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khalixvitae · 5 months ago

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I never post here anymore due to personal stuff, but I want to reach out on all my socials about this because people need to see it. Can I just say that I am so incredibly disheartened by some people’s responses to what is happening in the South Eastern US/Appalachia? I really can’t explain the level of devastation that is unfolding here under Hurricane Helene. There are people trapped in my childhood neighborhood without power or water because of downed trees and power lines and flooding. I couldn’t get ahold of my family for more than a day because there was a massive cell service outage in my state. Parts of where I grew up will not have electricity for three weeks. My family could be without electricity for three weeks. I didn’t know if my best friend was okay for 12 hours because there was no way to communicate and we live two hours away from one another. I’m entering day 3 of not having electricity.

And frankly, we’re on the luckier side. A town my family has visited every year for the last 20 years is fucking gone- leveled by flooding from a failed dam. Everything including the road is completely washed out, and this is in the fucking mountains. And that’s just what we know about so far during what is still widespread cell service failure. There are entire interstates that have washed out or fallen apart during mudslides- whole towns are gone, and people cannot call for help.

And the number of people I’ve seen, people who say they’re advocating for MY rights as a trans/queer person, who have fully dismissed this in favor of taking to twitter to make comments about how it’s “Trump Country anyway” and how we “deserve it” and “should’ve voted blue to keep this from happening” is brutal. Every time something happens to us down here, out of touch middle class liberals are so quick to blame our collective region of the country for struggles we do not have the time, energy, money, or legislation to prevent. As if we’re fucking stupid and should be purged, like we somehow matter less because our politicians are a breed of fucked up that a whole lot of us disagree with. We aren’t a monolith and we are right fucking here, and mocking us on twitter in the middle of a humanitarian crisis is not going to help your case, I promise.

I cannot explain to you what it’s like to hear somebody with your mother’s accent describe that they can’t pull people out of cars quick enough because the flood water is moving too fast. Everything I’ve ever known is either blipped off the power grid or under water. I’m begging you, please see us as people who are suffering and not as a monolithic entity.

There are trans and queer people here, just like everywhere else. We are suffering at the hands of legislation we don’t believe in, legislation that thinks we should die, and now a mounting natural disaster that we still don’t know the full extent of. There are poor communities, communities that are predominantly BIPOC, disabled people, it goes on. There are a whole lot of us who don’t fit the criteria of the pro trump agenda, who don’t match the bill of what an American southerner looks like in the minds of those who have never been here, who are actively suffering. We ARE voting blue both locally and on the federal level.

But here’s the kicker: it doesn’t fucking matter that we’re here. My life doesn’t mean anything more than my neighbor who might hate who I am to their very bones. Nor am I more deserving of aid than them, even if I hate them right back. The concept of withholding aid or hesitating to help particular regions because of what their government officials believe is heinous. Hell, even if regular civilians believe it too, it’s still wrong and morally reprehensible. Similarly, providing aid with the caveat of “converting those stubborn hicks” to the cause is downright evangelical and fucking evil. This is a humanitarian crisis, and people need help. And truly if you think it would be better if the south couldn’t vote, or that we collectively deserve this on some moral or karmic basis, I really need you to think critically about those exact talking points because they should sound shockingly familiar. Governments should help their people, and that should be a bipartisan priority. I don’t give a fuck what anyone says- people who are ignoring this because of where it’s happening are vile and need to get themselves sorted out. And the people who do think this is some sort of universal comeuppance for this part of the country can- and I mean this truly deeply, from my heart of hearts- go straight to hell.

I’m going to be posting resources to help those in need in the Appalachia region, as well as Florida. I’ll include shelters, food banks, etc. I’ll have them out soon. I don’t use this blog really anymore but this is the least I can do.

#hurricane helene #appalachia #resources #Florida #north carolina #south carolina #humanitarian aid

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bitchy-peachy · 3 months ago

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I don't know whether I should find Trump voters freaking out after learning that Trump doesn't care about him funny or infuriating. It's funny bc literally every reason they had voted for this man was a bold-faced lie and infuriating bc ppl on both sides has be telling them over and over that Trump would fuck America over and now that it's affecting them and their precious gas and egg price, they want to cry about being duped.

I find regretful Trump voters quite pitiful and soulless. Which is quite a lot from me cos when I despise someone to the core I go completely apathetic towards any suffering they may have.

They voted as selfishly as possible. Some didn't even care about the prices or anything, but yes for "sticking it to the libs".

But... While a lot of maga voted for Trump because he openly hates those they hate, there's unfortunately a lot of dumbass people that actually believed he would "unify" America.

(I'm not even joking. I've seen some maga online that are that effing delusional. They really thought they were the "good guys" in voting for the orange skidmark. I swear they need to get slapped for the audacity but I don't want to catch shit from them. )

These are the same people that compared wearing a freaking MASK to slavery so they've always been stupid and also racist af. They blame and project their own mediocrity on minorities and women (even if they're women themselves cos holyshit do maga women hate other women. My own maga mother... Oh she's literally hates everything with a vagina, even animals)

Those voters regretting their vote now... They won't even get the concept of pity from me. (My maga mother and her crying over her VA benefits she voted away lost me forever too.)

They didn't even know what tariffs were ffs. Or that "Obamacare" (a nickname given by republicans themselves, btw 😂) is the ACA they wanted to keep.

They just saw "Obama" in the little nickname and thought "Evil Black Democrat President is robbing us blind. We only want ACA🤬!"

Some are trying to lie to themselves thinking the tariffs will bring back American jobs (😂) and make us buy only "American products" ignoring the fact that our "American products" have imported components that will be affected by these tariffs.

So our "Made in America" shit... Yeah. That's going up.

Oh don't get me started on how more than half of our agriculture is imported and the agriculture that's actually done in our country is done mostly by immigrants that get paid shit wages. (And when Trump deports them all and farmers are forced to hire Americans that couldn't be assed to work a field, the prices will go up for our local agriculture as well)

These morons, we have to call them that, voted for the most epic downward spiral that will tank the American economy for potential decades (not just a few years of "hardship" like that Immigrant-That-Should-Get-Pimp-Smacked-Back-To-Africa Musk claimed.)

Sad thing is that we already had poverty. The middle class no longer exists. It's everyone's poor but with a handful of rich fucks.

And these moronic ass people just freaking put that shit on steroids with their dumb fucking voting.

People tell me I shouldn't insult them so much but shit. They're fucking stupid as hell.

They don't even understand why even relatives and friends don't wanna talk to them anymore 😂.

Oh its not a "difference of opinion". They voted to make us poorer, take rights away from the lgbtqia, women (yes, you miscarry and you can die from it now cos the procedure to remove rotting fetus matter is an abortion which these stupid dumbfuckers are very deaf about.), they voted against ALL POC (including the idiots that voted against themselves. DING DING DING! DENATURALIZATION! America has done it before and Trump will be bringing it back with his fake ass "invasion" emergency to activate the army), they voted against affordable healthcare and therefore fucked over people with preexisting conditions/disabilities etc., they voted against education because republicans need only stupid people to keep them in power.

Heck, they voted against gender affirming care because they think it only affects trans people when there's people with health conditions that require this kind of care (like me. A cis woman that produces too much estrogen that causes me a variety of health problems.)

Red states are behind in everything. Education, health, minimum wages but they're sure winning by being higher in crimes, sex crimes, incest and poverty.

They mooch off blue states taxes. They don't give as much as much back as they take. If it weren't for "demonrats" they'd be completely off the map.

Republican voters like living that way without realizing they could have been so much better.

They keep willingly voting for people that keep them in that life or worse... considering that these elections had very high stakes.

These elections were not like others in the past. He has too much power with the SC, senate and representatives.

Trump voters regretting their votes now should wipe words like freedom and patriot off their vocabulary because they have selfishly and quite stupidly fucked America.

Damn this shit was long, LMFAOOO.

#anon #ask #long post #us politics #politics #elections 2024 #donald trump

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authormars · 7 months ago

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I know I'm reblogging a whole lot of US Politics stuff recently, but it's because I am unable to vote. I am encouraging all 18+ US citizens to vote in the upcoming election.

Yes, Biden is old. Yes, he has dementia. But you know what he isn't?

A convicted felon. A convicted rapist. A liar.

If you are

POC

LGBTQ+

Trans (I'm reiterating it)

A woman

Poor

Middle class

An immigrant

Muslim

Jewish

Literally anyone who isn't a rich, straight, Christian, white, cis man

Do not vote for Trump. Remember the BLM protests? Remember how he made COVID, a literal pandemic, political? Please, if only for kids like me who cannot vote who just want to make it to 18, do not vote for Trump!!

Don't vote third party either because that IS a vote for Trump. You may hate Biden, but suck it up for four more years. We cannot let Trump win or it will be the end of American Democracy

#donald trump #trump #fuck trump #traitor trump #2024 election #2024 presidential election #president biden #joe biden

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rotzaprachim · 3 months ago

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one thing that’s being missed out a lot in everything from the American center to the American left’s election loss nitpicking is that imho if you use the terms “working class” or “class consciousness” to describe America or even Americans in a positive way, YOU are one of them famous elitest out of touch urban professionals that you’re also currently bagging on the right now because, while those terms are extremely established in economics and the global news sphere, they are not that popular or established among the actual trump voting communities you are talking about. you are one of them hated overeducated elites who might have watched a college lecture on YouTube or cracked an Econ 101 textbook from the library! You are one of the elites! Instead you hear a lot of “middle class,” the supposed party of the common man, and “blue collar,” which hasn’t described the whole or even likely majority of the American working class basically forever, or the “working man,” as if the vast majority of the country… doesn’t work. And that’s a loaded distinction. There’s loaded aspects of every one of those terms. America imho suffers from an incredible degree of classism, but it’s also an internalized classicism because of how many people believe there is something fundamentally more honest, hardworking, and real about being middle class then one of them Bad Poors, no matter what their actual income is. The middle class, after all, isn’t the working class- they could never be the people who need to pay for universal school lunch because THEIR child isn’t hungry. And the “blue collar” is fundamentally not the pink collar, the genuinely hated and more highly educated positions more often held by women, like teachers and nurses, and it isn’t the white collar positions like office workers and civil servants and social workers that are more disproportionately held by liberal voting city slickers. And it’s a working man, a real working man, not like those bad poor and illegals who aren’t working and take what’s mine anyway.

And these terms matter, these distinctions matter, because they tell you a lot about why votes for who and why. Key fact: a lot of analysis of the democrats “abandoning the working class,” and while I think it’s a) far more complex than that and b) a genuine problem that the democrats ARE too centrist and should shape themselves into more of a general social welfare liberal party, what’s often being missed is what the actual white working class - I’m sorry, middle class- who is abandoning the Democratic Party wants, and moreover, who they imagine to be “elite.” Because elite, here, is absolutely not in general and absolute class terms, but a miasma of factors that include education level, cultural markers, ethnicity, and some simple factors of straight up geography where cities are disproportionately liberal and where almost the entirety of the actual American left lives as well. If it WAS in absolute class terms Donald trump would not be the face of this discontent. Money is not sole, or even main, issue here.

and furthermore comes this: the hints of even white male working class political sentiment have not been popular when they’ve been tied even a little bit to progressive policy or Other People Getting Things. Check sherrod brown losing his seat, or the fact tim walz’s campaign didn’t pummel trump and vance into the electoral ground. And that comes back to the class distinction: pro-working class policy is not always popular among the conservative regions that went to trump because they believe they are not the working class and that these policies are never things that they could be so poor as to need. We don’t need free school lunch - I work hard enough to provide for my child. We don’t need childcare - our family can scrape through! We don’t need national infrastructure bills - we’re doing just fine! Instead is a mass rage that what people would be paying for is other people, that the working class is other people, who are not then, who are undocumented, who are not working, who are grifters. (A hell of a lot of this kind of sentiment was established in hillbilly elegy. A shit ton of white working class Americans voted for the guy who wrote the book on white working class Americans being dumb and lazy in a way he personally was fundamentally better than.) why should a hardworking middle class voter pay for freeloaders who could do something so embarrassing as be poor? To understand America, you have to understand that there’s a hell of a lot of upper class rage amongst people who are at the bottom of the heap themselves that lights on fire when issues of race, sexuality, and gender are brought into it.

so that’s my big take on what’s wrong with Class Politics among Conservative Americans that people are missing the fuck out on, and it’s backed up by both stats and organizing experience, but I would fucking love a lot of people being very loud right now to take their socialism a cake for everyone into some of the famously red regions and see how that actually goes over. I don’t think America has to be this way, forever, but it’s pointless to ignore the way it is. And I think there’s another important irony here to remember: people genuinely feel that there is something immoral and also dumb about voting for democrats, but they use their policies anyway. You think the conservative women who voted against abortion never got one? As if. But the same policy applies more generally - Biden’s infrastructure bills were absolutely used in very red counties. People who voted Republican still use Democratic policies in favour of social security to feed their children. It’s just that, well, on paper they don’t actually need them, because they are middle class.

#Essays #idk I’m tired this is where I’m at mentally I’m so fucking angry

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f1ght-me · 3 months ago

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POLITICAL RANT👹👹

as a canadian i literally can do nothing except watch the shit show unfold and provide my opinion (so many people i know from my hometown are trump supporters like grow up that’s not even your country)

its so weird to me if you’re canadian you think that trump being in power is good, it just literally lets me know you fucking hate minorities and women which is fucking insane.

American minorities and women are being stripped of basic human rights and the majority of the country is okay with that, oh it’s for economic reasons? so you’d rather the millionaires to still thrive while the lower and soon to be non-existent middle class can suffer AND women no longer have the rights to their own bodies???

that’s wild. it’s wild if you’re a woman, person of colour, or poor person who voted for the person who will never help you, you’ll never be richer due to this leader.

it is going to go down in flames so good luck and i’m sorry to everyone who is going to have to deal with the awful reality that’s being forced upon them.

and any canadians who are dick riding trump to the end: THIS DOESN’T BENEFIT YOU, IT MAKES THE WOMEN AND MINORITIES IN YOUR LIFE BE AWARE YOU’RE AN UNSAFE PERSON.

#pers #this isn’t a debate post #don’t try to debate me #i’ll send you death threats fr #u.s election #election 2024 #presidential election #us elections

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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 4 months ago

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By The Editorial Board

The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values. It is separate from the newsroom.

Sept. 30, 2024

It is hard to imagine a candidate more unworthy to serve as president of the United States than Donald Trump. He has proved himself morally unfit for an office that asks its occupant to put the good of the nation above self-interest. He has proved himself temperamentally unfit for a role that requires the very qualities — wisdom, honesty, empathy, courage, restraint, humility, discipline — that he most lacks.

Those disqualifying characteristics are compounded by everything else that limits his ability to fulfill the duties of the president: his many criminal charges, his advancing age, his fundamental lack of interest in policy and his increasingly bizarre cast of associates.

This unequivocal, dispiriting truth — Donald Trump is not fit to be president — should be enough for any voter who cares about the health of our country and the stability of our democracy to deny him re-election.

For this reason, regardless of any political disagreements voters might have with her, Kamala Harris is the only patriotic choice for president.

Most presidential elections are, at their core, about two different visions of America that emerge from competing policies and principles. This one is about something more foundational. It is about whether we invite into the highest office in the land a man who has revealed, unmistakably, that he will degrade the values, defy the norms and dismantle the institutions that have made our country strong.

As a dedicated public servant who has demonstrated care, competence and an unwavering commitment to the Constitution, Ms. Harris stands alone in this race. She may not be the perfect candidate for every voter, especially those who are frustrated and angry about our government’s failures to fix what’s broken — from our immigration system to public schools to housing costs to gun violence. Yet we urge Americans to contrast Ms. Harris’s record with her opponent’s.

Ms. Harris is more than a necessary alternative. There is also an optimistic case for elevating her, one that is rooted in her policies and borne out by her experience as vice president, a senator and a state attorney general.

Over the past 10 weeks, Ms. Harris has offered a shared future for all citizens, beyond hate and division. She has begun to describe a set of thoughtful plans to help American families.

While character is enormously important — in this election, pre-eminently so — policies matter. Many Americans remain deeply concerned about their prospects and their children’s in an unstable and unforgiving world. For them, Ms. Harris is clearly the better choice. She has committed to using the power of her office to help Americans better afford the things they need, to make it easier to own a home, to support small businesses and to help workers. Mr. Trump’s economic priorities are more tax cuts, which would benefit mostly the wealthy, and more tariffs, which will make prices even more unmanageable for the poor and middle class.

Beyond the economy, Ms. Harris promises to continue working to expand access to health care and reduce its cost. She has a long record of fighting to protect women’s health and reproductive freedom. Mr. Trump spent years trying to dismantle the Affordable Care Act and boasts of picking the Supreme Court justices who ended the constitutional right to an abortion.

Globally, Ms. Harris would work to maintain and strengthen the alliances with like-minded nations that have long advanced American interests abroad and maintained the nation’s security. Mr. Trump — who has long praised autocrats like Vladimir Putin, Viktor Orban and Kim Jong-un — has threatened to blow those democratic alliances apart. Ms. Harris recognizes the need for global solutions to the global problem of climate change and would continue President Biden’s major investments in the industries and technologies necessary to achieve that goal. Mr. Trump rejects the accepted science, and his contempt for low-carbon energy solutions is matched only by his trollish fealty to fossil fuels.

As for immigration, a huge and largely unsolved issue, the former president continues to demonize and dehumanize immigrants, while Ms. Harris at least offers hope for a compromise, long denied by Congress, to secure the borders and return the nation to a sane immigration system.

Many voters have said they want more details about the vice president’s plans, as well as more unscripted encounters in which she explains her vision and policies. They are right to ask. Given the stakes of this election, Ms. Harris may think that she is running a campaign designed to minimize the risks of an unforced error — answering journalists’ questions and offering greater policy detail could court controversy, after all — under the belief that being the only viable alternative to Mr. Trump may be enough to bring her to victory. That strategy may ultimately prove winning, but it’s a disservice to the American people and to her own record. And leaving the public with a sense that she is being shielded from tough questions, as Mr. Biden has been, could backfire by undermining her core argument that a capable new generation stands ready to take the reins of power.

Ms. Harris is not wrong, however, on the clear dangers of returning Mr. Trump to office. He has promised to be a different kind of president this time, one who is unrestrained by checks on power built into the American political system. His pledge to be “a dictator” on “Day 1” might have indeed been a joke — but his undisguised fondness for dictatorships and the strongmen who run them is anything but.

Most notably, he systematically undermined public confidence in the result of the 2020 election and then attempted to overturn it — an effort that culminated in an insurrection at the Capitol to obstruct the peaceful transfer of power and resulted in him and some of his most prominent supporters being charged with crimes. He has not committed to honoring the result of this election and continues to insist, as he did at the debate with Ms. Harris on Sept. 10, that he won in 2020. He has apparently made a willingness to support his lies a litmus test for those in his orbit, starting with JD Vance, who would be his vice president.

His disdain for the rule of law goes beyond his efforts to obtain power; it is also central to how he plans to use it. Mr. Trump and his supporters have described a 2025 agenda that would give him the power to carry out the most extreme of his promises and threats. He vows, for instance, to turn the federal bureaucracy and even the Justice Department into weapons of his will to hurt his political enemies. In at least 10 instances during his presidency, he did exactly that, pressuring federal agencies and prosecutors to punish people he felt had wronged him, with little or no legal basis for prosecution.

Some of the people Mr. Trump appointed in his last term saved America from his most dangerous impulses. They refused to break laws on his behalf and spoke up when he put his own interests above his country’s. As a result, the former president intends, if re-elected, to surround himself with people who are unwilling to defy his demands. Today’s version of Mr. Trump — the twice-impeached version that faces a barrage of criminal charges — may prove to be the restrained version.

Unless American voters stand up to him, Mr. Trump will have the power to do profound and lasting harm to our democracy.

That is not simply an opinion of Mr. Trump’s character by his critics; it is a judgment of his presidency from those who know it best — the very people he appointed to serve in the most important positions of his White House. It is telling that among those who fear a second Trump presidency are people who worked for him and saw him at close range.

Mike Pence, Mr. Trump’s vice president, has repudiated him. No other vice president in modern history has done this. “I believe that anyone who puts themselves over the Constitution should never be president of the United States,” Mr. Pence has said. “And anyone who asks someone else to put them over the Constitution should never be president of the United States again.”

Mr. Trump’s attorney general has raised similar concerns about his fundamental unfitness. And his chief of staff. And his defense secretary. And his national security advisers. And his education secretary. And on and on — a record of denunciation without precedent in the nation’s long history.

That’s not to say Mr. Trump did not add to the public conversation. In particular, he broke decades of Washington consensus and led both parties to wrestle with the downsides of globalization, unrestrained trade and China’s rise. His criminal-justice reform efforts were well placed, his focus on Covid vaccine development paid off, and his decision to use an emergency public health measure to turn away migrants at the border was the right call at the start of the pandemic. Yet even when the former president’s overall aim may have had merit, his operational incompetence, his mercurial temperament and his outright recklessness often led to bad outcomes. Mr. Trump’s tariffs cost Americans billions of dollars. His attacks on China have ratcheted up military tensions with America’s strongest rival and a nuclear superpower. His handling of the Covid crisis contributed to historic declines in confidence in public health, and to the loss of many lives. His overreach on immigration policies, such as his executive order on family separation, was widely denounced as inhumane and often ineffective.

And those were his wins. His tax plan added $2 trillion to the national debt; his promised extension of them would add $5.8 trillion over the next decade. His withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal destabilized the Middle East. His support for antidemocratic strongmen like Mr. Putin emboldened human rights abusers all over the world. He instigated the longest government shutdown ever. His sympathetic comments toward the Proud Boys expanded the influence of domestic right-wing extremist groups.

In the years since he left office, Mr. Trump was convicted on felony charges of falsifying business records, was found liable in civil court for sexual abuse and faces two, possibly three, other criminal cases. He has continued to stoke chaos and encourage violence and lawlessness whenever it suits his political aims, most recently promoting vicious lies against Haitian immigrants. He recognizes that ordinary people — voters, jurors, journalists, election officials, law enforcement officers and many others who are willing to do their duty as citizens and public servants — have the power to hold him to account, so he has spent the past three and a half years trying to undermine them and sow distrust in anyone or any institution that might stand in his way.

Most dangerous for American democracy, Mr. Trump has transformed the Republican Party — an institution that once prided itself on principle and honored its obligations to the law and the Constitution — into little more than an instrument of his quest to regain power. The Republicans who support Ms. Harris recognize that this election is about something more fundamental than narrow partisan interest. It is about principles that go beyond party.

In 2020 this board made the strongest case it could against the re-election of Mr. Trump. Four years later, many Americans have put his excesses out of their minds. We urge them and those who may look back at that period with nostalgia or feel that their lives are not much better now than they were three years ago to recognize that his first term was a warning and that a second Trump term would be much more damaging and divisive than the first.

Kamala Harris is the only choice.

https://www.nytimes.com/.../kamala-harris-2024.html...

#NYTimes #endorsement #Kamala Harris #election 2024

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beardedmrbean · 3 months ago

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Okay it got community noted but what this elitism

https://x.com/seamus_coughlin/status/1857629211537666253?s=46

“Only people with degree should vote!” What types of degrees? The running jokes about “college educated” people these days is how out of touch they are with the working class

“It seem affordable groceries is more important than women rights!” I remember people on tumblr pointed out the lack of wealth privilege discussion in sjws circles. No I don’t mean line trump vs me a Amazon warehouse worker

I mean more “Upper middle class woman with several college degrees living in a gated community and shitting on poor trailer white kids”

That what I been seeing from the woke

Also just because you have a college degree doesn’t mean you know everything

One thing I been having issues with Sjws when it comes to black struggles (minus my own community bs) I go “wait is your idea of black people based off your pop culture media consumption and sanitized textbooks?”

Oh my family was there during the civil rights movement and lord’s knows the full extent of how the Vietnam war effected my elders as my late grandmother couldn’t have memories of her brother who died in Vietnam because she was too young when he was drafted

The shit you learn in textbooks is a lot of marginalized people families histories wokesters

It like how people were shocked that black Americans were very weary about the Covid vaccines…..there something called pattern recognition

https://youtu.be/rX07mUHFO4s?si=dX-U6Ee1Q1Gk3E5T

I got out of the democratic cult, but idc if it Obama (actually he the first person I realize the wolf in sheep clothing metaphor), Hillary, or Harris

I can seen the devil beyond his new persona= the woke person

Okay it got community noted but what this elitism

It's an abuse tactic, they're trying to emotionally manipulate people that didn't vote the way they wanted them to.

Guessing they think that since it works on leftist types that it will work on not leftist types too. Personally I respond better to not being insulted.

Immediate physical needs tend to take the lead, that's human nature. It's not affordable groceries it's being able to feed yourself and your family people are concerned with.

Insulting them for that isn't going to do you any favors in the future.

AOC did a thing where she asked her voters if they also voted for Trump and why, short version of the primary reasons I saw were 'you both care about working people' and 'I wanted something different and harris didn't offer that'

She seemed flummoxed, but the DNC would do well to read the responses and adjust their message accordingly in the future instead of sticking with the old standby of 'call them racist' or any other ist/phobic ect thing they've been running with.

I mean more “Upper middle class woman with several college degrees living in a gated community and shitting on poor trailer white kids” That what I been seeing from the woke Also just because you have a college degree doesn’t mean you know everything

Having that degree just means you have a easier time wrapping your bigotry and hate in fancy words that disguise what they're saying.

Funniest part is they still opt to do things like that tweet.

You already know the answer to that.

Sadly that draft thing is not uncommon throughout history.

The shit you learn in textbooks is a lot of marginalized people families histories wokesters It like how people were shocked that black Americans were very weary about the Covid vaccines…..there something called pattern recognition

I wasn't surprised, raw numbers had white folks in the US being the peak group refusing or hesitant to get the covid shot, but by %of total population by racial demographic it was black Americans.

'oh how could they do that and refuse this thing that the government says is good for you?'

Tuskegee syphilis experiment ring a bell anyone?

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Oh, I could have saved myself a moment if I'd just added that, lol.

I got out of the democratic cult, but idc if it Obama (actually he the first person I realize the wolf in sheep clothing metaphor), Hillary, or Harris I can seen the devil beyond his new persona= the woke person

Still a registered democrat because I never bothered to change to unaffiliated, not that it really matters since I get to vote for who I want to anyhow in pretty much anything but the primaries which are done by party here in CA and also fairly decided by the time they get here.

Both sides are ass, Vermin Supreme 2028!!!!!

#zoomer huey anon

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ivankahasbeentreatedsounfairly · 4 months ago

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By The New York Times Editorial Board

The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values. It is separate from the newsroom.

Sept. 30, 2024

For this reason, regardless of any political disagreements voters might have with her, Kamala Harris is the only patriotic choice for president.

Over the past 10 weeks, Ms. Harris has offered a shared future for all citizens, beyond hate and division. She has begun to describe a set of thoughtful plans to help American families.

Some of the people Mr. Trump appointed in his last term saved America from his most dangerous impulses. They refused to break laws on his behalf and spoke up when he put his own interests above his country’s. As a result, the former president intends, if re-elected, to surround himself with people who are unwilling to defy his demands. Today’s version of Mr. Trump — the twice-impeachedversion that faces a barrage of criminal charges — may prove to be the restrained version.

Unless American voters stand up to him, Mr. Trump will have the power to do profound and lasting harm to our democracy.

Kamala Harris is the only choice.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/30/opinion/editorials/kamala-harris-2024.html

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escarietson · 3 months ago

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Judgement Day 2024

Today is Judgement Day 2024, Election Day.

The day in where either we, the United States of America will descend into a dictatorship or live on as a democracy. And the closing messages from Donald Trump and Kamala Harris were crystal clear...!

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It's long past time to take out the trash that is Donald Trump and the MAGA Republican Party, to take them all out to the dump where they belong for their actions against Americans and women. To force them all out of our lives and our bedrooms whether they like it or not, to flip the patriotic bird at their vile desires of regression and dystopia. The day in where we can and must turn the page on this horrific chapter in our lives and close the book on this vile mark in our history in order to move on to the greater good for all, not just ourselves. Today, we make our final push to rid ourselves of the unforgivable plague that Trump and his rich allies forced upon us, which has persisted for over 8 years even after Trump rightfully got the boot he deserved in 2020 for his disgraceful failures.

As an American patriot who supports and upholds the constitution I make my final pitch today about this topic that has sapped my spirits and soul: Vote for Kamala Harris so we can finally heal from the unforgivable scars that Trump and the GOP left on us. This is not only for our own sake but also for the rest of the world that relies on us, such as Ukraine given their war against Russia, who is being assisted by North Korea. Should Trump win not only we suffer but also everyone else in the world under his selfish & hateful wrath that'll further empowered the ruthless autocrats and dictators of the world that will ensure the end of democracy and freedom for the entire world.

Though there is a lot of evidence that Trump may lose given how his crowds have been dwindling and his rallies have been getting emptier and emptier...

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... and also Trump himself has been pulling a lot of crappy PR stunts that blew up in his face. Such as posing as a McDonald's employee and posing as a garbage man...

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... we still cannot be complacent in this at all given whats at state given Project 2025, the USA version of Germany's Project 1933 via Adolf Hitler.

I know politics is annoying and not a proper topic to talk about, but the dangers we face cannot be overstated or ignored given how everyone will be affected this time; the men, the women, the blacks, the Latinos, the immigrants (legal or illegal), the poor & middle class, and the LGBTQ+. Everyone is affected and also at risk this year given what the far-right has planned and how they see things outside of the common man.

Should Trump and the far-right win, it's all over for everyone that isn't rich, religious, national, or a white man. Not just internally but also everyone else in the world that isn't them. Political opponents and those who stood against them in some way or form will be rendered targets for arrests or execution. If the right wins there won't be any checks & balances anymore, no guardrails, no oppositions, nothing. People like me will be hunted down and either incarcerated or executed via firing squads given that Trump insisted such desires onto Liz Cheney, the moderate republican who opposed him and proudly served in the Jan 6 Select Committee who put country over party.

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Because Trump desires uncheck power and total authority over everyone and everything in service to himself, everyone's lives are in jeopardy and at the mercy of a mentally defective old man's thin-skinned ego.

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As of today unless the election is called for Kamala and the democrats this could be my last days on this planet as a free man, let alone alive and well. All because I rightfully stood against the epitome of what our founding fathers had long since opposed; a king, a madman, a ruthless dictator, a petty tyrant.

Should Trump win and gain unchecked power... It was an honor to vote while I still had the chance and life in America was swell until my demise comes at the hands of a petty tyrant or his loyalists who desires my death all because I did not bend my knee to him and didn't kiss his ring. Though I am confident & optimistic that Harris will win and secure the presidency along with the democrats regaining control of all branches of government in order to clean up Trump and the Republicans messes I have to brace myself for the worst despite my confidence.

As of now at this point I can only hope for the best...

Against all the evil that republicans can conjure, all the wickedness that conservatives can produce. We'll send unto them, only you. Vote and turnout, until it is done...!

#politics #democracy #vote blue #election 2024 #kamala harris #donald trump #republicans #democrats #fascism #dictatorship #warning #progressive #regressive #conservatives #don't sleep on this one #get out and vote #vote blue as if your lives depend on it #Youtube

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Since the 1960s, universities have always been hotbeds of left-wing protests, sometimes violently so.

But the post-October 7 campus eruptions marked a watershed difference.

Masked left-wing protestors were unashamedly and virulently anti-Semitic. Students on elite campuses especially showed contempt for both middle-class police officers tasked with preventing their violence and vandalism and the maintenance workers who had to clean up their garbage.

Mobs took over buildings, assaulted Jewish students, called for the destruction of Israel, and defaced American monuments and commentaries.

When pressed by journalists to explain their protests, most students knew nothing of the politics or geography of Palestine, for which they were protesting.

The public concluded that the more elite the campus, the more ignorant, arrogant, and hateful the students seemed.

The Biden administration destroyed the southern border. Ten million illegal aliens swarmed into the U.S. without audit. Almost daily, news accounts detail violent acts committed by illegal aliens or their surreal demands for more free lodging and support.

Simultaneously, thousands of Middle Eastern students, invited by universities on student visas, block traffic, occupy bridges, disrupt graduations, and generally show contempt for the laws of their American hosts.

The net result is that Americans are reappraising their entire attitude toward immigration. Expect the border to be closed soon and immigration to become mostly meritocratic, smaller, and legal, with zero tolerance for immigrants and resident visitors who break the laws of their hosts.

Americans are also reappraising their attitudes toward time-honored bureaucracies, the courts, and government agencies.

The public still cannot digest the truth that the once respected FBI partnered with social media to suppress news stories, to surveil parents at school board meetings, and to conduct performance art swat raids on the homes of supposed political opponents.

After the attempts of the Department of Justice to go easy on the miscreant Hunter Biden but to hound ex-president Donald Trump for supposedly removing files illegally in the same fashion as current President Biden, the public lost confidence not just in Attorney General Merrick Garland but in American jurisprudence itself.

The shenanigans of prosecutors like Fani Willis, Letitia James, and Alvin Bragg, along with overtly biased judges like Juan Merchant and Arthur Engoron, only reinforced the reality that the American legal system has descended into third-world-like tit-for-tat vendettas.

The same politicization has nearly discredited the Pentagon. Its investigations of “white” rage and white supremacy found no such organized cabals in the ranks. But these unicorn hunts likely helped cause a 45,000-recruitment shortfall among precisely the demographic that died at twice their numbers in the general population in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Add in the humiliating flight from Kabul, the abandonment of $50 billion in weapons to the Taliban terrorists, the recent embarrassment of the failed Gaza pier, and the litany of political invective from retired generals and admirals. The result is that the armed forces have an enormous task to restore public faith. They will have to return to meritocracy and emphasize battle efficacy, enforce the uniform code of military justice, and start either winning wars or avoiding those that cannot be won.

Finally, we are witnessing a radical inversion in our two political parties. The old populist Democratic Party that championed lunch-bucket workers has turned into a shrill union of the very rich and subsidized poor. Its support of open borders, illegal immigration, the war on fossil fuels, transgenderism, critical legal and race theories, and the woke agenda are causing the party to lose support.

The Republican Party is likewise rebranding itself from a once-stereotyped brand of aristocratic and corporate grandees to one anchored in the middle class.

Even more radically, the new populist Republicans are beginning to appeal to voters on shared class and cultural concerns rather than on racial and tribal interests.

The results of all these revolutions will shake up the U.S. for decades to come.

Soon we may see a Georgia Tech or Purdue degree as far better proof of an educated and civic-minded citizen than a Harvard or Stanford brand.

We will likely jettison the failed salad bowl approach to immigration and return to the melting pot as immigration becomes exclusively legal, meritocratic, and manageable.

To avoid further loss of public confidence, institutions like the FBI, the CIA, the Pentagon, and the DOJ will have to re-earn rather than just assume the public’s confidence.

And we may soon accept the reality that Democrats reflect the values of Silicon Valley plutocrats, university presidents, and blue-city mayors, while Republicans become the home of an ecumenical black, Hispanic, Asian, and white middle class.

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Fascism

Feels like a particularly pertinent time to bring up fascism. Fascism doesn’t have a single clear or universal definition, and what exactly defines fascism is a highly disputed subject even among historians, political scientists, and other scholars and experts in relevant fields. There are multiple definitions and characteristics of fascism depending on where you look - though I will stress that some sources are most definitely more reliable and genuine than others. Some example definitions include:

“A political ideology and mass movement that dominated many parts of central, southern, and eastern Europe between 1919 and 1945 and that also had adherents in western Europe, the United States, South Africa, Japan, Latin America, and the Middle East… fascist parties and movements differed significantly from one another, they had many characteristics in common, including extreme militaristic nationalism, contempt for electoral democracy and political and cultural liberalism, a belief in natural social hierarchy and the rule of elites, and the desire to create a Volksgemeinschaft (German: "people's community"), in which individual interests would be subordinated to the good of the nation."

From Encyclopaedia Britannica https://www.britannica.com/topic/fascism

“A populist political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual, that is associated with a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, and that is characterized by severe economic and social regimentation and by forcible suppression of opposition.”

From Merriam-Webster Dictionary https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fascism

“The Moral Order hierarchy is commonly extended in [Anglo-American] culture to include other relations of moral superiority: Western culture over non-Western culture; America over other countries; citizens over immigrants; Christians over non-Christians; straights over gays; the rich over the poor. Incidentally, the Moral Order metaphor gives us a better understanding of what fascism is: Fascism legitimizes such a moral order and seeks to enforce it through the power of the state.”

From Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson

“Fascism is not mere oppression. It is a more holistic ideology that elevates the state over the individual (except for a sole leader, around whom there is a cult of personality), glorifies hypernationalism and racism, worships military power, hates liberal democracy, and wallows in nostalgia and historical grievances. It asserts that all public activity should serve the regime, and that all power must be gathered in the fist of the leader and exercised only by his party.”

From “Trump Crosses a Crucial Line” by Tom Nicholas https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2023/11/trump-crosses-a-crucial-line/676031/

“Fascism is a set of ideologies and practices that seeks to place the nation, defined in exclusive biological, cultural, and/or historical terms, above all other sources of loyalty, and to create a mobilized national community. Fascist nationalism is reactionary in that it entails implacable hostility to socialism and feminism, for they are seen as prioritizing class or gender rather than nation. This is why fascism is a movement of the extreme right. Fascism is also a movement of the radical right because the defeat of socialism and feminism and the creation of the mobilized nation are held to depend upon the advent to power of a new elite acting in the name of the people, headed by a charismatic leader, and embodied in a mass, militarized party. Fascists are pushed towards conservatism by common hatred of socialism and feminism, but are prepared to override conservative interests – family, property, religion, the universities, the civil service – where the interests of the nation are considered to require it. Fascist radicalism also derives from a desire to assuage discontent by accepting specific demands of the labour and women's movements, so long as these demands accord with the national priority. Fascists seek to ensure the harmonization of workers' and women's interests with those of the nation by mobilizing them within special sections of the party and/or within a corporate system. Access to these organizations and to the benefits they confer upon members depends on the individual's national, political, and/or racial characteristics. All aspects of fascist policy are suffused with ultranationalism.”

From Fascism: A Very Short Introduction by Kevin Passmore

“A form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.”

From The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert Paxton

“A cult of the leader who promises national restoration in the face of humiliation brought on by supposed communists, Marxists and minorities and immigrants who are supposedly posing a threat to the character and the history of a nation" and further observed that "The leader proposes that only he can solve it and all of his political opponents are enemies or traitors.”

From Jason Stanley https://www.npr.org/2020/09/06/910320018/fascism-scholar-says-u-s-is-losing-its-democratic-status

You’ll notice some reoccurring themes and characteristics, something you’ll also see in different lists of the characteristics of fascism, including:

1. The first feature of Ur-Fascism is the cult of tradition. Traditionalism is of course much older than fascism. Not only was it typical of counter-revolutionary Catholic thought after the French revolution, but it was born in the late Hellenistic era, as a reaction to classical Greek rationalism. In the Mediterranean basin, people of different religions (most of them indulgently accepted by the Roman Pantheon) started dreaming of a revelation received at the dawn of human history. This revelation, according to the traditionalist mystique, had remained for a long time concealed under the veil of forgotten languages — in Egyptian hieroglyphs, in the Celtic runes, in the scrolls of the little known religions of Asia. This new culture had to be syncretistic. Syncretism is not only, as the dictionary says, “the combination of different forms of belief or practice”; such a combination must tolerate contradictions. Each of the original messages contains a silver of wisdom, and whenever they seem to say different or incompatible things it is only because all are alluding, allegorically, to the same primeval truth. As a consequence, there can be no advancement of learning. Truth has been already spelled out once and for all, and we can only keep interpreting its obscure message. One has only to look at the syllabus of every fascist movement to find the major traditionalist thinkers. The Nazi gnosis was nourished by traditionalist, syncretistic, occult elements. The most influential theoretical source of the theories of the new Italian right, Julius Evola, merged the Holy Grail with The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, alchemy with the Holy Roman and Germanic Empire. The very fact that the Italian right, in order to show its open-mindedness, recently broadened its syllabus to include works by De Maistre, Guenon, and Gramsci, is a blatant proof of syncretism. If you browse in the shelves that, in American bookstores, are labeled as New Age, you can find there even Saint Augustine who, as far as I know, was not a fascist. But combining Saint Augustine and Stonehenge — that is a symptom of Ur-Fascism.

2. Traditionalism implies the rejection of modernism. Both Fascists and Nazis worshiped technology, while traditionalist thinkers usually reject it as a negation of traditional spiritual values. However, even though Nazism was proud of its industrial achievements, its praise of modernism was only the surface of an ideology based upon Blood and Earth (Blut und Boden). The rejection of the modern world was disguised as a rebuttal of the capitalistic way of life, but it mainly concerned the rejection of the Spirit of 1789 (and of 1776, of course). The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.

3. Irrationalism also depends on the cult of action for action’s sake. Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation. Therefore culture is suspect insofar as it is identified with critical attitudes. Distrust of the intellectual world has always been a symptom of Ur-Fascism, from Goering’s alleged statement (“When I hear talk of culture I reach for my gun”) to the frequent use of such expressions as “degenerate intellectuals,” “eggheads,” “effete snobs,” “universities are a nest of reds.” The official Fascist intellectuals were mainly engaged in attacking modern culture and the liberal intelligentsia for having betrayed traditional values.

4. No syncretistic faith can withstand analytical criticism. The critical spirit makes distinctions, and to distinguish is a sign of modernism. In modern culture the scientific community praises disagreement as a way to improve knowledge. For Ur-Fascism, disagreement is treason.

5. Besides, disagreement is a sign of diversity. Ur-Fascism grows up and seeks for consensus by exploiting and exacerbating the natural fear of difference. The first appeal of a fascist or prematurely fascist movement is an appeal against the intruders. Thus Ur-Fascism is racist by definition.

6. Ur-Fascism derives from individual or social frustration. That is why one of the most typical features of the historical fascism was the appeal to a frustrated middle class, a class suffering from an economic crisis or feelings of political humiliation, and frightened by the pressure of lower social groups. In our time, when the old “proletarians” are becoming petty bourgeois (and the lumpen are largely excluded from the political scene), the fascism of tomorrow will find its audience in this new majority.

7. To people who feel deprived of a clear social identity, Ur-Fascism says that their only privilege is the most common one, to be born in the same country. This is the origin of nationalism. Besides, the only ones who can provide an identity to the nation are its enemies. Thus at the root of the Ur-Fascist psychology there is the obsession with a plot, possibly an international one. The followers must feel besieged. The easiest way to solve the plot is the appeal to xenophobia. But the plot must also come from the inside: Jews are usually the best target because they have the advantage of being at the same time inside and outside. In the U.S., a prominent instance of the plot obsession is to be found in Pat Robertson’s The New World Order, but, as we have recently seen, there are many others.

8. The followers must feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies. When I was a boy I was taught to think of Englishmen as the five-meal people. They ate more frequently than the poor but sober Italians. Jews are rich and help each other through a secret web of mutual assistance. However, the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak. Fascist governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy.

9. For Ur-Fascism there is no struggle for life but, rather, life is lived for struggle. Thus pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. It is bad because life is permanent warfare. This, however, brings about an Armageddon complex. Since enemies have to be defeated, there must be a final battle, after which the movement will have control of the world. But such a “final solution” implies a further era of peace, a Golden Age, which contradicts the principle of permanent war. No fascist leader has ever succeeded in solving this predicament.

10. Elitism is a typical aspect of any reactionary ideology, insofar as it is fundamentally aristocratic, and aristocratic and militaristic elitism cruelly implies contempt for the weak. Ur-Fascism can only advocate a popular elitism. Every citizen belongs to the best people of the world, the members of the party are the best among the citizens, every citizen can (or ought to) become a member of the party. But there cannot be patricians without plebeians. In fact, the Leader, knowing that his power was not delegated to him democratically but was conquered by force, also knows that his force is based upon the weakness of the masses; they are so weak as to need and deserve a ruler. Since the group is hierarchically organized (according to a military model), every subordinate leader despises his own underlings, and each of them despises his inferiors. This reinforces the sense of mass elitism.

11. In such a perspective everybody is educated to become a hero. In every mythology the hero is an exceptional being, but in Ur-Fascist ideology, heroism is the norm. This cult of heroism is strictly linked with the cult of death. It is not by chance that a motto of the Falangists was Viva la Muerte (in English it should be translated as “Long Live Death!”). In non-fascist societies, the lay public is told that death is unpleasant but must be faced with dignity; believers are told that it is the painful way to reach a supernatural happiness. By contrast, the Ur-Fascist hero craves heroic death, advertised as the best reward for a heroic life. The Ur-Fascist hero is impatient to die. In his impatience, he more frequently sends other people to death.

12. Since both permanent war and heroism are difficult games to play, the Ur-Fascist transfers his will to power to sexual matters. This is the origin of machismo (which implies both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality). Since even sex is a difficult game to play, the Ur-Fascist hero tends to play with weapons — doing so becomes an ersatz phallic exercise.

13. Ur-Fascism is based upon a selective populism, a qualitative populism, one might say. In a democracy, the citizens have individual rights, but the citizens in their entirety have a political impact only from a quantitative point of view — one follows the decisions of the majority. For Ur-Fascism, however, individuals as individuals have no rights, and the People is conceived as a quality, a monolithic entity expressing the Common Will. Since no large quantity of human beings can have a common will, the Leader pretends to be their interpreter. Having lost their power of delegation, citizens do not act; they are only called on to play the role of the People. Thus the People is only a theatrical fiction. To have a good instance of qualitative populism we no longer need the Piazza Venezia in Rome or the Nuremberg Stadium. There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People. Because of its qualitative populism Ur-Fascism must be against “rotten” parliamentary governments. One of the first sentences uttered by Mussolini in the Italian parliament was “I could have transformed this deaf and gloomy place into a bivouac for my maniples” — “maniples” being a subdivision of the traditional Roman legion. As a matter of fact, he immediately found better housing for his maniples, but a little later he liquidated the parliament. Wherever a politician casts doubt on the legitimacy of a parliament because it no longer represents the Voice of the People, we can smell Ur-Fascism.

14. Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. Newspeak was invented by Orwell, in 1984, as the official language of Ingsoc, English Socialism. But elements of Ur-Fascism are common to different forms of dictatorship. All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning. But we must be ready to identify other kinds of Newspeak, even if they take the apparently innocent form of a popular talk show.

From “Ur-Fascism” by Umberto Eco https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fascism

1. a mass movement with multiclass membership in which prevail, among the leaders and the militants, the middle sectors, in large part new to political activity, organized as a party militia, that bases its identity not on social hierarchy or class origin but on a sense of comradeship, believes itself invested with a mission of national regeneration, considers itself in a state of war against political adversaries and aims at conquering a monopoly of political power by using terror, parliamentary politics, and deals with leading groups, to create a new regime that destroys parliamentary democracy;

2. an "anti-ideological" and pragmatic ideology that proclaims itself antimaterialist, anti-individualist, anti-liberal, antidemocratic, anti-Marxist, populist and anticapitalist, and expresses itself aesthetically more than theoretically by means of a new political style and by myths, rites, and symbols as a lay religion designed to acculturate, socialize, and integrate the faith of the masses with the goal of creating a "new man";

3. a culture founded on mystical thought and the tragic and activist sense of life conceived of as the manifestation of the will to power, on the myth of youth as artificer of history, and on the exaltation of the militarization of politics as the model of life and collective activity;

4. a totalitarian conception of the primacy of politics, conceived of as an integrating experience to carry out the fusion of the individual and the masses in the organic and mystical unity of the nation as an ethnic and moral community, adopting measures of discrimination and persecution against those considered to be outside this community either as enemies of the regime or members of races considered to be inferior or otherwise dangerous for the integrity of the nation;

5. a civil ethic founded on total dedication to the national community, on discipline, virility, comradeship, and the warrior spirit;

6. a single state party that has the task of providing for the armed defense of the regime, selecting its directing cadres, and organizing the masses within the state in a process of permanent mobilization of emotion and faith;

7. a police apparatus that prevents, controls, and represses dissidence and opposition, including through the use of organized terror;

8. a political system organized by hierarchy of functions named from the top and crowned by the figure of the "leader", invested with a sacred charisma, who commands, directs, and coordinates the activities of the party and the regime;

9. corporative organization of the economy that suppresses trade union liberty, broadens the sphere of state intervention, and seeks to achieve, by principles of technocracy and solidarity, the collaboration of the "productive sectors" under control of the regime, to achieve its goals of power, yet preserving private property and class divisions;

10. a foreign policy inspired by the myth of national power and greatness, with the goal of imperialist expansion.

From A History of Fascism, 1914–1945 by Emilio Gentile

* a sense of overwhelming crisis beyond the reach of any traditional solutions;

* the primacy of the group, toward which one has duties superior to every right, whether individual or universal, and the subordination of the individual to it;

* the belief that one’s group is a victim, a sentiment that justifies any action, without legal or moral limits, against its enemies, both internal and external;

* dread of the group’s decline under the corrosive effects of individualistic liberalism, class conflict, and alien influences;

* the need for closer integration of a purer community, by consent if possible, or by exclusionary violence if necessary;

* the need for authority by natural chiefs (always male), culminating in a national chieftain who alone is capable of incarnating the group’s historical destiny;

* the superiority of the leader’s instincts over abstract and universal reason;

* the beauty of violence and the efficacy of will, when they are devoted to the group’s success;

* the right of the chosen people to dominate others without restraint from any kind of human or divine law, right being decided by the sole criterion of the group’s prowess within a Darwinian struggle.

From The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert Paxton

1. The mythical past—used to invoke a nostalgia for a fictional time when the nation was great as it was not yet sullied by the “Other.”

2. Propaganda—to attack enemies, to justify violence, to justify laws against “Them” and to support the authoritarian leader.

3. Anti-intellectualism—to attack the media, universities, and scientists when they contradict the strong man’s authority.

4. Unreality—supporting conspiracy theories that tarnish the “Other” along with an outright denial of facts when convenient.

5. Hierarchy—espousing a “natural order” where the “Us” are hardworking, moral, law-abiding and productive members of society, while the “Other” is not.

6. Victimhood—casting “Us” as victims of “Them”, who are taking resources from “Us” and demanding special rights.

7. Law and order—using laws to justify violence, oppression, and expulsion of the “Other”.

8. Sexual anxiety—as the “Other” embraces non-traditional approaches to sexuality,

9. Appeals to the heartland—as rural communities are often more homogeneous and conservative (more “Us”) while urban cities are often more diverse, cosmopolitan (more “Them”).

10. Dismantling of public welfare and unity—by casting aside safety net programs as unfair giveaways to “Them”, who are not working, as opposed to “Us”, who are.

From How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them by Jason Stanley

So, what is fascism? Using the sources above, I’m going to lay out my own little definition and summary.

Fascism is an authoritarian and ultranationalist political ideology and movement characterized by a dictatorial leader and centralized autocracy using militarism and forcible suppression of opposition for the supposed good of the nation - or rather the groups deemed deserving among the nation’s established and strictly enforced social hierarchy - often against purported enemies designated as “other” whose existences are inherently negative in some way or form and must be forcefully and - eventually inevitably - violently opposed and eliminated.

Some prominent fascist characteristics and features include:

- The belief in natural superiority and inferiority of different groups used to justify persecution

- Disdain for and violation of human rights

- Pro violence and sexism

- The idea that there is an abhorrent enemy who will bring about the downfall of society if not forcibly and/or violently defeated and/or eliminated

- The belief that the dictator represents the will of the people and is infallible

- The idea that the nation is facing a crisis which can only be fixed with fascist revolution

- Myths and ideas of an ideal past and/or traditional way of life that the country must return to

- Rejection of science and facts when incompatible with the fascist narrative

- Anti intellectualism and controlling media and education to enforce propaganda

- Forcible suppression of criticism or any non-aligning movements or parties

And yes, I do believe Trump qualifies as a fascist. He doesn’t seem to have any real or firmly held beliefs or aspirations other than self-interest, but he happily uses fascists ideas and methods to fulfil that. And as he is currently president of the United States, he is a very prominent fascist in his words and actions irregardless of his personal convictions (which I should point out is the case for all fascists - fascism is identified by objective words and actions, not internal feelings or beliefs).

#real stuff

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To all of my American followers and mutuals

I feel for you, all of your anger, grief and fear. I stayed up all night refreshing the results of the the presidential race from Canada, waiting in anticipation, crossing my fingers and just praying that Trump would not win. There was hope for a while that Kamala would catch up and reach her victory, when I refreshed and saw that Trumps votes hit 266 my heart and stomach dropped , I have never felt so much disappointment and grief

I tried to hold on to the hope that a miracle would happen, and the mail in ballots would flip the vote by morning, unfortunately from what I have read, not every vote had been counted once he had hit the goal, I saw many videos of people standing outside of designated voting areas during the race being denied their right to vote even while voting booths were still open, the amount of people, who did not get to vote because lines were too long, or they were too young, or too old and unable to leave the house even the people who are disabled and in hospitals not having the resources to go out and vote saddens me. I’m not here to say the vote was rigged. It wasn’t , but the system is terribly broken and inaccessible , many people did not get their mail in ballots. And this happens every 4 years, and somehow this was the quickest counted vote in a long time despite how many struggles and technical difficulties the counters had experienced. . I am not going to blame Kamala for the lack of votes she received, she inspired many young people to vote even if they chose to not vote for her, she gave many people hope for a better future, she inspired many elderly women to go against their husbands cruel judgment and vote for a black women. Kamala inspired people all over the world, her campaign was fun and fresh, I do not agree with everything she had said or done, but I did have faith in her and still do. . The reality of this situation is that America HATES Women, POC, and LGBTQ+ people. America is a capitalist country that is not so slowly turning into a Fascist country. With Donald Trump in power. People will die. No if ands or buts. His supporters claim that he will “fix the economy” which is untrue, everything will become more expensive, groceries will continue to get more expensive, housing will be unaffordable for everyone including the upper middle class. The working class will experience higher taxes. The poor will have less than nothing. Women will no longer have rights to their own body and healthcare. Consent will be entirely taken away from women and young girls, especially women and girls of colour. Abortion will be banned. Which will cause more deaths. Child abuse and neglect will become more common. Women will be charged for murder in some states for getting an abortion or miscarrying. Doctors will lose their licenses for saving lives. Birth control will be banned (likely including condoms) This does not mean abortions will stop, they will become more dangerous and experimental. This will effect men too. Violence and crime will be at an all time high. Education will be ripped out of our hands. If you voted for Donald Trump, block me, I do not want white supremacists/Neo Nazis following me, this is not a safe space for you. I do not want to be surrounded by people who would rather want a Rapist Felon instead women in power. Donald Trump is a disgusting man who will only cause harm. If you support trump you are in a cult. If you voted for Kamala or were too young to vote I feel for you, I am angry for you, I am grieving for you.

Sincerely: A very angry Canadian 🖤

#i’m so sorry #I’m angry too #this is extremely unfair #free 🍉#election 2024 #kamala harris #donald trump #voting #us elections #popular #daughters of cain #mutuals #women #black women #poc #lgbt+

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trascapades · 4 months ago

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“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time” - #MayaAngelou.

HE CONTINUES TO SHOW US THAT HE IS AN UNFIT, DERANGED, DEMONIC, FASCIST, RACIST SEXIST, WHITE SUPREMACIST, FRAUDULENT, TREASONOUS, CRIMINAL. FULL STOP.

Thank you @nytopinion for doing what needs to be done to stop this madman, unlike the @washingtonpost @latimes.

Click to read full statement from the NY Times Editorial Board

🛑Reposted from @mspackyetti i know a klan rally when I see one.

in just a few hours, they insulted Black folks, women, Latinos, Pacific Islanders, immigrants, Jewish people and anybody with sense.

i trust white supremacists to be white supremacists. we all should.

[and he did NOT give you that $1200 check. congressional democrats did. and you are worth more than being bought for a stack and a quarter of your *own* taxes coming back to you by the guy you think gave it to you.]

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Kamala Harris

The Only Patriotic Choice for President

Reposted from @nytopinion “Over the past 10 weeks, Ms. Harris has offered a shared future for all citizens, beyond hate and division. She has begun to describe a set of thoughtful plans to help American families,” writes the Times editorial board. “While character is enormously important — in this election, pre-eminently so — policies matter. Many Americans remain deeply concerned about their prospects and their children’s in an unstable and unforgiving world. For them, Ms. Harris is clearly the better choice. She has committed to using the power of her office to help Americans better afford the things they need, to make it easier to own a home, to support small businesses and to help workers. Mr. Trump’s economic priorities are more tax cuts, which would benefit mostly the wealthy, and more tariffs, which will make prices even more unmanageable for the poor and middle class. 📷 @damonwinter #nytopinion

Read the full editorial: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/30/opinion/editorials/kamala-harris-2024-endorsement.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

#Election #Kamala Harris #White Supremacist #Vote #Harris Waltz 2024 #ArtIsAWeapon #Presidential Election #Klan Rally #TrumpIsUnfit #New York Times #NYTimes Editorial Board

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imfromthemiddlekingdom · 2 years ago

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“Hey guys the problem with America isn’t the fact that almost all of our population believes in this scary caricature of what communism is and thinks that in order to bring change to a society who’s entire existence is built on the back of oppression, is to *vote* it out! We can change our policies through voting! It’s not a way to break our spirits! Voting works when we want to implement institutional changes!”

Why are y’all so naïve? Let’s start by addressing how “communism isn’t socialism”, have you ever read anything any communist have ever written ever? I beg all of you, no matter if you think “but communism kills!!! 1984!!! George Orwell was write!!!”(like he wasn’t a traitorous slime ball of a man who sold out his comrades for the whisper of rewards).

And if your solution to a very institutionalized problem, one that is written in your constitution, a constitution that has already been changed by the “will of the people” in the past few years, is to vote??? Which party are you going to vote for? The Democratic Party??? The same party who does nothing but filibuster whenever a more “left wing” legislation is proposed? The one who will clam up and shout “bipartisan compromise!!!” If they even get a whiff of the masses unionizing and trying to create parties that are out of their control? Are you going to tell me the same Democratic Party that saw the almost complete destruction of the Black Panthers? Who tried for years to reject every olive branch that MLK tried offering? But you might say “but fei! These all happened years ago! The DP is more moderate and tolerant now! Look at how progressive they are! Look at the diversity!” If your diversity comes at the cost of my global south brother and sisters lives then I do not want it. I reject it so wholeheartedly that I spit on the spirit of your two dime cheap diversity.

How can you dream of saying that the Democratic Party would do ANYTHING to help anyone, especially anyone from the global south overseas or their descendants within the borders. They bomb countries into oblivion with one hand and distract you with empty words and shiny messaging and you forget all they tried to do in regards to fucking over the lives of millions in the Middle East, Africa and South America. Just cuz you can’t see the suffering definitely means you don’t have to comment on it! A word or two on Twitter commenting on “oh how we must stop the bombs Trump just dropped in Syria!!!” But not a peep when Obama does it more and with higher frequency and bigger devastation.

You Americans, especially white middle class Americans, are so blinded by your silly little lives that you cannot being to comprehend how another system that is peace and Justice and stability can ever be achieved and attempted without trying to destroy it. Every time we global south people walk outside of the carefully constructed borders of what is acceptable to YOU, with all our resources taken from us to feed your gluttony and our children’s killed for daring to think maybe, just maybe, we can achieve self determination.

To say “look at Putin and Xi!!! They’re the reason communism has a bad rep!!!” Are you serious or am I just a third world idiot who can’t understand this imperialist language? If you believe Putin or Xi are the pinnacle of communism/socialism (since apparently you think this is a different thing???) you should not be on the internet telling others what to think in regards to politics. You are the reason most everyone who’s interacted with Americans hate you. With your poor political literacy and the fervent need to spread “awareness” that does nothing but boost your own social clout.

Let’s say that you vote for another political party in the next general elections, congrats you’ve wasted your time! If you believe that either party would give up their power for some “upstart” Green Party candidate you’re delusional. There is no “voting the problem out of office!!! We can achieve the change we want if we just all voted!!!” Because that is not how your government works. To enact change you have to be willing to tear everything down and start again. A house is only as strong as the foundations and Americas is rotting. To stop an infested tree from spreading the disease throughout the forest you pull the tree out by the roots and start over. There is no saving Americas “democracy” when it was barely one to start with.

Your solution to your problem fixes the aesthetic issues of your government. It does nothing but superficially hide the rot under the floorboards. What may be good for you in the short term is devastating to the global south in the long run. There is a reason why most of the world despises the global north and it isn’t because we are jealous of your countries democracy and riches. You’ve stolen your riches from our land and when we fought back you bought nothing but ruins and devastation.

Funny you should bring up China in this too, when it is so clear all your opinions of my country is parroted directly from the NYT. And some of you guys have the guts to say we’re brainwashed because “state media has control!!!”. The only difference between you and us is that the oligarchs have control over your news media. All you are fed is in their best interest. How many newspapers have covered the fact that during the afghan war Aussie soldiers committed war crimes after war crimes with their government helping them cover it up in reports? Two. That’s how many. And it took me until I scrolled to the bottom of the page to even find it. Something that should’ve been front and center is relegated to last page news because the war was extremely profitable for those that run the news papers. How much will their soft power diminish if the consumers found out how they helped with this coverup? How much blood money is exchanged through their hands every second of everyday?

You cannot vote people out of power when your entire government is rotten to the core. They get out of office but their policies will never be over turned. Or they run on false promises (AOC comes to mind with her aesthetic of “oh yah I’m a socialist but a DEMOCRATIC socialist, not like those dirty commies!!!) change comes from the barrel of a gun and with the wings of revolution carrying the bullet to where it is needed the most.

And it’s a good thing you bought up the Cold War! Who started it? Who escalated it? Who was the one who put a nuclear weapon right on the border of the USSR and when the Union retaliated threw a hissy fit that threatened to blow all of Eastern Europe and some of East Asian to smithereens just because we dared to say “no more” to the tyranny of the west? Who went ahead and leveraged my country’s need to help against our strongest ally because they were terrified of no longer having the biggest dick in the world? Who turned around and blacked mailed us into siding with them, holding our most vulnerable hostage in order for you to get what you want? “Oh but those baby boomers grew up with threats of nuclear annihilation!!!” So did my mom and my grandmother, and no one in their generation went ahead and decided that if they can’t have something no one else can either.

You pointed out how Americans have a very American centric view on the world, yet you’ve done the same in your call to action.

I dunno I mean I knew a lot of Americans were against it but I assumed they were all elitist right wing weirdos.

What's the mainstream left wing position then if it's not socialism?

#Maoism #communism #socialism

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