In response, we must not get dragged into discussing this specific budget item or that individual agency. We must instead take a similarly comprehensive view of what is unfolding and focus on the underlying political project, the ideas and grievances that are fueling the Right’s assault. - ThreadSky

thomaszimmer.bsky.social • 22 days ago

In response, we must not get dragged into discussing this specific budget item or that individual agency. We must instead take a similarly comprehensive view of what is unfolding and focus on the underlying political project, the ideas and grievances that are fueling the Right’s assault.

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kathleenwa6180.bsky.social•22 days ago

Absolutely, precisely correct.

kevinedmonds.bsky.social•22 days ago

Not sure about this part. If you want to fight this stuff then focussing on "the Right is pro-cancer" seems a good way to go

smith816.bsky.social•22 days ago

Both would be ideal if put in proper context. ‘Here’s the big picture, this is why they’re doing x…’

virussucks.com•22 days ago

Apparently, healthcare is DEI.

They're not Christians. They're Nazis.

How DOGE intends to fire more federal workers in Trump’s DEI purge - The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/02/15/doge-fire-federal-employees-trump-dei/

pwheeler.bsky.social•22 days ago

What’s fueling the rights assault on democracy is racism,white nationalism,hatred,corruption and greed. All being pursued by a mentally ill president and a corrupt Supreme Court! Many people have told me this. We all know it’s true.

kguest2035.bsky.social•21 days ago

I agree—-take a listen

https://youtube.com/watch?v=5RpPTRcz1no

johnmullinax.bsky.social•22 days ago

You've diagnosed there is a connected worldview amongst extreme maga folks, but I will disagree with this course of action. Most Trump voters did NOT vote for this, and we need to speak loudly about the specific harms he is causing them (and all of us).

taxes4blnaires.bsky.social•22 days ago

We the people fuel the economy. We have power and must wield it! Please share and participate.

austin-dave.bsky.social•22 days ago

It’s not one battle.

Trump was a Trojan horse elected to get inside the Federal Firewall.

Inside His fat belly were the Trumper Vengeance Machine, Religious Nationalists, Techno-anarchists, Nasty Billionaires, Musk’s self-aggrandizement, and grift, grift, grift.

ericmichaelmoberg.bsky.social•22 days ago

“Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.”

― Adam Smith

https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/the-business-plot-or-when-j-p-morgans-pals-tried-to-overthrow-fdr/

heyfrannie.bsky.social•22 days ago

verasev.bsky.social•22 days ago

They spelled it out. The idea is to destroy society and build a set of divine empires of technology and total control on top of the rubble. They're tearing down everything because neo-nazi accelerationism tells them that every part of the current world is an obstacle to their dominance.

hrryan.bsky.social•22 days ago

That's right. It's not about challenging Big Pharma and the medical/scientific establishment yada yada. It's about causing mass destruction,wiping the slate clean so they can build their perfect society. As in Pol Pot's Year Zero. And we all know how that turned out.

hrryan.bsky.social•22 days ago

For those who don't know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Zero_(political_notion)

rsoyka55.bsky.social•22 days ago

“Year Zero is an idea... that all culture and traditions within a society must be completely destroyed or discarded and that a new revolutionary culture must replace it starting from scratch... all of the history of a nation or a people would ideally be purged and replaced from the ground up.”

hrryan.bsky.social•22 days ago

Yup. Basically the same principle as the "accelerationist" and "Dark Enlightenment" ideologies the techbroligarchs appear to have aligned themselves with.

kguest2035.bsky.social•21 days ago

100 perfect - take a listen

https://youtube.com/watch?v=5RpPTRcz1no

hivegeistus.bsky.social•18 days ago

Techno-fascism isn’t new—it’s Atlantis, Thule, and Tesla: the same dream of engineered supremacy.

The fantasy repeats: Übermensch, elite survival, escape from a “corrupt” world & domination through technology.

When greed runs rampant & billionaires play gods, history warns exactly where it leads.

bocckob.bsky.social•22 days ago

If they get rid of everyone who can tell them "no, this is the dumbest thing you've ever said," it becomes that much easier to lie while they steal money and power.

theevidencesays.bsky.social•22 days ago

And include a study of the Technocracy Movement, and the influence of Curtis Yarvin on Peter Thiel, Vance, et al. Because this white collar army assault in the public good, public information, and American life is more than it seems.

nsparks.bsky.social•22 days ago

Idiots think that "less government" is always good. Pointing out specific things that government does that are tragic to cut shows that what Musk, Trump, Vance etc are doing has a human cost.

We had an election and the big picture of "defending democracy" failed.

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