#fascism
Trump is using his minions to violate his gag order, an act only a career criminal and a wannabe dictator would commit.
Trump is using proxies to violate his gag order
Contrary to popular belief, fascism does not represent counterrevolutionary or reactionary opposition to progressive ideas in the name of tradition. Many thinkers advanced this mistaken interpretation during the postwar periodThe common mistake of all these interpretations involves generalizing the idea of fascism to include any movement that is either authoritarian or inclined to defend the past. This interpretation stems from an axiological faith (that is precisely the right word) in the value of modernity in the wake of the French Revolution.
Modernity is taken to be an inevitable and irreversible process of secularization and human progress, in which the question of transcendence — whether broadly Platonic or Christian — has entirely vanished, and in which novelty is synonymous with positivity. Progress rests upon the ongoing expansion of technology and individual autonomy. Everything, including knowledge, becomes a tool to pursue affluence, comfort, and well-being.
According to this faith in modernity, to be good is to embrace the progressive direction of history; to be evil is to resist it. Since fascism is clearly evil, it cannot be a development of modernity itself but must be “reactionary.” On this view fascism includes all those who fear worldly progress, have a psychological need for a strong social order to protect them, venerate and idealize a past historical moment, and so endow a leader with immense power to instantiate this.
Fascism understands itself to be a revolutionary and progressive manifestation of power. As in communism, fascism replaces traditional religious principles with a secular religion in which the future — rather than an idealized past or meta-historical ideals — becomes an idol. Politics replaces religion in the quest to liberate humankind. Contrary to popular characterizations, fascism makes no attempt to preserve a heritage of traditional values against the advance of progress (one only has to look at fascist architecture for confirmation of this). Instead, it proceeds as the unfolding in history of a wholly novel and unprecedented power.
A long read about fascism and anti-fascists. Either end is troublesome.
#Fascism #AntiFascist #LongRead
The Latent Fascism of Today’s Anti-Fascists ⋆ Brownstone Institute
Why Do Republicans Try to Eradicate Transgender & LGBTQ Americans? | Prism & Pen
I feel obligated to quote from J.M. Barrie (author of Peter Pan) via the voice of Cylon No. Six from the second series of Battlestar Galactica:
“All this has happened before.
All this will happen again.
I want off this murder carousel.”
Ben-Gvir feels he is the master or #Netanyahu
Ma'ariv newspaper describes the situation as: There is a new prime minister in “Israel”.
They add that in practice, Benjamin Netanyahu has become the servant of his master, Itamar #BenGvir, and this raises the obvious question: To what extent has Netanyahu deteriorated?
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir appeared in front of the cameras a few days ago while leaving the Prime Minister’s Office, acting Prime Minister, and announced in an unambiguous tone: “I warned the Prime Minister that we will not enter #Rafah, nor will there is an illegal deal.
The Prime Minister heard the words, and promised that "Israel" would enter Rafah, and promised that the war would continue, and promised that there would be no illegal deal.
These words and tone of voice leave no room for doubt in the heart of every listener. There is a new prime minister in the State of #Israel.
This raises the obvious question: To what extent has Netanyahu deteriorated? It has reached the point where even a response from a prime minister, in order to preserve his dignity, is not uttered.
Netanyahu, despite thousands of disagreements, knows what the majority of the people want: the release of detainees, and he also knows what is important and useful to the people.
But he follows Ben Gvir and Bezalel #Smotrich, because that is what is good politically for Netanyahu for obvious reasons.
@German #police arrested a Jewish man holding a banner "Jews Against #Genocide" and confiscated his banner.
Isn't that #antisemitism? Preventing the free speech of a Jewish citizen on broad daylight like this?
Video on #TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGeQy6hC7/
Courting Disaster - Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance
There is no pretense that Trump would take office as anything other than an authoritarian leader, unconcerned by the rule of law. It’s a stern reminder that we are being realists, not alarmists, when we talk about how devastating a second Trump presidency would be.
It may be said that #fascism comes on little cat feet. But in the 21st Century, #autocratic forms of governance are unfolding with a twist. Democratic norms of tolerance, debate, proportionate responses to any infractions by citizens, and more, are disappearing in Canada. We are not, strictly speaking, becoming a totalitarian state. At least not yet. We don’t have a #dictator.
The crackdown on Columbia University students by the NYPD was spearheaded by Rebecca Weiner, who is a faculty member of the school. Weiner, a Columbia professor, heads an NYPD intelligence division that operates an office in Tel Aviv.
Weiner attributed the need for the violent raid to the students' rhetoric.
#US #Colombia #NYPD #IDF #Mossad #Israel #StudentProtests #Fascism #Genocide
the new #fascism and #antisemitism, covered with #redFlags, but no, you are not #left, you are not #marxists and you are not #communists! we need a new #antifa!
https://fathomjournal.org/opinion-from-little-rock-to-columbia/
I’m a UCLA professor. Why didn’t the administration stop last night’s egregious violence?
The university should have anticipated Tuesday night’s chaos — but security personnel were nowhere to be found
#UCLA, the top-rated public university in the United States, experienced one of the darkest nights in its 105-year history on Tuesday. Over the course of my 33-year career at UCLA, I have never seen anything so terrifying take place.
Around 11 p.m., a group of masked counter-demonstrators made their way to the Royce Quad in the heart of campus and began to attack the encampment set up last week by demonstrators opposing the war in Gaza. They threw a firecracker into the encampment, tore down its outer walls, threw heavy objects at demonstrators and instigated direct physical confrontations. Those in the encampment were left to fend for themselves against a violent band of thugs intent on inflicting damage.
#Fascism #US #StudentProtests #Pooitics #FreeSpeech #Israel #Gaza #Ceasefire #StopIsrael #SaveGaza #SaveRafah #Genocide
https://forward.com/opinion/608479/ucla-violence-campus-protests/
New York Times business editor Andrew Sorkin seeks an economic boycott on anti-genocide students.
He wrote in a column:
- “Many business leaders have told me they are deeply concerned about incidents of harassment against Jewish students that have taken place at and around universities like Columbia”
- “Companies could tell universities that they won’t hire their students”
- “Wall Street, private equity and venture capital firms may uniquely have [a pressure point]: They could threaten to stop managing the endowments” of the universities.
- “Examining D.E.I. policies [Diversity, equity, and inclusion] [...] What would happen if the Wall Street firms also sent such questionnaires to the universities before deciding to work with them as clients?”
- “The most common course of action so far has been to pull back on individual donations.”
#Politics #Fascism #StudentRevolt #Israel #US #Genocide #Capitalism #NYT
