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Cake day: October 1st, 2023

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  • This election was my first and good god was it a key domino in the shit show that America has been. This is a great episode from a great YouTube channel. I thought it was going to circle back to Gore’s climate record and what could have been.

    We will never know what could have been but it had to have been a hell of a lot better than this timeline with climate legislation, corporate power over electioneering (Citizens United), and the Patriot Act. You’d have to assume we’d be in a much more stable country.



  • Both are/were leading popular fascist movements in liberal democracies with the expressed intent of undoing any semblance of democratic will for the voting populace. Their playbook is to vilify non white people and immigrants and focus on giving preferential rights to white people who play the game. Those who did not either fled, got locked up, or were executed. The focus on a specific subset of people is further reinforced by their strict obsession with a historic reductive or fictionalized nationalism and/or manifest destiny.

    Both have had failed insurrections with soft consequences for the leaders who incited and participated in the events. (see Beer Hall Putsch)

    Fascist movements can have unique aspects that make them different from each other. Nazi Germany was different than Mussolini’s Italy, or Franco’s Spain, etc etc. Just because they have these aspects does not exclude them from being fascist and doing a lot of harm to people. See the image from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.

    Listen and learn from history.

    The last edit, promise.