Hope my friends in the US will manage to stave off fascism for another four years tomorrow.
If you do (fingers crossed), please don’t stop there. Do whatever needs to be done to change the system—bring the whole damn thing to a halt if you need to—so you don’t find yourselves in the same place again in four years.
The worst thing that could happen is that Trump wins. The second worst thing that could happen is that Harris wins and y’all go “right, job done, time to hibernate for four years”.
The problem isn’t that the bad guys are the bad guys, it’s that the good guys are the bad guys too.
The neoliberalism to fascism pipeline is real and coming soon to a country near you.
“The National Archives museum, under Biden-appointed U.S. Archivist Colleen Shogan, has been working to reshape its narrative of American history in order to make white conservatives more comfortable … The museum has removed references to Martin Luther King Jr., Japanese internment, Native Americans, union organizers, and birth control … A photo of King was replaced with one of Richard Nixon meeting Elvis Presley.”
#UnitedStates #history #neoliberalismToFascismPipeline https://mastodon.social/@law_geek/113411290482072568
Wow, I only just realised (using Laura’s five-year-old hand-me-down MacBook Pro) that when you use Keynote on a MBP that has a touch bar, you basically get your presenter display on it. That’s amazing. Especially given you don’t always have the luxury of one at smaller events and/or if you’re live coding but also have slides.
Damn… wish they hadn’t discontinued those now 
Did you know IBM helped Hitler carry out the Holocaust? Is it in any way surprising that we can’t do anything about Big Tech and toxic oligarchs like Elon Musk when even those who helped carry out one of the worst tragedies in human history remain unpunished? Should it come as a shock that the very same bastards are funding and pining for fascism today?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1rhzge9r6k4
#BigTech #fascism #SiliconValley #ventureCapital #surveillance #capitalism #peopleFarming #BigData #AI
Anyone who thinks they can vote their way out of fascism with their wallet has never seen a billionaire’s wallet.
Look, unless the EU has mechanisms by which it can, at the very least, freeze membership of countries that come to embrace fascism, I don’t see how it doesn’t devolve into a fascist institution itself given enough time. You need to nip this shit in the bud. You can’t allow it to fester. You can’t invite it in. Freeze Hungary’s membership now. Let the people know, fascism isn’t welcome. If Hungary elects a non-fascist next time around, then, great, welcome back. Now don’t do it again or else…
“Hungary's nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Wednesday likened the European Union to the former Soviet Union and called on Hungarians to ‘resist’ Brussels as they did Moscow in 1956.”
At a rally to commemorate the 1956 Hungarian Uprising, Hungary's Viktor Orban compared the EU to the Soviet Union and criticized the bloc's support for Ukraine in the face of Russia's ongoing invasion.
dw.com (www.dw.com)
Remind me again why Hungary is still a member of the EU?
Fuck Microsoft. https://mastodon.social/@lashman/113375677031830482
2024 Edition
Western Values 2024 Edition
• Apartheid
• Ethnic Cleansing
• Genocide
Copyright 
Israel, USA, UK, Germany, et al. https://mstdn.ca/@dbattistella/113368662366571070
I feel you’re all being terribly unfair to Google.
Google spends half a billion dollars of its hard-earned cash every year to fund Mozilla and do they even hear a “thank you” from you ungrateful lot?
Nope!
Just “so glad Firefox isn’t made by Google” over and over again.
Well I guess I’m just not as humble as Google ‘cos, guess what, if I paid you $500,000,000 a year I’d damn well expect you to at least credit me.
So, c’mon, thank Google for Firefox.
“Some of us have lost many family members in Gaza and Lebanon. We respect those who feel they simply can’t vote for a member of the administration that sent the bombs that may have killed their loved ones … As we consider the full situation carefully, however, we conclude that voting for Kamala Harris is the best option for the Palestinian cause and all of our communities.”
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“[an] awful situation where only flawed choices are available.”
https://newrepublic.com/post/187537/kamala-harris-donald-trump-stunning-endorsement
It’s amazing to me how otherwise intelligent people keep getting surprised by kings¹ choosing monarchy² over democracy.
¹ billionaires
² fascism
Billionaires and fascists.
Billionaires and trillion-dollar monopolies is not a failure of capitalism; it’s capitalism working exactly as designed. The biggest lie you’ve been told is that capitalism is essential to democracy. The truth is capitalism tolerates democracy when it’s weak and replaces it when it’s strong.
Having civil discourse with the oppressors of others doesn’t mean you’re diplomatic, it means you’re privileged.
Anyone who calls themselves “king” should be laughed to the ends of the earth.
You’re a what now, son? Fuck off!
Dear Americans,
Vote for Kamala Harris even though both candidates will continue to arm Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people because, yes, the alternative is worse and, yes, because your country – and others like it (the UK and Germany spring to mind) – is so morally bankrupt and undemocratic that your political system doesn’t even leave you the option of not supporting a genocide.
But don’t you dare stop there and pat yourselves on the back. (1/3)
I don’t know… when has fascism ever been a dealbreaker for all Americans?
Was it during the Native American genocide?
During slavery?
Segregation?
During the current genocide in Gaza?
When?
#USA #UnitedStates #fascism #history #slavery #segregation #israel #gaza #apartheid #genocide
