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#EveryNamesCounts challenge 2025 at the Arolsen Archives starts today, 24 January.
Even if you're not a #DH nerd, you can contribute a few minutes of your life this week to help transcribe a handful of documents and build the world’s largest digital memorial to the victims and survivors of #Nazism.
#Trump’s #Inauguration Revealed Whom He Really Serves: the #Billionaires and the #CryptoBros | The Nation
I think the title says it all. And even if one has to always be careful about making historical parallele, there is something to the fact that modern #authoritarian #regimes have always relied on the support of the wealthy and the #corporate world.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-inauguration-billionaires-row-crypto/
#capitalism #authoritarism #fascism #nazism #extremeright
yes, it is real.
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/lebensraum-needed-for-israels-exploding-population/
archived here: https://archive.ph/NGnNv
The ADL is stating the obvious in its report on the "proliferation of hate" on Steam, but the more people talk about it, the more likely it is that Valve will take action.
Lol, so I guess we're just saying the quiet part out loud now?
https://ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics/mifepristone-lawsuit-republican-ags-more-pregnant-teens/
Republican Attorneys General to Court: We Demand More Pregnant Teens
"Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, and Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador—all Republicans—take issue with this. Abortion access decreases teen pregnancy, and they seem to think that is a bad thing.
“Remote dispensing of abortion drugs by mail, common carrier, and interactive computer service is depressing expected birth rates for teenaged mothers in Plaintiff States,” the attorneys allege in the complaint, which was filed before forced birth enthusiast Judge Matt Kacsmaryk in the Northern District of Texas’s Amarillo Division. They claim that decreased births constitute “a sovereign injury to the state in itself,” and causes downstream injuries like “losing a seat in Congress or qualifying for less federal funding if their populations are reduced.” In other words, uteri are state …
Lol, so I guess we're just saying the quiet part out loud now?
https://ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics/mifepristone-lawsuit-republican-ags-more-pregnant-teens/
Republican Attorneys General to Court: We Demand More Pregnant Teens
"Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, and Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador—all Republicans—take issue with this. Abortion access decreases teen pregnancy, and they seem to think that is a bad thing.
“Remote dispensing of abortion drugs by mail, common carrier, and interactive computer service is depressing expected birth rates for teenaged mothers in Plaintiff States,” the attorneys allege in the complaint, which was filed before forced birth enthusiast Judge Matt Kacsmaryk in the Northern District of Texas’s Amarillo Division. They claim that decreased births constitute “a sovereign injury to the state in itself,” and causes downstream injuries like “losing a seat in Congress or qualifying for less federal funding if their populations are reduced.” In other words, uteri are state slush funds, and girls owe the state reproduction once they are capable of it."
Gonna just say this now, the history of governments obsessed with birth rates as a function of state power is also a history of some of the most vile fascist regimes known to mankind. When folks start talking about babies and birthing like a state-controlled resource, you're invariably dealing with nazism. I'm not surprised these fascist crackers think like this - but we've crossed over into something dark and malevolent if they feel comfortable enough to say it out loud in court briefings.
(Don't at me about elections, the American two party system, and voting; I'm out here to fight fascism and this is definitely fascism.)
#Fascism #Natalism #ForcedBirthing #Courts #Nazism #AbortionRights #WomensRights #Patriarchy #AmerianFascism #Theocracy #GOP
Analysis
JD Vance, Trump's running mate, endorses a book calling progressives "Unhumans”.
Steve Bannon wrote the foreword.
"Unhumans", says the book, "seek the death of the successful... aim to kill the people who have more than they do."
Today’s left, it says, is part of a centuries-long effort to destroy civilization.
Such Hitler-playbook rhetoric from high levels of the right is intended to incite extreme violence against the left.
The New England Journal of Medicine (@nejm, #NEJM) just published a candid examination of its myopic history during the rise of #Nazism.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2307319
It considers various excuses, for example, that it was a journal of medicine, not politics. But it finds them all wanting. I commend its honesty.
Also see the #NYTimes coverage of the NEJM article.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/06/science/nazi-science-new-england-journal-medicine.html
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"...while his successor, Franz von Papen, banned 95 in a considerably shorter time, half of them publications run by the Communist or Social Democratic Party. Such precedents made it easy for the Nazis to ‘co-ordinate’ the media when they came to power in 1933."
Source: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v41/n11/richard-j.-evans/whiter-washing
#Nazism #Authoritarianism #Fascism #Centrism
h/t @AnarchoNinaWrites, @gwynnion for basically pointing this out ad nauseum
Why you oppose TikTok's ban & #KOSA at all costs (besides decency re the latter)
"Trying to shore up the republic during its early, crisis-ridden years, the government introduced post-publication censorship. In the early 1930s, press freedom was threatened further as rule by decree became the norm: Chancellor Brüning suspended the publication of newspapers for brief periods of time on 284 occasions..."
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#Russian political activist Sergei #Antonov appealed to the Investigative Committee with a statement to initiate a criminal case against Russian President Vladimir# Putin under the article on the rehabilitation of #Nazism. According to Antonov, in an interview with former Fox News TV host Tucker #Carlson, Putin justified #Hitler, saying that #Poland allegedly forced #Nazi #Germany to attack it.
THE UNMAKING OF FASCIST AESTHETICS by Kriss Ravetto (2001) #UniversityOfMinnesotaPress
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"The very attempt to narrativize and moralize fascism translates what is perceived as the object of this moral narrative, the event of fascism as a "lived experience," into representation, which consequently implicates such moral and political representations of fascism in the restaging, stylizing, or aestheticizing of such an event."
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Above all else:
Absorb the direct & indirect lessons of Octavia Butler, Ursula LeGuin, Malcolm X, & Huey Newton if you want your soul to survive the ongoing moneyed White Supremacist theft of the future worldwide & in the US.
Biden is right about it being for the soul of the country, but its as much about Trump as it is Charles Koch/ others.
Revolutionary Suicide is accepting they want us dead & will try to make it so, but will never have *us.*
