#americanfascist — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #americanfascist, aggregated by home.social.
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Last week @emptywheel said Stephen Miller used Star Trek to attack diversity. She mentioned @georgetakei and that Star Trek had diversity from the beginning, years before Miller was born
Also CFPB and inspectors general removed by Republicans that would have been protecting American consumers as they did when Biden was president
All on @nicolesandler 's show
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#emptyWheelFridays #podcast #NicoleSandler #GeorgeTakei #StarTrek #USpol
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Last week @emptywheel said Stephen Miller used Star Trek to attack diversity. She mentioned @georgetakei and that Star Trek had diversity from the beginning, years before Miller was born
Also CFPB and inspectors general removed by Republicans that would have been protecting American consumers as they did when Biden was president
All on @nicolesandler 's show
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#emptyWheelFridays #podcast #NicoleSandler #GeorgeTakei #StarTrek #USpol
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TW: contains clips of that cancerous boil on the arsehole of humanity, not TFG, the other one; Steven Auschwitz Miller.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K8ZJVIfT8I&pp=ugUEEgJlbg%3D%3D
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TW: contains clips of that cancerous boil on the arsehole of humanity, not TFG, the other one; Steven Auschwitz Miller.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K8ZJVIfT8I&pp=ugUEEgJlbg%3D%3D
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TW: contains clips of that cancerous boil on the arsehole of humanity, not TFG, the other one; Steven Auschwitz Miller.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K8ZJVIfT8I&pp=ugUEEgJlbg%3D%3D
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BTW that post about #MAGA #GOP staying in power for another 30 years is bullshit:
the first elected #AmericanFascist government were Bush and Reagan in 1980.
THAT WAS USA’s FIRST FASCIST COUP
what Trump represents is an all out war from people who know they cannot continue manufacturing votes because the vast majority of new voters are LATINO, ASIAN, BLACK, NATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH (yes, in that proportional order).
THE FASCISTOCRACY IS DYING
this is their civil war. act accordingly.
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Imagine what they would have done if he called him what he actually is?
#nazi #fascist #americanfascist #whitehouse
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A Leader…initiates #politics by choosing an #enemy. As the #Nazi legal thinker Carl Schmitt maintained, the choice is arbitrary. It has little or no basis in #reality. It takes its force from the decisive will of the Leader. People who watched #Trump’s TV ads…had not been harmed by a #transgender person, or by an #immigrant, or by a #woman of #color. The magic lies in the daring it takes to declare a weaker group to be part of an overwhelming #conspiracy.
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That requires presence, which #Trump has always had. His #charisma need not resonate w/you: probably, #Hitler’s & #Mussolini’s would not have reached you, either. But it is nevertheless a talent. To be a #fascist & to call someone else a fascist requires a cunning that is natural to Trump. And in that naming of the #enemy, absurd as it is, we see the second major element of #fascism.
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A #liberal has to tell a hundred stories, or a thousand. A #communist has one story, which might not turn out to be true. A #fascist just has to be a #storyteller. Because words do not attach to meanings, the stories don’t need to be consistent. They don’t need to accord w/external #reality. A fascist storyteller just has to find a pulse & hold it. This can proceed through rehearsal, as w/ #Hitler, or by way of trial & error, as w/ #Trump.
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That’s quite a #fascist achievement. Faced w/complexity of #history, #liberals struggle w/the overwhelming volume of questions to be asked, answers to be offered. Like communism, fascism is an answer to all questions, but a different kind of answer. #Communism assures us that we can, thanks to science, find an underlying direction in all events, toward a better future. This is (/was) seductive. #Fascism reduces the imbroglio of sensation to what the Leader says.
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#Putin & #Trump are both, in fact, #fascists. And their use of the word, though meant to confuse, reminds us of one of fascism’s essential characteristics. A fascist is unconcerned w/the connection between #words & #meanings. He does not serve the #language; the language serves him. When a fascist calls a liberal a “fascist,” the term begins to work in a different way, as the servant of a particular person, rather than as a bearer of meaning.
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When the Soviets called their enemies “#fascists,” they turned the word into a meaningless insult. Putinist #Russia has preserved the habit: a “fascist” is anyone who opposes the wishes of a Russian #dictator. So Ukrainians defending their country from Russian invaders are “fascists.” This is a trick that #Trump has copied. He, like Vladimir #Putin, refers to his enemies as “fascists,” w/no #ideological significance at all. It is simply a term of opprobrium.
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#Trump’s skills & talents go unrecognized when we see him as a conventional candidate—a person who seeks to explain policies that might improve lives, or who works to create the appearance of empathy. Yet this is our shortcoming more than his. Trump has always been a presence, not an absence: the presence of #fascism. What does this mean?
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It was wrong to treat #Trump as a series of absences. The standard critique has always been that he lacks something that we imagine to be a prerequisite for high office: breeding, or grammar, or diplomacy, or business acumen, or love of country. And he does lack all those things, as well as pretty much any conventional…virtue you can name.
#fascism #tyranny
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/dispatches/what-does-it-mean-that-donald-trump-is-a-fascist -
The more I find out about Shady McCouchfucker and the toxic insane people that influence him the more he should not be in the White House anymore than mango Mussolini should be. He shouldn’t be a senator anymore for that matter.
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A reminder that the Dayglo Dictator is himself subservient to Putler.
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I've been calling him a fascist for a while now, it needs to be called out more in the media, in no uncertain terms. Because this is what Trump is, a fascist autocrat;