All fascist authoritarian regimes imprison, banish, or execute “Intellectuals” who don’t conform.
The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other. - Bertrand Russel
She seems like a bad hombre.
The Columbia student who was one of the first to be gulaged. He’s been there for months with no charges.
How did America let this happen.
Fascinate the fools then muzzle the intelligent. (Bertrand Russell)
Disinformation, propaganda, and stupidity
A bunch of old people that burned the world are afraid of losing their power and wealth, and as climate change becomes the unstoppable force that even they can’t stop, their hunger for power accelerates. They brainwashed the low-educated general masses (including brainwashing tech billionaires who have long since forgot what intelligence is and are easy to manipulate) through decades of biased media and promises they’ll never keep, all the while building a plan that’s mostly just copied from the Nazis, as they themselves aren’t really that intelligent, but some are cunning. The cunning and greed begets plans to keep the wealth and power. The plans are so fundamentally wrong and evil, they can never admit the wrong and evil part. They try to hide it behind “Christianity” to sleep at night.
Then, they wait for the correct time.
It was icing on the cake to have a senile mango to be the puppet.
There’s only one problem with your explanation. America didn’t copy the Nazis. It was the other way around.
A 2000 year old religion, 250 year old racism, and 20 year old technology.
republicans wanted us uneducated so we’d be easier to manipulate. now those chickens have come home to roost. our populace is easily manipulated by russian propaganda
Pretty much.
This is what the Republicans have wanted for decades, they’ve just also been largely lying about not being this craven or extreme for decades.
I come from a right wing household, was raised listening to Rush Limbaugh on the AM radio all the time.
The base has always been like this, the people on top, funding and puppeting the base, have also always been like this.
The mask is just off now.
Trump just gave them all permission to stop pretending they gave a fuck about making sense or pretending to give a shit about any principles.
It literally just is ‘first the Dems get a Black President, and then they ask us to wear masks in a pandemic?’
Too much, the hard core rightoid loses their mind at this point, and just wants everything to burn.
Of course it doesn’t help that neoliberal capitalism has been disenfranchising everyone for decades, but the base Republican voter is way way way too stupid, or horrendously misinformed to know what those words mean.
Slowly at first then all of a sudden
By worshipping the musings of the 20 something, slaveowning, landowning, white men who set out to create a nation built on the wholesale genocide of Native Americans.By continuously degrading wages, prohibiting public transport, withholding healthcare, perpetual wars, diminished education, disenfranchising voters, and the bipartisan effort to concentrate power to the executive? Fascism is not a new phenomenon. The reasons for its proliferation are well-documented, and even as leftists have accurately pointed these out, they’ve been laughed away by liberals. The liberal framework cannot explain how fascism takes rise.Ruzzian propaganda!
I mean realistically it is both
Just a few years ago I watched the movie Bridge of Spies which, based on real events, dramatically portrayed the arbitrary Kafkaesque detention of American student Frederic Pryor by the evil Stasi and the unjust East German state. Well I guess we’re the baddies now.
Criticize Putin, spend indefinite time in an ICE hole. USA USA USA!
“Free” “speech” terms and conditions apply
Well yeah we all know you have you kowtow to the state and pay the fee for “free” speech
Fuck ice, and fuck trump. You won’t stop science, and I believe there’s going to be a debt to us all at the end of this.
Those of us who remember the days of Bush’s stem cell research ban know that they absolutely can stop science. And this shit is so much worse because it’s so indiscriminate and cruel. Like literally pro-disease.
They’ve already set shit back years by ending trials mid-trial, cutting grants for things already underway, not fulfilling existing contracts, etc. and it’s just getting started.
We’ll be set back decades by the time 4 years is up. And it will take years to recover, if it’s even possible.
“Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth, sooner or later that debt is paid.” Republicans have told a lot of lies.
