#scapegoats — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #scapegoats, aggregated by home.social.
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#TrumpRegime #patsies #scapegoats
"Trump claims vandals damaged D.C. Reflecting Pool, and says it will be drained again
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President Trump has claimed that United States Park Police have made several arrests in connection with what he described as deliberate sabotage of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington D.C., which underwent a multimillion-dollar renovation earlier this year.
'The United States Park Police have arrested multiple individuals for vandalizing our Nations magnificent Reflecting Pool,' Trump wrote on Truth Social late Saturday evening. "These are very serious crimes having to do with the destruction of National Monuments. Years in jail! Work will begin immediately on its repair.
In a second post on Saturday, Trump described the alleged damage in greater detail, saying more arrests had followed. He provided no evidence for any of his claims about the nature of the damage, and neither the Park Police nor any other law enforcement agency had publicly confirmed any arrests as of the time of publication."
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/21/nx-s1-5865636/trump-reflecting-pool-dc-vandals-drain-green
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/20/death-of-accountability-nigel-farage-no-10-brexit. "Austerity plus #Brexit enabled the rise of Farage’s #ReformUK. Further #decline & #insecurity are a boon for those who can channel our rage towards #scapegoats: #immigrants, #asylumseekers, #Muslims, woke 'elites'. If #Farage becomes prime minister in 2029, his Brexit disaster will be a major reason why." The #Nazis blamed the #Jews for people's ills - & THEY were believed, too! Simple answers aren't always the right ones.
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Cathy Young surveys the response of the American right (read: MAGA) to Orbán's defeat and concludes that those folks aren't taking the loss well. Elon Musk predictably goes low (and antisemitic) by lamenting that Soros (!) has taken over Hungary. Others like Rod Dreher want to pretend that Orbán's concession to Magyar proves that he was always about democracy and not autocracy.
#Orbán #Trump #autocracy #corruption #scapegoats #immigrants #antisemitism
/13https://www.thebulwark.com/p/nationalist-right-orban-loss-election-mourning-hungary-vance-dreher
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"They insist the country is being stolen, that real people are losing control, that chaos is spreading. ...
Moral and media panics are not incidental to this project; they are its central tools."
#Trump #StephenMiller #autocracy #corruption #scapegoats #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #hate
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"If you pull these threads together—Reconstruction and Redemption, the Know‑Nothings, McCarthyism, the crime panics—you see different versions of the same playbook. Something changes in the direction of greater equality or pluralism. New voices insist on being heard. In response, elites and would‑be strongmen sound the alarm."
~ Mark Mansour
#Trump #StephenMiller #autocracy #corruption #scapegoats #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #hate
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"Like dictators before him, Trump’s road to tyranny is paved with stones hurled at 'them' — whether 'they' are immigrants, Iranians, or anyone else who doesn’t fit the white Christian nationalist mold."
#Trump #StephenMiller #autocracy #corruption #scapegoats #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #hate
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"The war in Iran has made everything — even Stephen Miller’s war on immigrants — feel like the Strait of Hormuz....
Miller and Trump, on the other hand, want to fuel bigotry. Their entire project depends on hate."
~ Robert Reich
#Trump #StephenMiller #autocracy #corruption #scapegoats #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #hate
/9https://robertreich.substack.com/p/steven-millers-strait-of-hormuz
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"Because Orbán’s administration has used antisemitism as a political tool throughout his time in power, and is desperately turning to this hatred once again on its way, possibly, out the electoral door. ...
This playbook has clear resonances in that deployed by Trump."
#Orbán #Trump #autocracy #corruption #scapegoats #immigrants #antisemitism
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"There is much that Americans can learn from the Hungarian experience of years spent under the governance of someone accused of dismantling rule of law, a person whose inner circle has grown rich during his time in office. But American Jews in particular should pay attention."
~ Emily Tamkin
#Orbán #Trump #autocracy #corruption #scapegoats #immigrants #antisemitism
/8https://forward.com/opinion/818143/orban-hungary-election-antisemitism/
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"Even during his infamous DoorDash delivery this week, Trump clumsily interjected 'men playing women’s sports' into a staged conversation about taxes on tips. The forced non sequitur was awkward for its obviousness."
#Orbán #Trump #autocracy #corruption #scapegoats #immigrants #antisemitism
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"Critics also describe how Orbán routinely created 'imaginary enemies' to distract voters, another Hitlerian maneuver perfected by Trump. From falsely depicting immigrants as violent criminals, to accusing DEI programs of ‘white bashing,’ Trump constantly stokes social division by creating then perpetuating imaginary enemies."
~ Sabrina Haake
#Orbán #Trump #autocracy #corruption #scapegoats #immigrants #antisemitism
/6https://sabrinahaake.substack.com/p/if-hungary-can-do-it-so-can-we
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RE: https://flipboard.com/@newyorktimes/world-5f2k3dqjz/-/a-Ef9EjBJ3TFyFAbyrNHeBlg%3Aa%3A3195393-%2F0
But the officials are arresting construction workers and others involved in the renovation work. #scapegoats
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It's about time #maga (and #wappies) wake up. Yes, there is a #elite you shouldn't trust. You have been voting to make them more powerful, hating the #scapegoats they told you to hate. The left was right all along #dumptrump #fckwilders #fckfvd #ja21scks #evilbbb
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"If European democracies cannot deliver on the basic promise of shelter, they invite not just economic dysfunction but political catastrophe"
#housing #housingcrisis #democracy #extremism #scapegoats
https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-housing-crisis-threatens-the-foundations-of-democracy
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One of the people on the MPAQ encrypted chat service:
So everyone by now knows what is happening. If you can't see the atrocities taking place then I honestly don't know what to tell you. If you are cheering them on them shame on you, you are hateful and full of evil. If you were fooled into thinking that it would "only" affect people you personally do not like or who you have been told are "bad" instead of extending to literally EVERYONE then congrats, you are either hateful or at the very least did not listen in the mandated history, social studies and civics classes (or at least play catch up later which by all means YOU DEFINITELY SHOULD!) and are astronomically ignorant. Sorry, you are either A. Extremely hateful B. Not very bright or C. Hateful and ignorant
Educate yourselves on HOW the holocaust started. We are balls deep in it.JEWISH IMMIGRANTS WERE ONLY THE START!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(#IMMIGRANTS)
And they started by telling you these people were "criminals" or "illegal" mind you.Then it progressed to all jews
People of color (Hispanic and brown folks)People of certain religions such as Jewish and Catholics
(Muslims)#Queer people
(self explanatory here)To disabled people and eugenics
(Autistic folks, mentally ill, addicted)To "#vagrants"
(#Houseless people, travelers)And eventually...
To anyone who dared speak out or that the #nazis just "didn't like"It started as #SCAPEGOATS, for some in the beginning maybe even a "ha ha!" before it progressed to massive incarceration, detainment and eventually death. Where the FUCK is your headspace?!
Jesus was an immigrant, he was brown, he was poor, he was #houseless, his earthly parents FLED to save his life when he was still a baby!
To the least of his people?
You are denying them shelter, food, water, clothing, adequate sanitation. You are ripping infants and children from their mother's breast and families arms on the street! In broad daylight!
And cheering this on WHY?! Because of a technicality they have warped unconstitutionally that originally did not even fucking EXIST?! Our founding fathers (the ones among them who were not racist assholes) would be FUCKING PISSED!
The teachers who taught you about pioneer days (though the settlers and colonizers did a lot of fucked up shit a lot of people just sailed right in),
the industrial revolution era where the melting pot grew even more (Irish ect need not apply),
and later the #holocaust and also the #Japanese internment camps (Where they kidnapped anyone who looked Japanese, even families born here! And the holocaust and countless other examples throughout history of them kidnapping people that should all be self explanatory) would be FUCKING PISSEDAnd you know what? I can't really speak for them, but you know what? If I had to take a guess, just a long shot... Jesus and God would probably be FUCKING PISSED!
And so should anyone with even a single ounce of #humanity left!
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"When politicians continue to stoke public alarm toward foreigners, they risk spreading xenophobic sentiment"
"With wages stagnating despite higher prices, many people are struggling to make ends meet. Against this backdrop, foreigners are being used as #scapegoats."
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20250712/p2a/00m/0op/008000c
🔸Have noticed sleight-of-hand politicians providing sound-bites, eye-candy & scapegoats tend to mumble on tackling cost of living rises, inequality, sustainability, disaster resilience...
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"There’s also #DOGE, which is now embedded across multiple agencies but will be without a central figure like #Musk to lead it and protect its members... vulnerable to political retribution, especially if the #GOP in the #House decide not to oppose congressional subpoenas... Indeed, the DOGE dudes could become useful #scapegoats for when things go off the rails with #government services and the #economy."
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San Diego neighborhood shame walks ICE back
#SanDiego #ShameWalk #ICE #Enforcers #PoliticalPersecution #Polarization #Billionaires #WealthTransfer #Scapegoats #HumanRights #Assylum
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When multiple existential threats converge, anxiety becomes a reasonable response.
By reducing these legitimate concerns to mere screentime debates, we not only miss opportunities to address root causes, we invalidate young people's justified fears.
If we truly want to support the next generation, we must confront the full spectrum of pressures they face with honest, comprehensive solutions, not convenient #scapegoats that let us avoid truly seeing the world we've created for them.
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What will #jdvance say when the gangs come for his wife (after of course exhausting all other #scapegoats)?
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10 types of #misinformation and #disinformation Be smart. How to recognise disinformation: Designating #scapegoats Evoke strong #emotions (fear and anger) Causing #polarization #Impersonating an 'expert' Spreading #conspiracytheories with no clear evidence #Trolling to evoke a lot of reactions
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S8ao0FAf5Q
#Comedians Hilariously Dismantle #Rightwing LIES About #LAFires
#LAWildfires #scapegoats #farright #ClimateChange #LosAngeles
FYI: 2.40 min. mark : #GavinSchmidt director , #NASA #GoddardInstituteforSpaceStudies describes #LAWildfires.
