#fascime

[aienclockworks]

Collecte et classement par dates d'articles traitant d'agressions à caractère raciste depuis les européennes.

Bon je suis pas tellement active sur tumblr, mais j'aimerais partager ces articles ici. La menace du fascisme est extrêmement violente, le racisme est de plus en plus décomplexé. Je suis une personne musulmane et queer le rassemblement national est une menace pour une bonne partie de la population et principalement pour les personnes racisées, queers et handi. N'hésitez pas à repartager et m'envoyer d'autres articles que j'aurais pu ne pas voir passer.

📆Jeudi 13 juin :

📍Chatou Des habitants de Chatou visés par des tracts racistes https://www.leparisien.fr/yvelines-78/stop-aux-blacks-a-chatou-des-habitants-vises-par-des-tracts-racistes-03-07-2024-X6IFTJWPWBGXXJRXZFN2CN6NFY.php

📆Samedi 18 Juin :

📍Belfort Karim Merimèche, militant agressé par des sympathisants du RN https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/faits-divers-justice/sale-bougnoule-un-militant-de-gauche-menace-et-insulte-a-belfort-3339189

📆Jeudi 20 Juin :

📍Montargis (Loiret) «Va à la niche» le racisme de deux sympathisants RN dans un reportage d’Envoyé spécial https://www.liberation.fr/societe/va-a-la-niche-bonobo-le-racisme-de-deux-sympathisants-rn-dans-un-reportage-denvoye-special-indigne-a-gauche-20240621_JLUEQEM7HZBXBPZVMJHCQIY5GI/

📍Paris Kofi Yamgnane victime d’une agression raciste https://www.letelegramme.fr/elections/legislatives/binationaux-victime-dune-agression-raciste-kofi-yamgnane-sindigne-6614212.php

📍Sotteville-lès-Rouen Une mère dénonce l'agression raciste de son fils https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/faits-divers-justice/gratteur-d-alloc-une-mere-denonce-l-agression-de-son-fils-d-origine-franco-algerienne-a-sotteville-les-rouen-8201764

📆24 Juin

📍Roanne (Loire) Agression et propos racistes après la manifestation contre l’extrême-droite https://www.leprogres.fr/faits-divers-justice/2024/06/29/agression-et-propos-racistes-apres-la-manifestation-contre-l-extreme-droite

📆25 Juin

📍Thiais (Val de Marne) Agression raciste d’un chauffeur de bus https://www.20minutes.fr/paris/4098482-20240627-thiais-vote-rn-vais-tuer-sait-agression-raciste-chauffeur-bus

📆26 Juin :

Le journaliste Mohamed Bouhafsi dénonce une libération de la parole raciste https://www.liberation.fr/economie/medias/maintenant-cest-quatre-ou-cinq-messages-par-jour-dans-lemission-c-a-vous-le-journaliste-mohamed-bouhafsi-denonce-une-liberation-de-la-parole-raciste-20240627_YEAV5KNIJ5HKZDY5R2BOVYFXWE/

📍Cessy (Ain) Mourad, 37 ans, se retrouve avec 10 jours d’incapacité totale de travail après une violente agression https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/on-est-en-france-ici-tu-es-pas-chez-toi-recit-dune-violente-agression-raciste-dans-lain-29-06-2024-RA3DQRYNJRFMTOGD6SMRK2DBTY.php

📆27 Juin

📍Mudaison Agression avec tentative de noyade et attaque au couteau https://www.midilibre.fr/2024/06/27/ils-mont-jete-dans-le-canal-puis-mont-plonge-la-tete-sous-leau-nouvelle-agression-denoncee-en-marge-de-la-fete-de-mudaison-12045047.php

📍Montfavet Des tags racistes, dont le n-word sur une boulangerie incendiée https://www.laprovence.com/article/region/41760335316939/le-mot-negre-sur-les-murs-des-tags-racistes-retrouves-dans-une-boulangerie-incendiee-a-avignon

📆28 juin

Une croix gammée et une étoile de David taguées sur une banderole du Nouveau Front populaire https://www.lefigaro.fr/bordeaux/legislatives-une-croix-gammee-et-une-etoile-de-david-taguees-sur-une-banderole-du-nouveau-front-populaire-en-nouvelle-aquitaine-20240628

📆29 juin

📍Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis) Un algérien tué par un policier hors service https://www.ouest-france.fr/societe/faits-divers/un-squatteur-tue-par-un-policier-un-crime-raciste-denonce-lavocat-de-la-famille-a60fb7ea-3a0e-11ef-9bb5-7a0ef893f0bf

📆2 Juillet

📍 Paris Des grévistes de HNET, la patronne tiens des propos racistes alors qu'elle sous paye des ouvriers sans papiers. https://www.lemediatv.fr/emissions/2024/ils-sortent-nos-poubelles-pour-5-euros-de-lheure-rencontre-avec-les-grevistes-de-hnet-PMYD8i9xQ9CSyi76R5xT-w

📍Chartes Un homme noir se fait déshabiller violemment par des contrôleurs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDLVNEWeDx4

📍 Roanne Le maire LR de Roanne accusé de racisme après l’emploi du mot « race » dans un discours sur la délinquance https://www.20minutes.fr/faits_divers/4099484-20240703-roanne-race-aime-chaleur-beau-temps-maire-lr-epingle-apres-propos-racistes

📆3 juillet

📍Poitiers Une conseillère municipale de Poitiers victime d'une agression verbale raciste https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/societe/une-conseillere-municipale-de-poitiers-victime-d-une-agression-verbale-raciste-9473357

📍Strasbourg [Vidéo] Un technicien d'origine maghrébine reçoit des commentaires racistes tout en étant menacé avec un couteau https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8_81y9pD0J/

📍Tinchebray (Orne) Ordures et bananes jetées chez eux : ce couple de l’Orne porte plainte pour racisme https://actu.fr/normandie/tinchebray-bocage_61486/ordures-et-bananes-jetees-chez-eux-ce-couple-de-lorne-porte-plainte-pour-racisme_61303984.html

📍Gaillefontaine Une croix gammée taguée sur une maison https://www.bfmtv.com/normandie/replay-emissions/le-12h30-17h/gaillefontaine-une-croix-gammee-taguee-sur-une-maison_VN-202407040462.html

📆5 Juillet

📍Perpignan Une commerçante reçoit une lettre de menaces raciste https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/occitanie/pyrenees-orientales/perpignan/vous-n-etes-plus-la-bienvenue-dans-cette-ville-une-commercante-recoit-une-lettre-raciste-melange-de-delation-et-de-menaces-2999282.html

[storm-of-feathers]

don't get me wrong i hate this country as much as the next guy but I think if you reach "if you attend a 4th of July barbecue/fireworks show then you're a FASCIST" it's time to go outside and talk to your fellow human beings for a little bit.

[anexperimentallife]

JD Vance Just Blurbed a Book Arguing That Progressives Are Subhuman

As I keep pointing out, anyone who has studied 1930s-40s German history will tell you that today's GOP is cribbing directly from the Nazi playbook. Even their "support" of Israel's genocidal colonialist settler state (and lip service "support" of non-Israeli Jews) is primarily rooted in a combination of antisemitism, white supremacy, and Islamophobia. (Gift link at the bottom of the article excerpt.)

Michelle Goldberg writes:

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In a normal political environment, there would be little need to pay attention to a new book by the far-right provocateur Jack Posobiec, who is probably best known for promoting the conspiracy theory that Democrats ran a satanic child abuse ring beneath a popular Washington pizzeria. But “Unhumans,” an anti-democratic screed that Posobiec co-wrote with the professional ghostwriter Joshua Lisec, comes with endorsements from some of the most influential people in Republican politics, including, most significantly, vice-presidential candidate JD Vance.

The word “fascist” gets thrown around a lot in politics, but it’s hard to find a more apt one for “Unhumans,” which came out last month. The book argues that leftists don’t deserve the status of human beings — that they are, as the title says, unhumans — and that they are waging a shadow war against all that is good and decent, which will end in apocalyptic slaughter if they are not stopped. “As they are opposed to humanity itself, they place themselves outside of the category completely, in an entirely new misery-driven subdivision, the unhuman,” write Posobiec and Lisec.

As they tell it, modern progressivism is just the latest incarnation of an ancient evil dating back to the late Roman Republic and continuing through the French Revolution and Communism to today. Often, they write, “great men of means” are required to crush this scourge. The contempt for democracy in “Unhumans” is not subtle. “Our study of history has brought us to this conclusion: Democracy has never worked to protect innocents from the unhumans,” write Posobiec and Lisec.

One of their book’s heroes is the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, who overthrew the democratic Second Spanish Republic in the country’s 1930s civil war. The authors call him a “great man of history” and compare him to George Washington. They quote him on what doesn’t work against the unhuman threat: “We do not believe in government through the voting booth. The Spanish national will was never freely expressed through the ballot box.”

Nakedly authoritarian ideas like this one are not uncommon in the dank corners of the reactionary internet, or among the sort of groups that led the Jan. 6 insurrection. “Unhumans” lauds Augusto Pinochet, leader of the Chilean military junta who led a coup against Salvador Allende’s elected government in 1973, ushering in a reign of torture and repression that involved tossing political enemies from helicopters.

Pinochet-inspired helicopter memes have been common in the MAGA movement for years. And as the historian David Austin Walsh wrote last year, there’s long been a cult of Franco on the right. Nevertheless, it’s extremely unusual for a candidate for vice president of the United States to openly align himself with autocratic terror.

Vance provided the first blurb on the “Unhumans” book jacket. “In the past, communists marched in the streets waving red flags. Today, they march through H.R., college campuses and courtrooms to wage lawfare against good, honest people,” he wrote. “Jack Posobiec and Joshua Lisec reveal their plans and show us what to do to fight back.”

Other endorsements come from Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump Jr., a key figure in his father’s presidential campaign. The foreword is by Stephen Bannon, Donald Trump’s former chief strategist.

Now, it is always possible that Vance recommended “Unhumans” without actually reading it, a practice that’s not unheard-of in book publishing. But unless and until he credibly distances himself from it, we should take him at his word that he shares the book’s analysis. After all, some of the language in “Unhumans” resembles his own rhetoric.

“The great American counterrevolution to depose the Cultural Marxists must occur on all terrains of society they currently possess and on those they aim to seize,” write Posobiec and Lisec, adding, “It is achievable but only with the resolve of Franco and the thoroughness of McCarthy.” (They mean Joseph McCarthy, another of the book’s icons.) Compare that to what Vance said on the alt-right podcast “Jack Murphy Live” in 2021, when he argued that Republicans, upon taking power, should purge their opponents the way Iraq’s government once purged members of Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party.

“I tend to think that we should seize the institutions of the left and turn them against the left,” said Vance. “We need like a de-Baathification program, but like a de-wokification program in the United States.” He argued that “we don’t have a real constitutional republic anymore,” suggesting that Donald Trump need not be limited by the norms of republican governance. Trump, said Vance, should “fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people.” And if the courts try to stand in his way, Trump should “stand before the country like Andrew Jackson did and say: ‘The chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.’”

You can and should laugh at Vance’s melodramatic self-importance and creepy subcultural fixations. (On “Jack Murphy Live,” Vance respectfully references Curtis Yarvin, a right-wing blogger popular in reactionary Silicon Valley circles who calls for replacing democracy with a sort of techno-monarchy.) It’s good that Democrats have found, in the epithet “weird,” simple language to describe the 4Chan side of the Republican Party. But in the Venn diagram between “weird” and “dangerous,” there’s a lot of overlap.

“Much like the United States founding fathers, Franco and his fellows saw themselves as rebels intended to overthrow a corrupt, tyrannical government that aided and abetted murder and rape as well as other repugnant sins,” write Posobiec and Lisec. We should take seriously the possibility that Vance and his fellows see themselves the same way.

Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/05/opinion/jd-vance-fascism-unhumans.html?unlocked_article_code=1.A04.-t6I.Jie2a3Abas5a&smid=url-share

[spiced-wine-fic]

“So much for Britain sliding into civil war, eh, Mr Musk? Pretty much a whole nation was braced yesterday evening for the worst civil disorder in a decade or more. Fair to say, too, that some were also hoping, for their own malign reasons, for chaos, mayhem, and even death.

But it did not turn out like that, or anything like it. In fact, it was a rout for the far right in the best possible way – a peaceful one where they were overwhelmed by folk who despise what they stand for, as much as their incoherent claims make any sense at all.

Britain really is not what we saw over the last week, and the reasonable, tolerant, democratically-minded centre held.

The fascists were, frankly, humiliated, often a handful marooned in a windswept roundabout or in a corner of a High Street, surrounded by their fellow Britons demonstrating that “we are many, you are few”. Indeed they are, and a criminal few as well. The Metropolitan Police commissioner Mark Rowley says that 70 per cent of those arrested have criminal records.

In his words: “They are not your average man on the street. They are thugs and criminals, they are not patriots or protesters and they are being held to account.”

It was a bad night for the likes of Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk.

The far right have emerged from these events weaker, not stronger, their cause exposed for the nihilism it is.”

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[a2r1n0i5e]

[lepartidelamort]

Mussolini’s Fake “Corporatism” Definition of Fascism, Fake “US is a Republic Not a Democracy” Gibberish.

People need to start thinking about what power is instead of how it operates. 

Most people are stupid, and this is especially true for people on the internet. Sometimes, you have to talk to them like they are babies.

I recently wrote an article about Tucker Carlson and other right-wingers claiming that America is a “fascist country,” while denying the reality that by every definition, it is in fact a democracy. My assertion is that democracy is not good, and is in fact bad. Whatever you think of historical fascism, it was a much better, fairer system that led to greater prosperity and personal freedom.

Unfortunately, people will still post this alleged quote from Benito Mussolini, and act as though it explains everything:

Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.

There is no evidence that this is a real quote, but rather one of the many fake quotes that got passed around on the internet in the early 2000s.

The quote is usually attributed to a 1935 article written by Mussolini in the 1932 “Enciclopedia Italiana,” but the quote does not appear in that article. A longer article addressing the same issues from the same year, “Fascism: Doctrine and Institutions,” also does not contain the quote. Maybe he said it at some point, no one can say because he said a lot of things, but there isn’t any source documentation of it.

If he did say it, he certainly didn’t mean what people imply he meant, which is that “fascism” was intended to be similar to the modern American state, where private corporations work directly with the government to write laws that benefit a small minority of wealthy persons. When Mussolini talked about “corporatism,” he was actually talking about the standard definition of the term, which refers to collective bargaining by various worker syndicates. (Wikipedia explains it well enough.) Corporatism is similar to the medieval system of guilds, where artisans and merchants had membership organizations that regulated their trade and through collective bargaining power made tax and other regulatory deals with local lords and sometimes the monarchy itself. The corporatist system also encompassed trade unions, the military, and the Catholic Church, giving each self-regulating group a seat at the table to negotiate directly with the state.

This system of various working bodies in society organizing collectively and negotiating directly with the state is very different than what we have now in America, though we do have remnants of it in the form of unions. I’ve always been anti-union, because these groups are completely corrupt and decadent, but it is possible that if things were ordered differently, unions would not function as cartels leeching off of the public trust. It seemed to work fine in Mussolini’s Italy, but we should remember that this government only existed for a short time before it was snuffed out by the Americans.

The people who cite this fake quote, however, are observably very low-level morons, and appear to be claiming that any form of public-private partnership is “fascism” and is therefore bad and evil. If “fascism” is purely defined by “public-private partnerships,” then every government which ever existed, save extreme communist governments, were fascist states. You have to have some kind of system of private persons and private groups cooperating with the government, or the entire society is going to be controlled by the government.

The problem in America is that the masses of people are cut out of the equation, given no power at all, while the private interests that work with the government are made up entirely of elites who manage the various private institutions of society. Not only are the competing interests not balanced, the interests of the largest groups, which are the peasantry and the middle classes, are never addressed, and no normal person has any ability to make his voice heard. This is what I addressed in the previous article, pointing to the fact that in a democracy, the bureaucracy is totally opaque, and elected politicians simply serve as temporary frontmen for that bureaucracy, which means that no one in the system can ever be held responsible for anything. The buck stops nowhere, so there is never anyone to blame. Presidents always avoid blame, passing it onto the Congress or the court system, while even particularly diabolical individuals such as Anthony Fauci, a man who certainly appeared to be making a lot of decisions personally, are able to toss the hot potato into the black hole of bureaucracy, claiming that they were just following orders of some other group.

“America is a Republic”

A separate but related response to condemning the American system of democracy is “America is not a democracy, it is a republic.” This is a special kind of retarded statement, which would only be possible for an American to make.

Here’s the thing: basically every country that is not a monarchy is a republic. It simply means the country is guided by a constitution rather than a blood lineage. Cuba and North Korea are republics. Egypt and Turkey are republics. The USSR was divided into many republics, several of which became “independent republics” after the USSR fell, while post-Russia remains a “federation of republics.”

Meanwhile, the United Kingdom remains a kingdom, that is a monarchy, and yet has just as much democracy as the various republics.

Therefore, “the US is a republic” is a factual statement, but a totally meaningless one.

Obviously, this is not to say that when the Founders declared “America is a republic” that they intended for things to turn out like they have. The problem, however, is not that America stopped being a republic, but rather that it began to integrate much too much democracy into the republican framework, which allowed for institutions of power, including both private interests and the government itself, to evade all accountability and operate as a black box.

Originally, the US was a “democratic republic,” but it was only land-owning white men that were allowed to vote. The major change in our system of government that created this mess was enfranchising peasants, then black people, then women. None of these groups are capable of making informed decisions or holding the government accountable, and the “one person, one vote” system means that the media is capable of deciding the outcomes of elections using lies and emotionalized nonsense.

To put the absurdity of claiming that every single individual in society deserves equal say into perspective, Ireland recently did a push to get people with Down syndrome to vote. There is Google data showing that around this last election, “can dogs vote?” became a popular search query. Allowing dogs to vote would make more sense than giving the vote to a human who wonders if their dog can vote.

In recent years, we’ve obviously dealt with rampant voter fraud in America, but it should be noted that the universal suffrage system is the only thing that allowed for this voter fraud to happen in the first place. If we had a body of land-owning men as the only ones allowed to vote, they would never allow for what amounted to anonymous voting in the first place, and instead would have voted for a secure voting system. Through this mass democracy system, people have voted to ban voter ID, as a result of emotional propaganda claiming that black people are so pitiful they can’t get IDs, and thus it would be a cruel action against an oppressed class to require ID to vote. A system that makes these kinds of decisions is clearly not at all reasonable.

Mussolini’s vision of organized syndicates making deals with the government might be open to the same kind of corruption we have seen in labor unions over the last century or so, but no system is completely immune to corruption. Surely, a system of syndicates would operate more in the rational interests of the public than this universal democracy system.

What is the Power Doing?

People need to start thinking about what power is instead of how it operates. All of this talk about systems is ultimately academic. The idea that American democracy serves the interests of the public is cartoonish and vile, and clearly untrue, but there are systems that allow universal voting that are not this corrupt. Russia allows universal voting, and while there is a fair amount of corruption in Russia, it is nowhere near on the level of the US, and despite corruption, the policies of the government generally line up with the popular will.

People in power are always first and foremost concerned about remaining in power. This is natural enough. If you had a lot of power, would you want to give it up? I would not.

If you look at this as the prerogative of the powerful, then you see something that is the same across every government that has ever existed: the powerful defend their position of power. Democracy sort of obfuscates that by moving around these various figureheads, but at this point I think everyone understands that there is a well-established political entity in Washington, DC that is composed of a series of powerful individuals and families who are intent on maintaining their power.

There is no way to prevent powerful people from doing everything in their power to remain in power. And if you shared the goals of the people in power, you would not want to remove them from power. Therefore, dislodging the powerful is good or bad based only on the goals of that power.

In historical monarchies in Europe, there were not a lot of people wanting to dislodge the king from power, as the goal of the king was necessarily to perpetuate Christendom, and to care for the people. The people could disagree with the king, or want him to do things he wasn’t doing, but this usually did not mean they wanted to overthrow him. If kings were replaced, it was with one of their relatives, meaning the family maintained its power. But of course, under a Christian mandate, the king did not have the ability to do anything weird, and therefore the public didn’t have much reason to oppose him.

The problem in the United States and her vassals is that the government in Washington is fundamentally Jewish, and thus fundamentally opposed to the interests of Christian people. Democracy provides the shield for them to engage in the ultimate forms of subversion, corruption, and tyranny, to obfuscate their power, and to operate with impunity. If it were not for the Jews, this current universal suffrage system would still be totally corrupt, but it would not be so ridiculously weird and evil. Jews have brought in women, homosexuals, and various aggrieved minorities to serve as soldiers in their campaign against heterosexual white Christian men. The fact that they are on a campaign against us is the problem. Why would they be on such a campaign, other than because they are evil by their very nature? They had extreme power in America by the 1960s, and they could have held onto it indefinitely, but they decided to use that power to go to war with the core population of the country.

Democracy is relevant only insofar as it is the ultimate manifestation of Jewish tyranny. If it was not for these Jews who have lodged themselves into positions of power, democracy would have been reformed long ago, and made to work better than it does, but Jews want to perpetuate their own power, and they want to push their agenda, and so they push for more democracy, and push to overthrow governments all over the world and install their system of democracy in order to extend their global control network.

Most of the problems that the 20th century movements of fascism, communism, and capitalism were seeking to address have already been solved by technological advancements, and don’t really need to be addressed with such vigor. China has figured out a system that allows a billion and a half people to live relatively good lives, with the opportunity for social mobility, and they’ve done it without employing any type of ideological dogma, simply focusing on the practicalities of the relationships between the state, the wealthy, and the working classes.

In the West, Jews are the problem. Jews are the reason why we are in an age which should be something resembling a technological utopia, and yet most people are struggling just to get by. While discussion of the nature of the system can be interesting, it is ultimately futile if the goal is anything other than dislodging Jews from power.

Andrew Anglin for the DailyStormer

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"SWASTIKA PROMOTER CANCELS MEETING; CHARGES ASSAULT," Toronto Globe. August 17, 1933. Page 3. ----- Second Gathering Postponed After Talk With Police --- SWEARS OUT WARRANT ---- (Canadian Press Despatch.) Kitchener, Aug. 16. - Beset on every side with opposition to his efforts to form a "Swastika" club in Kitchener, Otto E. Becker tonight had cancelled the second meeting he had planned to inaugurate the movement. After conferring with police today, the out-of-work German immigrant said a gathering he announced for tonight would be postponed.

Becker swore out a warrant today, charging Gustav Lueck, member of the "Old Comrades' Club." a local organization of German veterans, with assault.

The assault, Becker alleges, was the outcome of an altercation which resulted from a report written by Lueck, which said Becker had been on relief in Germany before coming to Canada and had been on relief in Windsor for two months before he moved to Kitchener.

Becker denied the statements, and today stopped Lueck on the street. An altercation ensued, Becker says, and in the course of it, he claims, he was kicked in the face.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

November 13, 2023

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

NOV 13, 2023

In a speech Saturday in Claremont, New Hampshire, and then in his Veterans Day greeting yesterday on social media, former president Trump echoed German Nazis.

“In honor of our great Veterans on Veteran’s Day [sic] we pledge to you that we will root out the Communists, Marxists, Racists, and Radical Left Thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our Country, lie, steal, and cheat on Elections, and will do anything possible, whether legally or illegally, to destroy America, and the American Dream…. Despite the hatred and anger of the Radical Left Lunatics who want to destroy our country, we will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.”    

The use of language referring to enemies as bugs or rodents has a long history in genocide because it dehumanizes opponents, making it easier to kill them. In the U.S. this concept is most commonly associated with Hitler and the Nazis, who often spoke of Jews as “vermin” and vowed to exterminate them.  

The parallel between MAGA Republicans’ plans and the Nazis had other echoes this weekend, as Trump’s speech came the same day that Charlie Savage, Maggie Haberman, and Jonathan Swan of the New York Times reported that Trump and his people are planning to revive his travel ban, more popularly known as the “Muslim ban,” which refused entry to the U.S. by people from some majority-Muslim nations, and to reimpose the pandemic-era restrictions he used during the coronavirus pandemic to refuse asylum claims—it is not only legal to apply for asylum in the United States, but it is a guaranteed right under the Refugee Act of 1980—by claiming that immigrants bring infectious diseases like tuberculosis.

They plan mass deportations of unauthorized people in the U.S., rounding them up with specially deputized law enforcement officers and National Guard soldiers contributed by Republican-dominated states. Because U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) doesn’t have the space for such numbers of people, Trump’s people plan to put them in “sprawling camps” while they wait to be expelled. Trump refers to this as “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.” 

Trump’s people would screen visa applicants to eliminate those with ideas they consider undesirable, and would kick out those here temporarily for humanitarian reasons, including Afghans who came here after the 2021 Taliban takeover. Trump ally Steve Bannon and his likely attorney general, Mike Davis, expect to deport 10 million people. 

Trump’s advisors also intend to challenge birthright citizenship, the principle that anyone born in the U.S. is a citizen. This principle was established by the Fourteenth Amendment and acknowledged in the 1898 United States v. Wong Kim Ark Supreme Court decision during a period when native-born Americans were persecuting immigrants from Asia. That hatred resulted in Wong Kim Ark, an American-born child of Chinese immigrants, being denied reentry to the U.S. after a visit to China. Wong sued, arguing that the Fourteenth Amendment established birthright citizenship. The Supreme Court agreed. The children of immigrants to the U.S.—no matter how unpopular immigration was at the time—were U.S. citizens, entitled to all the rights and immunities of citizenship, and no act of Congress could overrule a constitutional amendment.

“Any activists who doubt President Trump’s resolve in the slightest are making a drastic error: Trump will unleash the vast arsenal of federal powers to implement the most spectacular migration crackdown,” Trump immigration hardliner Stephen Miller told the New York Times reporters. “The immigration legal activists won’t know what’s happening.”

In addition to being illegal and unconstitutional, such plans to strip the nation of millions of workers would shatter the economy, sparking sky-high prices, especially of food.

For a long time, Trump’s increasingly fascist language hasn’t drawn much attention from the press, perhaps because the frequency of his outrageous statements has normalized them. When Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in 2016 referred to many Trump supporters as “deplorables,” a New York Times headline read: “Hillary Clinton Calls Many Trump Backers ‘Deplorables,’ and G.O.P.* Pounces.” Yet Trump’s threat to root out “vermin” at first drew a New York Times headline saying, “Trump Takes Veterans Day Speech in a Very Different Direction.” (This prompted Mark Jacobs of Stop the Presses to write his own headlines about disasters, including my favorite: “John Wilkes Booth Takes Visit to the Theater in a Very Different Direction.”)  

Finally, it seems, Trump’s explicit use of Nazi language, especially when coupled with his threats to establish camps, has woken up at least some headline writers. Forbes accurately headlined yesterday’s story: “Trump Compares Political Foes to ‘Vermin’ On Veterans Day—Echoing Nazi Propaganda.” 

Republicans have refused to disavow Trump’s language. When Kristen Welker of Meet the Press asked Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel: “Are you comfortable with this language coming from the [Republican] frontrunner,” McDaniel answered: “I am not going to comment on candidates and their campaign messaging.” Others have remained silent.

Trump’s Veterans Day “vermin” statement set up his opponents as enemies of the country by blurring them together as “Communists, Marxists, Racists, and Radical Left Thugs.” Conflating liberals with the “Left” has been a common tactic in the U.S. right-wing movement since 1954, when L. Brent Bozell and William F. Buckley Jr. tried to demonize liberals—those Americans of all parties who wanted the government to regulate business, provide Social Security and basic welfare programs, fund roads and hospitals, and protect civil rights—as wannabe socialists.

In the United States there is a big difference between liberals and the political “Left.” Liberals believe in a society based in laws designed to protect the individual, arrived at by a government elected by the people. Political parties disagree about policy and work to change the laws, but they support the system itself. Most Americans, including Democrats and traditional Republicans, are liberals. 

Both “the Left,” and the “Right” want to get rid of the system. Those on the Left believe that its creation was so warped either by wealth or by racism that it must be torn down and rebuilt. Those on the Right believe that most people don’t know what’s good for them, making democracy dangerous. They think the majority of people must be ruled by their betters, who will steer them toward productivity and religion. The political Left has never been powerful in the U.S.; the political Right has taken over the Republican Party.

The radical right pushes the idea that their opponents are “Radical Left Thugs” trying to tear down the system because they know liberal policies like Social Security, Medicare, environmental protection, reproductive rights, gun safety legislation, and so on, are actually quite popular. This weekend, for example, Trump once again took credit for signing into law the Veterans Choice health care act, which was actually sponsored by Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and signed by President Barack Obama in 2014. 

The Right’s draconian immigration policies ignore the reality that presidents since Ronald Reagan have repeatedly asked Congress to rewrite the nation’s immigration laws, only to have Republicans tank such measures to keep the hot button issue alive, knowing it turns out their voters. Both President Joe Biden and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas have begged Congress to fund more immigration courts and border security and to provide a path to citizenship for those brought to the U.S. as children. They, along with Vice President Kamala Harris, have tried to slow the influx of undocumented migrants by working to stabilize the countries from which such migrants primarily come. 

Such a plan does not reflect “hatred and anger of the Radical Left Lunatics who want to destroy our country.” It reflects support for a system in which Congress, not a dictator, writes the laws. 

A video ABC News published tonight from Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis’s plea deal makes the distinction between liberal democracy and a far-right dictatorship clear. In it, Ellis told prosecutors that former White House deputy chief of staff and social media coordinator Dan Scavino told her in December 2020 that Trump was simply not going to leave the White House, despite losing the presidential election. 

When Ellis lamented that their election challenges had lost, Scavino allegedly answered: “‘Well, we don’t care, and we’re not going to leave.” Ellis replied: “‘What do you mean?” Scavino answered: “The boss is not going to leave under any circumstances. We are just going to stay in power.” When Ellis responded “Well, it doesn’t quite work that way, you realize?” he allegedly answered: “We don’t care.”

*The GOP, or Grand Old Party, is an old nickname for the Republican Party. 

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

[hellyeahheroes]

Edgelord Movies and the men who lvoe them by F.D. Signifier

[papirouge]

"tHe tOleRant Left"

says the rightoid memeing about sentencing anyone with remotely liberal idea to face the wall🤪

[eylih]

One week situationship who got dramatic break-up under the rain without even dating

One got kidnapped then they went back together

Then they kissed

Made each other promises

Broke the promise

Broke up without still not dating

One turned into a fascist,

The other became depressed alcoholic Rhea Ripley while hallucinating their ex who isn't their ex

Meanwhile one fucked someone else

One betrayed the government because she saw the other's abs

Fascim left one's body

They unfortunately don't kiss

One's new situationship doesn't know about this

AND they're still not dating!

Man, those writers really got the spirit of lesbianism

[lostbrazilian]

Having the hots for machinery, industry and motion was a whole ass artistic Vanguard in the early 20th century, called Futurism

Futuristic paitings are genuinely very interesting, especially the way they depict movement and motion. Unfortunately it also has close ties to fascism, which isn't surprising considering the whole theme of veneration of violence and war

Y'all are acting like the giant robot fandom invented the eroticism of the machine when I've literally met self-taught mechanics who talk about working on their shitty cars in exactly the same way. When you've heard somebody wax rhapsodic about the transformational power of being shoulder-deep in a 1993 Ford Taurus, seeing folks on Tumblr shitpost about roboticising their genders just ain't that unusual.

[spoonietimelordy]

Les plus de 70ans sont peut être influençable par les média et vote macron, mais en attendant c'est la génération qui a le moins voté facho, et y'a une raison, c'est la seule génération qui a vécu le fascime. C'est la génération né pendant la guerre. C'est la génération faite orpheline car leur parents sont mort au main du fascisme.

Fin tout ce pour dire, aller voir vos grands-parents/parents parceque la peur qu'on récent en ce moment, ils la récente probablement encore plus.

[thelastharbinger]

Did not have the U.S. government holding hearings on previously classified information and lying making confirmations under oath that they are in possession of alien bodies and ufos in order to distract from the fact that covid-19 is still the leading cause of death in children, the cost of living is astronomical, cop city is well underway despite Atlanta residents overwhelmingly crying out against it, we are experiencing the hottest & deadliest temperatures on record, the state of Florida trying to rewrite history to say that slavery was just a mutually beneficial unpaid internship, trans lives and rights are under attack, anti drag laws, FLINT MICHIGAN STILL DOES NOT HAVE CLEAN DRINKING WATER, anti-discrimination laws being reversed, Supreme Court ruling against affirmative action, Roe v. Wade undone, universal free school lunches are on the ballot, ongoing mass shootings, climate change, big pharma killing off people by withholding live saving drugs at ungodly market prices, the erasure of separation of church and state, AI surveillance being implemented to detect fare evasion for increasingly costly public transport services, the rise of fascim, proud boys showing up with military grade weapons at libraries and day care centers, the permitted attempted coup of the capital, labor union strikes happening all over the country, people dying of heat in Texas because evil landlords want to cut off cooling over an unpaid $51 utility bill, train derailments causing toxic waste spills, corruption within the highest court in the land, homelessness rates the highest its ever been, migrants and asylum seekers being kicked out of temporary housing, the cost of food, book bans, Miranda Rights no longer being stated, mayors deciding to no longer publicly disclose how many people are dying pre-trial in detention facilities, federal minimum wage still $7.25, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, oil pipeline constructions on native lands, something like 30-50% of the nation's drinking water contaminated with forever chemicals, the rich remaining untaxed, biden going back on his campaign promises to forgive all student debt, still no free universal healthcare, ICE deportations increasing under biden admin, the u.s. yet maintaining colonies, teens and women getting jail time for miscarriages and abortions, 100 companies globally responsible for 70 or 80-something percent of all CO2 emissions, we are living in a police state, diseases resurfacing after years with no cases due to rising temps, death penalty, public services being defunded to increase military and police spending budgets, and abusers suing victims for defamation cases in court so that they legally cannot talk about it, and setting a dangerous precedent in the process in my 2023 bingo card but here we god damn are.