It is easy to be hyperbolic in all political commentary, but one should be clear that Trump's rhetoric meets all the conventional definitions of fascism. Many people seem afraid of saying this because it seems extreme or hysterical, but it is what it is.
Fascism has come to America. What else can you say? These images are just from today. He calls his enemies "vermin," wants to revoke media broadcast licenses, and foments hate against members of ethnic minority groups, whom he promises to deport by the millions in order to fix country's problems.
Fantastic segment and, yeah, I’d let myself forget a lot of this.
this is the most in depth examination of this little revelation that i've seen and serves as a good reminder of what things were like in 2020, which i think a lot of people have memory-holed.
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Lou Erickson on the Georgia GOP marching to the beat of the racist, extreme right, Atlanta Journal, 2/20/1964.
There was a story that went around this week about movie studios' woes with "superfans." A "superfan" is somebody who has attached their whole personality to hating an intellectual property they loved in their youth. Full Essay: www.the-reframe.com/killing-our-...
"One really violent day" in our morally underdeveloped nation. Supremacist superfans, Star Wars, and the popular insistence within a violent empire of owning heroism as exclusive property.
this is why i won't stand for any slippage about what we can learn from genetics and how to conduct that work. Eugenic thinking still permeates popular culture and the slippage is too easy. blood-genes-races-peoples - for too many folks they're all the same thing with all the ugly implications
Can I just- It is absolutely poisonous that the right wing continues to make faithfully doing your job a risk to your life. I felt it as a library worker, every teacher I know feels it, doctors, journalists, now the damn weather reporters who are mostly known for keeping people safe and dad jokes.
“Ignorance is becoming socially acceptable.” Meteorologists talk of death threats from the army of crazed conspiracy theorists who believe the government can control the weather.
It’s their job to warn residents about destructive storms — but political polarization has made them targets online
two things lonely island is still funny as hell the best thing about the entire joke that is the lonely island is they are legitimately good rappers youtu.be/e8oR4DB6SAA?...
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
Historian Richard Frankel is here! 🗃️ bsky.app/profile/refr...