they are building warehouses for people!
11.03.2026 23:14
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they are building warehouses for people!
as someone currently living in a legal but also "pending" status - and no papers to show for it - um, yup, no bueno
Again recall Arendt’s analysis about how fascism requires the mass manufacture of statelessness, that is the logic of all of these initiatives
Not to get all Althusserian out here but basically the manufacture of new junctures for interpellation by an authoritarian state (SAVE Act, Kavanaugh stops, trans license revocations etc) gives it more scope to squeeze the boundaries of the polity and strip undesirables of civic protections
a state providing clear dramatic imagery is exactly how you drive a modern media narrative - no matter the ideological bent of the pub, editors cannot resist pictures this good
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in the early weeks of the pandemic he kept telling reporters the numbers would soon go down - this is just his knee jerk reaction to bad publicity, it has nothing to do with reality
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every single day it's more obvious how sexually loaded all this stuff is. youre getting dommed by a broadway fop.
hard to beat the "the US is just the Israeli attack dog" allegations with this one
Does the Post have a history of (1) reporting on allegations of serious wrongdoing by a then-federal employee, yet (2) not naming the person accused because the Post has not "independently confirmed" the allegations, while nonetheless (3) allowing the unnamed person to deny the allegations?
there is a real hope growing that Trump and MAGA may soon be a huge liability for fash movements worldwide; nothing is certain but, internationally at least, the mask and the mystique really do seem to be falling off - leaving very pro-US far right parties in quite a difficult spot -
when I arrived in Poland in July the vast majority of my journo colleagues thought Trump was either chaotic good or neutral good and not one journo I met thought he was ridiculous; that has changed; gradually at first, then in just the last month, and then in the last week especially: holy shit
Gogol's Dead Souls, but for a technodystopia
when you're so committed to the "you have no cards" bit
yes, indeed, there's a very influential portion of the US left which still sees the word "fascism" as a bit uncouth, even in face of scholarship; they tend to be academics like D. Bessner, publishers like K van den Heuvel, and remain primarily on Vichy twitter - for what now seem obvious reasons
The left's theory of anti-fascism--one I have believed and continue to want to believe--is not as robust as I would like it to be
Kristina Van den Heuvel
Danny Bessner
enjoy the rabbit hole!
ha, I'm talking about the far left, say, Katrina vanden Heuvel of the Nation, Danny Bessner, etc, lefty "intellectuals" who still insist this isn't fascism, mostly, in my view, bc accepting that view suggests the libs were right
Long-time buddies Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were out for a pleasant van drive in Oklahoma when, all of a sudden, their lives would change.
saying the libs were wrong is, in fact, a huge part of what holds, say, DSA together
bc so many scholars of fascism now agree this is fascism, that agreement has the same weight of most genocide scholars agreeing about events in Gaza - but - while this portion of the Left eagerly accepts genocide scholarship in re Gaza, they just as eagerly reject US fascism scholarship -
among the Left, the continued reluctance/refusal to use the word fascism is mostly about not wanting to say the libs were right - even if that refusal flies in the face of our best scholars on fascism
"I’ve studied Czechoslovakia in 1968; I live in Minneapolis. There are similarities between the two invasions, from the code words used to describe them to how time feels within them, to the sounds and images that define them."
the way they remain standing while making their guests comfortable; an ethic of servanthood that I once, as a young evangelical Christian kid, wrongly assumed was shared by my peers
and no, lol, I didn't bring that up, all I said was, off the cuff, on the top of luxury cars, was that ... every luxury car is evidence of a tax policy failure ... guess that outs me as dsa :P
OTD in 1940, as part of "protecting them from fascism", Stalin signed the order to murder 22,000 Polish officers in Katyn. Like our recent crimes, we blamed nazis. This is Stalin writing "approved" on their death warrant.
Imagine crimes against humanity on this scale today..
on a date in warsaw last night, polish guy said he never expected to meet a democratic socialist from the us of a
A very good piece on why the left can't jettison the concept of international law altogether, despite its limitations and structural arrangement which at times has repeatedly legitmized colonialism and might-makes-right.
Just to underscore what is being erased, they were murdered to overturn the results of an election, also.