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   William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 05:06:26 JST William Lindsey :toad:

   "All my life I have been an admirer of the United States and its people. But I am frightened of it now, and I am even more frightened of them."

   ~ Andrew Coyne, writing from Canada

   #Trump #Republicans #Americans #cruelty #fascism #arrogance #bullying #ignorance #immigrants #deportations #militarization #AmericanExceptionalism
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   https://robertreich.substack.com/p/a-view-from-north-of-the-border

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 05:06:22 JST Aral Balkan

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     • AnnaAnthro

     @wdlindsy @AnnaAnthro America is a “teetering capitalist democracy” insofar as a broken vase is a teetering vase. And that’s before we get to the oxymoron that is “capitalist democracy”.

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     "Contempt is a dangerous way to lead a country."

     ~ Mariann Edgar Budde

     #Trump #Republicans #Americans #cruelty #fascism #arrogance #bullying #ignorance #immigrants #deportations #militarization #AmericanExceptionalism
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     https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/24/bishop-mariann-edgar-budde-sermon-that-enraged-donald-trump

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 05:06:23 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "The unholy pact between Trump and America’s richest and most influential tech entrepreneurs marks a significant difference from his first term, when prominent business leaders mostly kept him at arm’s length (or outright opposed him). But partnerships of this sort are far from unprecedented in teetering capitalist democracies."

     ~ Aaron Rupar and Thor Benson

     #Trump #ElonMusk #EconomicElites #TechBros #SiliconValley #oligarchy #broligarchy #fascism
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     https://www.publicnotice.co/p/david-de-jong-nazi-interview-trump-musk

     Paul Cantrell repeated this.
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     “When I walk away from this experience, one of the things that is most alarming to me is just how easy it is to actually control people. It doesn’t take secret police. It doesn’t take guns. It doesn’t take gulags.”

     ~ David Pressman

     #Trump #Republicans #Americans #cruelty #fascism #arrogance #bullying #ignorance #immigrants #deportations #militarization #AmericanExceptionalism
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     https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/magazine/david-pressman-interview.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 05:06:25 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "America’s love affair with confidant stupidity continues to reach awful new heights. The bill will come due. The piper will need paid. The damage will be extensive."

     ~ David DeWitt

     #Trump #Republicans #Americans #cruelty #fascism #arrogance #bullying #ignorance #immigrants #deportations #militarization #AmericanExceptionalism
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     https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/01/24/americas-love-affair-with-confident-stupidity-has-reached-awful-new-heights/

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 11:32:05 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "Musk's 'Fascist Salute': U.S. Jewish Establishment Failed Its First Test With Trump 2.0"

     ~ Ben Samuels

     #Trump #ElonMusk #fascism #Nazi #NaziSalute #Jewish
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     https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/haaretz-today/2025-01-21/ty-article/.highlight/musks-fascist-salute-u-s-jewish-establishment-failed-its-first-test-with-trump-2-0/00000194-89d8-dee1-aff7-ebdf08660000

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 11:32:39 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "Yet, Musk’s itchy arm, so similar to that of Dr. Strangelove in Stanley Kubrick’s classic nuclear-apocalypse satire, apparently simply couldn’t resist the lure of the Sieg Heil gesture.

     And that, I think, is an apt metaphor for this first week of Trump’s foul second presidency."

     #Trump #ElonMusk #fascism #Nazi #NaziSalute #Jewish
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     Paul Cantrell repeated this.
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     "The thugs who broke cops’ bones, the creeps who used bear spray against the Republic’s defenders, the ones who express no remorse and say they’d do it all again, the ones judges warned about as at risk for reoffending if freed—they’re all walking free. And they’re walking free for one reason only: because they did it for Trump.

     It’s a sad day for America. It deserves lasting infamy."

     ~ Walter Olson

     #Trump #violence #criminals #Jan6 #police #LawandOrder
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     https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-obscene-jan-6-pardons-will

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 11:32:40 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, to give one Nazi salute is unfortunate, but to give two, well that’s simply political carelessness. After all, surely even in its bastardized, post-literate, post-moral, pro-Trumpian state, America in the year 2025 has a residual memory of the fact that the Nazis were very, very, very bad people."

     ~ Sasha Abramsky

     #Trump #ElonMusk #fascism #Nazi #NaziSalute #Jewish
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     https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-assault-american-democracy/