"You don’t always turn into Nazi Germany. You turn into Russia, or Hungary, or other creaky and corrupt strongman states where everything is kind of a scam and everyone is hustling to please the gangster in charge. That, my friends, is the path we are on here"
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Fascists have been what we now call fascists all down through the ages of humanity, it doesn't matter that the word only sprang up in Italy in the 20s, that which it describes has always existed.
#politics #philosophy
The federal government had more than 4,500 complaints about the sexual abuse of immigrant children held in detention by Trump from October 2014 to July 2018. Those allegations included rape, fondling, kissing and watching children shower.
In Australia we are decades ahead of this curve with our conservatively controlled monopoly media bubble.
US conservatives are just catching up with billionaires buying up media to control information flow.
At least now it is being exposed
Stop helping, by stopping the use and promotion of #Substack which openly supports right wing extremism.
#journalism #writing #AusMedia
don't ignore that part because it's already happening.
fascism is always the same. it doesn't edit. there's no nice fascism or mild fascism or denatured fascism, just as there is no denatured or nice or /just/ capitalism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_German_Empire
The closest thing these days is Michael west and jordies.
The rest are fattening on a back paddock in Murdoch/stokes/oligarchs stable. Murdoch has held the jigger to their rumps since ‘76
https://www.thenumbersarewrong2024.com/all-topics
Which is why all Western Democracies should have taken the superprofits driven cost of living crisis a lot more seriously and clipped the central banks around the ears.
Desperate people turn to perceived strength.
It's falling on its increasingly blunt sword.
Murdoch & Crosby Textor were early proponents & have spread this mode of conservative toxic politics & misinformation to the world.