A theme running through much testimony by eyewitnesses as Hitler's fascist movement rose to power in Germany was that the Nazis initially represented only a limited percentage of Germans.

[jstatepost@mstdn.social]

@wdlindsy
🥥 In case you're wondering who's paying attention to your threads, William, Eye for one, look forward to them and usually boost or favorite most of the posts. 🥥

[greenfire@mstdn.social]

@wdlindsy
I don't think that we're giving the Kremlin as much credit as they are due for creating so much division in our society personally.

[davidpnice@mastodon.online]

@wdlindsy Id-iocy. The irrational dark forces are underrated. The ancient Greeks could tell you about them as much as Freud can.

[patmikemid@sfba.social]

@wdlindsy That is an amazing collection of essays. Thank you for sharing.

[havvyhh2@mas.to]

@wdlindsy the conundrum being that these people, as you've pointed out, have thrown virtually all the hallmarks, all the fundamental elements of their "religion", right under the bus, then kicked the remains into the sewer, in supporting a movement, with a vile, corrupt, immoral leader, who has promised to dismantle, and ignore until done dismantling, the core of the system of governance that protects their "religious" freedom. Nearly the perfect definition of Enemies of America.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

“I refuse to accept that Republicans just did a better job of responding to the concerns of the majority of 'real Americans,' when their first piece of post-Trump legislation is a bathroom bill that literally targets one (1) (ONE!!!) person.”

~ Ginny Hogan

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future

/23

https://substack.com/@ginnyhogan/note/c-77967075

[acronymesis@mastodon.world]

@wdlindsy Republicans did a better job of making up problems that don’t actually exist, using disinformation and generally lying to people to play at their emotions and get them to vote for the fascist candidate. That’s it.

[markstoneman@zirk.us]

@wdlindsy Let's be honest, it targets more. There are other trans people who work there. And there will be trans people wanting to visit their representatives.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@markstoneman I think Ginny Hogan is surely aware that in targeting Sarah McBride, the Republican party is mounting an attack on all trans Americans. By focusing on Sarah McBride, Hogan is point out the extent to which Republicans in the federal government will go to single someone out as a trans person and the object of their hostility.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Acronymesis And none of that making up unreal problems would work if many of us were not disposed to swallow lies and disinformation.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@havvyhh2 Yes. Very well-noted and well-stated.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@patmikemid Thanks for letting me know the thread is worthwhile.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@davidpnice Or perhaps the ancient Greeks and Freud? Both-and instead of either-or?

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@GreenFire Is this an either-or choice? White evangelical leaders have for years now had very close ties to Putin and share his disdain for LGBTQ people and women who get out of "their place."

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@jstatepost Thank you so much for telling me they're worthwhile. I'm very grateful.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Arqtec Ah, to be young again…. I was 19 in 1969 and had no real inkling I'd be one day old, gray, and slow. As my neighbor says, if medicine could only learn a way to transplant my wise old head onto the body of a 20-year-old, all would be wonderful.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@humanhorseshoes Or perhaps these are people who sincerely believe in their version of Christianity, which is not in any shape, form, or fashion Christianity in any deep traditional sense.

[greenfire@mstdn.social]

@wdlindsy
I just don't think that we'll be able to begin effectively addressing the damage the Kremlin's hybrid warfare on American society has done until we begin to more vociferously acknowledge that it has happened and is happening.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@GreenFire I don't see this as an either-or.

[mirishuli@mstdn.social]

@wdlindsy @jstatepost and this week, I have been covered up in mundane chores and events, but I am still reading and thinking. Please don’t stop.