Notices by bhaugen (bhaugen@social.coop), page 2

Timothy Snyder has continued a series about Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale and it's application to the US right now. I posted an excerpt from part 1 recently. In part two, he notes that some commentators want to read the book, which is explicitly about a Christian reconstructionist takeover of the US, as a parable about Islam! He says,

"We are a few cast stones away from Gilead, a repressive and failing regime."

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #ChristianNationalism
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https://snyder.substack.com/p/casting-the-first-stone

"Former German chancellor Angela Merkel’s first mistake with Donald Trump, she writes in her memoir, was treating him as if he were 'completely normal', but she quickly learned of his 'emotional' nature and soft spot for authoritarians."

~ Jem Bartholomew

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #normalization #HumanRights
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/22/first-thing-icc-seeks-netanyahu-arrest-over-allegations-of-war-crimes-and-crimes-against-humanity

@jonny Not to harsh your buzz but what you're describing sounds like how slang has functioned and travelled through culture for at least the last 100 years (in a Modern context, slang and in-group patois and slang obviously go back further). See also Lavender Languages, Black American slang, teenagers since we created the category of teenager, etc. Often these innovations in language reach the mainstream (aka dominant and dominating culture) through music, just as other aesthetic innovations usually first reach the mainstream via visual art, fashion and music.

Some people have already been doing the work of resistance. Either their lives are reliant upon it or they have been committed to it for a long time. Don’t expect them to do more. What will YOU do?

Thinking again about the mind-boggling mass of wood that's being moved and disposed of across western NC after the storm. There's so much, and it's heavy, and unwieldy, and dangerous at times. Much of it resists easy stacking. It's obviously impractical to dispose of, in the modern solid waste sense. But the demands of our harsh God, The Economy, insist that it must be removed and discarded anyway, with all reasonable speed, to minimize disruptions to profit.

"Let’s not make the mistake of thinking the only reason Trump wants to use recess appointments is to get his team of deplorables confirmed. He’s not even back in office, but he’s already at work manipulating elected officials into a position where the Constitution can be tossed aside at will."

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
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"Today Trump confirmed that he intends to bypass normal legal constraints on his actions by declaring a national emergency on his first day in office in order to launch his mass deportation of undocumented migrants."

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #fascism #immigrants #deportation #MassDeportation #cruelty #violence
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-18-2024

“[T]rump is not selecting his Cabinet as much as he is creating his own reality, and daring our broken institutions like Congress, the Democratic Party and the mainstream media to point out these picks are buck naked as they parade criminally down Fifth Avenue on horseback. …” 1/2

@mcc @dansup

To be honest, bluesky os the worst.
1. nobody expects anything from X and we all know its shit
2. nobody expects much from threads. its facebook
3. same goes for all social networks

They are not fediverse or p2p

Nut bluesky pretends to be decentralized future, while it is just the same old crap we wanted to escape by joining mastodon and other decentralized alternatices.

Even nostr is better imho.

🤫 🤦🏻♀️
"Trump allies were told to stop saying they'll put migrants in 'camps'

'Apparently some people think it makes us look like Nazis,' says a close Trump ally"
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-allies-migrants-camps-miller-homan-1235168998/

"And then there's also this radical traditionalist Catholic wing that is much more connected to people like J.D. Vance. That is also very masculine dominated. It participates in this kind of manosphere world."

#Trump #men #women #misogyny #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #YoungMen #TheoBros #Catholic #JDVance #manosphere
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„Właściciele tych przestrzeni mają władzę wpływania na globalną debatę publiczną tak, by odpowiadała na ich potrzeby biznesowe. (…) Ostatnio obserwowaliśmy, jak właściciel X mocno wpłynął na wybory w Stanach Zjednoczonych. Wcześniej, błędy Facebooka pomogły doprowadzić do ludobójstwa w Mjanmie." - mówi mi @ben z @ProPublica

"Te przestrzenie są zbyt ważne, by były prywatną własnością, lub by były zależne od potrzeb i widzimisię ich właścicieli.”

Ruszyła kolejna fala migracji z X/Twittera, więc dziś w #OkoPress przyglądam się alternatywom:
https://oko.press/ucieczka-z-twittera-przyszlosc-mediow-spolecznosciowych

Co ciekawe, wszystkie – Fediverse, Bluesky, Threads – przynajmniej w jakimś stopniu twierdzą, że są zdecentralizowane. Mówię więc "sprawdzam", razem z @cwebber , @blaine i @ben .

Nie będzie dla nikogo zaskoczeniem, że #Bluesky i Threads mocno naciągają to "zdecentralizowanie." Ale sam fakt, że wszystkie realne alternatywy dla Twittera promują się decentralizacją jest znaczący!

Z kolei @blaine dzieli się doświadczeniem z wczesnych dni Twittera, gdy możliwe było, by stał… się siecią zdecentralizowaną.

„Gdy dwie sieci społecznościowe zaczęły się zdalnie komunikować, miałem wrażenie, że powstało nowe medium, w rozumieniu Marshalla McLuhana; obiecywało Internet, w którym innowacja nie była zamknięta w (wówczas) małych, scentralizowanych startupach (…), a zamiast tego możliwe była ewolucja i tworzenie rozwiązań odpowiadających na potrzeby małych społeczności.”

What is one thing that students in a class on politics and media should read together about this US election? Old or new is fine.

Via Jeff Sharlet, who provides excerpts, but I’m just posting his comments: 🧵 1/…

MSM weirdly slow out of the gate on openly fascist anti-vax Pete Hegseth as Trump Secretary of Defense, considering he just published a book on his views of the military, War on Warriors…he attacks "diverse" soldiers and seems to be calling for civil war.

2/ Sharlet:

Not a good time to be a woman in the military under new Sec Def Pete Hegseth (formerly a stalled major), who repeatedly speaks of it as a place for "normal men." Black women will face even more trouble. And here is a Pentagon leader openly attacking US troops..

New Sec Def Hegseth describes as the twin enemies of US "radical Islam" and... former commander in chief Obama. This is civil war talk

I am once again asking people not to use "convicted felon" as a dunk. There are a lot of felons who are behind bars right now, specifically because they they took risks that you wouldn't when fighting against fascism, and the state convicted and punished them for it. They deserve better.

"Many postmortems of last week’s election have tried to preserve the notion that Trump’s voter’s did not endorse him and his vision – that they know not what they do. This is dishonest, and a bit patronizing toward Trump’s supporters. Trump’s voters, for the most part, know exactly what he is, and what voting for him means. They are not ignorant or mistaken about him. They endorse him and what he is."

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #cruelty #patriarchy #misogyny #women #gender
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Thanks to Lucius Annaeus Seneca (see his comment below) for pointing me to Le Monde's editorial statement on Trump's election, which, as he says, agrees with Moira Donegan when she says American voters knew exactly what they were voting for when they chose Trump. My rough translation of the opening of the editorial (linked below):

"This time, they chose knowing exactly what they were choosing."

#Trump #fascism #cruelty
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https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2024/11/06/la-fin-d-un-monde-americain_6379283_3232.html