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Karen Nielsen's avatar

It definitely is undeniably fascism now. Heather Cox Richardson, an excellent historian and not radical, laid it out yesterday. What’s happening now checks all the boxes.

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Lukium's avatar

Yeah, I watched her stream, even sent a DM after thanking her for bringing it up and making it so clear (hopefully she got a chance to see it 😜).

I do wish that folks with big platforms like her would talk about it more, and especially that they’d take a minute or two to explain what fascism is. Unfortunately, the word has been overused by people. However, even though academics have many definitions, they all pretty much converge into the same ideas.

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Andrea Peterson Straus's avatar

NBC Nightly News aired that video on tonight’s broadcast and said that “they would be showing it in it’s entirety, frame by frame” - the audio was edited to exclude the language from the agent who said “get the fuck out of the car” as well as the expletive by the agent who shot Renee. It also blurred that last section where he shot her from the side of the car before her foot hit the accelerator.

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Lukium's avatar

Yeah, the media coverage has been pretty disgraceful… any journalist reporting on how Trump/Vance/Noem have described this shooting without immediately following up with the words “they’re lying scum who are confident their supporters are imbeciles who will never bother to look at the video” (or something to that effect but with equal contempt) should be fired on the spot.

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JD Snyder's avatar

MAGA has no interest in democracy because they support authoritarian practices. It's profoundly disappointing and initially unbelievable. This far in it the only critical issue is how to stop them.

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Protect the Vote's avatar

Cheeto’s Morality Governs America And World

In a disgusting display of arrogance and lawlessness Cheeto declared that the only thing now that can stop him is his own morality!!( https://bit.ly/4r5RS15)

Let that sink in for a moment This demented depraved malignant narcissist just said the quiet dictator speak out loud No laws constrain him or his regime No domestic or international norms can check his decision making No advisors or country’s opinions will make any difference as to what he will do

Yes How he views the world and his own immoral depravity will decide how he will proceed

This is the culmination of years of a psychotic mind’s development that is now so demented that it leverages the free domestic and world order Time to protest like never before and call your Congress people to obstruct him in every way possible It may not take a midterm election to get him impeached

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Roslyn Reid's avatar

Everyone takes the course of least resistance. Our regime's is violence, so we know what to expect.

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