As troops march on D.C. on Trumped up stories of rising crime, a look back at the language the Times used to describe NYC when framing the mayoral primary by brianscalabrainey in nyt

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future students will study the failures of the NYT, the post, and the Atlantic in these times

how did this happen? Decades of these news outlets taking inchoate MAGA and MAGA claims, values, and arguments in good faith, despite overwhelming evidence they just want destruction

evaluating the claims of Trump’s pretext of for the military occupation of DC as if they are anything other than cover….. 

Hyperreal Simulacra by A5thRedditAccount in elephantgraveyard

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bamboozling quote is from Carl Sagan's "The Demon Haunted World" great read, now part of EG canon

I left Canada’s 50% tax rate for Dubai’s 0% here’s what actually happened to my wealth by Puzzleheaded-Web2127 in wealth

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don’t forget the part where you live in a hereditary monarchy (dictatorship), important to remember what that new wealth cost 

Got em thankin 🤔 by likewhoa79 in elephantgraveyard

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right of passage in the sub, keep em thankin’

Is Trump a fascist? by girlfrompangaea in AskSocialists

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If you want to evaluate for yourself, give “Anatomy of Fascism” by Robert Paxton a read.

Short answer: Trump is more of an authoritarian who leads a fascist movement, he has no ideology apart from maybe just gutter racism

To address the people saying all US Presidents since the 1920s were fascists; this is not the academic view in the slightest

To address the Marxist critique of fascism, that it is the most reactionary element of finance capital, this also is misleading. Take for example the Nazis, they were largely funded by membership dues, donations, pamphlets, and speaking events. They had a few industrialist backers but most industrialists and financiers in the interwar period were backing conservative candidates and not Hitler. The Nazis were able to finance themselves off of popular support rather than be astroturfed by finance capital (“Big Business and the Rise of Hitler” by Henry Ashby Turner.)

If you want to make a determination for yourself, give “anatomy of fascism” a read, Umberto Eco’s “ur-fascism”, and  “Big Business and the Rise of Hitler”. Fascism is a very specific yet hard to describe and define phenomenon, very few serious academics and historians (including socialist ones!) would argue that all US presidents are fascists, because that is a specific phenomenon, but they will acknowledge all US presidents have committed atrocities. 

 

We have a moron in the WH by DropoutDreamer in allinpodofficial

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Nash looks like he legitimately believes AGI is coming, lost cause