"I believe this election turned out the way it did in no small part because a large number of Americans are now submerged in new factories of lies more insidious than anything Orwell imagined,"

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

Melissa Ryan offers readers today a helpful reading list for those seeking resources as we, in this period prior to the man's inauguration ask, "How do we prepare for the road ahead? How and where can we fight back? What do we need to know?"

The list has twelve book titles.

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #future #disinformation
/22

Your End-Of-Year Reading List

A reading list of books worth reading or re-reading between now and Inauguration Day

(www.altrightdelete.news)

[havvyhh2@mas.to]

@wdlindsy that is half the issue...the other half is the extreme ignorance, low education, intellectual laziness of huge swaths of the electorate....can't have one without the other.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@LazaroDTormes I very much agree.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@sergiodomeyko Yes. The Russian media's treatment of Trump's wife right now strikes me as a warning that Putin will release more dirt on both of them if he's not a good boy who toes Putin's line.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@damkina Indeed. All that child labor market out there just for the picking, to be exploited.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@havvyhh2 Yes.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Nazani That would be something, for sure, if it happened.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Uair I think we should be inherently suspicious of anyone who claims to have "the" answer, shouldn't we?

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@davidpnice I think this is the thing: let tyrants in the making get a foothold, and you'll inevitably see normalization and rewriting of history, along with attempts to distort reality. Fascist regimes demand that as an indispensable essential for sustaining themselves.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@WarnerCrocker I can understand that impulse, for sure.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Swalsh Thank you so much.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Gozo Well-stated, I agree.

[uair@autistics.life]

@wdlindsy

*sigh*

You are quibbling semantics.

Thinkers have known the necessity of systemic change toward sustainability and social justice since Diogenes was adulterating the currency.

19th century Europeans worked out the principles of how to structure a society that works for all.

Even the most willfully ignorant among us have seen the necessity of doing so since WWI demonstrated the abject failure of the old way.

Between The New Deal and the various European social democracies sandboxing the real world mechanics of managing a liberal society, humans as a species have known the need, the principles, and how to implement large scale change for over fifty years.

We have the fucking answers. It's not "one answer", and part of me thinks you are deliberately misinterpreting me.

The "one answer" I gave was to the "one question" of how to "answer" "The Psycho-Social-Techno Politics of 'MAGA' Trumps Democracy". And that's reconstruction. Go in there with violence and pry them out of their bullshit silos. It woulda worked last time but the liberals backed down and let the KKK, Jim Crow, etc etc steal a century from us.

(Liberalism=liberty=a political philosophy, not a dogma.)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Speaking with Russian state media on Monday, Russian presidential aide Nikolay Patrushev noted that while the U.S. election may be over, Trump is still beholden to 'certain forces.' …

'To achieve success in the election, Donald Trump relied on certain forces to which he has corresponding obligations,' Patrushev told the business daily Kommersant…."

~ Ellie Quinlan Hougtaling

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #future #disinformation
/23

Putin Aide Issues Ominous Warning About Trump’s New “Obligations”

An aide to Vladimir Putin had a bizarre take on Donald Trump’s election win.

The New Republic (newrepublic.com)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Uair Thank you for the lecture. I'll give it the consideration it merits. When someone begins a statement to me with a dramatic sigh, my wont is to stop listening. And engaging. Hope you understand.

[msmissy@mastodon.world]

@wdlindsy
In other words, trump is putin's bitch.

That's just fabulous for national security.

[luv_wins@mstdn.social]

@wdlindsy Just wait until fresh produce will only be affordable to the rich. Oh and McDonald's French fries don't qualify as vegetable substitutes.

[mastodonmigration@mastodon.online]

@wdlindsy

Now that quote is a keeper!

[arqtec@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy
Yes
And it worked
2 years
The suffering will either be a wake up call ?
Or the fascist Nazi's will be the Normal for America
I am Old
I will not suffer much in this New Era
My Ending is in sight
Young people will soon regret their lack of participation or misconception of their own futures
Trump is a Sociopath
He will not become something else
This Tomorrow will be a Dark History for many when Freedom dies & America diminished, until its gone

[dougschuler@hci.social]

@wdlindsy Not that I know how to do it, but I see this at least partially as a failure of American education. Recognizing a fascist should be the one thing that everybody knows — and that they know not to vote for it.