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Saturday, September 7, 2024
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY
American Fascism: A German Writer's Urgent Warning to America
Fascists use patriotism and religion to manipulate dumb people. Fascist propaganda works best on the dumbest of the dumb. They don't know when they're being lied to. That's why it's no coincidence that the MAGA death cult are the dumbest people in America.
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Friday, September 6, 2024
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DONALD TRUMP
Public, real time response to the very specific question, "If you win in November, can to commit to prioritizing legislation to make childcare affordable, and if so what specific piece of legislation would you advance?" (September 24, 2024)
Well, I would do that. And we're sitting down – you know – I was – somebody – we had – Senator Marco – Rubio and my daughter Ivanka was so – uh – impactful on that issue. It's a very important issue, but I think when you talk about the kind of numbers that I'm talking about that – because – look, childcare is childcare. It's – it couldn't – you know it's something – you have to have it. In this country you have to have it – uh – but when you talk about those numbers compared to the kind of numbers that I'm talking about by taxing foreign nations at levels that they're not used to but they'll get used to it very quickly and it's not gonna stop them from doing business with us but they'll have a very substantial tax when they send product into our country – uh – those numbers are so much bigger than any numbers that we're talking about including childcare that it's gonna take care - we're gonna have – I – I look forward to having no deficits within a fairly short period of time coupled with – uh – the reductions that I told you about on waste and fraud and all of the other things that are going on in our country because I have to stay with childcare – I – I wanna stay with childcare but those numbers are small relative to the kind of economic numbers that I'm talking about including growth but growth also headed up by what the plan is that I just – uh – that I just told you about. We're gonna be taking in trillions of dollars and as much as much as childcare – uh – is talked about as being expensive it's relatively speaking not very expensive compared to the kind of numbers we'll be taking in – we're gonna make this into an incredible country that can take afford to take care of its people and then we'll worry about the rest of the world. Let's help other people but we're gonna take care of our country first. This is about America First. This is about Make America Great Again. We have to do it because right now we're a failing nation – so we'll take care of it. Thank you.
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Thursday, September 5, 2024
JEYHUN ALIYEV SILO
To Be Tried as a Jew
Pluralism, transparency, separation of powers, and the rule of law are obstacles that prevents autocracy's triumph. In return, autocracy deceives the masses with its spectacular lies to bypass democracy and builds its legitimacy on these promises. At the same time, it forbids even two people from talking each other in private, so as not to spoil its spells. That is why, in authoritarian regimes, at least one person is recruited as an agent from each household. But a naive child who may rat out everything that he/she hears at home is an irreplaceable agent.
Wednesday, September 4, 2024
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Tuesday, September 3, 2024
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MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
Fascism: A Warning
Hitler's claim to distinction rested not on the quality of his ideas, but instead on his extraordinary drive to turn warped concepts into reality. Where others hesitated or were constrained by moral scruples, he preferred to act and saw emotional hardness as essential.
From early in his career, he was a genius at reading a crowd and modulating his message accordingly. In conversations with advisers, he was frank about this. He said that most people earnestly desired to have faith in something and were not intellectually equipped to quibble over what that object of belief might be.
He thought it shrewd, therefore, to reduce issues to terms that were easy to grasp and to lure his audiences into thinking that behind the many sources of their problems there loomed a single adversary. “There are only two possibilities,” he explained, “either the victory of the Aryan side or its annihilation and the victory of the Jews.”
Hitler felt that his countrymen were looking for a man who spoke to their anger, understood their fears, and sought their participation in a stirring and righteous cause. He was delighted, not dismayed, by the outrage his speeches generated abroad. He believed that his followers wanted to see him challenged, because they yearned to hear him express contempt for those who thought they could silence him.
The image of a brave man standing up against powerful foes is immensely appealing. In this way, Hitler could make even his persecution of the defenseless seem like self-defense.
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Monday, September 2, 2024
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Sunday, September 1, 2024
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UMBERTO ECO
"Eternal Fascism - Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt"
["Il fascismo eterno"]
It would be so much easier for us, if there appeared on the world scene somebody saying "I want to reopen Auschwitz, I want the Black Shirts to parade again in the Italian squares". Life is not that simple. Ur-Fascism can come back under the most innocent of disguises. Our duty is to uncover it and point our finger at any of its new instances - every day, in every part of the world.
Saturday, August 31, 2024
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GUY DEBORD
Society of the Spectacle
Although fascism rallies to the defense of the main points of bourgeois ideology which has become conservative (the family, property, the moral order, the nation), reuniting the petty-bourgeoisie and the unemployed routed by crisis or deceived by the impotence of socialist revolution, it is not itself fundamentally ideological. It presents itself as it is: a violent resurrection of myth which demands participation in a community defined by archaic pseudo-values: race, blood, the leader.
Fascism is technically-equipped archaism. Its decomposed ersatz of myth is revived in the spectacular context of the most modern means of conditioning and illusion. Thus it is one of the factors in the formation of the modern spectacle, and its role in the destruction of the old workers’ movement makes it one of the fundamental forces of present-day society.
Friday, August 30, 2024
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Thursday, August 29, 2024
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James 2:1-4
How can you claim to have faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ if you favor some people over others? … If you give special attention and a good seat to the rich person, but you say to the poor one, ‘You can stand over there, or else sit on the floor’—well, doesn’t this discrimination show that your judgments are guided by evil motives?
Matthew 25:41-45
Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: for I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
Zechariah 7:9-10
Thus says the Lord of hosts: Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another; do not oppress the widow, the orphan, the alien, or the poor; and do not devise evil in your hearts against one another.
Leviticus 19:34
The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 27:19
‘Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow.’ Then all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’
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Wednesday, August 28, 2024
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EDNA O'BRIEN
Interview with Philip Roth, The New York Times (1984)
[Roth: Are you surprised that you survived the isolated farm and the violent father and the provincial convent without having lost the freedom of mind to be able to write?]
I am surprised by my own sturdiness - yes; but I do not think that I am unscarred. Such things as driving a car or swimming are quite beyond me. In a lot of ways I feel a cripple. The body was as sacred as a tabernacle and everything a potential occasion of sin. It is funny now, but not that funny - the body contains the life story just as much as the brain. I console myself by thinking that if one part is destroyed another flourishes.
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