#fascistic — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #fascistic, aggregated by home.social.
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I always thought that #JRRTolkien's #Smaug was a metaphor for the #IndustrialAge and #WealthHoarding. It seems I'm not alone! #Tolkien was actually an #environmentalist and possibly a #socialist (though he describes himself as an #anarchist). Does that mean #LOTR will be banned by #Fascistic #Capitalists? Hmmmm...
#Dragonomics: Smaug and #ClimateChange
Posted on February 22, 2019 by Richard Fahey
Excerpt: "Today, we talk about dragons. I refer specifically to the greedy, northern (often fire-breathing) variety as described in Beowulf and featured in Tolkien’s #Hobbit, and I will consider how these monsters present #EnvironmentalCatastrophe as a direct result of #hoarding and #greed.
"My discussion of dragons and climate change continues my recent series of blogs interested in placing medieval literature (and in this case also modern medievalism) in conversation with current crises. This blog develops an earlier argument made in a paper at a 'Tolkien in Vermont' conference (2014), titled 'Dragonomics: Smaug and #Pollution on Middle-Earth,' in which I argue that pollution in Tolkien’s Hobbit is linked to both the literal destruction by the dragon, and the rampant greed that motivates Smaug and ultimately initiates the plunder and violence at the Battle of Five Armies."
#MiddleEarth #Capitalism #ClimateCrisis #Oiligarchy #Oligarchy #CapitalismMustDie
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CW: Fascists Know What They're Doing and Hurting People Is the Point: Moral Panics and How to Spot Them (CW: Trans Suicide, Homicide, & Genocide)
When #fascists call #trans people #groomers, they have zero interest in protecting #children. They want to hurt trans people, and they know that children are an excellent target for #paranoia. Note how #gender #affirming care is being banned, first for children, in state after state across the United States.
Protecting children means nothing to them. After all, what they are doing objectively hurts children and puts them more at risk of #death, either by #homicide or #suicide. Matt #Walsh wants to protect #prepubescent #girls' #breasts because (1) he has no idea that pre*pubescent girls are, among other things, defined by their *lack of breasts and (2) he thinks children should be permitted to marry adult men. You might know them as the real groomers.
You cannot and should not argue with #fascistic #transphobes. Try, and they'll strawman everything you say, ignore your #facts, and do anything and everything that they can to #shame you into silence. The objective of every argument, for them, is not to arrive at some #truth. It's to #win. That's all that matters because, to them, the sick perversion is what consenting adults do at home and with their own bodies. Not what is done to children by their bedfellows.
Mock them? Sure. Crucify them on social media? Definitely. But never, never take them seriously. They are not serious people, and their #lies are justified means towards the end of all trans people in the United States and abroad.
This video is a must watch, IMO. It's long, but you'll learn a lot about how these people function. And once you start realizing that they are nothing like you—because you actually care what happens to others—you'll start figuring out how to respond to them appropriately.
With unbridled contempt.
#psychology #politics #uspol #transphobia #terfs #fascism #socialJustice
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@froomkin @NewYorkTimes is no longer The #NewspaperofRecord. Over increasingly turbulent years when #democracy has been #incessantly #battered, the paper has ramped up #publishing #vitriolic #fascistic #antisemitic #transphobic #propaganda.
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@Br0m3x
Whenever we read something about the truckers that just want to work without mandates, we are reminded that #BigPharma and #BigTech are melding with govt, in a rather #fascistic manner.Its not for #publicHealth.
Its to usher in #autonomous, #technocratic systems that will strip away at our desire to do anything at all; to be someone with any purpose at all.
This is how they induce #nihalism.
Please hold close your sense of #humanity.