It's really appalling that things are happening -- like firing career Department of Education officials because they attended a diversity conference -- that remind me of what I've read about Mao's mid-1960s Cultural Revolution in China, a humanitarian disaster we don't talk about nearly enough
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Open your eyes, please!
Here you go Will - Gail's bringing it up !
The truly scary stuff will play out over long timelines and have diffuse impact that is hard to attribute to any one change.
That makes it extremely difficult to create urgency now, as it happens.
Or skip past them to the Pol Pot approach.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-Ba%27athification
Could we organize a Patriots Defense Fund to protect citizens pursued by this fake government?
By trump's own previous administration.
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5123000-education-department-dei-trump/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky
Didn't Mao kick off the Cultural Revolution by saying "let a hundred flowers bloom"?
I do think the hundred flowers thing is a direct quotation though.
Well, a translation of a direct quotation.
"Let a hundred flowers bloom. Let a hundred schools of thought contend."
“First we will kill the subversives, then we will kill their collaborators, then their sympathizers, followed by the INDIFFERENT and finally the TIMID.”
- Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentina’s Disappearer in Chief
They'll get bored with firing their "enemies," then turn to detention, then, once they've filled their camps up, they'll have to figure out some final solution to the very expensive housing and feeding of these detained "enemies of the state."
This is just like Communist China
Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, and Pinochet were all right wing capitalist authoritarians.
Stalin and Mao were “left wing” authoritarians. Though their flavor of “communism” is known as “State Capitalism.”
He is illegitimate.
When criminals rule the land, no one is safe.
https://bsky.app/profile/mousemedium.bsky.social/post/3lgqzddcxfk2o
Mark Twain
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/01/hitler-germany-constitution-authoritarianism/681233/?gift=cy-O4L4i69soOXPNILoRCJdJyW3E29o9BJA-IZr3ug0&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
Destruction of the 20th century.
19th century is the goal.
Vandalism
Looting
You know who talks about The Cultural Revolution, but in misleading ways, deceptively toward liberals/pro-democracy folks in America? Bannon’s pal & new state department employee, white nationalist, Darren J Beattie
It's inevitable when those who crave power the most are allowed to just take it.
he was, truly, an evil person
anyone who thinks otherwise is deranged
I guess I can try as hard as possible to prevent you from infecting others with your ideas
Thanks for confirming my suspicions by opening your mouth.
> complains my haircut is too gay
Classic lib stuff
I said that it makes you look like a moron, and you're continuing to prove me right.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/11/27/trump-transition-us-election-republican-party-china-cultural-revolution/
Competent bureaucrats and scientific experts being replaced by hardcore ideologues and quack doctors is more Cultural Revolution than Nazi germany.
The Cultural Revolution is alive again and Mao Zedong lives in Trumps and Elons hearts
The danger with DDT is real. They have started a
Ah, I forgot to mention FDIC and the Federal Reserve. It will make
Many of us have had our Twitter
and for good reason. This is a coup.
Note: YOUNG. Like these boys messing with government data systems right now.
the great exception to these criteria are teenagers,
who, in the course of normal development,
manifest all the symptoms of all the disorders in this manual.
These people are very dangerous. Get armed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_campaign
The "change the world according to my wishes" part is similar. But it's not just one country they want to change.
These morons learn by Twitte
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/comparative-studies-in-society-and-history/article/abs/consuming-counterrevolution-the-ritual-and-culture-of-cannibalism-in-wuxuan-guangxi-china-may-to-july-1968/9D7B3DD84CF53C31B35E8C97D99BF9AE
Is there any way to confirm this?
Not shady at all...
Seems like the move of a tyrant honestly
Source: genocide scholar
Prior to the that was the mass murder of Polish intelligentsia by the Nazis. The slur “dumb pollack” came about afterwards. First destroy, then malign.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligenzaktion
“Because the Khmer Rouge placed a heavy emphasis on the rural peasant population, anyone considered an intellectual was targeted for special treatment. This meant teachers, lawyers, doctors, and clergy were the targets of the regime.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligenzaktion
I taught AP World History-Modern, so I'm pretty comfortable with the veracity of my take. YMMV.
Libs:
American: "Nothing happened! We were all on vacation!"
"this is just like communism"
These people were fired by trump's current admin for doing what his previous admin instructed them to do.
If you think you're safe from trump because you did his bidding in the past, you're not.
Even a lot of LGBTQ people don't know that homophile orgs of the day organized sidewalk pickets to get earned media on the issue--in vain, of course.
The US government is being run by childish idiots imagining themselves to be strong and smart...
...and too many of us are indulging them in their fantasies.
And it's especially funny that they are trying to call Walz a "cuck" when one of the best things that came out of the Harris/Walz campaign was how well we got to know and admire the Walz family.
Pervert youthful enthusiasm & loyalty into gang warfare, looting, score-settling, thuggery, & destruction of cultural heritage.
Poisoning our Personal Information! He is eating our Social Security!!!
South Africa is emptying their Mental Institutions and sending them here illegally!
Get to work ICE
Page 319...
https://www.project2025.org
Let me recontextualize it into a threat from the left.