USING THE F WORD (RE: TRUMP)

[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
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[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

[tooden@aus.social]

@wdlindsy I just read some things that made me nauseous. 1. that Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, and Jack Posobiec were in the same room, and 2. That the KKK leader has endorsed Jill Stein (this just sounds very, very wrong).

[runyan50@newsie.social]

@wdlindsy I am especially concerned for the People of Color who reportedly are voting more for Trump this election. They will be in the crosshairs of his Project 2025. Somone has convinced them they are immune.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Runyan50 True — and I also think the much-hyped trend of more Black and Hispanic men voting for Trump is vastly overblown.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Tooden Do you have a liknk to share? I hadn't seen the news about the KKK and Stein. Would love to read more.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@mouszi The left could hold together if those on the left chose to do so and stopped attaching each other and doing the work of the hard right. And if we chose to be sane and recognize that the major threat we all face right now is the hard right, and that it makes no sense to impose purist tests on each other and fragment our already weak solidarity, since many of us have no real concept of what solidarity means or no respect for it.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@cdarwin Thank you. I agree. Snyder is a wise and very sane and humane man. His words count for me.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@StrangeCulprits Yes, I like how Ta-Nehisi Coates keeps saying as a refrain all through his book Between the World and Me things like "the people who think they are white," or "the people who imagine they are white." When we all descend from an African Ur-mother and when many of us, I included, who grew up thinking of ourselves as exclusively white now find that our autosomal DNA contains markers both from "white" nations and from Africa.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@SordidAmok Yes, I think many of us have seen the parallels for some time now, even when it's clear that the US at present and Nazi Germany are/were different societies, and we need to keep pointing to them.

[strangeculprits@c.im]

@wdlindsy Indeed. The whole 'whiteness' argument falls apart in the face of DNA evidence, *and* shortly after racist elements obtain any measure of power: yesterday's allies (Italian, Irish, even Swedish people) become tomorrow's 'others' in the ridiculous ethnic purity derby

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@beingreal I agree. I think of these words that Etty Hillesum wrote not long before she herself was shipped off to her death in a Nazi murder camp — about how for many of her fellow Dutch citizens and for herself, it seemed hard to imagine what was taking place when life remained otherwise "ordinary."

[mouszi@blorbo.social]

@wdlindsy ths issue is that argument has been used long before the threat got this bad. "we'll address your needs once the threat is less dire" but that day never comes. so everyone left of center keeps compromising and seeing little to no progress. this is why they're disillusioned and don't believe the promises of the center to wait