USING THE F WORD (RE: TRUMP)

[stevefelten@mastodon.online]

@wdlindsy The argument would be stronger if there were any mechanisms to influence the DNC.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@stevefelten I'm aware of a lot of mechanisms to influence the DNC. I'm also aware that I can't, as an individual, snap my fingers and make them do exactly what I want them to do at any given moment. But that's the reality of the real world.

My focus is more on the problem that is the RNC — and I'm not inclined to tear away at fellow Democrats and do the work of the RNC for it, given the threat we're facing with the RNC.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@tafkak I see and hear Tapper directly challenging the lying fascist, and I am reading many reports which say the same.

[darwinwoodka@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy

anyone voting for Stein wants Trump to win. They're Russian loving fascists.

[beingreal@mastodon.world]

@wdlindsy

Divisions of the left are universal.
The problem 'the left' has is that it encompasses dozens of causes and millions of ideas.
The animal rights lobby, for example, want action, they've no truck with progressive politics, of trying to fit. The unions want individual rights with less governmental interference. Every cause has a group. Every group has a list of demands.
Unity is impossible.

The right want tax cuts and the unlimited control that fascism brings.
Unity is money.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"I don’t think it’s a coincidence that at a Trump boat parade in Palm Beach, Florida, not far from Mar-a-Lago, a crew showed up on a craft adorned with swastikas. …

The water is boiling, and it is essential that the press cover it as such. In large part, they are failing to do so."

~ Elliot Kirschner

#Trump #JDVance #fascism #fascist #Hitler #Nazis #media
/14

Dear Press, Trump Is Not Okay

The frog is set to boil

(elliotkirschner.substack.com)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"That befuddlement [of corporate media in 2016 at Trump's Teflon candidacy] was inexcusable then, and it’s doubly so now, as Trump runs on an explicitly fascist platform that proposes overhauling the entire federal government under the dictates of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025."

~ Chris Lehmann

#Trump #JDVance #fascism #fascist #media
/15

The Press Needs to Start Taking Trump Literally

The Nation Magazine

The Nation (www.thenation.com)

[mickymorse@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy MSM, X, and Meta are complicit in spreading the GOP fascist agenda, and hardly a fact check.

[doesntexist@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy
If #Trump gets elected, everyone will be in real danger, immigrants and LGBTQ+ people first, but everyone.

Everyone forgets a large group of people who died under Hitler:

Nazis. By the millions.

And who, eventually, did Hitler blame for his failures?

Nazis.

America's current fascists don't get it -- too dumb to learn that lesson.

They die too.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Yes, Donald Trump is a fascist. There's no longer any point in mincing words. …

At this moment, with just three weeks to go before election day, there is no better or more useful term to describe him and the threat he presents.

Whatever a 'fascist' is, Trump is that."

~ Paul Waldman

#Trump #JDVance #fascism #fascist
/16

Yes, Donald Trump Is a Fascist

There's no longer any point in mincing words.

(paulwaldman.substack.com)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Unfortunately, a good portion of the public is supporting Trump precisely because fascism sounds great to them; it’s just what they’ve been waiting for. Another sizable section of Americans aren’t cheering for it today, but won’t really object when it happens. And most of that latter group seems to believe that Trump isn’t all that much of a threat to the basic shape of American freedoms."

#Trump #JDVance #fascism #fascist
/17

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"I’m not sure how best to persuade them to see Trump and his movement for what they are, especially in the next two weeks. But one thing we can do is to stop hedging in our language. Until someone comes up with a term that better encapsulates what Trump believes and intends to do, one that acts as both descriptor and warning, 'fascism' it is."

#Trump #JDVance #fascism #fascist
/18

[rood@aus.social]

@wdlindsy tyrannical demagogue?

[christo_459@mastodon.me.uk]

@wdlindsy
And a lot of those voters will be snuffed by Trump

[greenfire@mstdn.social]

@wdlindsy
There was a good clip shared by @aaron.rupar of a Republican representative having a conniption over Democrats calling Trump a fascist and he got into an uproar once the media personality pointed out that Republicans regularly call Dems Marxists, communists and Socialists not to mention worse things that weren't brought up.

[beingreal@mastodon.world]

@wdlindsy

That is an utterly terrifying concept, it's reminiscent of Jewish prisoners boarding trains to Auschwitz on the promise of a new life.

[sordidamok@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy US Nazis have sided with GOP for decades. This has caused many on the Left - myself included - to equate the two.

Now GOP is siding with the Nazis. And when the Left calls it out, it sounds like the same old thing we've been saying. So some people ignore it.

I feel like Cassandra, but I'm still going to keep calling it out.

[strangeculprits@c.im]

@wdlindsy Ah yes, the oblivious Caucasians

News flash, people: you probably aren't as white as you may believe

Source: https://daily.jstor.org/constructing-the-white-race/

[cdarwin@c.im]

@wdlindsy

True words well spoken!

As is the converse:

"The center-left must hold together with the left -- their energies need to be directed at the goal rather than at each other."

Centrist-dems refusing to build solidarity with the left are doing the work of the right for it.

#Trump #JDVance #fascism #fascist #solidarity #Hitler #Nazis
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[mouszi@blorbo.social]

@wdlindsy the left could hold together more if the center didn't dominate who gets nominated and what gets pushed. the center does not give enough to promote unity while telling anyone farther left that they have to stay in lockstep to stop the right. it's true but it causes building resentment that is part of how we end up here