Happy Labor Day, the holiday designed to erase May Day in America undercut ties with the radical globally united labor movement and promote a domesticated and patriotic vision of labor which is why there’s no general strike while fascism marches on, for those who celebrate!
Thank you so much for the context on that number! So many uncritical uses of ONLY the ghm number.
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Newsome, Biden, Obama... 'All of your favorite liberals' have been at best dead weight, and at worst collaborators. If the Dem party is to be the vehicle in which we wage war against fascism, then those types must go. There is no other way.
I mean I see our hallowed institutions crumbling to a fascist regime with most dems trying to meet them halfway. If we are to be radical, which I think the mission we share necessitates and, we must lose the collaborators and dead weight. Elect people with real ideological clarity.
Again, there were some decent, albeit wonkish moments, but it's not like we remember Von Hindenberg for his military reforms.
I don't know that we ever did anything but accelerate towards another Trump term. Once you unleash the fash, it's hard to put that genie back in the bottle. Like we removed university professors for their research because they criticized the state for doing a genocide.
The fact that some of y’all conflate “I’m not interested in candidates who use fascist tactics like throwing a minority group under the bus” to mean “I want my Prince Charming” is a sign of derangement (and also misogyny, the Prince Charming bit is doing a lot)
Positive or less bad? Trump could not be doing what he's doing without Obama's massive expansion of the 'national security' state. Biden did some decent things I guess (ya know besides a genocide that broke the UN), but still too little too late. Biden also put us on this path as a senator.
I... See this literally all the time. As in this would be totally unremarkable. Like were they doing something extra cute?
Whatever, fashy. We are going to secure a dignified existence for you.
Get the hell off Substack before you literally can’t anymore without blowing up your business
More like we worked them, lol.
Valid, but honestly is that it? Anti-democratic electoralism is at best a stopgap measure and IF Dems keep bleeding out the way they are, it could give more seats to Republicans since they have to definitionally make their already gerrymandered districts less safe.
I suppose I must ask what newsome is doing? Trump posting basically crowded out every other joke during Trump one and the fascists just took over the government with ease.
They're placating the people with memes because they can't/won't do anything substantive. If there were a successful model for liberal governance we wouldn't have Trump in the first place.
Same way they're like 'we sent a strongly worded letter to encourage them to follow the law' to the right, but go full Machiavelli against anyone to their left.
Nazi 'science' was total garbage and they absolutely destroyed research that contradicted their ideology. What do you think the book burnings were about?
I really wish people who knew absolutely nothing about fascism would stop making proclamations about what is and isn't fascism. Adolf Hitler was dumb as all hell. The Aryan Master Race more or less was a medieval peasant superstition!
Mark Cuban's company is basically goodRX or any discount card. Most generics are pretty damn cheap, especially with a discount card. The media just sucks his dick for it and then it gets repeated. He's a ghoul who's already trying to break for the fascist side cause he picked the wrong horse.
*but also wrong*. Pritzker seems thoughtful, but his class position and upbringing prevents him from being a true friend to working people. I feel genuine fear for what is to come, so I was looking for a life raft even though I knew that it had not yet been built.
There's a combination of gratitude for him being much better than previous governors in my lifetime, genuine appreciation that he's at least taken a performative stance for trans people (even though it's common sense). From personal interactions he's struck me as genuine if not wrong.
Sorry I didn't respond at the time but I was thinking about what you said off and on the whole time. You're right. I consider myself nearly as radical as they come and yet I find myself defending him simply for being mediocre in a sea of total shit. And I was just thinking about why?
It doesn't say what you claim it does! Please educate me and tell me I'm wrong and quote it. I have no problem with people being uninformed, but gaslighting is wrong.
Please quote it to me, I'm not convinced you actually have read it.
I literally read it and I'm looking for something like "Christian nationalism in America is an evangelical Zionist blah blah blah.
So they're not fascists until they already have power? How does that work? Your link, good sir: "a populist political philosophy, movement, or regime..."
Why doesn't it call it Christian nationalism? Quote it if I'm missing it, but you'd think they'd call it that and not a much more specific term like American evangelical nationalism.
Black people don't give a fuck about Israel? They fit into your definition because you've crafted one around them.
Because you've created a definition in your head that only you share!! I'm not trying to trick you, I'm trying to educate you so that you can more effectively do the good work if you'll mind my pun.
Link me a definition. You are the only one that uses the term that way. You're dunning Kruegering yourself my man. It is not convincing in the slightest
Fascism is the chosen method to seize the government of the very people you're attempting to describe! How do you not know this? It's why we are talking about them now instead of decades ago when people like myself were ringing the alarm bells.
That would be news to him. Besides that, why is he part of the coalition then? You're using a definition that only exists in your head. Link me a definition of Christian nationalism that only refers to that one particular belief and not the more fundamental beliefs of Christian nationalism.
I'm convinced the doom times we find ourselves in has turned everyone's brain to grey mush (myself included).
Literally what are you even trying to say? Read that again and tell me you have a coherent point.
That is incongruent with what you just said. Nick fuentes is a Christian nationalist AND not a Zionist. How can Christian Zionism be the umbrella for Christian nationalism?
Fascists want you to think they are a united group when they are not. They are scared of people doing to them what they do to others and so they find bedfellows. Not all of them are Christian nationalists or even Christian, but they ALL believe THEY will be the ones around when the dust settles
For many sects, the question of if we are in the end times or is it still to come and Israel's role in that is a very important question. Others that's a very esoteric debate that they won't be able to engage with you on. Hell some don't even preach revelations.
Oh so his Christian nationalism is different than other people's Christian nationalism you say? Okay, so we've established you're not talking about all American Christian nationalism, just an even smaller subset. But are you talking about seven mountainers or NARs? Are they Premillennials or post?
You have, at best, a Vox video's level of understanding of what's going on and yet you're so convinced you can't be wrong... That you can accurately characterize a whole political movement without even having the language to do so.
Even then you're still fucking wrong. You're blowing up what a sunset of that group believes into being the motivating force of a whole group. That is simply not true. The white supremacist faction for example believes that we should let Israel be destroyed.
I have never constructed a fascist police state to appeal to Republican donors, no. If a babysitter beats my kid, they will never be my babysitter ever again, no matter how much time passes. That's just life.
I love how much this map gives away that The Atlantic—the supposed adults in the room— have absolutely no idea about the political landscape of America lol
Literally none of this would be possible without your astounding work towards growing the 'national security' state. Great work, Mr president; your big ole Nazi check is in the mail.
Uhh… let me be clear… I may have thrown Foucault’s boomerang, but… uhh… I am not responsible for it coming back
No no, I've answered your questions, now answer mine for once. I've let you slip-slide your way around this nonsense argument long enough. Why did you not simply say that you're only talking about a very particular sect when I asked if you were? Did you read that Wikipedia page I linked for you?
I'm sorry, did you read? I literally googled it for you. Is this some sort of attempt to double down? For whose benefit? We are 30 replies deep—it's just us.
Ohhh THAT *specific* sect! The one I asked if you were confused about the term applying to more than just them? The one that I grew up in? That one that you never never narrowed it down to despite numerous opportunities to do so? Go figure.
Fuckin coming at me about googling shit with this amateur bullshit.
Then there's your confusion which is what I've been saying. Per Wikipedia: Christian nationalism is a form of religious nationalism that focuses on promoting the Christian views of its followers, in order to achieve prominence or dominance in political, cultural, and social life.
Catholics don't talk about revelations almost at all. What of those among them that believe there should be a nation for Christians? Are they end-times Zionists? Or are they not Christians to you?
Ultimately, yes. That said, Zionists see this as the only path forward. Apartheid's days are numbered from the second it's born. Israelis, like the Nazis, feel a combination of pressure and power that makes now the time for a final solution that will erase the people who challenge their legitimacy.
Bitch, have I denied the links even once? Don't take that fucking tone with me asshole. I could have just said you are an idiot, but instead o took the time to try and clarify a relatively common misconception. Don't talk to me about Google when you're the one massively oversimplifying.
I hate to break it to you, but there's hardly unified support for israel amongst Christian nationalists. This is a potentially consequential contradiction between the holy war leadership of the movement and its more isolationist followers.
For one particular sect of Christian nationalists as I've been saying. Regardless, it's the theological and ideological pretext, not the motivating principle. For many of the hard-core ideologues you'd be totally valid in that statement. You can't say Christian nationalism IS Zionism.
I think you think a lot of things that aren't based in truth. Both of those things can be and are true. Israel is not interested in Christian nationalism or US domestic security beyond what it gains for their settler project. The same is true of Christian Zionists and Nat Sec spooks.
Israel is absolutely not the core of Christian nationalist ideology, this is an absurd claim. It's a major facet of the modern American incarnation, absolutely. But again, there's a reason we call it Christian nationalism and not fucking Zionism.
Israel has always been a brutal outgrowth of US foreign policy. They didn't just start being evil the moment the rest of America woke up and saw the starvation and disease they wreak on the Palestinian people. There is nothing more bipartisan in Washington than unyielding support for US hegemony
I'm not, though again there's a lot of overlap and ties between the two. So what changed that it's no longer based on American interests? What about all the Democrats that have always and continue to support Israel? Are they Christian nationalists too? Some of them, sure, but no.
That's part of the benefit. Life is great if you tow the line. No, the afforded leeway being things like killing Americans and and isolating the US from its projected image of being based on 'rule of law'.
However, having come from that background, I can confidently say that is not how your average evangelical formulates it in their head. What I'll grant is that they both have an eschatological makeup but that's a given with evangelicals—thats basically their thing behind a personalized designer jesus
Perhaps that's the particular formulation for some people, but that only makes sense in a post 2000s American evangelicalism. The principle of Christian nationalism is in the name, they want a nation for Christians by Christians. A theocracy in a sense.
Genocide is not an exceptional state for the US, none of this is a real departure from US foreign policy since WW2 and certainly not since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. We would genocide every last person on earth to secure empire all while wringing our hands, saying it's out of our control.
Sure whatever. The point is, there's a reason why we let them do fucking insane shit like that and it's not because they are calling the shots. Israeli soft influence plays a role in the shape the relationship takes, but empire wants the same thing as them, just for different reasons.
Are they not both fundamentally political? Question, what do you think Christian nationalism is? I think there lies the confusion.
Israel takes full advantage of this privileged status, absolutely. That said, this is basically what the US does all over the world. We prop up fringe radical groups to fight our wars to produce favorable trade conditions. This is what empires do.
Why 20 years? Why not 30? Why not 60 years ago when Israel deliberately sank the USS Liberty, killing 34 sailors and injuring hundreds more, and the US covered it up. They do stuff that we don't like the optics of, but it's acceptable because stirring the pot would mean losing our beachhead.
You'll have to explain that further because I simply don't understand your argument. Seriously, I think you're confused by the fact that the modern evangelical movement embraces both, but frankly I rarely if ever hear them make a direct connection like you are.
As the joke actually implies, the tail does not wag the dog. They are afforded a lot of leeway because they're an important key to US hegemony.
The US ultimately holds total control over Israel's future. If our funds, military backing, and cover in the international community dries up, Israel will collapse almost overnight. Israel recognizes this which is why they spend so much on 'soft power' in the states.
That is factually not true. Why use different terms then? Someone can be one or the other, but often both these days.
Israel does exploit Zionist and Nationalist evangelicals for their own purposes. However, US support for israel doesn't rely on evangelicals. Israel is a US imperial project, destabilizing the MENA region and preventing a pan-arab identity from forming, facilitating continued resource extraction.
I'm sorry but you're confusing a lot of different things. One, you linked Christian Zionism which has a lot of overlap in adherents but are distinct political projects. Two, those movements were not unified until the rise of the Christian political right in the 70s (at least in the US)
Christian nationalism in America is only causally related to Zionism. As an identifiable political movement, I believe it's older than Zionism. Also we have plenty of concrete things to fear about it without invoking communism as a bogeyman.
Oh man that's a banger line. I'm so tired the childish nicknames that passes for resistance to a lot of people, but the gruesome governor is sticky and powerful.
If you are okay with this, if you think this is justified, if you think people living on the street have brought this upon themselves, if you think this is good leadership, you may be able to fool yourself that you care about others but you don’t fool me
I think of the Audre Lorde quote where she calls poetry the art of the working class. It is economical and can be done during lulls at work or during the monotony of the day to day.
Only when glue is not an option
It also keeps Republicans busy doing spin rather than pushing their fascist lies. The stated Dem 'strategy' of letting Republicans fuck everything up so they lose in the midterms is only enabling these assholes to spew their vile propaganda unopposed.
I have my fair share of criticisms about Orwell's works, but I'll be damned if I'm not filled with the same exact existential horror that I felt when reading 1984. His critique of language as a form of control is top notch as well.
Lol talk about context collapse.
Now is an excellent time to shut up about shit you don't fully know about. Just take the shut and put it all the way the fuck up
It's funny that you can't pick up that I don't care to argue with you anymore. I tried, you dismissed it with a nonsense take, so I feel it's a waste of time to continue our discussion beyond idle curiosity of what you say next. Go debate this with a political science professor.
737s have wheels therefore they work the same as a car
Again, I don't particularly care if you like or dislike historical socialist projects. You're just hand waving away humongous differences to either fit a narrative or you're hopelessly uninformed either way I don't care to engage.
From Dem donors?
Your 'argument' is like feelings, man. I'm not gonna waste the scholastic effort proving your feelings wrong.
Feel free to view it negatively, that's not what I take offense to. What has me rightfully dismissing you is saying fascism and socialism is the same when they operate in totally different ways which can be confirmed by reading even a pop-history book. Your ignorance is not equal to my knowledge
I have faith that people can read what you wrote and determine you're full of shit for themselves.
In response to your *substance*? If I wasted my time refuting every outrageously uninformed claim on this site, I would never have time for anything else.
I would love it if you read a history book :) we will all be better off
I believe it was pure BEEF the way he threw it
Fuck yeah! I hope it feels so gratifying as a journalist to affect this sort of social change. One can be forgiven for thinking journalism is hopeless as a means of social change in the environment we find ourselves. This is a real win.
I eagerly await the day they are tried and [redacted] for crimes against humanity with their Republican and Israeli counterparts.
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They're certainly not capitalists to say the least.
The dismissive comments on this post fair to realize that this is significant in the sense that it represents a re-orienting of the international community towards a war footing with the United States. The US's worst fear of the global south uniting against them is being realized slowly but surely.
If that's what you got out of that, that's on you. Can you differentiate socialism from fascism then since apparently I can't tell the difference? I guess it's been too long since I've had an American high school history class.
You're right. Socialism is when the government does bad things. Thanks for your insight.