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  1. CW: CW: Far-right politics, fascism, AfD, anti-democratic rhetoric, election results

    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

  2. CW: CW: Fascism, far-right politics, racism, anti-queer rhetoric, threats to democracy.

    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

  3. 👑 Trump is acting like a king who can rename national institutions by decree. America has laws, courts, and a Congress for a reason. www.thepetitionsite.com/948/658/372/...

    #NoKings #DefendDemocracy

  4. 👑 Trump is acting like a king who can rename national institutions by decree. America has laws, courts, and a Congress for a reason. www.thepetitionsite.com/948/658/372/...

    #NoKings #DefendDemocracy

  5. 👑 Trump is acting like a king who can rename national institutions by decree. America has laws, courts, and a Congress for a reason. www.thepetitionsite.com/948/658/372/...

    #NoKings #DefendDemocracy

  6. 👑 Trump is acting like a king who can rename national institutions by decree. America has laws, courts, and a Congress for a reason. www.thepetitionsite.com/948/658/372/...

    #NoKings #DefendDemocracy

  7. Empower us with knowledge to challenge demagoguery and inspire democratic values, fostering resilience against authoritarian oligarchies.

    #DefendDemocracy #NoToOligarchy #RuleOfLaw #CivicResistance
    #NOLIGARCHY.US

  8. Empower us with knowledge to challenge demagoguery and inspire democratic values, fostering resilience against authoritarian oligarchies.

    #DefendDemocracy #NoToOligarchy #RuleOfLaw #CivicResistance
    #NOLIGARCHY.US

  9. CW: CW: Fascism, resistance, direct action

    Protest is saying, “I don't like this.”

    Resistance is saying, “This ends here.”

    Protest is refusing to play along.

    Resistance is making damn sure the game cannot continue.

    Protest raises a voice.

    Resistance puts its shoulder against the machine and says, “No further.”

    Because sometimes saying "this is wrong" is only the beginning.

    Sometimes you have to become the very inconvenient little bastard who makes sure it stops.

    And yes, my friends, that is rather more work than holding a sign.

    It is also rather more effective.

    #Resistance #Protest #Antifascism #NoPasaran #QueerResistance #Solidarity #DefendDemocracy #NeverAgain

  10. RE: mastodon.social/@austinkocher/

    Tracking #ICEtapo atrocities--now more difficult thanks to this complicit Congress.

    One more reason to fire everyone with an R after their name (and a few with a D, too!) this November.

    #DefendDemocracy -- #DefeatRepublicans. Every Last One.

    Signed, a #GOPRefugee.

  11. Dein Browser kann Leben retten. Du nutzt ihn für Netflix.

    Über Informationsfreiheit als Menschenrecht, die Brutalität digitaler Zensur, und was du heute noch dagegen tun kannst.

    Wir leben in einer Zeit, in der Information nicht mehr nur Macht ist, sie ist Überleben. Und wer über Information herrscht, herrscht über Realität. Das wissen Diktatoren. Das wissen autoritäre Regime. Das wissen auch einige demokratisch gewählte Regierungen besser, als ihnen lieb sein sollte. Die Frage ist: Wissen wir es auch? [Mehr lesen...]

    christin-loehner.de/blog/dein-

    #digitaleRechte #Informationsfreiheit #Iran #Snowflake #Antifaschismus #InternetFreedom #Aktivismus #Tor #Meta #Zensur #InternetFreedom #DigitalFreedom #FreeTheInternet #KeepItOnline #InformationFreedom #DigitalRights #CensorshipIsViolence #NoInternetShutdown #InternetForAll #FreeSpeechOnline #DigitalActivism #HumanRights #StandUpToCensorship #DontMuteTheWorld #ResistCensorship #DecentralizeTheWeb #HumanRightsAreUniversal #StandWithIran #FreeIran #StopDigitalRepression #GlobalSolidarity #ProtestSupport #EqualityForAll #JusticeNow #FreedomToSpeak #RightsNotPrivileges #TechForGood #PowerToThePeople #SpeakTruthToPower #RightsMatter #OnlineFreedom #OpenInternet #DefendDemocracy #EndCensorship #PrivacyIsARight #SurveillanceState #NetFreedom

  12. @solownh @GottaLaff On grounds of his deeply disordered mind & his extreme criminal & destructive potential Trump should even be allowed to run for any public office.
    Sociopathic enemies of the constitutional order cannot be entrusted with the duties & responsibilities of public office they would only abuse to inflict harm!

    Btw, it's not the first time that wannabe-Caligula Trump publicly alludes to his dream of being protected against the laws & accountability by presidential office for life.

    #RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityNow #JusticeMatters #DefendTheConstitution #DefendDemocracy #DisqualifyTrump #NationalSecurityThreat #PublicDanger

  13. @AlliFlowers @MJmusicinears With their phony baseless clown show in infantile retaliation for Trump's impeachment double-Burger today's confederate "Republicans" are putting all their contempt for the dignity of United States Congress on display.

    Besides simple math telling that their infamous abuse of congressional power will be going to crash-land in the Senate, where they're also lacking a two-thirds majority.

    #RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityMatters #JusticeMatters #DefendTheConstitution #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheUnion #BanTheGOP #TakeGOPOffTheBallots #Insurrection #Rebellion #EnemiesOfTheLaw #EnemiesOfDemocracy #EnemiesOfTheConstitution #DisqualifyALLRebels

  14. @Free_Press Reminder: In Dec 2020, Emmer & 125 other House "Republicans" signed an amicus brief supporting *Texas v. Pennsylvania*, a lawsuit filed at SCOTUS challenging Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 election.

    Nancy Pelosi responded to the signing of the amicus brief calling it an act of "election subversion".

    She stated: "The 126 Republican Members that signed onto this lawsuit brought dishonor to the House. Instead of upholding their oath to support and defend the Constitution, they chose to subvert the Constitution and undermine public trust in our sacred democratic institutions."

    #RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityMatters #JusticeMatters #DefendTheConstitution #DefendDemocracy #Emmer #GOP #ElectionSubversion #2020Election #TexasVPennsylvania #EnemiesOfTheConstitution #EnemiesOfDemocracy

  15. @WackyIdeas @New_Narrative @edgeoforever It's very likely overdue to stop thinking of today's "Republicans" as a normal electable "political party" respecting the Constitution & Americans' democracy.
    Decades-long anti-constitutional racist voter suppression, representing corporate interests rather than the electorate's, senatorial acquittal of a twice-impeached career criminal, who a shocking equally sociopathic majority of "GOP's voters thinks he did nothing wrong, more that 140 congressional "GOPers" voting to overthrow a non-"Republican" government-elect, dozens of "Republican" Attorneys General harassing the Supreme Court/federal courts to overthrow the results of the 2020 election should be disqualifying enough for any "Republican" candidacy for parliamentary representation, be it in states or on federal level.

    #RuleOfLaw #DefendTheUnion #DefendTheConstitution #DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #BanTheGOP #TakeGOPOffTheBallots #Insurrection #Overthrow #NationalSecurityThreat #EnemiesOfTheConstitution #EnemiesOfLaw #PublicDanger #ProsecuteALLRebels #DisqualifyALLRebels

  16. @SteveThompson Bastards of democracy shall never be given any opportunity to abuse democracy in order to destroy democracy.

    "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
    — United States Declaration of Independence —

    #RuleOfLaw #DefendTheUnion #DefendTheConstitution #DefendDemocracy #GagaMAGA #TakeGOPOffTheBallots #EnemiesOfTheConstitution #EnemiesOfDemocracy #Treason #AidingAndAbetting #GivingAidAndComfortToPutin #MAGADespots

  17. Time to see the "GOP" for what it is.

    Neuroscientist on the largest & most dangerous cult threatening America in history:

    "...There was a time when the two major political parties in America could exhibit bipartisanship by moving across the aisle to compromise on the issues on which they were legislating...

    There were largely two sides of the issue and some areas for compromise.

    This is no longer possible in today’s sociopolitical climate. Although members of the GOP still refer to themselves as a political party with principled stances, the reality is they have now morphed into a domestic terror organization and to use the umbrella term, a cult – the largest and most dangerous cult in American history."

    An anti-American congressional terror cult even threatening to sabotage federal law enforcement on behalf of & in retaliation for the Mar-A-Loco career criminal, by defunding the FBI.

    alternet.org/alternet-exclusiv
    #RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityNow #JusticeMatters #DefendTheUnion #DefendTheConstitution #DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #SaveLives #BanTheGOP #TerrorOrganization #TerrorCult #Insurrection #DomesticTerrorism #OrganizedCrime #CriminalNetwork #ProsecuteALLRebels #DisqualifyALLRebels

  18. Time to see the "GOP" for what it is.

    Neuroscientist on the largest & most dangerous cult threatening America in history:

    "...There was a time when the two major political parties in America could exhibit bipartisanship by moving across the aisle to compromise on the issues on which they were legislating...

    There were largely two sides of the issue and some areas for compromise.

    This is no longer possible in today’s sociopolitical climate. Although members of the GOP still refer to themselves as a political party with principled stances, the reality is they have now morphed into a domestic terror organization and to use the umbrella term, a cult – the largest and most dangerous cult in American history."

    An anti-American congressional terror cult even threatening to sabotage federal law enforcement on behalf of & in retaliation for the Mar-A-Loco career criminal, by defunding the FBI.

    alternet.org/alternet-exclusiv
    #RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityNow #JusticeMatters #DefendTheUnion #DefendTheConstitution #DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #SaveLives #BanTheGOP #TerrorOrganization #TerrorCult #Insurrection #DomesticTerrorism #OrganizedCrime #CriminalNetwork #ProsecuteALLRebels #DisqualifyALLRebels

  19. Time to see the "GOP" for what it is.

    Neuroscientist on the largest & most dangerous cult threatening America in history:

    "...There was a time when the two major political parties in America could exhibit bipartisanship by moving across the aisle to compromise on the issues on which they were legislating...

    There were largely two sides of the issue and some areas for compromise.

    This is no longer possible in today’s sociopolitical climate. Although members of the GOP still refer to themselves as a political party with principled stances, the reality is they have now morphed into a domestic terror organization and to use the umbrella term, a cult – the largest and most dangerous cult in American history."

    An anti-American congressional terror cult even threatening to sabotage federal law enforcement on behalf of & in retaliation for the Mar-A-Loco career criminal, by defunding the FBI.

    alternet.org/alternet-exclusiv
    #RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityNow #JusticeMatters #DefendTheUnion #DefendTheConstitution #DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #SaveLives #BanTheGOP #TerrorOrganization #TerrorCult #Insurrection #DomesticTerrorism #OrganizedCrime #CriminalNetwork #ProsecuteALLRebels #DisqualifyALLRebels

  20. Time to see the "GOP" for what it is.

    Neuroscientist on the largest & most dangerous cult threatening America in history:

    "...There was a time when the two major political parties in America could exhibit bipartisanship by moving across the aisle to compromise on the issues on which they were legislating...

    There were largely two sides of the issue and some areas for compromise.

    This is no longer possible in today’s sociopolitical climate. Although members of the GOP still refer to themselves as a political party with principled stances, the reality is they have now morphed into a domestic terror organization and to use the umbrella term, a cult – the largest and most dangerous cult in American history."

    An anti-American congressional terror cult even threatening to sabotage federal law enforcement on behalf of & in retaliation for the Mar-A-Loco career criminal, by defunding the FBI.

    alternet.org/alternet-exclusiv
    #RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityNow #JusticeMatters #DefendTheUnion #DefendTheConstitution #DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #SaveLives #BanTheGOP #TerrorOrganization #TerrorCult #Insurrection #DomesticTerrorism #OrganizedCrime #CriminalNetwork #ProsecuteALLRebels #DisqualifyALLRebels

  21. A debate, that wasn't a debate, but at best bad entertainment for bored Fox viewers with nothing else to do.
    And a "Republican" party, that's no longer a party, but a voter-suppressing club of clownish election riggers.

    Ramaswamy's vision for dealing with climate change & global heating?
    => “This isn’t that complicated, guys— unlock American energy, drill, frack, burn coal, embrace nuclear.”

    esquire.com/news-politics/poli
    #DefendDemocracy #DefendAmerica #SaveLives #ClimateChange #GlobalHeating #SaveThePlanet #UnelectableGOP #ElectoralFraud #DefraudingAmerica #NationalSecurityThreat #PublicDanger

  22. @MJ Journalism, that turned into masochism, manipulated & intimidated by a mobsterous bully formerly defiling presidential office & generally offending the free press as "fake news", in total disregard of the First Amendment.

    Only one reason, why Trump being held accountable, convicted & sentenced is more than overdue.

    To protect the United States from being turned into a Mafia state like Putin's.

    #RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityNow #JusticeMatters #DefendAmerica #DefendTheConstitution #DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #Trump #ConspiracyAgainstTheUS #CriminalNetwork #MobBoss #CareerCriminals #CareerFraudsters #TakeCareClause #PreventiveDetention #NDAA2012

  23. @Susan_Larson_TN If you thought, that Brad Raffensperger is every voter's nice uncle, you could be damn wrong.

    "That shouldn’t be surprising, though, since, even as he was fighting with Trump and his lawyers, Raffensperger was calling for an actual elimination of no-excuse voting by mail, which Georgia legislators originally considered but rejected as too draconian. Like his predecessor and now Governor Brian Kemp, the current secretary of state is an old-school vote suppressor."

    nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/0
    #RuleOfLaw #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #ReconstructionAmendments #VotingRights #YourVoiceMatters #YouMatter #RaiseYourVoice #Georgia #Raffensperger #VoterSuppression #Gerrymandering #Disenfranchisement #VoterRollsPurged

  24. @tultican I believe the following excerpt taken from an essay on Abraham Lincoln & his views of inalienable American democracy is an impressive approach to what today's rebellious "Republicans" (I call them Confedereds) are replaying in our time, following the traitorous, insurrectionary, evil & inhuman example of their Confederate ancestors:
    A rebellion against the Constitution, the Union/ United States government & the U.S.'s Rule of the People aka democracy.

    "The Confederate rebellion was an assault by a minority on the decision of the majority, as expressed in Lincoln’s own election, and in that way, it was really intended to question the entire principle of democracy."

    friendsofthelincolncollection.
    #DefendAmerica #DefendTheConstitution #DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #ReconstructionAmendments #BanTheGOP #NationalSecurityThreat #EnemiesOfTheConstitution #EnemiesOfDemocracy #Insurrection #Rebellion #Overthrow #MajorityRule

  25. @pivoinebleue The long shadows of the Confederate rebellion, pestering America's democratic majority to this day:

    "The Confederate rebellion was an assault by a minority on the decision of the majority, as expressed in Lincoln’s own election, and in that way, it was really intended to question the entire principle of democracy."
    (Exchange "Confederate rebellion" for "Capitol attack", and "Lincoln's own election" for "Biden's election" & note the similarity)

    friendsofthelincolncollection.
    #RuleOfLaw #DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #Democracy #Freedom #HumanRights #CivilRights #BanTheGOP #Confedereds #EnemiesOfTheConstitution #EnemiesOfDemocracy

  26. @LeftistLawyer @avuko Christian supremacy ideology has presumably been around as long as after the day Jesus Christ's last alleged disciple died or the Roman emperor declared Christianity the state religion.

    On the other hand, "Christian nationalism" is nothing but a self-justifying excuse for being religiously completely dumb & ignorant by notorious grifters like MTG, Gaetz, Boebert & similarly dishonest, greedy & spiteful enemies of the American people's Constitution & the Declaration of Independence.

    #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #DefendAmerica #ReligiousTolerance #IntolerantIdiotism #MTG #UnelectableGOP #ChristianNazionalism

  27. Following #QatarGate, with ongoing investigations into foreign #interference & #corruption in #EU Parliament, @EP_Democracy's new name & broader scope:

    'special committee on foreign interference in all democratic processes in EU & strengthening of #integrity, #transparency & #accountability in the European Parliament'

    #DefendDemocracy #ING2

    cc @transparency

    europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pre