#fascists

[liberalsarecool]

MAGA/GOP is consistently the voice of abuse.

Trump is an abuser.

'Look what you made me do' is abuser talk.

Project 2025 is an abuser's dream: cruel, vindictive, vengeful, and built on patriarchy.

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

Jack Posobiec advocates treason, and the people at CPAC cheer him! Pay attention, America!

[kropotkindersurprise]

lmao

[creature-wizard]

For scholars of authoritarianism, the success of “weird” is no surprise. That’s because humor has long been one of the most effective weapons of anti-authoritarian politics. Behind the facade of their omnipotence, most strongmen are brittle and insecure personalities. They don’t mind being called evil, but being ridiculed is a different matter.

...

Humor can have a crucial role in the work of mobilization and civic education to keep those democratic rights. “Laughtivism,” as Serbian democracy activist Srdja Popovic has called it, views humor as more effective than anger in highly polarized situations. When we laugh together, fear and distrust lessen, which is the opposite of what authoritarians want. That, too, is why such leaders can’t take a joke.

[tomorrowusa]

« Many people have decided that no matter the global reach and breadth of X, it just might not be worth it to empower a bigot like Musk.

Not having the libs to own, after making the behavior such a big part of their lives, has created a vacuum for the right. In that way, the libs have now owned them. »

— Oliver Willis at Daily Kos on why rightwingers are upset that liberals are leaving Twitter/X.

By remaining at Twitter/X you empower the worst forces in society. And you become a pawn to get "owned" by the MAGA racists, misogynists, homophobes, Islamophobes, conspiracy fanatics, anti-Semites, and fascists who have taken over the platform.

The old Twitter is never coming back – no matter how much you want it to. The longer you stay there, the more likely that people will associate you with the Nazis who have infested it.

The best Twitter alternatives worth checking out

[nando161mando]

UnitedHealthcare leadership page that was removed from their website.

[antifainternational]

ENGLISH BELOW

Pegida heeft een demonstratie getiteld ‘Islam is geen haar beter dan nazisme’ aangemeld voor zondag 17 november om 16.00 op Amsterdam CS om moslimhaat te spuwen. ⚠️ Dit is nooit acceptabel en Pegida moet overal en altijd worden geweerd. Maar zeker na de golf van haat die vorige week onze stad overspoelde, afkomstig van genocide-plegers verkleed als hooligans, het stadsbestuur, de politie, de media, politiek Den Haag en anderen, is het extra belangrijk dat we ons keihard uitspreken. 🔻 Wij, de mensen, niet het stadsbestuur of de politie, zijn Amsterdam en wij staan met alle Amsterdammers die te maken krijgen met haat, demonisering en terreur. Laten we aankomende zondag met veel lawaai duidelijk maken dat de straten van ons zijn en dat moslimhaat van Pegida of wie dan ook hier absoluut NIET WELKOM is! 💌 We verzamelen zondag om 15.45 voor de hoofdingang van Amsterdam CS. Neem lawaai-materiaal, spandoeken en borden mee

Mokum Tegen Fascisme

--------------- ‼️ Pegida has registered a demonstration entitled ‘Islam is no better than Nazism’ for Sunday 17 November at 16:00 at Amsterdam CS to spew hatred towards Muslims. ⚠️ This is never acceptable and Pegida must be banned everywhere and at all times. But especially after the wave of hatred that flooded our city last week, coming from genocide perpetrators dressed as hooligans, the city council, the police, the media, politicians in The Hague and others, it is extra important that we speak out loudly. 🔻 We, the people, not the city council or the police, are Amsterdam and we stand with all Amsterdammers who are confronted with hatred, demonisation and terror. Let us make it clear with a lot of noise this coming Sunday that the streets are ours and that hatred towards Muslims from Pegida or anyone else is absolutely NOT WELCOME here! 💌 We will gather on Sunday at 15:45 in front of the main entrance of Amsterdam CS. Bring noise-making materials, banners and signs!

Mokum Against Fascism

[aberration13]

I don't think enough people are paying attention to project 2025. I know it's a big document and I don't really expect the average person to read it all or anything like that but being aware of it and knowing some of the key plans/goals it describes is probably pretty useful.

Like you know how in movies the evil villain goes on a monologue describing their whole evil plan and you think "they just revealed everything, If that were me I would know exactly how to stop them now"

This is that. Conservatives just outlined their whole evil plan in detail down to the who, what, when, where, how, and why's of the things they intend to do if they take the presidency again, the thing is 900 pages long and basically anything you might want to know or plan countermeasures for is in there.

[liberalsarecool]

Moms For Liberty ❤️ Nazis.

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

In 1939, Nazis held a rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City. In 2024, they're back. Please vote blue -- all the way down the ballot -- to preserve Democracy, and defeat these scum... again!

[porterdavis]

I am sooo happy to see Kamala taking the fight right to these creepy fascists

[creature-wizard]

Over on Rumble they're like,

Hey Trumpers? Believing that God has a Very Special Mission for your leader is pretty damn weird. That's actually a red flag that you're in a cult or a fascist movement.

[odinsblog]

Musk reactivated the accounts of Brazilian far-right politicians Carla Zambelli, Gustavo Gayer, and Nikolas Ferreira. Ferreira, a Bolsonaro supporter, openly questioned the security of Brazil’s electronic voting machines, even though he won his local legislative race.

“All of these names have been problematic for years on social media,” says Flora Rebello Arduini, campaign director at the nonprofit advocacy organization Ekō. “They've been pushing for the far-right and election misinformation for ages.”

When Musk purchased Twitter in 2022, later renaming it X, many activists in Brazil worried that he would abuse the platform to push his own agenda, Arduini says. “He has unprecedented broadcasting abilities. He is bullying a supreme court justice of a democratic country, and he is showing he will use all the resources he has available to push for whatever favors his personal opinions or his professional ambitions.”

Under Musk, X has become a haven for the far right and disinformation. After taking over, Musk offered amnesty to users who had been banned from the platform, including right-wing influencer Andrew Tate, who, along with his brother, was indicted in Romania on several charges including with rape and human trafficking in June 2023 (he has denied the allegations). Last month, one of Tate's representatives told the BBC that "they categorically reject all charges."

A 2023 study found that hate speech has increased on the platform under Musk’s leadership. The situation in Brazil is just the latest instance of Musk aligning himself with and platforming dangerous, far-right movements around the world, experts tell WIRED. "It's not about Twitter or Brazil. It's about a strategy from the global far right to overcome democracies and democratic institutions around the world," says Nina Santos, a digital democracy researcher at the Brazilian National Institute of Science & Technology who researches the Brazilian far right. “An opinion from an American billionaire should not count more than a democratic institution.”

This also comes as Brazil has continued working to understand and investigate the lead-up to January 8, 2023, when election-denying insurrectionists who refused to accept right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro’s defeat stormed Brazil’s legislature. The TSE, the country’s election court, is a special judicial body that investigates electoral crimes and is part of the mechanism for overseeing the country’s electoral processes overall. The court has been investigating the dissemination of fake news and disinformation that cast doubt on the country’s elections in the months and years leading up to the storming of the legislature on January 8, 2023. Both Arduini and Santos believe that the accounts Musk is refusing to remove are likely connected to the court’s inquiry.

“A life-and-death struggle recently took place in Brazil for the democratic rule of law and against a coup d'état, which is under investigation by this court in compliance with due legal process,” Luís Roberto Barroso, the president of the federal supreme court, said in a statement about Musk’s comments. “Nonconformity against the prevalence of democracy continues to manifest itself in the criminal exploitation of social networks.”

Santos also worries that Musk is setting a precedent that the far right will be protected and promoted on his platform, regardless of local laws or public opinion. “They are trying to use Brazil as a laboratory on how to interfere in local politics and local businesses,” she says. “They are making the case that their decision is more important than the national decision from a state democratic institution.”

Though Musk has claimed to be a free-speech advocate, and X’s public statement on the takedowns asserts that Brazilians are entitled to free speech, the platform’s application of these principles has been uneven at best. In February, on order of the Indian government, X blocked the accounts Hindutva Watch and the India Hate Lab in India, two US-based nonprofits that track incidents of religiously motivated violence perpetrated by supporters of the country’s right-wing government. A 2023 study from the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard found that X complied with more government takedown requests under Musk’s leadership than it had previously.

In March, X blocked the accounts of several prominent researchers and journalists after they identified a well-known neo-Nazi cartoonist, later changing its own terms of service to justify the decision.

—Elon Musk Is Platforming Far-Right Activists in Brazil

[tomorrowusa]

People who have heard Trump in private understand better what a danger he is to the country. Disproportionately this group consists of those responsible for protecting the United States.

Mark Milley was head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the top ranking person in the US military. He's one of the people Trump used to call "my generals". Now Gen. Milley is calling Trump "fascist".

Mark Milley, the US Army general who Donald Trump appointed as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, now says the current Republican presidential nominee is a “fascist to the core” and says no person has ever posed more of a danger to the United States than the man who served as the 45th President of the United States. Milley, a decorated military officer who became a target for right-wing scorn after it became known that he expressed concerns over Trump’s mental stability in the wake of his 2020 election loss to Joe Biden, is described by journalist Bob Woodward in his new book, War, as incredibly alarmed at the prospect of a second Trump term in the White House. The Independent obtained a copy ahead of the book’s October 15 release date.

This wasn't a gotcha sort of thing. Gen. Milley went out of his own way to talk to Bob Woodward.

Woodward writes that when he approached Milley at a reception, the general spoke first and told him: “We gotta talk.” He told the journalist that “no one has ever been as dangerous to this country” as the former president. He asked: “Do you realize, do you see what this man is?”

At his retirement ceremony Gen. Milley famously said...

We don’t take an oath to a king, or a queen, or a tyrant or a dictator. And we don’t take an oath to a wannabe dictator.

Of course Trump has promised to be a dictator on day one.

It's always easier to acquire dictators than it is to get rid of them.

[nando161mando]

With Democrats like this, who the fuck needs Republicans?

[beautiful-basque-country]

What I find most unbearable regarding far-righters / fascists is their initiated attitude; it looks like they have access to top secret info you don't: they know how the state actually works, they know what truly happens in EH with our language even though having never stepped on here, they know vaccines do have microchips inside, they know earth is in fact flat, they know elections have been definitely rigged, they know the real figures - not the official ones - linking immigrants and crime, they KNOW. Everyone else are wrong and uneducated regarding everything. They have their eyes opened by ACTUAL info, not propaganda.

And however, the woke ones are the rest?

Ugh.