During a recent six-hour grilling, a new reality emerged: Attitude now gives license to punish others — a way of being that re-concretizes a pigmentocracy’s values.
—R. Wayne Branch, PhD
When I follow that link, I end up with "www.www" twice in the URL and the server isn't found. Taking one of the "www." out and all is good. Copy-paste or fedi hiccup or something.
President Zelensky suggests Trump's election can strongly affect war.
The result of the upcoming 2024 U.S. presidential election can "very strongly" influence the course of Russia's war against Ukraine, President Zelensky said during a press conference on Dec. 19.
#Fascism isn’t an ancient relic or an outdated term; it has returned as a living, breathing process transforming and weaponizing the state against its people.
Few remain from the generation that watched the #ideology take hold and mutate and unfold its horrors the first time, and without that living memory, we are challenged to explain what fascism was and how it worked.
As GOP voters seem increasingly “meh” on culture war rhetoric, it’s bad news for the politician who has most publicly positioned himself as an anti-woke warrior.
McConnell: Border talks not done, quick vote would ‘not succeed’
There is a “lot of very technical work on drafting which takes time to get right,” McConnell wrote in a note to Republican senators. #AureFreePress#News#GOP#Politics#USA#Biden
"Why is the US far right finding its savior in Spanish dictator Francisco Franco?" by Jason Wilson (#TheGuardian)
"Some US far-right figures have made renewed attempts to rehabilitate the 20th century Spanish dictator Gen Francisco Franco in recent months, praising him as an avatar of religious authoritarianism, and praising his actions during and after the Spanish civil war as a model for confronting the left in the US."
"The critics of this flurry of neo-Francoism say that the real target of this revisionism is domestic attitudes to US democracy."
"For Faber, parts of the the American right are captured by “the dream of order, where social order is more important than democracy, and democracy is a threat to social order”."
It doesn’t surprise me. Probably the same crowd that praises the “Chilean Miracle” and thinks that “Pinochet did nothing wrong.”
I also don’t doubt that the idea of summary executions (a mainstay of Franco even years after winning the war) secretly appeals to them. Such an efficient way to purify society.
Unfortunately, the idea of a society that must be "pure" (in its various variants) is very attractive to those people who seek above all Order and Hierarchy.
There are some Dem party activists who are pleading with the party for Biden to step aside and let someone else run. Are they Trump supporters too? Why does it have to be Biden? We have time to pick someone else, possibly someone who isn't underwriting the genocide of an entire people.
During this time of year when we’re supposed to be celebrating (insert holiday), I can’t stop thinking about the fact that my nephew is going to soon be deployed overseas on his first tour with the U.S. Army in the current geopolitical climate.
I can’t.
I keep having flashbacks of how my friends from high school enlisted and deployed to go over to Iraq/Afghanistan (early 2000’s)
When Liz Cheney and Rachel Maddow join forces to nationally broadcast an urgent plea about a "five alarm fire" in America's democracy... well I for one listen.
What to do, from this nursing home and with no donation 💸? Then kismet - an ACLU ad comes on telly. Went to site, found these (1/2 down, left side) all free, all easy to unsub:
STAY INFORMED - newsletter
GET INVOLVED - action groups (fun!)
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Your twice weekly reminder that the fight is between those who want to “Terminate the Constitution” and those who do not. Everything else is distraction.