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Radko Mladić was a disgusting person.

Genocide. Crimes against humanity. War crimes. The Srebrenica massacre. A lifetime’s worth of reasons to keep his name in the history books under “never, ever again.”

He died in prison in The Hague recently.

And today, Serbia gives him a hero’s burial.

You really don't need a political science degree to understand the symbolism here.

When a convicted genocidaire gets flowers, flags and a hero’s funeral, while his victims get excuses, denial and silence, you've learned something rather important about the society doing the celebrating.

Apparently “never again” comes with a rather generous asterisk.

How utterly fucking disgraceful.

#Srebrenica #NeverAgain #Genocide #WarCrimes #Bosnia #Serbia #AntiFascism #HumanRights #Mladić

Radko Mladić was a disgusting person.

Genocide. Crimes against humanity. War crimes. The Srebrenica massacre. A lifetime’s worth of reasons to keep his name in the history books under “never, ever again.”

He died in prison in The Hague recently.

And today, Serbia gives him a hero’s burial.

You really don't need a political science degree to understand the symbolism here.

When a convicted genocidaire gets flowers, flags and a hero’s funeral, while his victims get excuses, denial and silence, you've learned something rather important about the society doing the celebrating.

Apparently “never again” comes with a rather generous asterisk.

How utterly fucking disgraceful.

#Srebrenica #NeverAgain #Genocide #WarCrimes #Bosnia #Serbia #AntiFascism #HumanRights #Mladić

Radko Mladić was a disgusting person.

Genocide. Crimes against humanity. War crimes. The Srebrenica massacre. A lifetime’s worth of reasons to keep his name in the history books under “never, ever again.”

He died in prison in The Hague recently.

And today, Serbia gives him a hero’s burial.

You really don't need a political science degree to understand the symbolism here.

When a convicted genocidaire gets flowers, flags and a hero’s funeral, while his victims get excuses, denial and silence, you've learned something rather important about the society doing the celebrating.

Apparently “never again” comes with a rather generous asterisk.

How utterly fucking disgraceful.

#Srebrenica #NeverAgain #Genocide #WarCrimes #Bosnia #Serbia #AntiFascism #HumanRights #Mladić

Radko Mladić was a disgusting person.

Genocide. Crimes against humanity. War crimes. The Srebrenica massacre. A lifetime’s worth of reasons to keep his name in the history books under “never, ever again.”

He died in prison in The Hague recently.

And today, Serbia gives him a hero’s burial.

You really don't need a political science degree to understand the symbolism here.

When a convicted genocidaire gets flowers, flags and a hero’s funeral, while his victims get excuses, denial and silence, you've learned something rather important about the society doing the celebrating.

Apparently “never again” comes with a rather generous asterisk.

How utterly fucking disgraceful.

#Srebrenica #NeverAgain #Genocide #WarCrimes #Bosnia #Serbia #AntiFascism #HumanRights #Mladić

Radko Mladić was a disgusting person.

Genocide. Crimes against humanity. War crimes. The Srebrenica massacre. A lifetime’s worth of reasons to keep his name in the history books under “never, ever again.”

He died in prison in The Hague recently.

And today, Serbia gives him a hero’s burial.

You really don't need a political science degree to understand the symbolism here.

When a convicted genocidaire gets flowers, flags and a hero’s funeral, while his victims get excuses, denial and silence, you've learned something rather important about the society doing the celebrating.

Apparently “never again” comes with a rather generous asterisk.

How utterly fucking disgraceful.

#Srebrenica #NeverAgain #Genocide #WarCrimes #Bosnia #Serbia #AntiFascism #HumanRights #Mladić

Hello there! 🌸

I've finally gathered all my ranting about the fascist demand for “apolitical art” into one essay.

You can find it here:
https://ko-fi.com/post/The-Fascist-Lie-of-Apolitical-Art-E0U026JMAA

Go on. Give it a read. 💜

And then go make some art. Write. Sing. Paint. Dance. Speak. Be inconvenient. Be political. Be free.

Because freedom of expression isn't something fascists get to switch off when they don't like what we're saying.

Fight for the freedom to create.
Fight against the fascist dream of silencing us all.

And make plenty of noise. 🏳️‍🌈✊

#FreedomOfExpression #AntiFascism #ArtIsPolitical #ResistFascism #MakeNoise #AfD

We shouldn’t misunderstand this:

A lot of people voting for the AfD aren’t confused. They aren’t blinded. They aren’t merely “protesting.”

They want what that fascist party stands for.

And we need to stop making excuses for them.

#AfD #NoExcuses #Antifascism #NeverAgain #Democracy

Why do some Germans bow to Putin and Russian imperialism without any obvious need?

Because they mistake cruelty for strength.

They’re terrified of becoming Putin’s victim...

...and they admire the idea of having the same power over anyone they consider weaker.

Bow upwards. Kick downwards.

It’s not strength. It’s pathetic.

To hell with that worldview.

#Antifascism #NoPutin #NoAfD #NeverAgain #StandAgainstFascism

Why do some Germans bow to Putin and Russian imperialism without any obvious need?

Because they mistake cruelty for strength.

They’re terrified of becoming Putin’s victim...

...and they admire the idea of having the same power over anyone they consider weaker.

Bow upwards. Kick downwards.

It’s not strength. It’s pathetic.

To hell with that worldview.

#Antifascism #NoPutin #NoAfD #NeverAgain #StandAgainstFascism

Why do some Germans bow to Putin and Russian imperialism without any obvious need?

Because they mistake cruelty for strength.

They’re terrified of becoming Putin’s victim...

...and they admire the idea of having the same power over anyone they consider weaker.

Bow upwards. Kick downwards.

It’s not strength. It’s pathetic.

To hell with that worldview.

#Antifascism #NoPutin #NoAfD #NeverAgain #StandAgainstFascism

Why do some Germans bow to Putin and Russian imperialism without any obvious need?

Because they mistake cruelty for strength.

They’re terrified of becoming Putin’s victim...

...and they admire the idea of having the same power over anyone they consider weaker.

Bow upwards. Kick downwards.

It’s not strength. It’s pathetic.

To hell with that worldview.

#Antifascism #NoPutin #NoAfD #NeverAgain #StandAgainstFascism

…and behind everything, Vladimir Putin smiles.

Nothing quite says “German patriotism” like voting AfD, Putin’s favourite little useful idiots.

History really does have a fucked up sense of humour.

#AfD #NoAfD #Antifascism #Putin #Germany #NeverAgain

The problem in Germany after the Saxony-Anhalt election is this:

Every time we oppose the AfD, they will tell us, “But that’s what the voters want.” And then they’ll call us undemocratic for refusing to accept it.

No.

Democracy does not mean surrendering to the strongest fascist tendency at the ballot box. It means defending the democratic society in which people are actually free to disagree, organise, protest, and live without being targeted by fascists.

This will be a tough fight. It will be exhausting. And yes, sometimes it will feel horribly lonely.

But there is literally no alternative.
Until there is no Alternative.

#NoAfD #Antifascism #DefendDemocracy #NeverAgain #Germany

The AfD’s results in Saxony-Anhalt are not merely “deeply troubling.”

They are the bill coming due after years of political complacency, denial, and deliberate-looking-away.

Centrists have spent years telling us not to overreact.
Not to “polarise.”
Not to call the AfD what it is.
Not to “drive voters into their arms.”
Not to make everything about fascism.

Meanwhile, the fascists kept organising.

They normalised their language. They poisoned public discourse. They attacked migrants, queer people, democracy and the very idea of an open society, while "respectable" politicians kept insisting that the "real danger" was apparently being too rude about it.

Well. Here we are.

You cannot spend years treating an anti-democratic movement as just another flavour of conservative politics and then act shocked when it becomes stronger.

This is not happening because anti-fascists were too loud. It is happening because far too many people with power were far too quiet.

And no, the answer is not to move further to the right in the hope of appeasing the far right.

The answer is to fight them. Clearly. Consistently. Without apology.

Because fascism does not become less dangerous when we politely refuse to name it.

#SaxonyAnhalt #AfD #NeverAgain #NoPasaran #Antifascism #DefendDemocracy

Good morning. 🌸

Within a single week, both the memorial bench and the memorial tree commemorating the Berlin CSD attack were vandalised and destroyed.

A bench.
A tree.
Both rainbow-coloured.
Both symbols of remembrance, solidarity and love.

It should be difficult to imagine anyone being angry enough about that to destroy them.

And yet here we are.

There is something profoundly rotten about a person so consumed by hatred that a rainbow-painted bench becomes an enemy, and a tree planted in memory of victims becomes something that must be ripped from the ground.

But perhaps we should stop pretending that this is merely some unfortunate disagreement between people with different opinions.

It isn't.

Fascism has never been satisfied with words. First it tells you that certain people are disgusting. Then it tells you they are dangerous. Then it tells you they don't belong.

And eventually, someone will start killing the people they feel don't belong.

So no.

There can be no compromise with that.

We will not make ourselves smaller so fascists can feel comfortable. We will not hide our colours. We will not politely negotiate over whether our friends, our families, our children or ourselves deserve to exist.

They tear down the tree?

Plant another.

They destroy the bench?

Build two.

They try to erase us?

Stand together. Stand visible. Stand unafraid.

Don't let hatred decide what our streets look like.
Don't let fear decide how loudly we love.
Don't let fascists teach us to disappear.

Show up. Speak out. Protect one another. Defend our spaces. Rebuild what they destroy. And never, ever surrender the ground they want us to leave.

They can tear down a tree.

They cannot uproot a movement. 🌈🏳️‍⚧️

#CSD #Berlin #Pride #QueerResistance #NoPasaran #Antifascism #QueerSolidarity

Good morning. 🌸

Within a single week, both the memorial bench and the memorial tree commemorating the Berlin CSD attack were vandalised and destroyed.

A bench.
A tree.
Both rainbow-coloured.
Both symbols of remembrance, solidarity and love.

It should be difficult to imagine anyone being angry enough about that to destroy them.

And yet here we are.

There is something profoundly rotten about a person so consumed by hatred that a rainbow-painted bench becomes an enemy, and a tree planted in memory of victims becomes something that must be ripped from the ground.

But perhaps we should stop pretending that this is merely some unfortunate disagreement between people with different opinions.

It isn't.

Fascism has never been satisfied with words. First it tells you that certain people are disgusting. Then it tells you they are dangerous. Then it tells you they don't belong.

And eventually, someone will start killing the people they feel don't belong.

So no.

There can be no compromise with that.

We will not make ourselves smaller so fascists can feel comfortable. We will not hide our colours. We will not politely negotiate over whether our friends, our families, our children or ourselves deserve to exist.

They tear down the tree?

Plant another.

They destroy the bench?

Build two.

They try to erase us?

Stand together. Stand visible. Stand unafraid.

Don't let hatred decide what our streets look like.
Don't let fear decide how loudly we love.
Don't let fascists teach us to disappear.

Show up. Speak out. Protect one another. Defend our spaces. Rebuild what they destroy. And never, ever surrender the ground they want us to leave.

They can tear down a tree.

They cannot uproot a movement. 🌈🏳️‍⚧️

#CSD #Berlin #Pride #QueerResistance #NoPasaran #Antifascism #QueerSolidarity

Good morning. 🌸

Within a single week, both the memorial bench and the memorial tree commemorating the Berlin CSD attack were vandalised and destroyed.

A bench.
A tree.
Both rainbow-coloured.
Both symbols of remembrance, solidarity and love.

It should be difficult to imagine anyone being angry enough about that to destroy them.

And yet here we are.

There is something profoundly rotten about a person so consumed by hatred that a rainbow-painted bench becomes an enemy, and a tree planted in memory of victims becomes something that must be ripped from the ground.

But perhaps we should stop pretending that this is merely some unfortunate disagreement between people with different opinions.

It isn't.

Fascism has never been satisfied with words. First it tells you that certain people are disgusting. Then it tells you they are dangerous. Then it tells you they don't belong.

And eventually, someone will start killing the people they feel don't belong.

So no.

There can be no compromise with that.

We will not make ourselves smaller so fascists can feel comfortable. We will not hide our colours. We will not politely negotiate over whether our friends, our families, our children or ourselves deserve to exist.

They tear down the tree?

Plant another.

They destroy the bench?

Build two.

They try to erase us?

Stand together. Stand visible. Stand unafraid.

Don't let hatred decide what our streets look like.
Don't let fear decide how loudly we love.
Don't let fascists teach us to disappear.

Show up. Speak out. Protect one another. Defend our spaces. Rebuild what they destroy. And never, ever surrender the ground they want us to leave.

They can tear down a tree.

They cannot uproot a movement. 🌈🏳️‍⚧️

#CSD #Berlin #Pride #QueerResistance #NoPasaran #Antifascism #QueerSolidarity

Good morning. 🌸

Within a single week, both the memorial bench and the memorial tree commemorating the Berlin CSD attack were vandalised and destroyed.

A bench.
A tree.
Both rainbow-coloured.
Both symbols of remembrance, solidarity and love.

It should be difficult to imagine anyone being angry enough about that to destroy them.

And yet here we are.

There is something profoundly rotten about a person so consumed by hatred that a rainbow-painted bench becomes an enemy, and a tree planted in memory of victims becomes something that must be ripped from the ground.

But perhaps we should stop pretending that this is merely some unfortunate disagreement between people with different opinions.

It isn't.

Fascism has never been satisfied with words. First it tells you that certain people are disgusting. Then it tells you they are dangerous. Then it tells you they don't belong.

And eventually, someone will start killing the people they feel don't belong.

So no.

There can be no compromise with that.

We will not make ourselves smaller so fascists can feel comfortable. We will not hide our colours. We will not politely negotiate over whether our friends, our families, our children or ourselves deserve to exist.

They tear down the tree?

Plant another.

They destroy the bench?

Build two.

They try to erase us?

Stand together. Stand visible. Stand unafraid.

Don't let hatred decide what our streets look like.
Don't let fear decide how loudly we love.
Don't let fascists teach us to disappear.

Show up. Speak out. Protect one another. Defend our spaces. Rebuild what they destroy. And never, ever surrender the ground they want us to leave.

They can tear down a tree.

They cannot uproot a movement. 🌈🏳️‍⚧️

#CSD #Berlin #Pride #QueerResistance #NoPasaran #Antifascism #QueerSolidarity

Good morning. 🌸

Within a single week, both the memorial bench and the memorial tree commemorating the Berlin CSD attack were vandalised and destroyed.

A bench.
A tree.
Both rainbow-coloured.
Both symbols of remembrance, solidarity and love.

It should be difficult to imagine anyone being angry enough about that to destroy them.

And yet here we are.

There is something profoundly rotten about a person so consumed by hatred that a rainbow-painted bench becomes an enemy, and a tree planted in memory of victims becomes something that must be ripped from the ground.

But perhaps we should stop pretending that this is merely some unfortunate disagreement between people with different opinions.

It isn't.

Fascism has never been satisfied with words. First it tells you that certain people are disgusting. Then it tells you they are dangerous. Then it tells you they don't belong.

And eventually, someone will start killing the people they feel don't belong.

So no.

There can be no compromise with that.

We will not make ourselves smaller so fascists can feel comfortable. We will not hide our colours. We will not politely negotiate over whether our friends, our families, our children or ourselves deserve to exist.

They tear down the tree?

Plant another.

They destroy the bench?

Build two.

They try to erase us?

Stand together. Stand visible. Stand unafraid.

Don't let hatred decide what our streets look like.
Don't let fear decide how loudly we love.
Don't let fascists teach us to disappear.

Show up. Speak out. Protect one another. Defend our spaces. Rebuild what they destroy. And never, ever surrender the ground they want us to leave.

They can tear down a tree.

They cannot uproot a movement. 🌈🏳️‍⚧️

#CSD #Berlin #Pride #QueerResistance #NoPasaran #Antifascism #QueerSolidarity

There is a German phrase I keep coming back to: soziale Verrohung.

Social brutality. The coarsening of society. The point where cruelty stops being shocking and starts becoming conversational.

And honestly? We are watching it happen in real time.

People aren't merely saying, “I disagree with you” anymore.
They are saying:
You are degenerate.
You are vermin.
You are unworthy of living.
You should be killed.
You should be sent to the camps.

And increasingly, they aren't even bothering to hide behind anonymous accounts.

Full names. Real photographs. Proudly attached to it.

That should frighten us.

Because dehumanisation is not just “strong language”. It is how cruelty becomes socially acceptable. First someone is annoying. Then disgusting. Then dangerous. Then somehow no longer quite human.

History has a rather ugly filing cabinet full of examples.

So no, I am not going to politely debate whether my friends, my community, or anyone else is sufficiently “worthy” of dignity.

Human rights are not a popularity contest.

And if your politics requires treating other human beings as disposable, perhaps the problem isn't that the rest of us need to become more tolerant.

Perhaps your politics is simply fucking monstrous.

#SozialeVerrohung #Dehumanisation #Antifascism #HumanRights #NeverAgain #QueerResistance #NoHate #ResistFascism

Today I was told I should leave Europe because I apparently hate white people so much.

Why?

Because I keep fighting fascism and Nazis.

And apparently, according to this person, my great ideological failure is that I refuse to name Muslims as the “main threat.”

Seriously?

The chap I buy my kebabs from is Muslim. The family running the grocery store across the street is Muslim.

The people who tried to beat me up in Utrecht were Czechs. The woman who recently verbally attacked me on the U-Bahn was Christian, and white.

And yes, the attacker at the Berlin CSD was an Islamist.

And that is precisely my fucking point.

I fight fascism.

White supremacist fascism. Christian fundamentalism. Islamism. Nationalism. Authoritarianism. Whatever flavour of hatred comes crawling out from under whatever rock it has chosen to call home.

I am not going to participate in the fascist fantasy that Muslims are the enemy while white men are apparently waiting nobly in the wings to save civilisation.

Sorry. I've met history.

I know what hateful white men are capable of when they decide that their hatred gives them permission to hurt people.

And frankly?

I know people I would much rather stand beside.

My kebab vendor.

That Muslim family at the grocery store.

People who simply get on with their lives, treat me like a human being, and don't require me to pass some ridiculous racial purity test before they'll show me basic decency.

So keep your fucking race-war fantasies to yourself.

I judge people by their actions.

Actually, scratch that.

I don't collectively judge groups of people at all.

Except fascists.

Because fascism isn't a skin colour, an ethnicity, a religion, or a continent.

It's a choice.

And if you've chosen fascism, congratulations: you've chosen me as your problem.

I have no intention of making your life comfortable.

#AntiFascism #NeverAgain #NoHate #Fascism #QueerResistance #ResistFascism #WhiteSupremacy #Islamism #ChristianFundamentalism #Solidarity #NoToHate

Fascism never lasts.

It may swagger. It may acquire uniforms, flags, ministries, billionaires, television channels and an absolutely astonishing number of mediocre men with very strong opinions.
But eventually, it breaks.

Because evil has terrible long-term management skills.

And then comes the most entertaining part.

The people who spent years cheering for it will suddenly develop an acute case of “Oh, I was never really one of them.”

The ones who marched will say they were merely observing.

The ones who applauded will insist they were being ironic.

The ones who spread the propaganda will suddenly discover the nuanced political thinker hiding somewhere underneath all that fascist garbage.

And the ones who demanded cruelty will solemnly announce that they always supported human rights.

Oh, Sweetie.
We have evidence.

That is why we screenshot.
Why we download.
Why we archive videos.
Why we preserve posts, speeches, usernames, dates and declarations.

Not because we are building some little book of grudges.
Because memory is a weapon against historical laundering.

Because victims deserve the truth. And perpetrators deserve no hiding space.

Fascism will end.
The uniforms will come off.
The flags will disappear.
The statues will come down.
And suddenly everyone will have been a brave little resistance fighter all along.

Except...
We kept the screenshots.
We kept the videos.
We kept the archives.
So when the reckoning comes, and it will come, there will be nowhere for these people to hide behind “I didn't know.”

We will know.

History will know.

And, regrettably for the fascist revisionists, the internet has a rather better memory than they do.

Archive everything.
Let them lie later.
We have work to do now.

#Fascism #Antifascism #NeverAgain #DocumentEverything #KeepTheReceipts #ArchiveTheTruth #HistoryMatters #ResistFascism #QueerResistance #NoToFascism