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Wishing everyone a Happy Victory Day this May 9, 2024! Deep bow and thanks to our ancestors, who saved us from the Nazi monsters.
Ukraine War Day #806: Happy Victory Day!
Tag: Totalitarianism
House Votes To Extend Warrantless Spying Powers
Umberto Eco: A Practical List for Identifying Fascists
Fascism is present even in the most progressive democracies; some points for identifying its component parts
Umberto Eco: A Practical List for Identifying Fascists
CJ Hopkins has been given a choice of jail time or a fine for two tweets and a book cover
American satirist and playwright C.J. Hopkins has been sent a “punishment order” and a choice: 60 days or 3,600 Euros.
What is his crime? Essentially, his “crime” is insulting the German health minister in a tweet, and using a scarcely-visible image of a Swastika on a mask in a book critical of the global pandemic response.
CJ Hopkins has been given a choice of jail time or a fine for two tweets and a book cover
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RFK Jr vows unconditional support for Israel as IDF massacres Palestinians!
RFK Jr’s hasbara makes me want to vomit! 🤮 He thinks children are legitimate military target!! 🤬
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. – Major Israel Booster
Before that discussion, Kennedy addressed in the interview his views in regard to the nation of Israel, making clear that he is a major Israel booster. Kennedy started off his comments in the interview by stating, “There’s nobody who’s running for president right now in either party who will be a better friend to Israel than me as president, and nobody who will articulate the moral case for Israel with the same erudition, the same persuasive power as me, because I believe it in my heart, it’s core to the values that I was raised with.” Later in his opening comment of the interview, Kennedy declared, “That friendship with Israel and making the moral case for Israel will be a key part of my presidency.”
Kennedy also declared in his opening comment of the interview that he will try as a candidate “to bring the Democratic Party back to its traditional support of Israel and to explain to my children’s generation the historical context and the moral case for Israel.” At least among the top Democratic Congress leaders — and the top Republican Congress leaders as well, though, devotion to the Israel government seems to be running very high already.
Further argued Kennedy in his opening comment, Israel expends great effort at the risk of its own soldiers to “avoid civilian casualties” in dealing with threats from its adversaries and is not an apartheid state. Later in the interview, Kennedy further asserted that a Palestinian has “much more rights in Israel than in any of the neighboring countries” and that “the best place” and “the safest place” in the Middle East for a Palestinian dissident to criticize his government is in Israel.
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Kennedy: ‘As President, my support of Israel will be unconditional.’
Israeli forces kill two Palestinian teens in occupied West Bank
The shootings bring the number of Palestinians killed this year in the occupied Palestinian territories, which includes East Jerusalem and Gaza, to 202, with 165 of those in the occupied West Bank, said Khan.
31 of those killed are under the age of 18, she added.
A State of Martial Law: America Is a Military Dictatorship Disguised as a Democracy
The government is goosestepping all over our freedoms.
Case in point: America’s founders did not want a military government ruled by force. Rather, they opted for a republic bound by the rule of law: the U.S. Constitution.
A State of Martial Law: America Is a Military Dictatorship Disguised as a Democracy
Political Satirist Under Criminal Investigation in Berlin
The Berlin State Prosecutor has launched a criminal investigation of me for tweeting the image on the cover of my book, The Rise of the New Normal Reich.
Political Satirist (me) Under Criminal Investigation in Berlin
How to get arrested in Ukraine? Just wear the colors of the Russian Flag!
How to get arrested in Russia? Just wear blue and yellow
H/T: Emil Cosman
I’m calling BS on the story from Ukraine! Otherwise, they have 164,999 personnel left to arrest from the VKS! 🤦🏼♀️
Irony (or whataboutism?! 🤷🏼♀️):
Waiting for the end of the world
We cannot even begin to imagine the uninterrupted cascading effects of the geopolitical earthquake of 2023 that shook the world: Putin and Xi, in Moscow, effectively signalling the beginning of the end of the Pax Americana.
Waiting for the end of the world
When Liberals Fell in Love With Benito Mussolini
When we speak of concepts like “totalitarianism” and “corporatism,” it is often assumed that fascism stands very far from the liberal market society that went before it, and which we are still experiencing today. But if we pay closer attention to Italian fascism’s economic policies, especially during the 1920s, we can see how some combinations typical of both the last century and our own were experienced already in the first years of Benito Mussolini’s rule. A case in point is the association between austerity and technocracy. By “technocracy,” I refer to the phenomenon whereby certain policies that are common today (such as cuts in social spending, regressive taxation, monetary deflation, privatizations, and wage repressions) are decided by economic experts who advise governments or even directly take over the reins themselves, as in several recent cases in Italy.
When Liberals Fell in Love With Benito Mussolini
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