Democrats have enabled US fascism at every step of its development, and they're not going to stop it now. #Antifascist organizing also means anti-Democratic Party organizing.
Democrats have enabled US fascism at every step of its development, and they're not going to stop it now. #Antifascist organizing also means anti-Democratic Party organizing.
John Kenneth Galbraith's observation about conservatism is as relevant as ever.
"The modern conservative is not even especially modern. He is engaged, on the contrary, in one of man’s oldest, best financed, most applauded, and, on the whole, least successful exercises in moral philosophy. That is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
#conservatives #selfishness #usa #Economics #PoliticalPhilosophy
"Have you noticed how death is our solution to everything nowadays?"
https://www.normalisland.co.uk/p/government-announces-major-plan-for
Politicians commonly claim that the #USA has been a "beacon of #democracy" for the past 250 years, at home & abroad.
The #US intervened in foreign #elections at least 128 times between 1946 & 2014, to sway outcomes in its own interests, usually to prevent #leftwing parties from coming to power.
New video on my Keith's Universe channel
"Clothes Don't Make A Leader", where I weigh in on my thoughts regarding Zelensky's meeting with #Trump in the Oval Office
@randahl Musk’s problem is #conservatives hate his product and #liberals hate him. That’s quite a dilemma
Bill filed in the #Texas legislature that would make being #Trans or #NonBinary a criminal offense. #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #gender #legal #RepublicansDidThis #RepublicansOwnThis #conservatives #NB
https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=89R&Bill=HB3817
I am asking some of you to stop lying to yourselves about how "powerless" the #Dems in #DC are. Please stop. Most of these people have been #Congress for over a generation. They KNOW what's possible to do both in DC and in their own districts. They are "colleagues" with #McConnell. They know.
NEWS: Last night, the Department of #HomelandSecurity detained a #Palestinian who helped lead the #Columbia encampment.
Agents told him his visa was revoked. He said he had a green card. They were confused—then said that was revoked too.
His attorney demanded a warrant. Agents hung up instead.
#TSA does not keep the #USA safe. It's post-9/11 #security theater designed to harass, intimidate, & generally make our lives more difficult. It was brought in as part of a latter-day #gestapo operation, the #DHS, under the false premise of " #terrorism".
https://bsky.app/profile/isaiahrmartin.bsky.social/post/3ljt2jqbpfc22
Gavin Newsom: Trans athletes playing in women's sports is 'deeply unfair'
Hmmmm... Why am I having #DejaVu?
From 2022: "Vladimir #Putin has mentioned 'gender freedoms' more than once to justify #Russia’s war against #Ukraine and simultaneously crack down on its own citizens.
"Most directly, he alleged that Russian citizens who seek '#GenderFreedoms' (alongside foie gras and oysters) are part of the anti-Russian 'fifth column.'
"Gender and sexuality freedoms — or rights, as they are more typically called — are about #BodilyAutonomy, #diversity and #inclusivity. #Feminist and #LGBTQ+ activists assert that every human being deserves respect, recognition and equal rights regardless of their gender or sexuality.
"What’s the connection between Putin’s animosity toward Ukraine and toward #gender and #sexuality rights in Russia and around the world?
Gender and Putin’s regime
"Putin’s regime has increasingly relied on very conventional gender and sexual norms.
"When he first ascended to the presidency, image-makers used Putin’s #KGB background and penchant for physical fitness to frame him as a #macho #strongman who could reverse Russia’s waning power and 'remasculinize' the country after a decade of supposed geopolitical flaccidity in the wake of the #Soviet collapse.
"In other words, an inflexible and clearly #patriarchal notion of masculinity has been central to the Putin regime’s legitimacy.
"Russia’s foreign policy has relied on rigid gender norms as well. When Ukraine underwent its first pro-democracy revolution in 2004, Russian media questioned its leaders’ masculinity.
"Putin likewise used homophobic terms to dismiss #Georgia’s #RoseRevolution in 2003, responding to a reporter’s question by saying: 'A rose revolution — next they’ll come up with a light blue one.' In Russian, 'light blue' or goluboi is slang for “gay male.”
Gender and appealing to constituencies
"Putin has often been represented as the unquestioned leader of the pack ruling Russia — a masculinity-driven image.
"However, even as the leader of a personalist #dictatorship — a regime in which there are few institutional limits on the leader’s power — Putin must balance competing interests among significant elites and maintain at least the appearance of public support in order to be considered a legitimate ruler.
"Until 2020, Putin was using gendered language in his speeches to signal his alignment with a variety of elites and public constituencies that supported him. He was sending mixed signals to both relatively progressive Russians who value women’s roles in the workplace and to #conservatives wishing for a return to '#TraditionalFamilyValues,' in order to keep everyone in his camp.
"But after July 2021, when he published an essay contending Ukrainians and Russians are a single people, Putin no longer shied away from making sexist and LGBTQ+-phobic comments in prominent settings.
"At an October 2021 meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club — a Moscow-based think tank and discussion forum that Putin is closely associated with — he said teaching children about #GenderFluidity was 'truly monstrous' and 'verging on a crime against humanity.'"
Read more:
https://theconversation.com/vladimir-putin-the-czar-of-macho-politics-is-threatened-by-gender-and-sexuality-rights-180473
#USPol #TrumpIsPutinsPuppet #GBLTQRights #HumanRights #WomensRights #ToxicMasculinity #GenderFascists
Veterans Affairs Department plans to cut thousands more jobs as part of Trump's cost-cutting efforts
Video: Leader of UK opposition #Conservatives, #KemiBadenoch, gives full support to #Zelensky
"i couldn't believe what was happening" w #Trump - #Vance trying to humiliate Zelensky