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"Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie", Miyamoto Musashi
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The white CEOs who broke laws were untouched.

And ice was the culprit!

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The “raids” aren’t about “enforcing laws”, they’re about turning the rule of law into an instrument of ethnic cleansing, degradation, supremacy, and terror. This is fascism 101 happening right before your eyes 
@umairh - August 11, 2019

How American Elites’ Failed Ideas and Perspectives Are Letting the Bad Guys Destroy Democracy,  umair haque

How many of these warning signs has Trump checked off?

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Lucifer 😈  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The Charlotte Observer‘s call for action from Republicans will fall on deft ears because the Republican Senate and House toe the Party line — meaning they’re racists too. Republicans did absolutely nothing going back to the 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries. They did nothing when it came to Charlottesville, Sessions, Bannon and Miller separating families — #BabyJails#ICEtapo sexual assaults and even rape!

The Observer should:

  1. Call for the resignations of Republicans who don’t take action.
  2. Endorse the Democratic presidential nominee and Democrats running at all levels of government in North and South Carolina. 
The Observer called on the state’s Republicans in Congress to challenge Trump on his racism, including North Carolina’s most senior leaders, Sen. Richard Burr and Sen. Thom Tillis, who is up for reelection.
The paper declared that the Republican Party is “firmly Donald Trump’s party now. It’s the party where insults and other ugliness are just being ‘rough around the edges,’” the Observer noted.

“It’s the party where locking legal migrants in crowded, unhealthy cages is acceptable immigration policy. It’s the party where it’s OK to say racist things so long as the next jobs report is encouraging.”

Now, the newspaper said, GOP lawmakers, including those of North Carolina, are “bowing to the worst of who we are.”

And there’s a larger National Security problem... #BenedictDonald #TRE45ON

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Resist Trump on Independence Day  #July4th

The Fourth of July has routinely been used by white nationalist and supremacist movements to... draw ideological linkages between race and nation, whiteness and patriotism, and blackness and civic fraudulence.
Trump’s planned Independence Day celebration must be viewed as part of this long lineage of white nationalist movements co-opting the language of independence and freedom on the Fourth of July to advance their causes.
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Metro.co.uk reported earlier that Pro-Trump supporters have been barricaded inside a pub by police as clashes broke out in London during Trump’s state visit. 
In the shocking video, a large group of angry demonstrators could be seen surrounding the man – who was wearing a Make America Great Again cap – before throwing the McDonald’s iced drink over him.
They shouted ‘Nazi’ to the man in Parliament Square before they started pushing him around. 
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How many has #MAGA Trump checked off?

Political scientist Dr. Lawrence Britt recently wrote an article about fascism ("Fascism Anyone?," Free Inquiry, Spring 2003, page 20). Studying the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia), and Pinochet (Chile), Dr. Britt found they all had 14 elements in common. He calls these the identifying characteristics of fascism. The excerpt is in accordance with the magazine's policy.

The 14 characteristics are:

  1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.
  2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of "need." The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc.
  3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial , ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.
  4. Supremacy of the Military Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.
  5. Rampant Sexism The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Opposition to abortion is high, as is homophobia and anti-gay legislation and national policy.
  6. Controlled Mass Media Sometimes to media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.
  7. Obsession with National Security Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.
  8. Religion and Government are Intertwined Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government's policies or actions.
  9. Corporate Power is Protected The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.
  10. Labor Power is Suppressed Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed.
  11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts.
  12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.
  13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.
  14. Fraudulent Elections Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.

#UNITE #RESIST  #Trumpism  #Trumpian 

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💜  Sinema flips Arizona 🎆  Senator Kyrsten Sinema

+1 Checks and Balances. First Woman. First openly bisexual person.

As of Monday night, Sinema had 1,097,321 votes, or 49.68 percent, while McSally had 1,059,124 votes, or 47.96 percent.
Sinema gave a victory speech on Monday evening, honoring late Arizona Sen. John McCain and rejected divisive political rhetoric. Sinema referenced McCain's final address to Congress before his death and his call for civility in bipartisanship.

"It won’t be easy, and it won’t happen overnight, but we can work together to meet the challenges our country faces. We can do this differently. For our country, for our future, for Senator McCain, and for each other I think we must."

McSally conceded the race in a video statement on her Twitter account Monday evening.
"I just called Kyrsten Sinema and congratulated her on being Arizona's first female senator after a hard fight battle," McSally said. "I wish her all success as she represents Arizona in the senate."
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Fascism is Not an Idea to Be Debated, It's a Set of Actions to Fight

Writing for Literary Hub, author Aleksandar Hemon writes about his friend Zoka – who he grew up with in Sarajevo before Hemon moved away and Zoka became a Serbian nationalist – in the context of the media trying to figure out if debating with racists & fascists is a good idea.

The public discussion prompted by the (dis)invitation [of Steve Bannon from the New Yorker Festival] confirmed to me that only those safe from fascism and its practices are likely to think that there might be a benefit in exchanging ideas with fascists. What for such a privileged group is a matter of a potentially productive difference in opinion is, for many of us, a matter of basic survival. The essential quality of fascism (and its attendant racism) is that it kills people and destroys their lives-and it does so because it openly aims so.
Witness Stephen Miller and Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance for illegal immigration” policy. Fascism’s central idea, appearing in a small repertoire of familiar guises, is that there are classes of human beings who deserve diminishment and destruction because they’re for some reason (genetic, cultural, whatever) inherently inferior to “us.” Every fucking fascist, Bannon included, strives to enact that idea, even if he (and it is usually a he-fascism is a masculine ideology, and therefore inherently misogynist) bittercoats it in a discourse of victimization and national self-defense. You know: they are contaminating our nation/race; they are destroying our culture; we must do something about them or perish. At the end of such an ideological trajectory is always genocide, as it was the case in Bosnia.
The effects and consequences of fascism, however, are not equally distributed along that trajectory. Its ideas are enacted first and foremost upon the bodies and lives of the people whose presence within “our” national domain is prohibitive. In Bannon/Trump’s case, that domain is nativist and white. Presently, their ideas are inflicted upon people of color and immigrants, who do not experience them as ideas but as violence. The practice of fascism supersedes its ideas, which is why people affected and diminished by it are not all that interested in a marketplace of ideas in which fascists have prime purchasing power.
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The free world defeated the Nazis in WWII. Now we must defeat them in America.

“We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender”,  Winston Churchill
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