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"There will be a reversal of human rights, an erosion of safety for millions of people (and, sadly, including the nations we influence around the world), the rejection of basic principles of the law, and an increasing enslavement of democracy to oligarchs and billionaires.

That’s what Christian nationalists want. That’s Project 2025."

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #chaos #WhiteChristianNationalists
/7


Doom 2024 [Leica M3 | 50mm Summicron | Kodak Portra 400]

#trump and #ElonMusk are #fascism #womensrights are lessened
#genocide in #gaza is glorified #climatechange and #xenophobia rage #profitsarepreferable to #people , convenience and security to #freedom opinion bests reality
compassion cedes to indifference

Do not let the anguished cries fall on deaf ears. Engage in radical #directaction and #mutualaid

@analog #filmphotography #analogphotography #analog #FilmMastodon #filmisnotdead
A man looking down at his phone as he rides the train. The city looms in the background.


"Trump’s chaos calibrates itself … inside a unified and powerful ecosystem of rightwing news, online content and viral disinformation that has grown more powerful throughout this era, spewing the same falsehoods in unison day after day, on repeat, for years. It is the 'political technology' by which swathes of the population have voted in effect to anoint a king in the belief it will amount to more freedom."

~ Oliver Laughland

#Trump #fascism #disinformation
/9

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/14/ive-been-to-more-than-100-trump-rallies-since-2016-this-is-why-i-think-he-won


"The decline in voter participation is what allows the Republicans to cosplay a mandate. If the elite political media plays along, that play-pretend becomes reality. Any story you read that uses the word mandate in any way except ironically is playing you for a fool…."

~ Charles Pierce

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #disinformation #VoterApathy #media
/7

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a62896778/presidential-election-2024-turnout/


"This election was about identity after all—an American identity which has become more tolerant of authoritarianism and less committed to democracy over the past decade. As Trump’s opponents try to figure out why they were defeated and how they can resist him over the next four years, they need to confront the dark reality about who we have become as a nation."

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #authoritarianism #disinformation #education #IdentityPolitics
/6


"Americans didn’t elect Trump because they were offended by the Democrats—they elected Trump because they like him. They know everything they need to know about Trump. He has been broadcasting his cruelty, hatred, and self-obsession into every American home for nearly a decade."

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #authoritarianism #disinformation #education
/5


"The old narratives about the Democrats’ contempt for the working class and their racially divisive politics don’t apply to this election. The argument that Americans are in so much economic pain that they had to vote for Trump doesn’t hold up: Unemployment is just over 4 percent, the stock market was hitting all-time highs before Trump won, and inflation has plummeted from a peak of over 9 percent to 2.4 percent."

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #authoritarianism #disinformation #education
/4


"A cultural and political chasm has opened up between Americans who still care about the integrity of their democracy and those who do not. We have entered an age of political nihilism in which our traditional conceptions of ideological and identitarian conflict must be abandoned. This election was about the identity of the United States as a whole, and it didn’t tell an inspiring story."

~ Matt Johnson

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #authoritarianism #disinformation #education
/3


"The median age of a Fox News viewer is 68, and liberals have joked about the network 'brainwashing' their conservative parents. But rightwing social media content has effectively targeted and radicalized younger people, who — unlike the typical Hannity-obsessed grandpa — can vote for the next several decades.

#Trump #fascism #disinformation #YoungVoters #SocialMedia #YoungMen #gender #MaleEntitlement
/2


"The pair discussed Roberts’s book, in which he describes how 'many of America’s institutions […] need to be burned'. Included among those to be incinerated, Roberts writes, are the FBI and the New York Times, along with 'every Ivy League college', '80% of ‘Catholic’ higher education', and the Boy Scouts of America."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/13/kevin-roberts-project-2025-book-events
#Project2025 #Fascism #KevinRoberts #Journalism


" 'We wanted to let readers know that we will no longer post on any official Guardian editorial accounts on the social media site X,' the Guardian said.
The Guardian has more than 80 accounts on X with approximately 27 million followers."
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/nov/13/the-guardian-no-longer-post-on-x-twitter-elon-musk
#TheGuardian #Xitter #Fascism #Journalism


Something we’re taught as physicians is that when talking w/ a distressed patient, you can’t meet #emotion with information

You have to meet emotion w/ acknowledgement & validation. Only then can the emotion fade & the brain receive information

Just thinking about this in context of the U.S. election

Maybe campaigns need to start employing experts on human emotion & behavior, not only information

Especially when #fascism harnesses that worst of human emotions (hate)

#DontLetHateWin


THIS is how the media incrementally normalizes genocide: NBC News website this morning describing Nazis harassing people attending a play about Anne Frank at an American Legion hall in MI.

"PROTESTORS wave Nazi flags at 'The Diary of Anne Frank' production in Michigan"

#Fascism #media #normalization

The active link is here though for God's sake I hope they fix it:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/protesters-wave-nazi-flags-diary-anne-frank-production-michigan-rcna179774
Screen capture of NBC News website.  Headline and sub headline reads:  

Protesters wave Nazi flags at 'The Diary of Anne Frank' production in Michigan.  While some cast members were "understandably shaken," producers said, "they pulled together and finished the performance with strength and professionalism."


Good for The Guardian...

"We think that the benefits of being on X are now outweighed by the negatives and that resources could be better used promoting our journalism elsewhere."

#media #fascism #elonmusk #disinformation #twitter

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/nov/13/why-the-guardian-is-no-longer-posting-on-x


"And yet, we’re supposed to want to be their friends, want to hang around them, invite them to parties? We’re mean if we don’t want to date them and bring them around our friends so that they can insult and denigrate them, because who doesn’t love that?"

#Trump #MAGA #family #fascism #cruelty
/5


"to — again, because this deserves repeating — shout
'YOUR BODY, OUR CHOICE!' at women and girls'; to call Puerto Rico a pile of garbage; to denigrate women who don’t have children; to repeatedly claim that 'liberalism is a mental disorder'; to talk about how they voted for Trump to punish us; to regularly claim that Black people are lying about the existence of racism and police brutality, to force their religion on us, and so forth!"

#Trump #MAGA #family #fascism #cruelty
/4


"Just so we’re clear — the rule is that these people are allowed to despise us; to insult large groups of people on the regular; to demand that transgender people be pushed out of public society for their own comfort; to talk gleefully about how they can’t want to watch ICE agents pull grandmothers from their beds and deport them;"

~ Robyn Pennacchia

#Trump #MAGA #family #fascism #cruelty
/3

https://www.wonkette.com/p/these-people-voted-for-trump-because


"But what I am saying is that, if you have MAGA relatives or friends, you need to evaluate your relationship not just on the basis of the ugly choice they made in the past, but on the basis of what that ugly choice says about what they might do to you in the future."

#Trump #MAGA #family #fascism #cruelty
/2


I just posted this valuable statement by Noah Berlatsky on Facebook, and Facebook immediately took down the posting:

"It may not be safe to remain friends with MAGA. Trump voters have told you they will hurt you. It’s reasonable to believe them. …

I’m not saying everyone in every case has to cut their MAGA family out of their life. Different people are in different circumstances; you can’t make blanket rules."

#Trump #MAGA #family #fascism #cruelty
/1

https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/it-may-not-be-safe-to-remain-friends


Republicans win House, delivering Trump a trifecta

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4974235-house-republicans-control-majority/

Well, great. Full-fat fascism it is, then. Trump will basically get to do whatever the fuck he wants for the next four years (and maybe for as long as he lives).

#USPol #Trump #RepublicanParty #fascism


“I have to say that as a Jewish Israeli who is a left-wing activist, I feel unsafe and unwelcome in Berlin.”

– Yuval Abraham

#Germany #fascism #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #settlerColonialism #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #WesternComplicity #warCrimes #antisemitism


Melissa Ryan offers readers today a helpful reading list for those seeking resources as we, in this period prior to the man's inauguration ask, "How do we prepare for the road ahead? How and where can we fight back? What do we need to know?"

The list has twelve book titles.

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #future #disinformation
/22

https://www.altrightdelete.news/p/your-end-of-year-reading-list


"Russia appears to be doing what every other entity that helped Trump get elected is doing, as they try to collect on their support: exerting what levers of pressure they have to get their objectives.

It turns out they likely have more levers of pressure — some of which are more powerful now, before Trump’s win is certified — and larger demands than most of the people who helped Trump get elected."

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #future #disinformation
/21


"Russia has been engaged in a good deal of dick-wagging with Trump since the election. …

Trump is going to be a tool of Russia."

~ Marcy Wheeler

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #future #disinformation
/20

https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/11/12/russia-attempts-to-collect-its-winnings/


"I will not spend a lot of time here blaming whoever caused this tremendous loss. People everywhere are already doing that.

Assigning blame is useless unless viable solutions are offered and implemented.

That said, here are my top three reasons why we lost the election:"

1. Racism
2. Sexism
3. Misinformation and disinformation

~ Pamela Hilliard Owens

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #future #disinformation
/19

https://wearespeaking.substack.com/p/that-was-then-this-is-now


I couldn't agree more with Stephanie G. Wilson:

"I’m not going to give any hot takes about the campaign, what it did wrong, or any particular tactics. … I don’t think small fixes would have made a difference. In this campaign, as in all of our country’s issues, we can’t fix systemic problems with individual solutions. A lot of that monday morning quarterbacking is self serving, and a lot of it can be a circular firing squad. No thank you."

#Trump #fascism
/16

https://www.freedomoverfascism.us/p/how-to-keep-functioning-and-getting


"In this ecosystem, what matters is what resonates, regardless of how outrageous, and getting riled up is rewarded by the algorithm. Again, there is the interaction of such visceral instincts with the more factual grievance of the system not working in their interests."

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #future #disinformation
/15


"For many outside of progressive, liberal, and left-leaning circles, social media platforms rife with conspiracy, disinformation, and hate are what people are seeing daily – and where they develop their sense of the world they live in. Social media is now the media."

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #future #disinformation
/14


"Politics isn’t about politics anymore.

That significant numbers instead see it as a vehicle to channel their fears and resentment-driven emotional instincts – beyond facts – is the existential challenge facing democracy today. ...

The tech revolution has changed everything."

~ Hardeep Matharu

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #future #disinformation
/13

https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-psycho-social-techno-politics


“He’s good and bad. People say he’s a dictator. I believe that. I consider him like Hitler. But I voted for the man.”

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #future #disinformation
/12

~ Scranton, Pennsylvania, voter Matt Wolfson

https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/donald-trump-voters-pennsylvania-economy-fascism-20241111.html


"Could we easily make up for the loss of these workers by replacing them with native-born workers? No. Employment among native-born adults in their prime working years is higher than it was at any point during Trump’s first term. There just isn’t a large pool of idle but employable native-born Americans to put to work."

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #future #disinformation
/10


"Undocumented immigrants are more than a fifth of the construction work force, so deportations would severely hamper efforts to increase the housing supply. (And no, contrary to what JD Vance said, immigration hasn’t driven the recent spike in housing costs.)"

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #future #disinformation
/9


"For example, they account for an estimated 30 to 50 percent of workers in meatpacking.

If these workers are deported, the food industry will probably have great difficulty replacing them. Even in the best case, the industry will have to offer much higher wages — and, of course, these higher wages will be passed on in higher prices.

(Oh, and while we produce most of what we eat, we also import a lot of food — whose prices would be raised by tariffs.)"

#Trump #fascism #disinformation
/8


"If you’re upset about grocery prices now, see what happens if Trump goes after a huge part of the agricultural work force; immigrants are around three-quarters of agricultural workers — & roughly half of them are undocumented. (& do you really doubt that many workers legally here will be caught up in Trump’s threatened dragnets?) Undocumented immigrants also play a large role in food processing."

~ Paul Krugman

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #future #disinformation
/7

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/11/opinion/trump-deportation-inflation-grocery-bills.html


"Surveys show that Trump’s supporters don’t just tolerate his autocratic tendencies. They positively like them. ...

Most Americans don’t want explicit autocracy. But many Trump supporters are open to it, and most of his voters will support or tolerate authoritarian policies and acts."

~ Will Saletan'

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #future #disinformation
/6

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/how-authoritarian-are-americans-trump-surveys-autocracy


"The question they should be asking is, 'Why?'

Instead, they waste time on their typical and tired blame-the-Democrats assessments while ignoring the underlying causes that led to this fraught and dangerous era, a fascist is putting together the most extreme cabinet in modern American history. Good job, everybody."

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #future #disinformation
/5


"It was Joe Biden’s fault. It was Kamala Harris’ fault. But apparently the bleak permanence of American racism and misogyny, the almost unimpeded rise of fascism, and a system so broken the Republican Party actually nominated, and America elected, an insurrectionist in direct violation of Article 3 of the 14th Amendment had nothing at all to do with the dark turn we’ve taken."

~ Mary Trump

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #future #disinformation
/4

https://www.marytrump.org/p/the-media-want-to-blame-kamala-harris


"and that while the worst of it is the foreign and far-right intentional distortion of reality, too much of the mainstream media has been deferential and will be more deferential to authoritarianism and will not stop letting the right set the agenda about what to be concerned about and what matters. In fact, I don’t have to believe that disinformation is impactful; I know it because it’s been documented."

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #future #disinformation
/2


"I believe this election turned out the way it did in no small part because a large number of Americans are now submerged in new factories of lies more insidious than anything Orwell imagined,"

~ Rebecca Solnit

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #future #disinformation
/1

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/09/authoritarians-like-trump-love-fear-defeatism-surrender-do-not-give-them-what-they-want