Italy one of five ‘dismantlers’ causing ‘democratic recession’ in Europe, report says | European Union | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/17/italy-one-of-five-dismantlers-causing-democratic-recession-in-europe-report-says
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✊You, the people, have the power!✊
#Dictators rise and fall. They rule with #fear, they divide, they suppress. But as #CharlieChaplin said in The Great Dictator:
"You, the people, have the power – the power to create machines, the power to create #happiness!"
This speech was true then, and it is true now. The world has changed, but human nature has not.
🔥 Stand against fear. Fight for #humanity. The power is in our hands! 🔥
#democracy #war #usa #politics #trump #fascism #rightwing #putin
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The #Plutocrat-#Bigot #socialMedia axis takes race swapping characters in #movies seriously
Because it's a pipeline to #farRight #politics, weaponized fake outrage
And they get to engage in #racism and #hate
"#AyoEdebiri ‘got insane death threats’ after Elon #Musk shared fake report about #PiratesoftheCaribbean casting
#TheBear #actor called Musk a #fascist and an idiot after his reaction to a post from a #rightWing account that claimed she was replacing Johnny Depp"
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The Trump administration targeting universities due to them “not doing enough to combat antisemitism” is a ruse.
This isn’t about #antisemitism. The #rightwing has hated higher learning #institutions for being “woke” for decades. Now that the right wing is in power, they can finally do what they have always wanted to do: make the colleges they’ve hated for so long into their punching bags.
#ColumbiaUniversity Bent Over Backward to Appease #RightWing, #ProIsrael Attacks — And #Trump Still Cut #FederalFunding
Instead of #outrage, the school’s interim president responded to the cuts by vowing to continue its misguided crackdown.
by Natasha Lennard, March 8 2025
"Columbia University could hardly have been more draconian in the last year and a half since students began speaking out against Israel’s assault on #Gaza.
In early November 2023, four months before the Columbia #GazaSolidarity encampment even began, the university banned its chapters of #StudentsForJusticeInPalestine and #JewishVoiceForPeace. A few hundred students from the groups had had the audacity to walk out from classes and hold a “die-in” protest on campus — some of the most widely celebrated nonviolent protest tactics available.
"The crackdown was just getting started.
Since then, the university has ordered police raids on campus three times, leading to the arrests of over 100 students. Last week, the school expelled four students, three from #BarnardCollege one from Columbia. Many dozens of students have faced discipline and suspensions for participating in pro-Palestine protests and speech.
"Professors have been slandered before Congress, censured, removed from positions, and reportedly pushed into retirement over their support for Palestine and criticism of Israel. The campus has been essentially locked down for almost a year.
"Again and again, Columbia has shown a willingness to throw #students, #faculty, #FreeSpeech, and academic freedom under the bus in acquiescence to a #RightWing, #ProIsrael narrative that treats support for Palestinians as an affront to Jewish safety.
"For all Columbia’s #appeasement, President Donald Trump’s Federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism announced last week that it would cancel $400 million in #FederalGrants and contracts to the university.
"'Columbia has worked overtime to appease,' wrote Layla, a student at Columbia’s School of Social Work, who asked to withhold her last name having faced doxxing attacks and harassment from Zionist groups. 'Students are miserable. Campus is a #panopticon. And their funding was still cut.'
"The Trump administration can be expected to use its perverted conception of antisemitism to further its explicit plans to decimate, #corporatize, and #ReWhiten #HigherEducation. The shame here lies with university leaderships — at Columbia and schools nationwide — that have failed to stand up for their purported missions of #CriticalThinking and #AcademicFreedom. Instead, they have put some of their most vulnerable community members, particularly international students and students of color, at risk.
"There is no appeasing a political force like the #TrumpianRight, intent on a program of destruction. And there is no appeasing a nationalist #Zionist worldview that, defying reason, sees #antisemitism in every call for #Palestinian freedom. Columbia is proof of the failure of caving in; the administration has offered up a platter of repression for more than a year and is still slated to lose $400 million."
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/03/08/columbia-trump-funding-gaza-israel/
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/jrNva
#Fascism #Appeasement #FreePalestine #Gaza #RightToProtest #Censorship #Fascism #ICE #ACAB #Authoritarianism #USPol #FreeSpeech
🤡 This guy is a real piece of work! 🤡
#USA #Politics #AntiDemocracy #Authoritarianism #TechnoFeudalism #Power #Dictatorship #CEO #Rightwing #Ideology #Quacks #Hacks #Government #Billionaires #SiliconValley #Musk #NeoMonarchism #NeoReactionism #NeoFeudalism #AntiLiberalism
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🧵Persuading others who support the right wing extremist views can be challenging, but it's possible through thoughtful, empathetic communication and evidence-based arguments.
Here are some approaches to help foster understanding and shift perspectives: 1)
#farright #rightwing #Facist #Liberal #conservative #Libertarianism #Libertarian #totalitarianism #Counterview #misinformation
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📺 "DEI disappears at Northeastern University - what's next?"⤵️
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHQqOGynNkM
🏷️ #DEI #NortheasternUniversity #Boston #Massachusetts #Mapoli #USA #Education #Universities #Trump #Musk #Authoritarianism #Glaichschaltung #Dictatorship #Politics #Ideology #Obedience #Censorship #Diversity #Equity #Inclusion #Rightwing
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Y’know. It’s a CLASS WAR! [The Independent]: Airbnb’s co-founder is joining Elon Musk’s DOGE
Gebbia, a close friend of Musk, has praised DOGE’s work and defended it against criticisms on social media. By Ariana Baio in New York, Friday 14 February 2025
The Substack invasion: When the tech bros came for journalism, everything changed
How did crusading journalists Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi become right-wing trolls? Let Eoin Higgins explain
Argentina canal on outskirts of Buenos Aires turns bright red
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpqlpvdvzlzo
#Environment #Contamination #Waste #Argentina
#Capitalism #RightWing
Javier Milei announces Argentina to leave World Health Organization | Argentina | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/05/javier-milei-argentina-who
#canpoli, #rightwing, ##NZ,
New Zealand provides an insight of consequences of turning to conservative ideology!
https://www.thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/01/27/Whoa-Canada-Mistake-New-Zealand/
I don't see #trump as #rightwing
He doesn't have an ideology other than greed.
He may quack like a duck and walk like a duck but he's not a duck.
It's important to remember this because he's also a user, abuser and will exploit anyone, including the left.
When the time comes he will do that, or the party will. They will shift tactics to exploit whomever they need to.
They are redwashing just like they greenwash.
They will make you a useful idiot if they get the chance. Don't let them.
📺 "Tech’s Rightward Drift: Researcher Becca Lewis on How Trump Captured Silicon Valley"⤵️
🔗 https://www.democracynow.org/2025/1/22/trump_ai
🏷️ #Tech #SiliconValley #Rightwing #Trump #Elections #USA #Politics #Money #Power
Adults typically give children simple answers to life's challenges, and it is comforting. We all seek that comfort life-long. Some of us grow up and accept that most answers are complex.
So why now are many #democracies turning to #rightWing simple answers?
As stuff gets worse, people increasingly desperately seek comfort.
‘Reactionary nihilism’: how a #rightwing movement strives to end US #democracy - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/19/katherine-stewart-money-lies-god-book-christian-nationlism "Money, Lies, and God exposes a #Christian nationalist movement funded by the super-rich seeking to secure their wealth at the expense of others"
Austria’s far-right Freedom party tasked with forming coalition government | Austria | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/06/austria-far-right-freedom-party-fpo-tasked-with-forming-coalition-government
A mole spent years infiltrating right-wing militias, never telling his family or the police. Here’s what he found.
I love how it is acceptable to blame the victim when police murder a Black person ("He wouldn't have been shot if he didn't try to run away"), but when the CEO of a company that makes it's profits from denying people #healthcare gets murdered and a lot of the public response is "He deserved what he got", these same people decry this as immoral and "pro-murder". Crickets from the #rightwing when police murder Black people; outrage and sadness when somebody kills a millionaire.
Congress is voting on a bill targeting pro-#Palestinian groups. #Israel’s example proves it’s a terrible idea
#HR9495 would open the door for more #antidemocratic developments — as laws in Israel have done for 15 years
by Daniel Sokatch November 20, 2024
"The House of Representatives is trying to pass a bill, under the guise of pushing back on terrorism, that would hand President-elect Donald #Trump a cudgel with which to attack American civil society organizations.
"H.R. 9495 — titled 'The Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act' — already failed one House vote last week. Is bipartisan cosponsors won’t accept defeat so easily, and are bringing it to another vote on Wednesday. The bill would hand the secretary of the Treasury — who, in just two short months, will be a #TrumpAppointee — the authority to unilaterally revoke the tax-exempt status of any #nonprofit deemed to be a 'terrorist supporting organization.' In other words, shut them down.
"As the CEO of the New Israel Fund, the premier funder of #progressive, pro-#HumanRights and democracy organizations in Israel, I know just how dangerous this measure is. For more than 15 years, progressive Israeli civil society has worked — with the aid of nonprofits like ours — to advance equality, justice and safety for Jews and Palestinians alike, while fending off the kinds of accusations this bill tees up. And after facing endless delegitimization campaigns aimed at painting them as traitorous — not to mention the reams of anti-democratic legislation that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin #Netanyahu and his hardline allies have pushed in an effort to quash their efforts — we know how important it is for Congress to vote down this bill.
"Both Trump and Netanyahu know how to use the media, legislation and the threat of brute force to crack down on dissent, but Netanyhau has often been a few steps ahead of Trump and his allies. Israel’s 2016 '#NGOTransparencyLaw' could easily have been the inspiration for H.R. 9495. The law, now on the books in Israel, takes aim at organizations that get their funding from governments like those of Germany and the Netherlands, from which most human rights NGOs draw resources. While NGOs that receive private funds — the lifeblood of many #RightWing organizations — are completely ignored."
Read more:
https://forward.com/opinion/676504/hr-9495-israel-pro-palestinian-organizations/
#StopHR9495 #CeasefireNow #BibiIsAWarCriminal #FreeGaza #Fascism #Totalitarianism #Authoritarianism #CharacteristicsOfFascism #CorporateColonialism #ChristoZionism
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Florida education officials report hundreds of books removed from schools | Florida | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/13/florida-book-bans-removals-education-department-list
Habeck is a fool for joining former #twitter again. All still using twitter are enabling #EvilElon, his algorithms favoring his and other #rightwing tweets and Russian #botnets.
There is no political discussion on twitter, but disinformation and propaganda and every serious politician is just legitimizing the #populists.
From #Musk there is nothing else to be expected, he is a #bully.
https://norden.social/@hart/113460718424232580