"January 30th 1933 dawned cold and clear in Berlin as Adolph Hitler took his oath of office and promised Germans he would uphold the constitution.

Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊

Interesting, yes. Surprising, no.

I swear, every single godsbedamned politician yelling their lungs out about 'free speech' is working, openly or otherwise, to shut down every library in the world.

Kim Scheinberg

@wdlindsy
I don't keep that list out of fear. I keep it as a means of updating my address book. It has cost me more than a few friends of many years, and brought me closer to those I once thought of as acquaintances

The fear that keeps me awake at night isn't about wondering who will hide me in an attic. It's the worry that my attic is too small for all the people — friends and strangers alike — that I am prepared to hide

With apologies to Spielberg, "We're gonna need a bigger attic..."

Pamela

@wdlindsy I've also noted those hurling the "Woke" label as an insult are really wanting US not to be "aware"! They've co opted our Media into scrubbing clean Trumpie 's 'hate speak' into palatable sound bites his uninformed cultists can blare out without getting the overt retaliation it deserves!!!

Peet Tetteroo

@wdlindsy How many students in the past have paid attention to the 1930 - 1945 period in their schoolbooks .. how many of them are aware of the holocaust, the Nazi culture and the unscrupulous behavior of the Germans during that period .. not interesting for them .. Only 48.6% of USA citizens have a passport to travel internationally

Not many have visited the former concentration camps in Germany Poland etc.. Read project 2025 or a summary of it and you will know..

How Many Americans Own Passport? The Percentages, State by State

This map shows percentage of population has passports in each state of the United States. Percentage of population has passports in the United States: 48.36% Total number of passports in the United States: 149,359,051

ChartsBin (chartsbin.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

@luv_wins Yes, you're exactly right.

William Lindsey :toad:

@kims I understand. Same for me. It's more a matter of asking, "Which of my neighbors may turn out to be very different from the person I think he/she is, in either a shocking or a consoling sense?" It's a matter of remembering that people can turn out to be not at all who we imagine them to be. I think this has been a central feature of the Trump era for many us, the unmasking of people (as they unmask themselves), and the recognition that many people we thought we knew are now alien to us.

William Lindsey :toad:

@theogrin Surprising, no. Interesting, yes.

William Lindsey :toad:

@scottytrees I fear. And I try to maintain hope.

William Lindsey :toad:

@MSugarhill Perhaps. I'll take the imperfect and ironic in an imperfect and ironic world, as long as the message that needs to be heard is heard.

William Lindsey :toad:

@Pettet50 Thankfully, for those of us who have not troubled to educate ourselves about this critically important period of history, people like Heather Cox Richardson (and numerous others) are doing that in the American context.

micchiato

@wdlindsy

“even in another four years as president, #Trump will not gain the organizational capacity, popular mandate, or institutional consensus to build a dictatorship or prolong his tenure past a second term. What I have seen in Turkey, Poland and Hungary suggests there is a turbulent time between the election of an illiberal leader and the establishment of a dictatorship when resistance will flourish”

Just a moment...

(www.politico.com)

@DoomsdaysCW

William Lindsey :toad:

“Regular and repeated obvious lying is part of the process by which fascist politics destroys the information space.”

~ Jason Stanley, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them (NY: Random House, 2018), p. 57

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #fascism #lies #disinformation
/11

How Fascism Works by Jason Stanley: 9780525511854 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

“No single book is as relevant to the present moment.”—Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen “One of the defining books of the decade.”—Elizabeth...

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Markus Sugarhill :breadpats:

@wdlindsy great text!

William Lindsey :toad:

"The kind of government that a Trumpian sort of fascism would bring would not actually address any of the real problems in life. It would only generate the next round
of fake problems the next set of things you should be afraid of and then it will magically declare that those things have been resolved."

~ Timothy Snyder

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #fascism #lies #disinformation
/12

Fascism on television

Thoughts from the road #3

(snyder.substack.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

"If you asked a hundred or a thousand young men what Trump wants to do that would benefit them, or how the country he wants to create would plausibly be better for them than the one they live in now, I suspect almost none of them would be able to come up with an answer."

~ Paul Waldman

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #fascism #lies #disinformation #gender #men #MaleVoters
/13

Trump's Empty Appeal to Young Men

He wants to exploit their disaffection. But what exactly is he offering them?

(paulwaldman.substack.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

"If you’re one of those young men excited when he goes on your favorite podcast, so much so that you’re considering voting for the first time? I’ve got some bad news. You’re just another in a long line of marks who fell for Donald Trump’s scams."

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #fascism #lies #disinformation #gender #men #MaleVoters
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Babs E. Blue #DoNotComply

@wdlindsy Oh, but he's "macho" - NOT I swear to God if young asshole men fuk us over ......ughhhhhhh

Scotty Trees

@wdlindsy we can’t ever give up hope. If it does indeed get worse, it’s one of the only things they can never take from us. Hope is in short supply, but it’s not exhausted yet!

Distant Replay

@wdlindsy
Please stop these intersectional and generational attacks on voter "identity". With only two weeks left there are better ways for you to use your time and your voices.

If Trump wins it will be much as it was in past elections in which he ran. And his support will come overwhelmingly from white people and mostly older white people.

Dan Neuman

@wdlindsy If they are white Christian men, then it will be easier to control women. Get a woman pregnant, even against her will, and she is his for life.

If they are white racist men, then they look forward to controlling people with a different skin color and culture. They won't have to hear a foreign language and fear being mocked behind their backs. They won't have to look at reminders of how little they know about the world.