What is sparking the huge nationwide protests in Germany against the hard-right AfD party and its anti-immigrant stance? As Linda Mannheim reports, the protests are responding to revelations of a secret meeting held by AfD folks and Identitarian and neo-Nazi activists "to map out a 'master plan' for mass deportations should the AfD gain the power to implement it."
Exactly what Trump is promising in the US if he's elected….
"[F]ar-right Israeli leaders are pressuring Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to restart the assault on Hamas. Far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir warned today that unless he does, Ben-Gvir’s faction will leave the government coalition Netanyahu leads. 'Stopping the war = breaking apart the government,' Ben-Gvir said."
All across #Europe, the #HardRight and #FarRight are coalescing around a common set of repressive measures aimed at #migrants and the LGBTQI community.
The tactic comes straight from the #fascist playbook of the 1930s. This worst kind of distraction politics, creates a space to enact measures to centralize power creating a powerful feedback loop
Day 177 and #Twitter users are surprised that #ElonMusk’s decision to remove #bluecheck validation is causing chaos and the creation of impersonation accounts. That could never have been predicted?
#Decentralized#SocialMedia is the solution for exposure to willful and arbitrary behavior by egomaniacal billionaires
Day 269 since the #ElonMusk Twitter acquisition and the latest change appears to be a pure exercise in narrcisism and self sabotage.
#Twitter is not in need of renaming and rebranding, it is in need of investment to prop its creaky technical infrastructure, and a serious content managment effort which might lure advertisers back; they're not fond of #HardRight wackadoos and agents of #disinformation