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submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

The mythic past. "It is only natural to begin this book where fascist politics invariably claims to discover its genesis: in the past. Fascist politics invokes a pure mythic past tragically destroyed" STANLEY, Jason. How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them. Random House, 240 pp.

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

But what if, instead of work... a stupid personal project that will not pay the bills?

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

submitted 31 days ago • 1092 comments

Umberto Eco’s List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism #3. The cult of action for action’s sake. “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.”

submitted 34 days ago • 3 comments

1. As Zuckerberg abandons fact checking in the name of “free speech”, let’s take a moment to examine this concept. 🧵

submitted 50 days ago • 50 comments

Elon Musk is a good example of how terrible people become increasingly radicalized into the far right simply because the far right is a community that accepts cruel, terrible people. It's tempting to say Elon is going "mask off", but I'd wager Elon didn't know who Tommy Robinson was 5 years ago. 1/

submitted 56 days ago • 72 comments

Hoje encontrei um saco plástico com roupas da minha mãe. Abri e o cheiro dela veio. Por um momento parecia que ela tinha acabado de se vestir e só saiu do quarto. Em seguida, os sete anos da morte dela desabaram na minha cabeça. Doeu como uma facada.

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

No Brasil, se pudessem, revogavam a Constituição de 1988, a CLT e a Lei Áurea... A entrevista abaixo com o historiador Sidney Chalhoub é muito esclarecedora acerca da realidade brasileira, que é muito semelhante em toda América Latina www.bbc.com/portuguese/b...

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

Year-end reflections on the story that is often politely ignored: The rapid expansion of conspiracy thinking is why Trump won. www.salon.com/2024/12/26/c...

submitted 63 days ago • 41 comments

Sadly, it’s a good time to once again share this amazing infographic that we ran at @science.org more than 7 years ago 🧪 #IDsky www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 74 days ago • 234 comments

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submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Classic Children’s Books Now Digitized and Put Online: Revisit Vintage Works from the 19th & 20th Centuries

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

My dream garden🌱

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submitted 99 days ago • 24 comments

Vcs querem explicações? Então olhem para a meta-política de como a extrema direita disputa no nível da gramática política, e não projetem suas próprias lentes nesses eleitores. Porque os latinos e outros imigrantes votaram em Trump? Porque a oposição relevante não é latinos vs americanos, mas +

submitted 112 days ago • 39 comments

Espaços Liminares: As imagens de lugares vazios vem com várias sensações. Há quem sinta desconforto e quem sinta paz ao olhar elas. Mas o que causa isso e onde surgiu esse conceito? Vem que eu explico.

submitted 121 days ago • 5 comments

O pesquisador Paolo Demuru diz que a direita radical é muito bem sucedida no que ele chama de "fantasias conspiratórias", pois, além de fornecer respostas simples para problemas complexos, essas histórias encantam, fascinam e levam ao êxtase seus adeptos. www.bbc.com/portuguese/a...

submitted 123 days ago • 55 comments