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CONCLAVE (2024)

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Already seeing people on tiktok saying “I still hate trump but he ate with this one” like … babes … you just got propagandized … that’s literally exactly what he created this situation in the hopes you would say …

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Nazis like being "cute" & playing little "jokes" on their targets.

The Holocaust scholar I worked for said she interpreted "work makes free" as a joke at the expense of their victims.

Musk is getting off on the fact that, not only can he do a nazi salute on live tv, he has the power that people can't/won't even say what it plainly is.

They're all fascists, but he in particular has read deeply on nazis and is a nazi.

Expect more attempts to be "cute" like this from him. It's what he admires and wishes to emulate.

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I need to share Berenice, the unjust city from Italo Calvino's "Invisible Cities," with you.

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“There’s a growing list of things we’ve known and forgotten, things they’ve pushed us to forget. Things like freedom.” | Andor, S01E05 - The Axe Forgets 

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Look at this piece of shit

The question is whether this imags will be in a textbook techno serfs have to read that's celebrating the rise of Emperor Elon IV's illustrious ancestor or if happy kids in a free society will be warned about the dangers of fascism with it

Option 1 is what he clearly wants

If we can agree on nothing else surely we can agree on depriving this sick fuck of his fondest dreams?

Charting a course between doomer and toxic positivity guided by the pole star of fuck fascists

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What if some things go our way and he's weaker than he seems?

Good, fuck fascists!

Oh no, what if we can't do x thing? Then we do y or z thing instead.

Fuck fascists!

Charting a course between doomer and toxic positivity guided by the pole star of fuck fascists

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Charting a course between doomer and toxic positivity guided by the pole star of fuck fascists

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The Sound of Music (1965) dir. Robert Wise

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They're really coming for birthright citizenship

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aubrey plaza via thom browne on instagram. 

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Aubrey Plaza by Josh Telles for Deadline

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Zuckerberg has removed oversight from his platforms (Facebook, Insta, Threads) and made a rule where people cannot call just anyone "mentally ill" - but they are allowed to say that all LGBTQ people are "mentally ill." Specifically us. We're the carve out:

This is not merely (!) empowering individual bigots to express their bigoted views, however. It's allowing these turbo-charged coordinated inauthentic accounts to engage in influence of people. We know it works:

And we know these troll farms are widespread on Facebook. Troll farms managed to occupy the top spots for various topics on fbook in 2019. And now Zuck has removed oversight and said: spread whatever message you want. Especially anti-queer bigotry. Knowing the more often people see it (& from seemingly different sources) the more powerful the influence.

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In private discussions, the adjective that was most frequently used to describe the Trump phone call was rough. The verb most frequently used was threaten. The reaction most frequently expressed was confusion. Trump made it clear to Frederiksen that he is serious about Greenland: He sees it, apparently, as a real-estate deal. But Greenland is not a beachfront property. The world’s largest island is an autonomous territory of Denmark, inhabited by people who are Danish citizens, vote in Danish elections, and have representatives in the Danish Parliament. Denmark also has politics, and a Danish prime minister cannot sell Greenland any more than an American president can sell Florida.

At the same time, Denmark is also a country whose global companies—among them Lego, the shipping giant Maersk, and Novo Nordisk, the maker of Ozempic—do billions of dollars worth of trade with the United States, and have major American investments too. They thought these were positive aspects of the Danish-American relationship. Denmark and the United States are also founding members of NATO, and Danish leaders would be forgiven for believing that this matters in Washington too. Instead, these links turn out to be a vulnerability. On Thursday afternoon Frederiksen emerged and, flanked by her foreign minister and her defense minister, made a statement. “It has been suggested from the American side,” she said, “that unfortunately a situation may arise where we work less together than we do today in the economic area.”

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The briefing document, dated Jan. 14 and signed by Ambassador Andreas Michaelis, describes Donald Trump's agenda for his second White House term as one of "maximum disruption" that will bring about "a redefinition of the constitutional order - maximum concentration of power with the president at the expense of Congress and the federal states."

"Basic democratic principles and checks and balances will be largely undermined, the legislature, law enforcement and media will be robbed of their independence and misused as a political arm, Big Tech will be given co-governing power," it says.

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The document cites the judiciary, and especially the U.S. Supreme Court, as central to Trump's attempts to further his agenda, but says that despite the court's recent decision to expand presidential powers, "even the biggest critics assume that it will prevent the worst from happening."

Michaelis sees control of the Justice Department and FBI as key to Trump reaching his political and personal goals, including mass deportations, retribution against perceived enemies and legal impunity.

He says Trump has broad legal options to force his agenda on the states, saying "even military deployment within the country for police activities would be possible in the event of declared 'insurrection' and 'invasion'."