American.
You don’t need to be under the US’ sphere of influence to exploit current US events for your own political purposes.
US media is shown around the whole world, events inside the country are world news. People on every continent are aware that Trump was almost shot.
But fine. Let me pull specific example countries from all over the world (emphasis yours) that I was thinking of:
South America: Argentina with Milei
Europe: Netherlands with Wilders
North America: Canada with PP
Africa: The west African nations moving under Russian influence
Asia: Philippines with Marcos, India with Modi
Let me know if you’ve never heard of any of the countries or politicians and I will go into more detail about them to educate you, my dear friend.
I’ve lived in The Netherlands for almost a decade.
The idea that the Dutch would go along with crackdowns on protests because “Wilders” is hilarious and the idea that they would do so inspired by what’s going on in America is even more so: this is a country that’s had rose buurts (red-light districts) and coffee shops for decades - during the period of peak American cultural dominance, with its weird moralism with strong religious undertones - and where the first leader of the Far Right (from were Wilders’ party descends), Pim Fortuyn, was from the very start very openly gay: what other nation on Earth is so open minded that their Far Right took off under the leadership of an openly gay person?!
I mean, this is the only country I lived in where if somebody is being a disturbance in the train (say, playing music out loud) and refuses to stop when politelly asked for, the entire carriage gets up against that person.
Whilst I’ve been out of that country for over a decade, I think it take an incredible profound shift in their actual culture for people to go along with a crack-down on demonstrations in general, much less because some politician in America got shot at. Now, Germany, on the other hand, I see as far more likely to go down that route since the power elites there already do a number of somewhat-autocratic things towards their population (such as tighter surveillance than most of Europe and the recent “anti-semitism” legislation that’s really about supressing criticism of an ethno-Fascist state) - that place hasn’t actually got rid of certain perspectives amongst the Power Elites that made it so easy for the Nazis to take over.
I mean, I don’t disagree that weak “Democracies” (say, Orban’s Hungary or Modi’s India) might use this as a pretext to crackdown even more on political dissent than they already do (as they would use just about anything that’s even remotelly useful for that purpose), but beyond such highly subverted Democracies and Autocracies, the visible effects of the peculiar intersection of American politics and gun laws aren’t really something that would sway the locals elsewhere into changing their practices of civil society movements and and thresholds of acceptability of suppression of them - I’ve even lived in the UK - which in some ways is the closest to America country in Europe - and what happenned to Trump is the kind of situations that Brits see as “the kind of thing that would never happen here” and would inspire exactly zero pushback against anything in Britain.
Yet another shooting in “one school-shooting a week”-America isn’t really an inspiration for other countries to crack down on anything.
Sure thing buddy 👍