Been saying [some version of] this at least since Michael articulated it so well on You're Wrong About... Excluding bigots from cultural and political influence because of their behavior is fundamentally different than bigots excluding people because of their identities and physical attributes...
@jay.bsky.team hope you enjoyed your weekend away from moderation apologia. when do you think you might be back in the office so we can talk about why this post is still up bsky.app/profile/nypo...
actual events of the video aside, this is a perfect encapsulation of where these nazis stand in society. There's one of them for every several thousand normal people. They know everyone thinks they're weird little freaks, which is why they spend all their time pretending to be mainstream
I'll refer everyone to the Yiddish trade union folksong "Oy, Ir Narishe Tsienitsn" from the early 1930s.
I don't think it's great that we are experiencing the most visible rise of anti-semitic conspirtorialism since WW2
Everyone makes this mistake, they think it was the hair. Wrong. It's the cheese. You control white people with cheese.
Woman approaching him
Looks just like jojo meme
“I thought you guys were the party of peace!”
The solution to the “Paradox of Tolerance” should be beamed into every single person’s head. I’m tired of so many dumbasses thinking they’ve found the ultimate gotcha whenever leftists do literally anything more than crumble like wet paper.
There will be more rough days ahead. Maybe tomorrow will be one of them.
But there are lots of us, and these fascists are bound to lose if we keep showing up.
Take heart.
Would that it were different! But it's this way, not the other way, and here we are.
Do what you can to take advantage of that as much as you can for as long as you can.
A better world is still possible, even here. We swear it.
When the camera pans around outside and there’s like 100 people chasing him. An absolutely perfect moment in antifascist cinema.
BREAKING: Striking workers are currently storming Tesla showrooms in Paris, demanding higher taxes on the ultra-wealthy.
(🎥 Luc Auffret)
Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
Portrait of Saejima Taiga standing in front of the Kamurocho sign in the style of a 90’s fighting anime complete with VHS tracking
90’s Anime OVA Saejima 🖊️🦑
A lormer mign ranking Un foreign and Commonwealth Office official said in a post on X that Israel's interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla is "plainly illegal." Craig Murray, who served as the British ambassador to Uzbekistan from 2002 to 2004, said that Israel did not have proper jurisdiction to intercept and detain members of the flotilla. Murray also provides further legal analysis, claiming that Israel's actions are considered to be a genocide of the Palestinian people, and that Israel's blockade "is plainly a part of the machinery of such genocide." Murray also says that, due to the vessels being on international waters, Israel directly attacked the nations that had deployed the boats. "The Metropolitan Police and DPP have an obligation to investigate and act over the abduction of persons from UK flagged vessels on the High Seas," Murray writes. & Share
When I say kidnapped, I mean that Israel is, according to international law, currently abducting citizens of multiple countries including multiple elected representatives of European countries, Israel’s ‘allies’.
“A sick & dying population is easier to control”. To understand what’s going on—
Suggest read the books: “ Hiding in Plain Sight” & “THEY KNEW” by Dr Sarah Kenzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
hey chatgpt can you make an image with some uhhhhhh Jewish stuff in it
“In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true. ... Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.” -Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
One of the few things that gets a similar reaction from me, which I've returned to multiple times in recent years, is this from Hannah Arendt in 1951.
If looking for a positive takeaway—because when writing like this resonates, things are not positive—it confirms the historical analogy is fitting.
An arrest of a person due entirely to the person having dark skin color is now known across the country as a "Kavanaugh stop," based on Justice Kavanaugh's justification of the practice. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Seems important that the Speaker of the House does not even try to dispute that the president is unwell.
Don't sleep on Michelle Wu, one of this country's most quietly effective climate leaders, cruising to a second term in Boston. It's telling that business interests tried and failed to stop her and are pouting about it now
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Idaho checking in. People have also been protesting regularly.
And true to form, the conglomerate media owned by people like Bezos have reliably under-reported it in hopes of manufacturing consent.
It's giving me flashbacks to the run-up to Bush Jr's Iraq invasion.
This is illegal
an illustration that shows a caterpillar, then a moth, then The Mothman text: GIVE YOURSELF TIMEA
Be the Mothman you wish to see in the world
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
It's one thing to succumb to the stick, but Vanderbilt, Dartmouth, Penn, USC, MIT, UT, Arizona, Brown, and UVA absolutely must refuse to go chasing after promises of carrots.
Black folk will tell you: The 1st thing cops say after an incident is always a lie.🤷🏿♂️
They lie because there's upside in it for them, and no downside.
No matter how many times they get caught lying, newspapers will print their next lie as the gospel truth.🤡
And people stop caring before truth hits
Just gonna put it out there: I don't care if illegal immigrants get healthcare because EVERYONE should get health care. Honestly, it bugs me that the Democrat response to that is "Nuh-uh!" instead of "Of course we want that, you monster, why should any human suffer?"
NPR today: for the first time in over 50 years we are now operating without any federal funding
Also NPR today: now for some uncritical coverage of the people who made it so that for the first time in over 50 years we are now operating without any federal funding
