"Musk suggested that revelations about the shooter’s [White Nationalist] background could be a “psyop”...
Garcia proclaimed his #WhiteSupremacist views on #SocialMedia and sported #Nazi tattoos. Authorities and independent researchers have confirmed his interest in far-right #extremism and white supremacism. When police killed Garcia, he was wearing a patch that read “RWDS,” an acronym that stands for “ Right Wing Death Squad.”
On #Mastodon, if you mention #FreeSpeech, you're automatically considered #Nazi!
Doesn't matter who you are, doesn't matter what's your definition of free speech, doesn't even matter you are on the exact opposite side of the political spectrum. You are called Nazi anyway.
The fact is, they're the ones who act like Nazis.
Imagine being a middle eastern #Communist from a country where #FreeSpeech doesn't exist, and being called #Nazi for believing in freedom of speech by some Westerner who has no idea what life is outside of his/her comfortable bubble.
That's how #Mastodon has become and its only getting worse.
“#Carlson described how he recently watched a vid of group of men—Trump supporters—violently attacking “an Antifa kid.”..then he expressed sense of dismay that the attackers, like him, were white.
“Jumping a guy like that is dishonorable obviously”..
“It’s not how white men fight,” he said..he found himself wanting the group to kill the person he had described as Antifa kid”
However, despite this, he does have at least moments where he sees things with clarity:
"Writing to one of his producers after the assault on the Capitol, Mr. Carlson describes the president [#Trump] he championed on his show as a “demonic force” and a “destroyer.”"...
It's time to have a little chat about the term "Nazi-adjacent".
As you may know, this weekend there was a Nazi rally in #Toronto.¹ And, no, I am not overstating the case. There were literal fucking Nazis throwing up the Roman salute², and telling marginalized people that they would be the first ones to be decapitated³.
Are we clear that if you hold an event, and your people start throwing up the #Nazi salute and telling people they're going to get decapitated, AND YOU DON'T FUCKING THROW THEM OUT:
Dr. Seuss drew 400 political cartoons during #WWII. Here is one. Yes, it refers to the #Nazi killing of children. But after the killing of more little children in #Ukraine overnight, it takes on renewed significance. Show this to people who refuse to fully support #Ukraine.
I report & block each and every fuckface who suggests I’m THE #Nazi simply because I support #Ukraine. Because we know by now who started and perpetuates the lie about Ukraine being “full of Nazis”, and that removing them was Russia’s moral obligation in starting this fucking war in the first place. Classic #Twitter -esq pro-Russian troll behavior.
...to subvert prominent #media figures in the #West.
Arguably, no-one has been as successful in spreading dissent and pro-Russian talking points in the #US as #Tucker#Carlson.
With #FatherCoughlin, who reached millions of Americans with #Nazi sponsored propaganda on his #radio show in the 1940's, there is even #historic precedent of a prominent media personality being an agent, paid or otherwise subverted, by a foreign enemy...
...my dire fear, /s:and I seem to be in illustrous and growing company* here/s, is that the #USA will pay the ultimate price for this: the failure of democracy.
“Their calculation is the same as it was for Jews in the 1930s: It doesn’t matter if we end up in a homeless shelter far away, it is still safer than living under this fascist government.”
-Brynn Tannehill describes the human tragedies beginning to unfold under violently extreme Republican rule.
@alexwild " Texas and Florida have been drawing up secret lists of known transgender individuals, and state officials refuse to answer what purpose these lists might serve. Missouri, after effectively banning health care for all trans people in the state, set up a government web page “where people can report trans individuals and the people who help them,” but did not specify what it intends to use this information for." #trans#GOP#Nazi
I don't get the #PunchANaziSaturday-movement. Why would violence solve anything?
“I do not hate anyone, not even Hitler. Hate is a disease which may destroy your enemy but will destroy you in the process. You may not like everyone, but that doesn’t give you the right to be nasty to them. I don’t love everyone but I hate no one. There is no revenge; staying alive is the only revenge.”
—Eddie Jaku, a holocaust survivor
The next time you need of some quick pocket “change,” don’t grift your gullible supporters. Instead, sell your remains to multibillionaire Harlan Crow in advance of your passing. I’m confident he’d make you a generous offer; he’s really into collecting old Nazi shit. #HeyTrump#DonaldTrump#Trump#MAGA#HarlanCrow#Nazi#Nazis
@Tilopa@Hey_Beth I have said the same thing for years. Garland is the person he has always been. When the DOJ acts it is because their hand is forced and they will have possible deniability for the higher-ups
...the judge died and "...they allowed the "mistrial to be the end of the story.
O. John #Rogge, had started to hold public speeches about his findings in #Nazi#Germany but was shut down by the DOJ whose #AG#Clark dismissed him on the orders of President #Truman, pressured by #AmericaFirst Congressmen.
He then battled for more than a decade, before finally getting the the permission to publish the findings...
...of his investigations in #Nazi#Germany in a 1961 book, "The Official German Report."
(1) #Maloney "...was then fired. The isolationist senator Burton #Wheeler from Montana, who had been involved in [#Viereck,] the #German agent['s,] plot in #Congress to send propaganda around the country, he went to the attorney general...Francis #Biddle - and basically threatened Biddle that if William Power #Maloney was allowed to..."
I had wondered about what would happen if #Trump were ever seriously indicted.
Looking at episodes #6 and #8 of the #podcast series, #RachelMaddowPresentsUltra, gives you a clue of what is bound to happen when the former holder of the most powerful government position and (arguably) the leader of the #GOP is indicted: #bedlam
This is, at least, what happened when the #JusticeDepartment indicted 29 isolationist and #Nazi sympathizers for sedition,...
“Mass #propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in #cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.”
― Hannah Arendt, "The Origins of Totalitarianism" #quotes#mediaStudies#commOdon#truth#agnotology#history
Elon Musk is threatening to end his $44 billion agreement to buy Twitter, accusing the company of refusing to give him information about its spam bot accounts.
Critics say the move will see #FarRight & #WhiteSupremacist accounts such as the American #Nazi Party back on the platform−with one award-winning journalist warning it will put lives at risk and telling Musk "you will have blood on your hands!"
Musk ran a #Twitter poll to vote on reinstatements for accounts that have not "broken the law or engaged in egregious spam".