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items: simsa03: Elections in the Netherlands look promising. #peakfascism
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items: simsa03: Go, Poland! #peakfascism
items: simsa03: Liberal candidate Nicusor Dan seems to have won the presidential elections in Romania. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c74q57kydget #peakfascism
items: simsa03: Wisconsin Supreme Court: Susan Crawford wins. #peakfascism and fuck you #musk
items: simsa03: And this is why the U.S. isn't done yet: Cory Booker. The regime has its opposition, the moral authority of decency. #peakfascism
items: simsa03: Serbia's president Aleksandar Vučić has resigned! https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67654166 #peakfascism
items: simsa03: In 2025 I keep insisting on #peakfascism, regardless the few (but important) setbacks of 2024.
items: simsa03: Moldova! #peakfascism
items: simsa03: Ok, Putin scored a major victory today in two state elections in Germany. This is definitely not #peakfascism.
items: https://mastodon.social/users/simsa02/statuses/113034415788827139
items: simsa03: https://newrepublic.com/post/184729/donald-trump-nick-fuentes-white-supremacists-support And now white supremacists abandon Trump and his campaign. Sweet is the scent of #peakfascism
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items: simsa03: #peakfascism
items: simsa03: Perhaps still a bit early to say but given the voting results and trends across Europe (and hopefully in the US in November), #peakfascism is about to become a pretty likely reality.

simsa03: Elections in the Netherlands look promising. #peakfascism
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title: simsa03: After reading and thinking lot on democracy, esp. via its nemeses totalitarianism and authoritarianism, I feel like its procedures and structures are like externalities which cannot on their own safeguard but presuppose a certain attitude of people for it to work. And so I reach back (and thus forward) for Susan Griffin, "Wrestling with the Angels of Democracy: On Being an American Citizen" (2008). Here I find a paragraph that sounds right on time: «It is not a history I write, not even an exposition of democracy, I am aiming at neither a definition nor a catalogue of qualities. It is the inner states that generate and are generated by democracy that interest me, and the purpose lies in the journey itself too.» (p. 6) The decline of democracy and the rise of authoritarian and totalitarian regimes feels like one phenomenon, the ubiquitous counter-movement of #peakfascism with the continuous rebuttal of authoritarianism at the ballot boxes like another. Or rather: Both display to me a search of what connects people with their fellow men, and that this search, confusedly but deliberately placed on externalities of the political body, is a search not only for mutual communal alignment but for a sense of how to be a reciprocal and mutual individual. Politcal constellations, and societies moved thereby, not only presuppose certain "mental" states of those who live under them; not only impact or change them as well; they are ways for people to individualize, to gain sense of their being, and to enact the communal aspect of their psychê. Put differently: People not only reach an understanding of themselves by grasping how they differ from others but likewise by grasping what they have in common. That psychê (in contrast to the "I") is a communal thing, a flock of birds of other voices past, present and future, is one aspect of this. That psychê entails morals, agency, and responsibility, and thus often the deliberate disregard for one's individual goals and gains, …
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description: simsa03's status on Wednesday, 04-Jun-2025 02:16:29 JST
encoded: After reading and thinking lot on democracy, esp. via its nemeses totalitarianism and authoritarianism, I feel like its procedures and structures are like externalities which cannot on their own safeguard but presuppose a certain attitude of people for it to work. And so I reach back (and thus forward) for Susan Griffin, "Wrestling with the Angels of Democracy: On Being an American Citizen" (2008). Here I find a paragraph that sounds right on time: «It is not a history I write, not even an exposition of democracy, I am aiming at neither a definition nor a catalogue of qualities. It is the inner states that generate and are generated by democracy that interest me, and the purpose lies in the journey itself too.» (p. 6) The decline of democracy and the rise of authoritarian and totalitarian regimes feels like one phenomenon, the ubiquitous counter-movement of #peakfascism with the continuous rebuttal of authoritarianism at the ballot boxes like another. Or rather: Both display to me a search of what connects people with their fellow men, and that this search, confusedly but deliberately placed on externalities of the political body, is a search not only for mutual communal alignment but for a sense of how to be a reciprocal and mutual individual. Politcal constellations, and societies moved thereby, not only presuppose certain "mental" states of those who live under them; not only impact or change them as well; they are ways for people to individualize, to gain sense of their being, and to enact the communal aspect of their psychê. Put differently: People not only reach an understanding of themselves by grasping how they differ from others but likewise by grasping what they have in common. That psychê (in contrast to the "I") is a communal thing, a flock of birds of other voices past, present and future, is one aspect of this. That psychê entails morals, agency, and responsibility, and thus often the deliberate disregard for one's individual goals and gains, is anothe…
date: 2025-06-04T02:16:29+09:00
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simsa03: Go, Poland! #peakfascism
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title: simsa03: Before Europe can finally move to a new self-image, a new identity, something that is already forged by the Eastern European nations and triggered by Russia's imperialism, sins of the past need to be resolved. And that means that Germany needs to open up to demands of reparations from Poland, from Greece, and others. To build this new Europe that is no longer defined by its past but by its future and our common aspirations and hopes, the silent conflicts of the past need to be addressed in the open. Please, Germany, accept your "Erinnerungskultur" to the fullest. Approach your neighbours and negotiate lasting agreements. The new Europe that is already in the making needs it. Without that Europe will keep being a volatile, evanescent, and instable compromise. #peakfascism
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description: simsa03's status on Monday, 19-May-2025 04:00:28 JST
encoded: Before Europe can finally move to a new self-image, a new identity, something that is already forged by the Eastern European nations and triggered by Russia's imperialism, sins of the past need to be resolved. And that means that Germany needs to open up to demands of reparations from Poland, from Greece, and others. To build this new Europe that is no longer defined by its past but by its future and our common aspirations and hopes, the silent conflicts of the past need to be addressed in the open. Please, Germany, accept your "Erinnerungskultur" to the fullest. Approach your neighbours and negotiate lasting agreements. The new Europe that is already in the making needs it. Without that Europe will keep being a volatile, evanescent, and instable compromise. #peakfascism
date: 2025-05-19T04:00:28+09:00
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simsa03: Liberal candidate Nicusor Dan seems to have won the presidential elections in Romania. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c74q57kydget #peakfascism
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encoded: Liberal candidate Nicusor Dan seems to have won the presidential elections in Romania. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c74q57kydget #peakfascism
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enclosure: European elections: Liberal Bucharest mayor leads Romania's presidential race, says exit poll
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title: simsa03: Jakub Krupa, "AfD plans to challenge extremist classification, calls it 'defamatory'" https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/may/02/russia-ukraine-us-minerals-romania-vatican-conclave-europe-news-live-updates?page=with%3Ablock-6814a13e8f08a7e30609f609#block-6814a13e8f08a7e30609f609 Finally. #peakfascism
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encoded: Jakub Krupa, "AfD plans to challenge extremist classification, calls it 'defamatory'" <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/may/02/russia-ukraine-us-minerals-romania-vatican-conclave-europe-news-live-updates?page=with%3Ablock-6814a13e8f08a7e30609f609#block-6814a13e8f08a7e30609f609" title="https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/may/02/russia-ukraine-us-minerals-romania-vatican-conclave-europe-news-live-updates?page=with%3Ablock-6814a13e8f08a7e30609f609#block-6814a13e8f08a7e30609f609" rel="nofollow noreferrer" class="attachment">https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/may/02/russia-ukraine-us-minerals-romania-vatican-conclave-europe-news-live-updates?page=with%3Ablock-6814a13e8f08a7e30609f609#block-6814a13e8f08a7e30609f609 Finally. #peakfascism
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enclosure: Germany’s far-right AfD to challenge ‘extremist’ designation – Europe live
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title: simsa03: Ben Ansell, "Twilight of the Populists? Perhaps it's possible that, despite it all, we have reached peak populism" https://benansell.substack.com/p/twilight-of-the-populists The first time I read someone who seems to concur with me that we (may) have reached #peakfascism. Nice. Still, there are differences. For one, Ansell speaks of "peak populism" and I won't use that term as he only names the populism and authoritarianism from the right while ignoring the populism from the left. And second, Ansell places the change his hunch tells him is in the air with the advent of Trump's "chaotic authoritarianism" which puts European rightwing and authoritarian parties in an uncomfortable bind of siding with Trump and with Putin – a no go for countries like Poland. I do think we are in times of #peakfascism and that as Ansell suggests it is Trump who lately made the parties of the middle in Europe stronger. But at least in Europe this tendecy has started long before Trump Anyway, unless we're blown asunder over the next months or years in one way or the other, we may look back at our present time at one of risks, turmoil, and struggle – like every profound change always is. «Defeating populism in democracies requires an enemy. But it can’t be the populists themselves. That is their very fuel. Of course, they will say, the elites want to destroy us to protect the corrupt swamp. So populists alone won’t do the trick as an enemy. Populists who actually side with an existing foreign enemy though. Well that clarifies matters. Now every decision the populist takes can be tied to the foreign enemy. It becomes harder for populists to deflect, to dissimulate effectively. They become glued to the very thing they usually denounce - an outside, foreign force. And they cannot easily unstick themselves. The old lines lose their impact. The mainstream parties see a weakened populist opposition. And they go in for the kill. That’s one story. Perhaps not the most likely. But over the …
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encoded: Ben Ansell, "Twilight of the Populists? Perhaps it's possible that, despite it all, we have reached peak populism" https://benansell.substack.com/p/twilight-of-the-populists The first time I read someone who seems to concur with me that we (may) have reached #peakfascism. Nice. Still, there are differences. For one, Ansell speaks of "peak populism" and I won't use that term as he only names the populism and authoritarianism from the right while ignoring the populism from the left. And second, Ansell places the change his hunch tells him is in the air with the advent of Trump's "chaotic authoritarianism" which puts European rightwing and authoritarian parties in an uncomfortable bind of siding with Trump and with Putin – a no go for countries like Poland. I do think we are in times of #peakfascism and that as Ansell suggests it is Trump who lately made the parties of the middle in Europe stronger. But at least in Europe this tendecy has started long before Trump Anyway, unless we're blown asunder over the next months or years in one way or the other, we may look back at our present time at one of risks, turmoil, and struggle – like every profound change always is. «Defeating populism in democracies requires an enemy. But it can’t be the populists themselves. That is their very fuel. Of course, they will say, the elites want to destroy us to protect the corrupt swamp. So populists alone won’t do the trick as an enemy. Populists who actually side with an existing foreign enemy though. Well that clarifies matters. Now every decision the populist takes can be tied to the foreign enemy. It becomes harder for populists to deflect, to dissimulate effectively. They become glued to the very thing they usually denounce - an outside, foreign force. And they cannot easily unstick themselves. The old lines lose their impact. The mainstream parties see a weakened populist opposition. And they go in for the kill. That’s one story. Perhaps not the most likely. But over the past week…
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enclosure: Twilight of the Populists?
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simsa03: Wisconsin Supreme Court: Susan Crawford wins. #peakfascism and fuck you #musk
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encoded: Wisconsin Supreme Court: Susan Crawford wins. #peakfascism and fuck you #musk
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simsa03: And this is why the U.S. isn't done yet: Cory Booker. The regime has its opposition, the moral authority of decency. #peakfascism
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encoded: And this is why the U.S. isn't done yet: Cory Booker. The regime has its opposition, the moral authority of decency. #peakfascism
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title: simsa03: Angelique Chrisafis, "Marine Le Pen barred from running for French presidency in 2027" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/31/marine-le-pen-barred-from-running-for-french-presidency-in-2027 « The French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been barred from running for president in 2027 after a court found her guilty of a vast system of embezzlement of European parliament funds and banned her from running for public office with immediate effect. [...] Judges handed Le Pen a five-year ban on running for public office with the added provision that it will take immediate effect and will apply despite the fact that she is appealing against the verdict. » #peakfascism
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encoded: Angelique Chrisafis, "Marine Le Pen barred from running for French presidency in 2027" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/31/marine-le-pen-barred-from-running-for-french-presidency-in-2027 « The French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been barred from running for president in 2027 after a court found her guilty of a vast system of embezzlement of European parliament funds and banned her from running for public office with immediate effect. [...] Judges handed Le Pen a five-year ban on running for public office with the added provision that it will take immediate effect and will apply despite the fact that she is appealing against the verdict. » #peakfascism
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enclosure: Marine Le Pen barred from running for French presidency in 2027
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simsa03: Serbia's president Aleksandar Vučić has resigned! https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67654166 #peakfascism
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enclosure: Aleksandar Vucic: The man who remade Serbia
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title: simsa03: Protests in Serbia and Hungary, now in Turkey where Islamist autocrat Erdogan has put his main rival in the upcoming presidential elections, Ekrem Imamoglu under arrest, stripped him of his university degree. (To apply for candidacy, yevery presidential candiate needs a higher education degree.) #peakfascism
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encoded: Protests in Serbia and Hungary, now in Turkey where Islamist autocrat Erdogan has put his main rival in the upcoming presidential elections, Ekrem Imamoglu under arrest, stripped him of his university degree. (To apply for candidacy, yevery presidential candiate needs a higher education degree.) #peakfascism
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title: simsa03: Stephanie Liechtenstein, "Austrian far-right leader's efforts to form a new government collapse" https://www.yahoo.com/news/austrian-far-leaders-efforts-form-135840689.html Nicolas Camut, "Geert Wilders left stranded as Dutch coalition talks collapse" https://www.politico.eu/article/geert-wilders-stranded-dutch-government-coalition-talk-collapse-netherlands/ After the state elections in Germany in 2024 and the presidential elections in the U.S. I began to doubt. But now I read the news that the extreme right's attempts to form a coalition government in Austria as in the Netherlands both collapsed. Even with setbacks, these are times of #peakfascism.
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encoded: Stephanie Liechtenstein, "Austrian far-right leader's efforts to form a new government collapse" https://www.yahoo.com/news/austrian-far-leaders-efforts-form-135840689.html Nicolas Camut, "Geert Wilders left stranded as Dutch coalition talks collapse" https://www.politico.eu/article/geert-wilders-stranded-dutch-government-coalition-talk-collapse-netherlands/ After the state elections in Germany in 2024 and the presidential elections in the U.S. I began to doubt. But now I read the news that the extreme right's attempts to form a coalition government in Austria as in the Netherlands both collapsed. Even with setbacks, these are times of #peakfascism.
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enclosure: Geert Wilders left stranded as Dutch coalition talks collapse
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simsa03: In 2025 I keep insisting on #peakfascism, regardless the few (but important) setbacks of 2024.
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title: simsa03: This thread https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1854030304677073233.html made its way around and everybody freaked out. Calm done, it's pretty much nonsense, born out of the author projecting his fears rather than displaying his understanding. True, my belief in #peakfascism, utterly justified in early summer, has been smashed by the state elections in Germany and the various elections now in the U.S. I had hoped otherwise and it didn't turn out. Yet. But that doesn't mean that the nonsense displayed in this thread (esp. posts # 11-17, 20-25) should be taken as reliable prediction or even profound insights instead. It's not based on an informed understanding of facts, but based on fear. Which is, as one doesn't need to learn anything for that, easier to act out and act upon. Calling T and Musk "the worst men in the United States" [#11] and conveniently ignoring Peter Thiel, Miriam Adelson, Mitch McConnell, some of the Supreme Court justices, etc., is just silly. Anyway, NATO will not cease to exist [#12] (although perhaps shrink); most of Gazans will not be killed [as claimed in #13] (although Israel will, in my opinion, annex the West Bank and leave Gaza to international administration); the EU will not shrink in size [#14] (no arguments given for the preposterous claim it would); a "new axis of evil" [#15] (rather: its enlargement) especially with the "new members" mentioned is so utter and uninformed nonsense that I don't even know where to start debunking that claim. Suffice perhaps that most of these new members are too poor and weak to pose as a threat. With regard to the horror porn the author sketches of the U.S. turned end-Weimar Republic [# 20-25] with all the screeching of martial law and police murder rates sykrocketting due to police activities, stock market crashes, and all, seriously, man, on what does the author base such fever dreams? Esp. when most of the stuff he is in the prerogatives of the individual states and not the federal governmen…
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encoded: This thread https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1854030304677073233.html made its way around and everybody freaked out. Calm done, it's pretty much nonsense, born out of the author projecting his fears rather than displaying his understanding. True, my belief in #peakfascism, utterly justified in early summer, has been smashed by the state elections in Germany and the various elections now in the U.S. I had hoped otherwise and it didn't turn out. Yet. But that doesn't mean that the nonsense displayed in this thread (esp. posts # 11-17, 20-25) should be taken as reliable prediction or even profound insights instead. It's not based on an informed understanding of facts, but based on fear. Which is, as one doesn't need to learn anything for that, easier to act out and act upon. Calling T and Musk "the worst men in the United States" [#11] and conveniently ignoring Peter Thiel, Miriam Adelson, Mitch McConnell, some of the Supreme Court justices, etc., is just silly. Anyway, NATO will not cease to exist [#12] (although perhaps shrink); most of Gazans will not be killed [as claimed in #13] (although Israel will, in my opinion, annex the West Bank and leave Gaza to international administration); the EU will not shrink in size [#14] (no arguments given for the preposterous claim it would); a "new axis of evil" [#15] (rather: its enlargement) especially with the "new members" mentioned is so utter and uninformed nonsense that I don't even know where to start debunking that claim. Suffice perhaps that most of these new members are too poor and weak to pose as a threat. With regard to the horror porn the author sketches of the U.S. turned end-Weimar Republic [# 20-25] with all the screeching of martial law and police murder rates sykrocketting due to police activities, stock market crashes, and all, seriously, man, on what does the author base such fever dreams? Esp. when most of the stuff he is in the prerogatives of the individual states and not the federal government. Where …
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enclosure: Thread by @SethAbramson on Thread Reader App
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simsa03: Moldova! #peakfascism
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encoded: Moldova! #peakfascism
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title: simsa03: I still think we experience #peakfascism although the latest developments in my country (of all) have delivered a kind of counterpunch that I still struggle to digest. The country is Germany, the unified or perhaps rather so-called unified Germany. In two of its Eastern states, Saxony and Thuringia, the fascist party AfD ("Alternative for Germany") and the neo-Stalinist party BSW ("Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht") had tremendous successes in the state elections on Sunday, with the AfD about 30% of the ballots in both states and the BSW with about 12% in one and 16% in the other. It is the first time since 1945 and the end of WW II that in a state election a fascist party has garnered such an amount of votes. But more horrific: The elections took place on Sunday, September 1st, 2024, which by happenstance is the 85th anniversary of the German assault on Poland that started the Second World War. Can you imagine what that means? That in Germany, in two state elections, on the 85th anniversary of Germany's assault on Poland (and all that came after), a fascist and a leftist authoritarian party can achieve their biggest political successes. That East Germans, in their disgust and thirst for revenge, tried to stick it to the West by enabling those political powers which (at least in the West) decades of education and culture of remembrance have tried to make impossible to ever regain power again. We failed. Our education system, our efforts to remember, to accept the guilt, to somehow make something new out of it, all those efforts now look as having been in vain. Which is to say: The East won, the West lost. After reunification people of Eastern Germany often felt unappreciated, lost, looked down at, their biographies dismissed and put aside. The demolition of a broken industry and infrastructure in Eastern Germany went hand in hand, in their opinion, with a demolition of biographies, of ways of living, values, of social nets and communal bonds, and the feeling of s…
link: https://gnusocial.jp/notice/7090621
description: simsa03's status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 10:55:29 JST
encoded: I still think we experience #peakfascism although the latest developments in my country (of all) have delivered a kind of counterpunch that I still struggle to digest. The country is Germany, the unified or perhaps rather so-called unified Germany. In two of its Eastern states, Saxony and Thuringia, the fascist party AfD ("Alternative for Germany") and the neo-Stalinist party BSW ("Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht") had tremendous successes in the state elections on Sunday, with the AfD about 30% of the ballots in both states and the BSW with about 12% in one and 16% in the other. It is the first time since 1945 and the end of WW II that in a state election a fascist party has garnered such an amount of votes. But more horrific: The elections took place on Sunday, September 1st, 2024, which by happenstance is the 85th anniversary of the German assault on Poland that started the Second World War. Can you imagine what that means? That in Germany, in two state elections, on the 85th anniversary of Germany's assault on Poland (and all that came after), a fascist and a leftist authoritarian party can achieve their biggest political successes. That East Germans, in their disgust and thirst for revenge, tried to stick it to the West by enabling those political powers which (at least in the West) decades of education and culture of remembrance have tried to make impossible to ever regain power again. We failed. Our education system, our efforts to remember, to accept the guilt, to somehow make something new out of it, all those efforts now look as having been in vain. Which is to say: The East won, the West lost. After reunification people of Eastern Germany often felt unappreciated, lost, looked down at, their biographies dismissed and put aside. The demolition of a broken industry and infrastructure in Eastern Germany went hand in hand, in their opinion, with a demolition of biographies, of ways of living, values, of social nets and communal bonds, and the feeling of safety and…
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simsa03: Ok, Putin scored a major victory today in two state elections in Germany. This is definitely not #peakfascism.
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description: simsa03's status on Monday, 02-Sep-2024 02:30:06 JST
encoded: Ok, Putin scored a major victory today in two state elections in Germany. This is definitely not #peakfascism.
date: 2024-09-02T02:30:06+09:00
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https://mastodon.social/users/simsa02/statuses/113034415788827139
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title: simsa02: @es0mhi #peakfascism came to my mind when I contemplated these events https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/3337367#notice-6572128And it was intensified with the changes in the U.S. when Biden chose not to run for a second term: https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/3414551#notice-6715437 And, of course, the growing conviction that Russia will lose this war, one way or another. The main question is: Will Ukraine survive as state, nation, and society in the final downfall of the Russian empire?
link: https://gnusocial.jp/notice/7016947
description: simsa02's status on Tuesday, 27-Aug-2024 23:18:29 JST
encoded: @es0mhi #peakfascism came to my mind when I contemplated these events https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/3337367#notice-6572128 And it was intensified with the changes in the U.S. when Biden chose not to run for a second term: https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/3414551#notice-6715437 And, of course, the growing conviction that Russia will lose this war, one way or another. The main question is: Will Ukraine survive as state, nation, and society in the final downfall of the Russian empire?
date: 2024-08-27T23:18:29+09:00
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Conversation - GNU social JP
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Conversation - GNU social JP
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title: simsa03: @es0mhi was so kind to send a succinct and thoughtful reply on what may come *after* #peakfascism (something I haven't thought about yet): Is some form of "Progressive nationalism" on the horizon? https://mastodon.social/@es0mhi@tilde.zone/113033694230263851 I replied with a more verbose text, as always (taken in two screenshots to avoid an endless and unreadable thread): https://mastodon.social/@simsa02/113034221705706284 FYI.
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encoded: @es0mhi was so kind to send a succinct and thoughtful reply on what may come *after* #peakfascism (something I haven't thought about yet): Is some form of "Progressive nationalism" on the horizon? https://mastodon.social/@es0mhi@tilde.zone/113033694230263851 I replied with a more verbose text, as always (taken in two screenshots to avoid an endless and unreadable thread): https://mastodon.social/@simsa02/113034221705706284 FYI.
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simsa02 (@simsa02@mastodon.social)
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title: simsa03: Fascism, in all its brutal and brutalist appearance, is staging and enactment. It's show biz. The audience needs to be captured in order to be seduced into crime and guilt and genocide. Our repertoire of antidotes against fascism is not just education, moral clarity, courage, but also: our capacity to get bored. On a collective level, boredom kills fascism. #peakfascism #talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten
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description: simsa03's status on Monday, 26-Aug-2024 09:31:26 JST
encoded: Fascism, in all its brutal and brutalist appearance, is staging and enactment. It's show biz. The audience needs to be captured in order to be seduced into crime and guilt and genocide. Our repertoire of antidotes against fascism is not just education, moral clarity, courage, but also: our capacity to get bored. On a collective level, boredom kills fascism. #peakfascism #talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten
date: 2024-08-26T09:31:26+09:00
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title: simsa03: John Stoehr, "Trump is losing his audience" https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/trump-audience/ Good oberservations! We live through #peakfascism but haven't properly realized yet that people are not tired but *bored* by the current era of fascism. And so it melts without fight. Lovely.
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encoded: John Stoehr, "Trump is losing his audience" https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/trump-audience/ Good oberservations! We live through #peakfascism but haven't properly realized yet that people are not tired but *bored* by the current era of fascism. And so it melts without fight. Lovely.
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title: simsa03: So we have #peakfascism even in the U.S., Putin's Russia losing the war against Ukraine, *and* Half-Life 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36gF6eiCsqU at the same time? What gorgeous times ahead! "Solving" climate change will be a piece of cake after that :-)
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description: simsa03's status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 07:12:39 JST
encoded: So we have #peakfascism even in the U.S., Putin's Russia losing the war against Ukraine, *and* Half-Life 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36gF6eiCsqU at the same time? What gorgeous times ahead! "Solving" climate change will be a piece of cake after that :-)
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enclosure: The Half-Life 3 Leaks We’ve Been Waiting For
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The Half-Life 3 Leaks We’ve Been Waiting For
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simsa03: https://newrepublic.com/post/184729/donald-trump-nick-fuentes-white-supremacists-support And now white supremacists abandon Trump and his campaign. Sweet is the scent of #peakfascism
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encoded: https://newrepublic.com/post/184729/donald-trump-nick-fuentes-white-supremacists-support And now white supremacists abandon Trump and his campaign. Sweet is the scent of #peakfascism
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enclosure: Trump Has Started to Piss Off White Supremacists
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Trump Has Started to Piss Off White Supremacists
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simsa02: #peakfascism
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simsa03: #peakfascism
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title: simsa03: Watching Gov. Shapiro in his fervent speech in Philly and I wonder: WTF took you Dems so long? How you could allow the shabby amateurs of Republicans devastate the U.S. for so long? Dems are roaring, and why didn't you earlier? Anyway, fight the forced-birthers, the union haters, the Christian nationalists, the orange clown. #peakfascism is here!
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encoded: Watching Gov. Shapiro in his fervent speech in Philly and I wonder: WTF took you Dems so long? How you could allow the shabby amateurs of Republicans devastate the U.S. for so long? Dems are roaring, and why didn't you earlier? Anyway, fight the forced-birthers, the union haters, the Christian nationalists, the orange clown. #peakfascism is here!
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title: simsa03: It is said (at least reported so by MSNBC) that various times this day to U.S. Democrats the excitement and energy in the air compares to the year 2008. Which, I think, is an understatement. I sit in a different continent and already I have the feeling of a major breakthrough, a final push through an immense roadblock of agony and despair. To me it feels like #peakfascism is really here (with all the good developments in Europe and even Iran), that this year 2024 will finally see the turning of the tide, with Democrats winning the White House and both chambers of Congress, with Russia losing the war, with international tensions calming down. It already feels like the worst is behind us (it is not, keep working) and that the last two decades of growing authoritarian rule and ubiquitous despair come to an end. And not early enough: Climate change isn't waiting, conflicts need to be resolved, trade needs to be balanced, our alignment with one another strengthened. Perhaps in a few years we will see that this push-through that opened the world again, was finally achieved, made possible, by a lone old man accepting to step aside, to swallow pride, and instead cherish the dignity of all. This is a good day because it is such a day of relief on so many levels.
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encoded: It is said (at least reported so by MSNBC) that various times this day to U.S. Democrats the excitement and energy in the air compares to the year 2008. Which, I think, is an understatement. I sit in a different continent and already I have the feeling of a major breakthrough, a final push through an immense roadblock of agony and despair. To me it feels like #peakfascism is really here (with all the good developments in Europe and even Iran), that this year 2024 will finally see the turning of the tide, with Democrats winning the White House and both chambers of Congress, with Russia losing the war, with international tensions calming down. It already feels like the worst is behind us (it is not, keep working) and that the last two decades of growing authoritarian rule and ubiquitous despair come to an end. And not early enough: Climate change isn't waiting, conflicts need to be resolved, trade needs to be balanced, our alignment with one another strengthened. Perhaps in a few years we will see that this push-through that opened the world again, was finally achieved, made possible, by a lone old man accepting to step aside, to swallow pride, and instead cherish the dignity of all. This is a good day because it is such a day of relief on so many levels.
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title: simsa03: Updated projections even better: Left-green New Popular Front: 180-205 Macron’s allies: 164-174 Far right National Front and allies: 130-145 https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/jul/07/french-election-2024-results-latest-france-news-marine-le-pen-national-rally-emmanuel-macron?page=with:block-668ae05b8f08b8c654ee7662#block-668ae05b8f08b8c654ee7662 #peakfascism
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encoded: Updated projections even better: Left-green New Popular Front: 180-205 Macron’s allies: 164-174 Far right National Front and allies: 130-145 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/jul/07/french-election-2024-results-latest-france-news-marine-le-pen-national-rally-emmanuel-macron?page=with:block-668ae05b8f08b8c654ee7662#block-668ae05b8f08b8c654ee7662" title="https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/jul/07/french-election-2024-results-latest-france-news-marine-le-pen-national-rally-emmanuel-macron?page=with:block-668ae05b8f08b8c654ee7662#block-668ae05b8f08b8c654ee7662" rel="nofollow noreferrer" class="attachment">https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/jul/07/french-election-2024-results-latest-france-news-marine-le-pen-national-rally-emmanuel-macron?page=with:block-668ae05b8f08b8c654ee7662#block-668ae05b8f08b8c654ee7662 #peakfascism
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enclosure: French election 2024 live: exit poll shows shock win for left-green alliance as far right falls to third
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title: simsa03: And France did it! #peakfascism The extreme-right Rassemblement National of Marine Le Pen lost the second round of the parliamentary elections in France and came in third (!) place, behind the left-wing National Popular Front (NFP) (a coalition of various parties), the centrist coalition of President Macron (a coalition of various parties) Projection of seats: NFP : 172-192 seats Macron's coalition : 150-170 RN : 132-152 seats Turnout was historically high, more than the turnout for parliamentary elections in 1981. https://aje.io/b4bw4z?update=3032221 https://aje.io/b4bw4z
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encoded: And France did it! #peakfascism The extreme-right Rassemblement National of Marine Le Pen lost the second round of the parliamentary elections in France and came in third (!) place, behind the left-wing National Popular Front (NFP) (a coalition of various parties), the centrist coalition of President Macron (a coalition of various parties) Projection of seats: NFP : 172-192 seats Macron's coalition : 150-170 RN : 132-152 seats Turnout was historically high, more than the turnout for parliamentary elections in 1981. https://aje.io/b4bw4z?update=3032221 https://aje.io/b4bw4z
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enclosure: Far right fails in France elections, leftist alliance on top: Exit poll
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Far right fails in France elections, leftist alliance on top: Exit poll
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title: simsa03: TL;DR : Don't panic. • In Poland the far-right Prime Minster Mateusz Morawiecki from the Law and Justice party was defeated in the November 2023 elections and Donald Tusk was elected on 11th of December 2023, his coalition government was sworn in on 13th of December. • In April 2024 the far-right Geert Wilders in the Netherlands failed to form a coalition government and stepped down as candidate for Prime Minister. • In April 2024, in Turkey the AKP party of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan lost dramatically in the municipal elections; the Social Democratic Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi won in a landslide in all major cities. • In Italy, the neo-fascist Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has been very reluctant to establish far-right policies. • In May 2024 large protests took to the streets in Hungary against Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his cabinet. • In June 2024, prior to the European elections, Marine Le Pen of the French extreme rigth Rassemblement National refused to meet Alice Weidel, co-chair of the German fascist party AfD about its plans to "deport" migrants and refugees. • Also this June, the elections to the European parliament had high voter turnout for far-right parties in various member states. But missed in the national outbursts of angst over that was that in the EU parliament 1) the German extreme right party AfD was expelled from the extreme-right parliament bloc/faction ID, 2) that even with the gains of some such parties in some member states of the EU, the parliamentary bloc of the extreme right (ECP and ID) in fact lost five seats (2024: 130 seats, 2019: 135 seats), whereas the bloc of centrist parties (Conservatives [European meaning], Liberals [European meaning], Social Democrats) still kept their vast majority (2024: 407 seats, 2019: 444 seats), while Greens and left-leaning parties gained more seats. • On 4th of July, Labour in the UK defeated the Tories in a landslide election victory, handing Labour the absolute majority and Keir Starmer…
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encoded: TL;DR : Don't panic. • In Poland the far-right Prime Minster Mateusz Morawiecki from the Law and Justice party was defeated in the November 2023 elections and Donald Tusk was elected on 11th of December 2023, his coalition government was sworn in on 13th of December. • In April 2024 the far-right Geert Wilders in the Netherlands failed to form a coalition government and stepped down as candidate for Prime Minister. • In April 2024, in Turkey the AKP party of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan lost dramatically in the municipal elections; the Social Democratic Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi won in a landslide in all major cities. • In Italy, the neo-fascist Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has been very reluctant to establish far-right policies. • In May 2024 large protests took to the streets in Hungary against Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his cabinet. • In June 2024, prior to the European elections, Marine Le Pen of the French extreme rigth Rassemblement National refused to meet Alice Weidel, co-chair of the German fascist party AfD about its plans to "deport" migrants and refugees. • Also this June, the elections to the European parliament had high voter turnout for far-right parties in various member states. But missed in the national outbursts of angst over that was that in the EU parliament 1) the German extreme right party AfD was expelled from the extreme-right parliament bloc/faction ID, 2) that even with the gains of some such parties in some member states of the EU, the parliamentary bloc of the extreme right (ECP and ID) in fact lost five seats (2024: 130 seats, 2019: 135 seats), whereas the bloc of centrist parties (Conservatives [European meaning], Liberals [European meaning], Social Democrats) still kept their vast majority (2024: 407 seats, 2019: 444 seats), while Greens and left-leaning parties gained more seats. • On 4th of July, Labour in the UK defeated the Tories in a landslide election victory, handing Labour the absolute majority and Keir Starmer becoming…
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simsa03: Perhaps still a bit early to say but given the voting results and trends across Europe (and hopefully in the US in November), #peakfascism is about to become a pretty likely reality.
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encoded: Perhaps still a bit early to say but given the voting results and trends across Europe (and hopefully in the US in November), #peakfascism is about to become a pretty likely reality.
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title: simsa03: To be more precise: In this EU election the far-right ECP+ID parliamentary groups are projected to gain 130 seats combined (down [!] from 135 seats in 2019), the centrist-liberal coalition of EPP+S&D+RE is projected to keep its vast majority of 407 seats (down from 444 seats in 2019). Thus even with major influence campaigns by Russia the coalition of centrist parties did not crumble. And that is indeed a further sign of #peakfascism. Lovely!
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encoded: To be more precise: In this EU election the far-right ECP+ID parliamentary groups are projected to gain 130 seats combined (down [!] from 135 seats in 2019), the centrist-liberal coalition of EPP+S&D+RE is projected to keep its vast majority of 407 seats (down from 444 seats in 2019). Thus even with major influence campaigns by Russia the coalition of centrist parties did not crumble. And that is indeed a further sign of #peakfascism. Lovely!
date: 2024-06-10T11:53:41+09:00
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title: simsa03: "Far-right makes gains as Ursula von der Leyen says 'centre is holding' but world in 'turmoil' " https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/jun/09/eu-europe-elections-2024-results-news-updates-live-latest?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-666630eb8f08d846f761bfd0#block-666630eb8f08d846f761bfd0 Yes, the rightwing "European Conservatives and Reformists" parliamentary group and the far-right "Identity and Democracy" parliamentary group are projected to gain 72 seats and 58 seats respectively. But compare that to the projection of seats for the the center-right "European People’s Party" (189 seats), center-left "Socialists and Democrats" (135 seats), and liberal "Renew Europe" (83 seats) who form a coalition bloc and will keep the majority. I still count that as #peakfascism
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encoded: "Far-right makes gains as Ursula von der Leyen says 'centre is holding' but world in 'turmoil' " <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/jun/09/eu-europe-elections-2024-results-news-updates-live-latest?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-666630eb8f08d846f761bfd0#block-666630eb8f08d846f761bfd0" title="https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/jun/09/eu-europe-elections-2024-results-news-updates-live-latest?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-666630eb8f08d846f761bfd0#block-666630eb8f08d846f761bfd0" rel="nofollow noreferrer" class="attachment thumbnail">https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/jun/09/eu-europe-elections-2024-results-news-updates-live-latest?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-666630eb8f08d846f761bfd0#block-666630eb8f08d846f761bfd0 Yes, the rightwing "European Conservatives and Reformists" parliamentary group and the far-right "Identity and Democracy" parliamentary group are projected to gain 72 seats and 58 seats respectively. But compare that to the projection of seats for the the center-right "European People’s Party" (189 seats), center-left "Socialists and Democrats" (135 seats), and liberal "Renew Europe" (83 seats) who form a coalition bloc and will keep the majority. I still count that as #peakfascism
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enclosure: Von der Leyen says ‘centre is holding’ as far right surges in EU elections – as it happened
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