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One third of Americans have stopped buying eggs while oligarchs have so much money they don't know what to do with it all except try to get straw men elected to help them make more money.
Elon Musk can spend millions to try to buy an election and it doesn't effect his lifestyle at all.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/third-americans-stopped-buying-eggs-wont-revert-back-until-prices-drop
#EggPrices #Eggs #PresidentMusk #Fascism #Democracy
The egg crisis continues as ongoing outbreaks of bird…
Fox Business#trump has told his inner circle, including members of his Cabinet, that Elon #musk will be stepping back in the coming weeks from his current role as governing partner, ubiquitous cheerleader and Washington hatchet man.
#politics #uspol #fascism #tesla #uspolitics
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/04/02/trump-musk-leaving-political-liability-00265784
a promise, a threat, and a proportional response
I feel like I should talk about why declaring yourself a Nazi is very specifically different to declaring yourself almost anything else seen as political. Because there is a difference, and it’s really important, and I don’t think people get that, and it has real-world ramifications.
Walk with me.
There are a lot of terrible things you can declare yourself, politically and otherwise. But we’ll stick to politics for the moment.
You can declare yourself as Stalinist, for example. That’s real fuckin’ bad, bad to the point that a lot of people would say that there’s no difference between declaring yourself a Stalinist and declaring yourself a Nazi.
And I can see why they say that. The death counts are pretty similar, historically. The oppression and evil are both truly remarkable. The misery, as well.
But even between these, there is a real difference that sets Nazism apart.
Stalin murdered millions, just like Hitler, but that was never the theory. The idea. The goal. The goal was a material paradise for everyone, at least on paper. The real goal was an economically powerful industrial society, but even that was in service to the idea of a society of abundance. It may’ve been “if people would just” writ monstrous, but it was there.
Nazism kinda promises that… but only for some. And not many. Just members of the Master Race. For everyone else, Nazism promises either slavery or genocide. Explicitly. It says so, right on that label, right on the tin.
And that’s what makes Nazism distinct. It’s not the only political movement which makes that promise – White Nationalism, I see you drooling in the corner, pissing yourself – but it’s the most famous, the best known of them.
(There are reasons so many White Nationalists are fond of Hitler. It’s because the core idea – enslave and murder millions of people – overlaps.)
Are there other ideas besides genocide in Nazism, and in the other fascism variants? Sure. They have names, too – names which aren’t “fascist” or “Nazi.”
For example, there are people who have interest in the economic theories of the Italian fascists. If you’re into that, you can call yourself a Syndicalist in clear conscience. Mussolini followed a branch of syndicalism, which actually predates fascism entirely. The Italian version was intended to solve class struggle. It doesn’t, but as goals go, there are worse.
And modern followers of these ideas don’t call themselves Nazis, because they aren’t interested in the thing which sets Nazis specifically apart, which isn’t even just a threat of violence against entire peoples, it’s a promise of murder against entire peoples. It’s an explicit and specific statement:
If we take power, we will kill you and everyone like you solely for the crime of your existence. Your original sin was being born, your criminality is existing at all. And there is nothing you can do to change that other than die.
We will kill you when and if we can.
We have laws against that, you know. You threaten someone with violence – particularly murder – and you mean it? That’s called terroristic threatening, and it’s a crime. You don’t have to be specific about when, or where, or how, or anything like that – it just has to be credible. It’s not real easy to get convictions, but it is an undisputed crime.
If someone calls themselves a Nazi, if they specifically invoke Nazi symbolism, if they specifically parrot the Nazi salute, Elon, if they’re out there saying Hitler had some good ideas, they are making not just a threat but a promise of mass murder.
Their targets are both specific and clear, and they’re doing it on purpose.
They don’t have to label themselves a “Nazi” to support syndicalism. They don’t have to label themselves a “fascist” even to be a nationalist or even an outright imperialist. They don’t have to praise Hitler to hate people. None of that’s necessary. At all.
So when someone does do that that, they are making a choice. They are choosing to make a promise of mass violence and mass death.
And what’s the point of all this, you might ask?
Because that promise is what makes it okay to punch Nazis.
I still see people having qualms about punching Nazis. I don’t. Not at all. Not even just because of all of the above, but also because we – as a society – have decided that people have a right to self-defence. In some states, that applies even a right to use potentially lethal force against perceived credible threat to property or life.
If you are any of their targets, they have promised to murder you. They have said if they can, they will. They have – by donning that uniform, by taking on that label, by throwing that salute – threatened your life with a violent and brutal end at their hands.
History shows that their threats are entirely credible. They will do it, if they can. They promised to kill you; they meant it; it’s only a matter of time and opportunity.
And what’s that do?
It makes punching Nazis into reasonable and proportional self-defence.
Yeah. It does. Maybe not from a legal standpoint, no. I’m not arguing that. You won’t have the law on your side.
But from an ethical and moral standpoint?
A punch to the face in response to an explicit, repeated, and credible threat of murder?
Yeah. That seems fine.
Hell, as far as I’m concerned… that’s getting off light.
Too late - shame shame shame - they lie with such impudence but have no expertise when it comes to actually formulating and executing the critical work of American government, which they loathe. So please do not taunt us. If #DOGE remains it matters not that according to a report from #Politico, #DonaldTrump has privately told aides that #Musk will be stepping down from his federal advisory role “soon,” signaling a potential shift in the administration’s DOGE experiment. #tesla #fascism #racism
“Dirt in a Cog”, a new zine from the folks at Invisible History, discovered via @cferdinandi
> Small ways to resist fascism that make a big difference.
@workingclasshistory #JuryAnnulment is like Schrödinger’s cat in the courtroom. Potential jurors can simultaneously know about it, and not know about it.
#Resist and #DoNotComply to #SaveAmerica from two #justice systems and #fascism.
"The Trump admin took the time to revoke a visa of a Nobel prize winner bc he'd criticized Pres Trump."
-AR Melnick
"A vocal critic of Pres Trump, Arias appears to be the most high profile in a string of individuals who've had their visas CXL or been denied entry as the Trump admin bars ppl who it says have “hostile attitudes” toward the US."
-V Bergengruen
Trump should be impeached, but Rs... Public pressure could relegate him to a MAL retirement.
Trump-related fuckery
Convicted felon and adjudicated rapist shocked to discover a jurisdiction wherein the rule of law operates normally.
Trump: Le Pen’s ban on seeking office in France ‘very big deal’
Up next, bear implicated in grove-based toilet shocker.
Minuit dans le siècle : un podcast antifasciste ?
Chaque mois, le sociologue Ugo Palheta (CNRS, Cresppa) décortique le fascisme, non par fascination morbide pour les pires tendances de notre monde, mais pour regarder en face le danger, sans jamais séparer cette exploration de la lutte pour un autre monde.
Dans "Minuit dans le siècle", on parle donc des origines du fascisme et de ses transformations, des rapports entre fascisme et police, entre fascisme et racisme ou entre fascisme et colonialisme, de la culture fasciste et des États fascistes, de la manière dont les fascistes investissent aujourd’hui le terrain de l’écologie.
On explorera aussi des insurrections antifascistes du passé, des luttes qui sont menées ici et maintenant, des stratégies qui ont été et sont mises en œuvre par les mouvements antifascistes, des succès comme des échecs.
Retrouvez tous les épisodes sur Spectre : https://spectremedia.org/minuit-dans-le-siecle/
@cnrs @inshs_cnrs @mate_shs_cnrs
#politique #fascism #antifascisme #racisme #trump #lepen #islamophobie
Hannah Arendt on “Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship”.
Worth taking the time to read and re-read.
Insight after insight, page after page.
About Germany ~1933 - ~1963 but speaking to us now, decades later.
Via @interfluidity and @resnikoff
#Philosophy #PoliticalScience #Sociology #Humanities #History #Fascism #Antifa #FarRight #Germany #Deutschland
@Lazarou@mastodon.social@cindyweinstein Oh look where she got that story from....
#IanMilesCheong #Adoelescence #KemiBadenoch #UKPOL #UKpolitics #Fascism #Disinformation #Twitter
Judge Crawford, who serves in Dane County, handily defeated Judge Brad Schimel of Waukesha County, who ran on his loyalty to President Trump and was powered by record spending in the race from Mr. Musk, the president’s billionaire policy aide. The barrage of spending in the race may nearly double the previous record for a single judicial election. With roughly 60 percent of the vote counted on Tuesday evening, Judge Crawford held a double-digit lead.
#oligarchy #classwar #fascism #elonmusk #MAGA #corruption #capitalism #USPol #wisconsin #crawford
Susan Crawford defeated Brad Schimel for a State Supreme…
The New York TimesEverything is temporary but the destruction caused by the Tangerine Fascist, MuskX and the Nazi Republicans will take decades to repair.
"I wasn't racist until people were mean to me, just don't dig into my past, but I swear it's true..."
This one has some really vile, threatening, racist language, so be warned.
#racism #Philadelphia #PatriotFront #ProudBoys #fascism #NeoNazis #fcknzs
Judge Ends Eric Adams Case, but Says U.S. Cannot Use Charges as Leverage
The judge, Dale E. Ho, refused to let the government…
The New York TimesEverything is temporary but the destruction caused by the Tangerine Fascist, MuskX and the Nazi Republicans will take decades to repair.
ID State Rep Mickelsen was reported to #ICE for speaking out against Trump's #immigration policies.
She's accused her own party of weaponizing fed IMG authorities agst her after she publicly criticized Trump’s immigration policies. The incident -unfolded in late Jan 2025, has sparked outrage among some residents & raised concerns about pol intimidation in ID.
Incident: drawn comparisons to authoritarian tactics -some X users calling it “Gestapo tactics.
#USPol #Fascism https://migrantinsider.com/p/ice-raids-idaho-lawmakers-farm
State Rep. Stephanie Mickelsen was reported to ICE…
Migrant InsiderI've thought for some time that all the ingredients for #fascism were already well-established in American society before Trump took over. All he had to do was bundle them for his purposes.
Je me souviens 
@ManyRoads@mstdn.social"Democrats Surge in Wisconsin and Florida, Signaling Trouble for Trump"
#Crisis #Tariffs #USA #EU #News #Lies #Democrats #MAGA #Fascism #Security #Canada #NATO #Economy #GDP #Oligarchy #Inflation #USA #House #Elections #Polls
Democrats scored major gains in two key battlegrounds…
News Facts NetworkI swear if I see any MAGA here in Ireland I’m just laughing in their faces. I might even point. I suggest you do the same. You run a pub or cafe or some other shop? Refuse to serve them. Show these bastards they’re not welcome here. We don’t need fucking fascist tourists in Ireland.