Can the term ‘cloud fascism’ help us understand – and resist – the hard right?
Ece Temelkuran
#CloudFascism
#Fascism
#Trump
#Normalisation
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/10/cloud-fascism-understand-resist-hard-right
Can the term ‘cloud fascism’ help us understand – and resist – the hard right?
Ece Temelkuran
#CloudFascism
#Fascism
#Trump
#Normalisation
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/10/cloud-fascism-understand-resist-hard-right
‘writers, thinkers and politicians – try to come up with a catchy term for today’s fascism. At the heart of it, I have come to think, lies not only the desire to analyse but also the urge to attract people’s attention so they are adequately alarmed.
It may be an all too human urge to think: “If only we could find the right word, people would stop and listen.
Perhaps then they’ll do something.” In fact, it is good old #fascism, only with many new spectacles and glamorous gadgets’
The Trump administration is trying to suspend habeas corpus. If we let them get away with this, they will be able to "disappear" not only immigrants, but lawful citizens, without legal proceedings. They won't even have to justify themselves. The moment this happens, we are living in a dictatorship.
If the government doesn't have to follow the law, neither do the citizens. Fight this, people. Fight it every way you can. In the courts, in the streets, in your neighborhoods, with your votes, with your words, with your deeds. We are at the hail Mary point. Pull out all the stops.
Stand together, or all is lost.
REMINDER:
if a white person is using #woke to insult another white person; given that the word is from African American vernacular and it’s related to activism, just substitute the word for N*-lover.
as Toni Morrison liked to remind us, there is no #fascism without #racism.
related:
Cori Bush: “Anti-Woke” Is Barely Disguised Code for “Anti-Black” | Truthout https://truthout.org/articles/cori-bush-anti-woke-is-barely-disguised-code-for-anti-black/
How the n-word became the ‘atomic bomb of racial slurs’ | PBS News
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/n-word-became-atomic-bomb-racial-slurs
Money money money money
And threats
The US is a Nazi state now. Why would an association of rich doctors who fought tooth-and-nail against socialized medicine care? They all get to play as Dr. Mengele now!
Just look at that boyish face. Who could resist the butcher's charms?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Mengele
Mengele WAS A DOCTOR!
Ohman!
#USConstitution #Democracy #OathofOffice #Trump #Fascism #Dementia
never has a #Catholic #pope had such a ringing endorsement from a fascist like Laura Loomer:
❝ He is anti-Trump, anti-MAGA, pro-open Borders, and a total Marxist like Pope Francis. ❞
yes, this is a huge statement by #RCC #conclave : it took them less than two days to realize they need a YOUNG & AMERICANO leader who saw USA #MAGA #fascism as the existential to humanity that it is.
just because he’s from Chicago, don’t get it twisted: Prevost’s favorite punching bag is USA catholicism
Victory Day Is About Celebrating Liberation From #Fascism https://jacobin.com/2025/05/victory-day-liberation-fascism-soviet/
The Specter of Fascism Is Haunting Europe as It Marks VE Day
#History #Fascism #HegemonicNarratives #VictoryInEurope #Values
Tank vs. Tesla
A message to Mr. Musk
Tank vs. Tesla
Part 2
Ken Turner. 98 years old. WWII veteran.
“We’ve crushed fascism before and we’ll crush it again.”
(Hat tip: @kottke)
#Tesla #Resist #Resistance #Fascism #WWII #KenTurner #Veterans
Oh, you thought it was going to stop with trans people?
#bigotry #terfs #fascism #TakeAFuckingBowJKRowling https://disabled.social/@MikeImBack/114468214555074868
Bloody marvelous show, I say.
https://kottke.org/25/05/wwii-vet-crushes-a-tesla-with-a-sherman-tank
#politics #musk #tesla #fascism #veterans #oligarchy
Tesla Vs Tank
“I’m old enough to have seen fascism the first time around; now it’s coming back. Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, is using his immense power to support the far-right in Europe, and his money comes from Tesla cars. Well, I’ve got this message for Mr Musk. We’ve crushed fascism before and we’ll crush it again.”
Horsey!
Money isn't the reason Trump wants to defund PBS and Public Radio.
#Ignorance #Fascism #Trump #President Musk #PBS PublicRadio
Josh Hawley Introduces Law To Ban Mailing Of Abortion Pills, Citing #JunkScience Report https://www.huffpost.com/entry/josh-hawley-introduces-law-to-ban-mailing-of-abortion-pills-citing-junk-science-report_n_681b808ce4b01488b7bfa2a7 #Fascism #Missouri
@WarnerCrocker This is long and wrenching to read but everyone must read this and understand and be #aware of what's literally happening
“If a little girl doesn’t need 30 dolls, then billionaires don’t need 32 cars, 5 yachts and 26 homes.”
#politics #GreedyBastards #billionaires #EatTheRich #tyranny #FascistAmeriKKKa #fascism #Nazis #MoneyWorship
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