#cruelty

SHOT:
https://newrepublic.com/post/193930/ports-not-collecting-trump-tariffs-glitch

CHASER:
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/114320818833286113

the blustering #confusion and mindless #destruction are, like the #cruelty, the points of #fascism

As a fellow white man who, in contrast to Stewart and Maher, has never enjoyed all the perks and privileges heterosexuality affords, I can only say that I long since began turning a deaf ear to Stewart and Maher and men like them.

Privilege blinds. Unexamined privilege — and the colossal privilege afforded striaght white men is too seldom examined by said men — spectacularly blinds.

#JonStewart #Trump #dictatorship #cruelty #BothSideism
/3

As Doktor Zoom writes, "He sure seems reluctant to see that the problem isn’t that we’re 'polarized,' but that we’re under assault and maybe the problem isn’t that in the face of gathering fascism, some people are going overboard by burning some Teslas…."

I'm reading similar commentary about another icon of many US liberals, Bill "But Trump's So Charming and Nice" Maher.

#JonStewart #Trump #dictatorship #cruelty #BothSideism
/2

Wonkette's Doktor Zoom has good, zingy commentary on Jon Stewart's "who could have imagined" admission that his anodyne, misleading both-sideism about Biden-Trump and Democrats-Republicans didn't see what a lot of the rest of us saw coming: savagery, looming dictatorship, real horrors.

#JonStewart #Trump #dictatorship #cruelty #BothSideism
/1

https://www.wonkette.com/p/jon-stewart-very-sorry-he-believed

#politics #deportation #bezos #amazon #boycott #alt #greed #cruelty
BOYCOTT! It is less painful than a one-way ticket to a Gulag.

Cruelty and violence rely on dehumanization. Fight by humanizing. Empathy and compassion are the only cure. #violence #cruelty #fascism #compassion #empathy

'Less Than Human': The Psychology Of Cruelty

https://www.npr.org/2011/03/29/134956180/criminals-see-their-victims-as-less-than-human

Are we turning more people to violence?

“Monkeys see, Monkeys do.”

#violence #cruelty #fascism

https://sites.psu.edu/aspsy/2017/02/10/banduras-observational-theory-influences-violent-behavior-through-observation-imitation-factors/

DO NOT MAKE JOKES ABOUT #TRUMP EXPORTING CONCENTRATION CAMPS SLAVES you are dehumanizing the victims for a punchline.

there’s plenty of other ways to mock the fascists. buying up Central American politicians so they can export American prison slaves to concentration camps isn’t one of them.

your comedy will be intersectional or it will be bullshit.

#fascism #cruelty #comedy

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/inside-the-fight-against-the-trump-regime-s-extreme-cruelty-opinion/ar-AA1CPita?ocid=socialshare

Inside the fight against the #Trump regime's extreme #cruelty | Opinion
Opinion by Robert Reich •

..."We speak out against Trump’s use of criminal investigations to punish public servants who helped expose his venality.

We make our communities into sanctuaries that limit local law enforcement’s cooperation with federal immigration authorities.

We urge our universities to protect free speech and expression of everyone, a."...

"The federal government’s suspension of refugee resettlement programs in January has made it too difficult for the bishops’ conference to continue operating our resettlement agency." People harmed by Trump include former "translators for the U.S. military in Afghanistan, and people fleeing countries with oppressive governments, such as Venezuela, Nicaragua, Somalia, and many other places":
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/04/07/usccb-bishops-refugee-resettlement-funding/
#Trump #cruelty #greed #HumanRights #politics

"One supporter in the courtroom began to cry as the judge announced her decision.

The case is widely seen as a bellwether for whether the government can deport people for constitutionally protected speech, with momentous implications."

#Trump #fascism #immigrants #MahmoudKhalil #violence #cruelty
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“'There is no indication that Congress contemplated an immigration judge or even an attorney general overruling the Secretary of State on matters of foreign policy,' said Judge Comans as she made her ruling [permitting Trump to deport Mahmoud Khalil]."

~ Delaney Nolan

#Trump #fascism #immigrants #MahmoudKhalil #violence #cruelty
/8

https://zeteo.com/p/breaking-mahmoud-khalil-can-be-deported

"They have no blankets or pillows, no visits or phone calls, and they mostly sit in silence all day long for fear of being punished by the armed guards wearing balaclavas. Abuse, torture, disease, and death are all rampant. There are mass graves for the prisoners who die; their families are not notified of their passing."

But, hey, what's to worry about? My crypto account is soaring!

#Trump #fascism #immigrants #Venezuelans #ElSalvador #violence #cruelty
/7

"men lined up so tightly that they must kneel with their heads on the backs of their neighbor, their eyes lowered, their heads shaved during the intake process. They can then expect no sunlight, inadequate food and water, and housing in cells where 80 to 100 men are kept shoulder-to-shoulder."

#Trump #fascism #immigrants #Venezuelans #ElSalvador #violence #cruelty
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"Last month, 238 Venezuelans were abducted and deported to a prison in El Salvador, El Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT). The images of said prison should shock even the most jaded conscience:"

~ Kate Manne

#Trump #fascism #immigrants #Venezuelans #ElSalvador #violence #cruelty
/5

https://katemanne.substack.com/p/how-women-get-sent-to-the-dog-house

#gaza #palestine #civilians #siblings #parents #children #loss #suffering #pain #trauma #cruelty #brutality #endisraelswarcrimes #stopisrael #injuries #CrimesAgainstHumanity

@palestine

A traumatized, bleeding little #Palestinian girl with a severe face wound.
When will the world stop Benjamin #Netanyahu?
#picturesthatdontneedcaptions

#gaza #palestine #civilians #siblings #parents #children #loss #suffering #pain #trauma #killings #cruelty #endisraelswarcrimes #stopisrael #childmurder

@palestine

This little #Palestinian baby-girl, just a few weeks old, barely survived an Israeli attack and had to have an amputation of her left arm without anesthesia.
#crimesagainsthumanity

When will the world stop Benjamin #Netanyahu?

Sasha Abramsky says the shocking truth we have to learn with the Abrego Garcia case is that America is now one vast Milgram experiment:

"In Trump’s fascist netherworld, there are a shockingly large number of Good Americans, people who seem incapable of rejecting unjust orders or understanding the moral implications of acquiescence in organized cruelty."

#Trump #AbregoGarcia #immigrants #deportations #authoritarianism #cruelty #MilgramExperiment
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https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/america-milgram-experiment/

#politics #stocks #trump #cruelty #alt

This is exactly what most MAGA voted for. They don't care.

...Is this what you really wanted, MAGA?...do you understand human rights exist for a reason? What does your gut tell you? If you know this is wrong, please help us. Please get involved. He didn’t tell you he was going to do this, you didn’t vote for this cruelty. The best time to do the right thing was the election, but the second best time is right now. Use your voice...

#ElSalvador #Cruelty #USPOL

https://turtleisland.blog/2025/04/11/this-is-a-concentration-camp/