It's always so easy to blame women, isn't it?

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

Far-right leaders are winning across the globe. Blaming ‘the economy’ or ‘the left-behinds’ won’t cut it. …

Trump warns of 'communist' takeover and amplifies the 'great replacement' conspiracy theory. His supporters rail against 'white genocide' and satanic child-molesting elites. Instead of opposing injustice, they vilify those who threaten social hierarchies like class, race and gender."

~ Richard Seymour

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
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Far-right leaders are winning across the globe. Blaming ‘the economy’ or ‘the left-behinds’ won’t cut it | Richard Seymour

The economy matters, but the likes of Trump succeed by offering voters revenge for problems both real and imagined, says author and Salvage founder Richard Seymour

the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

[gooba42@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy American journalism broke itself in service to fascism.

They don't get a pass anymore where we pretend they just couldn't help themselves.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Instead of confronting systems, they give you enemies you can kill. This is disaster nationalism. …

This is a global social contagion."

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
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[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@gooba42 Yes, I agree. I doubt Charlie Sykes wants to give corporate journalism a pass.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@RogueDharmaBum I'm reserving blame for the Republican party.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@rlstone4dems Definitely a pity. But that's what social institutions are, aren't they — webs of affiliation, so that if you pluck one strand, all strands violate? We'll all suffer now due to the refusal of some of us to educate ourselves and face reality.

[pettet50@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy Slightly over 32% only of the country - 30% did not vote and the rest went to Dem and Ind.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@gooba42 Yes, that's right. And I'd say that at least one reason this has happened to us is that we've refused to listen to the testimony of minority communities who could offer us a realistic and at the same time hopeful perspective on our society and what ails it.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@lin11c Yes, sadly.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@KathyLK Yes, for sure.

[gooba42@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy I think we need to be more careful and precise in the language we use. Particularly now when the writing is probably of more use to some future archaeologist than to the traumatized and disempowered people reading it now.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@NMBA Thank you for making that point. I'd also say that I think younger people tend to get such information as reaches them via online video sites, and those seem to be rife with disinformation and right-wing memes, e.g., the ilk of Andrew Tate, who is so increasingly influential among younger males.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Dianora Well-stated. I agree.

[kathylk@universeodon.com]

@wdlindsy @gooba42

Scott Dworkin is making it his mission to somehow to try to "take back" the media by supporting independent news organizations. I think the only way to do this is by avoiding corporate news organizations. (I hate to use the word "boycott," because apparently that's asking to be sued in Musk's America.) #journalists #journalism #media

Time For Us To Take Back The News

Onward.

(www.dworkinsubstack.com)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@chiraag I have long been critical of neoliberalism. I also think that it's a miscalculation to say that the choice of increasing numbers of people to swallow fascist ideas is entirely rooted in economic malaise.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@AeonCypher Left-leaning media are the problem.

I see. Thanks for informing me.

[mastopoet@h-net.social]

@wdlindsy @chiraag
why do you insist on calling it by the wrong name? neoliberalism is the conservative policy since the 1800s. look it up!

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@todwest You declare that it wasn't racism.

I seem to see a different picture altogether than you do.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@patrickco @SykesCharlie Yes. I don't think Charlie Sykes is saying Trump is the cause of all of that, either.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@philip_cardella Yes, good points that need to be factored into this discussion, for sure.