This is the same argument that led to the red scare in the 50s. Want to unionize your workplace? That’s not the only union you want! Want to bring an anti consumerism message? Literally communism! It’s much easier to group undesirables together so you can marginalize the libertarians, evangelicals and business class in one fell swoop by labeling them Fascist
I’d like to point out that the political compass is a really bad construct for understanding politics. Ideology is made from smaller factors such as economics, tradition, religion, intellectualism, and other institutions. Fascism came out of socialist circles, as did Nazism. The modern political compass came out of the cold war and helped both sides justify themselves: the communists who wanted to be as far from the Nazis as possible and the Americans who wanted to be seen as the voice of the moderates. (Don’t look at the Molotov-Ribbontrop pact or Jim Crow)
The Republican party promotes Right wing populism. Elements of that include autarky, isolationism and conservatism.
Fascism is a very specific ideology, and while the leader of the Republican party Trump has some things in common with it, he is not on the war path like a true fascist would be. He is less imperialist than previous presidents. He wants to pull out from NATO and abandon the Kurdish people in Syria. Again, Trump is a populist. He did not come out of socialist circles preaching an anti-elitist message.
But Trump lacks rebirth rhetoric outside of ‘MAGA’ He isn’t seeking to subjugate the other nations of the world for the spirit of America. He didn’t really support the US military, and doesn’t employ brown shirts to silence opposition. That may be because our institutions are durable enough to resist him now though.
I do see the argument though. I however oppose reductionism. It’s dehumanizing and anti-democratic. Problem comes when one has to fight populism with intellectualism. It doesn’t work because it’s not snappy
A recently released Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) document titled “Domestic Terrorism Symbols Guide”* links common protest symbols to “terrorism” — another marker in a common theme of conflating militant protest for social justice with deadly terrorist violence within the United States. Groups like the American...
I don’t really have a guide anywhere, but there are a number of them on the web. One of the OSINT powerhouses is BellingCat. They make finished products. There’s liveuamap.com/en for a map on the RU/UA war. Oryx is a good estimate for equipment losses there (I bet you can tell where my interests lie) I’d recommend getting to know some of these finished products first. That, and reading about the history of where you are looking at. Learning about the politics of Coal? Read some books about it. Get some perspectives. Want to know about the Isreal/Palestine conflict? Get to know the last 100 years of conflict since the Ottoman Empire fell
There’s a real big difference in bits and bites investigating and actual finished products. A lot of the tools out there are for getting these bits and bites like osintframework.com. One can buy commercial satellite photos, but those are expensive. They’re usually already bought by people on Twitter anyway. Putting together products is the hard part though, and there are quite a few pitfalls that one can fall into between unreliable sources and deceptive imagery persuasion or DIP. Ryan McBeth is a great source to look at to help you spot this sort of thing.
This occurred to me while listening to the news. When they exchange people it’s always hostages for people held in Palestine and prisoners for people held in Israel. Why is that? Is it just perception or is there a practical difference?...
True. Al Jazeera is a Qatari state run media enterprise. They’re pretty reliable on news on things outside the Middle East, but tend to have a massive bias when it comes to matters of Qatar’s interests.
You probably don’t work for a large company who has a duty to their shareholders. Large companies tend to save any penny they can because it scales up across the company. The workers at the bottom have no way to communicate with their employers too.
Small business has a shorter hierarchy, where you can go talk to the head of the company. They’re usually private companies that don’t have public shareholders.
Deep in their grief a few months later, Gina and Padrig Fahey received news that shocked them to their core: A favorite photo of their beloved son was plastered on the cover of a book that falsely argues COVID-19 vaccines caused a spike of sudden deaths among healthy young people....
After serving more than a month of in-school suspension over his dreadlocks, a Black student in Texas was told he will be removed from his high school and sent to a disciplinary alternative education program on Thursday....
Then that school policy is fine too, as it bans Anyone from wearing dreadlocks. This applies to the white Texans, the Hispanic Texans, the Black Texans etc.
That reasoning doesn’t work. It’s targeted against a certain group of marginalized people just like the Hijab law and the same principle.
It matches a couple of the patterns that antisemitic conspiracy theories have. Namely a secret society aimed at changing the status quo by subversion of ‘all the good people’. That’s a common theme, and has been used by both right wing and left wing antisemites. If you ask why would they subvert the good people, they answer, “It’s because it’s in their nature”
Admittedly, it’s missing the tropes, like Christian Values, marxist-capitalists, etc, so more context is needed to say for certain
No, I remain a Republican because I agree with the party’s stated positions on the free market, school choice, a balanced budget, low taxes, fewer regulations and tariffs, protecting unborn babies, encouraging personal responsibility, maintaining a strong presence in the world, enforcing rule of law, and upholding the Constitution.
Your comment reeks of the very same blatant partisanship that the modern republican party suffers from, or what I call ‘team spirit’. The policies he lists seem anti-welfare and democratic.
I criticize the Republican Party as they are anti-democratic and isolationist as well as favouring the prison system over education and rehabilitation. This keeping them on the very welfare system they want to reduce. Some other policies benefit companies too much also such as the school choice.
Had Republicans continued to focus on problem solving instead of obstructionism, perhaps I’d be more inclined to vote for them
But when the hammer swings the other way, I hope that the rest of America will learn the lessons of the 20s: both in the 20th and 21st centuries
I disagree. For ideologies like that, there always would have to be an enemy. I think they would teach that the Jews went into hiding and are still exercising their “international jewery”. After all, there’s no plot to begin with, so the same rhetoric could be useful before and after mass genocide. It’s not a pretty alternative history, and I think it would affect other minorities too
Very true. Russia doesn’t care what the US house thinks. They started the war after all. Russia continues to mobilize the war machine while the US fails to act decisively
Just around 24 hours after Musk made his comments, more than 42,000 new users joined Bluesky, making it the biggest signup day yet for the currently invite-only platform that launched earlier this year....
With the 2024 presidential race beginning to unfold, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont said he believes that President Joe Biden will again earn the Democratic nomination — and the president likely win reelection if he runs on a strong progressive campaign....
Biden also wins around the same against Trump according to RCP polling aggregation. Really nice site though I’ll definitely look at it. Not sure why you think Nate Silver is a fascist though. He isn’t a pundit, more so just a statistics nerd. If anything the Five thirty-eight team is against Trump, who is the fascist American’s pick.
Then all communists and socialists are Fascist also. Mussolini was an ardent socialist before being a fascist, and indeed still considered himself a Socialist. Joseph Stalin signed the Molotov-Ribbontrop pact with Adolph Hitler, who was a thug for the Marxists before starting his National Socialist Workers Party. The Conservatives who value the appeal of Strength that Fascist thinkers call out with also fall prey to Fascism
Indeed the Liberal Government of the United States subverted governments to install Fascist governments in South America such as the government under Pinochet. You and I both have the potential to be Fascist. I do not think that Nate Silver is any more of a Fascist than you or me, simply because he doesn’t shout from the street corners about the evils of Fascism.
A literal child taking orders in a fast food restaurant in the US (lemmy.world)
Sen. Bernie Sanders opposes giving Israel $10 billion in aid (www.nbcnews.com)
Always remember, both sides are just as bad! (lemmy.world)
FBI Labels Anti-Fascists and Anti-Racists as Violent Extremists (unicornriot.ninja)
A recently released Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) document titled “Domestic Terrorism Symbols Guide”* links common protest symbols to “terrorism” — another marker in a common theme of conflating militant protest for social justice with deadly terrorist violence within the United States. Groups like the American...
In the Hamas/Israel war, why does Palestine have "hostages" but Israel has "prisoners"?
This occurred to me while listening to the news. When they exchange people it’s always hostages for people held in Palestine and prisoners for people held in Israel. Why is that? Is it just perception or is there a practical difference?...
Judge on Trump NY Fraud Case Receives ‘Serious and Credible’ Death Threats From MAGA (www.rollingstone.com)
Judge Arthur Engoron and his staff received a barrage of death threats and antisemitic attacks after Donald Trump targeted them on social media.
Nintendo of America President: “Everyone Has the Right To Form a Union” (www.inverse.com)
RFK Jr. spent years stoking fear and mistrust of vaccines. Here's who gets hurt by Kennedy's work (apnews.com)
Deep in their grief a few months later, Gina and Padrig Fahey received news that shocked them to their core: A favorite photo of their beloved son was plastered on the cover of a book that falsely argues COVID-19 vaccines caused a spike of sudden deaths among healthy young people....
Black student suspended over his hairstyle to be sent to an alternative education program (www.aol.com)
After serving more than a month of in-school suspension over his dreadlocks, a Black student in Texas was told he will be removed from his high school and sent to a disciplinary alternative education program on Thursday....
S.T.P. (lemmy.world)
Truth. (lemmy.world)
Superboy, no! (lemmy.world)
Opinion: Republicans should be laughing at Boebert too — that they’re not is a sign of the times (www.denverpost.com)
It could happen here (lemmy.ml)
MAGA rages over report Pentagon exempting Ukraine from government shutdown (www.newsweek.com)
I need a ride home (sh.itjust.works)
Bluesky sees record signups day after Musk says X will go paid-only (mashable.com)
Just around 24 hours after Musk made his comments, more than 42,000 new users joined Bluesky, making it the biggest signup day yet for the currently invite-only platform that launched earlier this year....
Bernie Sanders says President Biden will win in 2024 if he runs on a "strong progressive agenda" (www.cbsnews.com)
With the 2024 presidential race beginning to unfold, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont said he believes that President Joe Biden will again earn the Democratic nomination — and the president likely win reelection if he runs on a strong progressive campaign....