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This has NOT calmed down or gone away. And you wonder why there's a #BlueWave? Hell, it's really just a #SelfDefenseWave. #itcanhappenhere
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:x4qyokjtdzgl7gmqhsw4ajqj/post/3m57mvc65ys2k -
Because it's apparently especially relevant TODAY:
"The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.”
--Hannah Arendt,
Jewish survivor of Nazi Germany,
German-American historian and political philosopher,
1906-1975#ItCanHappenHere
#ItIsHappeningHereEDIT
In replies, @ricardoharvin points out that barbarism has always been present in the USA.He's absolutely right, and I appreciate the gentle, plain, but firm reminder.
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Because it's apparently especially relevant TODAY:
"The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.”
--Hannah Arendt,
Jewish survivor of Nazi Germany,
German-American historian and political philosopher,
1906-1975#ItCanHappenHere
#ItIsHappeningHereEDIT
In replies, @ricardoharvin points out that barbarism has always been present in the USA.He's absolutely right, and I appreciate the gentle, plain, but firm reminder.
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Yes, It Can Happen Here. And the Movies Warned Us
#Variety #Columns #ItCanHappenHerehttps://variety.com/2025/film/columns/yes-it-can-happen-here-im-still-here-1236315319/
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Yes, It Can Happen Here. And the Movies Warned Us
#Variety #Columns #ItCanHappenHerehttps://variety.com/2025/film/columns/yes-it-can-happen-here-im-still-here-1236315319/
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...from a certain religion and that moral code turns into legislation to suit one certain religious point of view, and if that code happens to be very very right wing, almost toward Attila the Hun..." then that, he says, moves into fascist theocracy.
He said this on CNN Crossfire in 1986.
NINETEEN-EIGHTY-SIX.
The man was an unabashed prophet with a long reach that mattered. I suspect we lost something incalculably valuable when cancer took him in 1993.
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...from a certain religion and that moral code turns into legislation to suit one certain religious point of view, and if that code happens to be very very right wing, almost toward Attila the Hun..." then that, he says, moves into fascist theocracy.
He said this on CNN Crossfire in 1986.
NINETEEN-EIGHTY-SIX.
The man was an unabashed prophet with a long reach that mattered. I suspect we lost something incalculably valuable when cancer took him in 1993.
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Maybe they can tattoo the number into their forearms, or make them wear a little patch to help people identify them.
#itcanhappenhere #maga #magats #fascism #trump #trump2024 #KamalaHarris #kamala2024
https://newrepublic.com/post/186239/donald-trump-full-holocaust-immigration
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Maybe they can tattoo the number into their forearms, or make them wear a little patch to help people identify them.
#itcanhappenhere #maga #magats #fascism #trump #trump2024 #KamalaHarris #kamala2024
https://newrepublic.com/post/186239/donald-trump-full-holocaust-immigration
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@mmiasma
Frank Zappa: "It can't happen here", exactly what popped into my head.
Early 1933 - the Nazi deputies in the Reichstag became so out of control and intimidating that those from other parties just weren't coming in anymore, so it was easier to pass the Enabling Act and ... elections became meaningless.
#NeverAgainTrump
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When people are afraid to file a complaint because of the possibility of retaliation by thugs, we're in the same situation as average Germans in the 1930s with the Brown-shirts.
"A woman who works at the cemetery filed an incident report with the military authorities over the altercation. But the official, who has not been identified, later declined to press charges. Military officials said she feared Mr. Trump’s supporters pursuing retaliation."
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When people are afraid to file a complaint because of the possibility of retaliation by thugs, we're in the same situation as average Germans in the 1930s with the Brown-shirts.
"A woman who works at the cemetery filed an incident report with the military authorities over the altercation. But the official, who has not been identified, later declined to press charges. Military officials said she feared Mr. Trump’s supporters pursuing retaliation."
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"Trump and his allies openly admire the results of the Eisenhower-era 'Operation Wetback,' whose very name offers a slur revealing the endemic prejudice that made it possible. This limited deportation blitz led to the deaths of 88 workers in 112°F heat. A new Trump administration would be looking to replicate that operation on a scale heretofore untried, using the largest deportation force ever seen in the U.S."
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"Trump and his allies openly admire the results of the Eisenhower-era 'Operation Wetback,' whose very name offers a slur revealing the endemic prejudice that made it possible. This limited deportation blitz led to the deaths of 88 workers in 112°F heat. A new Trump administration would be looking to replicate that operation on a scale heretofore untried, using the largest deportation force ever seen in the U.S."
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The year is 2015.
One of my conservative relatives: Courtney, you speak German, and you grew up over there. Does the way Trump speaks remind you of Hitler?
Me: Without a shred of doubt.
#fascism
#ItCanHappenHere
#ItIsHappeningHere
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The year is 2015.
One of my conservative relatives: Courtney, you speak German, and you grew up over there. Does the way Trump speaks remind you of Hitler?
Me: Without a shred of doubt.
#fascism
#ItCanHappenHere
#ItIsHappeningHere
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@JaneImber Thank you for recommending Our Missing Hearts. It is a very disturbing but compelling book. Although touted as #SpeculativeFiction, the #fascism, #racism, #whiteSupremacy, fear, hate, control of information and the war on human relationships are all happening in North America to some degree, I recommend it too. Like the Prophet Song, books like this tell #democratic societies that #freedoms can be lost in the blink of an eye.
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@JaneImber Thank you for recommending Our Missing Hearts. It is a very disturbing but compelling book. Although touted as #SpeculativeFiction, the #fascism, #racism, #whiteSupremacy, fear, hate, control of information and the war on human relationships are all happening in North America to some degree, I recommend it too. Like the Prophet Song, books like this tell #democratic societies that #freedoms can be lost in the blink of an eye.
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I write a lot about the reality that fascism itself, is a legalist, top-down political formulation that is very much about seizing control of the law, and then using that to install and maintain a fascist order. This runs entirely contrary to popular conceptions of fascism, which often portray the rise of a fascist movement or dictatorship, as a sort of "popular madness," where a majority of people support a fascist doctrine because of ignorance, or being deceived into doing so; or worse, the result of a "chud rush" where a bunch of "guys with guns" physically seize the halls of power and declare "it's fascism now." The reality that actually the best weapons to subvert democratic will that a fascist order has at its disposal are judges, lawyers and lawmakers, not an army of street nazis, was true in pre-war Germany, and it's true today.
Finally, it would appear that some folks are starting to notice:
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/intro-chesebro-docs
A lot of this article by Josh Kovensky, over at Talking Points Memo (a Dem-aligned blog run by Josh Marshall) is about the particulars of Trump's Jan 6th, 2021 attempted autogolpe and how it was planned. It's a worthwhile read, but I'd just like to highlight the section that demonstrates exactly what I'm talking about in terms of the legalist nature of a fascist takeover, and how that sort of thing actually happens in reality, rather than popular imagination:
"The trove provides a definitive account of how a small group of attorneys, dedicated to Trump, designed and tried to implement the portion of the coup attempt which unfolded via legal arguments. They burnished the former president’s efforts with a veneer of respectability that at times masked their radicalism: This portion of the effort to reverse Trump’s loss did not proceed via loud claims of voter fraud or through Sidney Powell’s promise of a “Kraken” lawsuit that would wipe her enemies away, nor did it move forward through the actions of mobs and street thugs primed to seize the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Rather, the attorneys involved all had extensive experience in the practice of law. Chesebro is a Harvard Law graduate who spent much of his early career working on appellate cases with liberal commentator and Harvard Law professor Larry Tribe. John Eastman was a longtime conservative movement attorney who had been dean of Chapman University Law School. Others, like Pennsylvania attorney Bruce Marks, had built careers out of an extensive civil practice."
And I mean, yeah, yeah "not all lawyers" but that isn't the point here. The point is that when fascism comes to your door, it's going to be there because a bunch of guys with law degrees have twisted the rules to make fascism not only legal, but the only law of the land. That's how it always works. That's why Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. himself said "we should never forget that everything Adolph Hitler did in Germany was "legal"... What you saw on January 6th, was merely the public facing of a plot to abuse the law, for the purposes of overturning an election; and it's a pretty good preview of just how Trump, his cronies, and the folks behind Project 2025, mean to bring overt fascist rule to America after this next election.
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Meanwhile @msnbc -‘[ Gifted] NYTimes: How the Russian Government Silences Wartime Dissent
This is news. This is the repression of speech if we let Republicans take the presidency and /or Congress in 2024. These are the stakes. You can’t paint your nails yellow & blue, can’t display a green ribbon.
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Meanwhile @msnbc -‘[ Gifted] NYTimes: How the Russian Government Silences Wartime Dissent
This is news. This is the repression of speech if we let Republicans take the presidency and /or Congress in 2024. These are the stakes. You can’t paint your nails yellow & blue, can’t display a green ribbon.
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**new podcast — Is the U.S. again at risk for democratic #Backsliding and even violence? #Trump promises #Retribution, refers to opponents as #vermin, and threatens a #DeepState purge – among other things. I discuss this and more in relation to NYU Press #ItCanHappenHere bit.ly/3MhFDt9 on mAlette Smeulers terrific new podcast series.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4YAYw0sAvZJFZiTzr767e8?si=0mbee3cvSPikdf8Yk3anmw&nd=1&dlsi=54a92a0ee4824c55 -
CW: U.S. Politics, Trump dictatorship
Mark Jacob on twitter:
"WaPo’s headline is: “Trump and allies plot revenge, Justice Department control in a second term.”
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CW: Depressing AF, but a must-read. I consider myself fairly well-informed, but there are parts of this that jolted me.
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CW: Depressing AF, but a must-read. I consider myself fairly well-informed, but there are parts of this that jolted me.
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Jeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares 🦝🐙 🇱🇧🧯 🇨🇦 @[email protected] ·in other words : they are giving up on the elderly, and trying to save the young in #italy
#covid19 #ncov2019. #itcanhappenhere
https://www.facebook.com/libertymemesmeltsteelbeams/photos/a.1637553866350632/2508595085913168/
