What does fascism look like?

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We’ve seen it in Stalin’s and Putin’s Russia; we’ve seen it in the theocracy in Iran; we saw it in Hitler’s Germany; we saw it under Mao; we see it in Kim Jung Un’s North Korea and we saw it in South Africa.

It is a totalitarian tyranny.

The ruling junta set up a regime and take control of the political system to prevent opposition. They use masked goons (Gestapo, Stasi, KGB, OVRA, Kempeitai, Hisbah, morality police, Taliban, security branch). Every tyrant and fascist regime has its masked goons employed to beat, torture, kill and terrify.

Trump has ICE.

What does fascism look like? It looks like Trump, the GOP and MAGA to me!

What’s the definition of a police state?

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When those in charge condone and encourage violence against the opposition and label all protest as terrorism you live in a police state.

Renee Good was obviously not trying to run anyone over. She was surrounded by masked, armed goons who were threatening her and was trying to get away. None of the masked goons were injured.

When the secretary of the homeland and President falsify the situation and present good honest people as extremist terrorists we have a situation that is on a par to the tyranny in Iran.

What has gone wrong in America?

The Greatest Conman in History

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Talk about draining the swamp – This guy and his crooked family have made between $3.4 billion and $5.4 billion from the Presidency.

What deals is he making with Russia?? How much money does the guy need??

So while poor Americans get poorer and lose their healthcare Trump, Musk and the GOP fat cats get fatter!

Oooops!! Looks like I might not be allowed into the States!! Or would I be arrested and imprisoned for my free speech??

not giving way to the right

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Are the Israeli Government guilty of Genocide?

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In my opinion: The Israeli government is a fascist entity, driven by far-right religious fanatics, led by a war criminal, who are racist and the equivalent of Nazis.
The huge number of war crimes against the Palestinians, including indiscriminate shooting, bombing of civilians, missile strikes on hospitals and massive destruction of civilian structures, along with starving children and depriving the population of food and water amounts to GENOCIDE!!!
That is on a par with what the Nazis did in the holocaust!
I am not alone in stating this and that does not make me Antisemitic. I have nothing against Jews.

I cite this:
The question of whether the treatment of Palestinians constitutes genocide is a complex and ongoing debate.
Accusations of Genocide:

Various groups, including the International Association of Genocide Scholars, have declared that Israel’s actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide, citing systematic attacks, dehumanization, and deliberate conditions of life that threaten the survival of the Palestinian people.

Legal Framework: The 1948 Genocide Convention defines genocide as acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. Scholars argue that Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza align with this definition, particularly given the mass killings, dehumanization, and denial of basic necessities.

International Response: In January 2024, the International Court of Justice issued a provisional ruling that found there is a plausible right to protection from genocide in Gaza, requiring Israel to take measures to prevent such acts.1
Ongoing Legal and Human Rights Analysis: The UN Special Committee has also reported that Israel’s military actions in Gaza are consistent with the characteristics of genocide, highlighting the catastrophic impact on Palestinian lives.

The situation remains fluid, with ongoing legal and human rights analyses being conducted to determine the extent of these accusations and their implications.

What I don’t like about Trump

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I don’t like the way he is backing war-mongering despots like Putin, Kim Jung Un and Netanyahu.

I don’t like him backing genocide in Gaza

I don’t like him siding with Putin in Ukraine

I don’t like his rudeness

I don’t like the way he has turned on his allies and friends

I don’t like him locking up kids in cages

I don’t like his taking over of the court system and packing the supreme court with cronies

I don’t like his continual lying

I don’t like his ridiculous bragging

I don’t like his attack on education. I don’t like him controlling the curriculum and sacking people with opposing views. Smacks of indoctrination.

I don’t like his release and support of rioters, violent insurrectionists and thugs who attacked the police and were looking to lynch politicians

I don’t like his sexual activities – raping and abusing women, talking about them in a derogatory way and associating with known paedophiles and child abusers like Epstein, Maxwell, Diddy and others.

I don’t like his blatant business scams preying on the poor

I don’t like his association with billionaires

I don’t like his nepotism and cronyism

I don’t like his attack on the poorest and weakest – lowering welfare and medicaid to give to the wealthy

I don’t like his blatant tax evasion

I don’t like his attack on the UN and NATO

I don’t like his war on woke

I don’t like his simplistic and stupid applying of tariffs on friends, disruption of world trade and betrayal of friends

I don’t like his attitude towards Canada, Greenland and the Panama Canal

I don’t like his chaotic stupidity

I don’t like his acceptance of conspiracy theories – like covid vaccination and global warming

I don’t like his wanton destruction of the environment

I don’t like his alliance with extreme right wing and white supremacy groups and neo-nazis – like The Proud Boys

I don’t like his acts of vengeance against anybody who opposes him

I don’t like his bullying

I don’t like his incitement to violence at his rallies

I don’t like his crude and crass ridiculing of the handicapped or oponents

I don’t like his scapegoating

I don’t like his scapegoating of immigrants and the poor

I don’t like his intolerance towards anybody different – transgender, homosexuals, races, religions

I don’t like his phony religious posturing

I don’t like the way he is taking over the democratic system – replacing unbiased officials with his henchmen – looking at the voting mechanisms and machines – making it harder and harder for the opposition to register and vote – removing voting sites – making it illegal to give out water – requiring passports – removing postal votes. Smacks of tyranny.

I don’t like he is stirring up division and hate and dividing the country

I don’t like his posturing and bullying of friends and allies

I don’t like him voting with Putin in the UN and opposing allies

I don’t like him bullying and trying to fleece friends

I don’t like the way he and his family lie, scheme and use his office to make money

I don’t like the way he slimes his opponents with rude and derogatory terms, unfounded lies and crude slanders

I don’t like his hypocrisy

I don’t like the way he treats the media and reporters

I don’t like the way he blames Zelenskyy for the Russian invasion of his country

I don’t like the way he supports Netanyahu starving and bombing women and children in GAZA

I don’t like the way he is stuffing his pockets while talking of draining swamps

I don’t like the way he has created a mindless cult

I don’t like the way he set up and turned on Zelenskyy

I don’t like the way he is insinuating incompetent supporters into major positions instead of competent people

I don’t like the way he is banning books and trying to control minds

I don’t like the way he is crushing opposition and controlling courts and media

I don’t like the way he stole boxes of secret documents to sell or show off with or use for blackmail

I don’t like the way he hits out in anger like a spoilt kid every time he is opposed

I don’t like his unreliability, instability, vacillations and chaotic incompetence

I don’t like his brand of fascism

I don’t like the way he refused to transfer power, sulked like a teenager, snubbed other presidents and then, despite all evidence to the contrary, insisted the election was stolen (and still does)

I don’t like the way he tried to overturn the legal result, threaten officials and attempted to steal the election

I don’t like the way he put trillions on the debt and mismanaged the economy

I don’t like the way he orchestrated an attack on the Capitol

I don’t like the way he lied about using the fascist Project 2025 as his blueprint

I don’t like the way his narcissism dominates

I don’t like his lack of empathy and compassion

I think he is a psychopath who enjoys hurting anyone who opposes him

I don’t like the way he incites violent vengeance on others and creates a climate of hate and fear

I don’t like the way he spends huge amount of time, at massive expense, on his golf courses

I don’t like the way he shows off and has to be the centre of attention

I don’t like the way he uses executive orders to circumvent democratic process

I don’t like the way he escaped being locked up for his many crimes

I don’t like the way he is associated with the mafia, paedophiles and Russian state control

I don’t like the way his Russian business connections have been influencing his policies

I don’t like the way he has allowed Russians to interfere with American elections

I don’t like the way his lying bragging

I don’t like the way he used Covid for his own ends (to deliberately spread conspiracy while himself being vaccinated) and allowed a million to die in order to promote himself

I don’t like the way he treats neighbours Canada and Mexico with threats and snide remarks, false claims and blatant lies

I don’t like the way he is threatening national parks and taking away all environmental protection to give free rein to polluting industries, oil and gas

I don’t like the way he is starting a trade war with China

I don’t like the way he is posturing and threatening other countries like Iran

I think the man is a narcissistic, psychopathic, posturing bully, who likes getting his own way, is a spoilt brat, none too bright sexual predator and failed businessman, a conman and criminal, and a loathsome individual with racist and misogynistic tendencies – a complete Nazi conspiracy throwing, repugnant orange slug whose understanding of science could be written on a piece of confetti.

Apart from that I reckon we’d get along great!

Morality and MAGA

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Calling them stupid is charitable.

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A real question from a Trump supporter: ‘Why do liberals think Trump supporters are stupid?’

THE SERIOUS ANSWER: Here’s what the majority of anti-Trump voters honestly feel about Trump supporters en masse:

That when you saw a man who had owned a fraudulent University, intent on scamming poor people, you thought “Fine.” (https://www.usatoday.com/…/trump-university…/502387002/)

That when you saw a man who had made it his business practice to stiff his creditors, you said, “Okay.” (https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-hotel-paid-millions…)

That when you heard him proudly brag about his own history of sexual abuse, you said, “No problem.” (https://abcnews.go.com/…/list-trumps-accusers…/story…)

That when he made up stories about seeing Muslim-Americans in the thousands cheering the destruction of the World Trade Center, you said, “Not an issue.” (https://www.washingtonpost.com/…/donald-trumps…/)

That when you saw him brag that he could shoot a man on Fifth Avenue and you wouldn’t care, you exclaimed, “He sure knows me.” (https://www.usatoday.com/…/president-donald…/4073405002/)

That when you heard him relating a story of an elderly guest of his country club, an 80-year old man, who fell off a stage and hit his head, to Trump replied: “‘Oh my God, that’s disgusting,’ and I turned away. I couldn’t—you know, he was right in front of me, and I turned away. I didn’t want to touch him. He was bleeding all over the place. And I felt terrible, because it was a beautiful white marble floor, and now it had changed color. Became very red.” You said, “That’s cool!” (https://www.gq.com/story/donald-trump-howard-stern-story)

That when you saw him mock the disabled, you thought it was the funniest thing you ever saw. (https://www.nbcnews.com/…/donald-trump-criticized-after…)

That when you heard him brag that he doesn’t read books, you said, “Well, who has time?” (https://www.theatlantic.com/…/americas-first…/549794/)

That when the Central Park Five were compensated as innocent men convicted of a crime they didn’t commit, and he angrily said that they should still be in prison, you said, “That makes sense.” (https://www.usatoday.com/…/what-trump-has…/1501321001/)

That when you heard him tell his supporters to beat up protesters and that he would hire attorneys, you thought, “Yes!” (https://www.latimes.com/…/la-na-trump-campaign-protests…)

That when you heard him tell one rally to confiscate a man’s coat before throwing him out into the freezing cold, you said, “What a great guy!” (https://www.independent.co.uk/…/donald-trump-orders…)

That you have watched the parade of neo-Nazis and white supremacists with whom he curries favor, while refusing to condemn outright Nazis, and you have said, “Thumbs up!” (https://www.theatlantic.com/…/why-cant-trump…/567320/)

That you hear him unable to talk to foreign dignitaries without insulting their countries and demanding that they praise his electoral win, you said, “That’s the way I want my President to be.” (https://www.huffpost.com/…/trump-insult-foreign…)

That you have watched him remove expertise from all layers of government in favor of people who make money off of eliminating protections in the industries they’re supposed to be regulating and you have said, “What a genius!” (https://www.politico.com/…/138-trump-policy-changes…)

That you have heard him continue to profit from his businesses, in part by leveraging his position as President, to the point of overcharging the Secret Service for space in the properties he owns, and you have said, “That’s smart!” (https://www.usnews.com/…/how-is-donald-trump-profiting…)

That you have heard him say that it was difficult to help Puerto Rico because it was in the middle of water and you have said, “That makes sense.” (https://www.washingtonpost.com/…/the-very-big-ocean…/)

That you have seen him start fights with every country from Canada to New Zealand while praising Russia and quote, “falling in love” with the dictator of North Korea, and you have said, “That’s statesmanship!” (https://www.cnn.com/…/donald-trump-dictators…/index.html)

That Trump separated children from their families and put them in cages, managed to lose track of 1500 kids, has opened a tent city incarceration camp in the desert in Texas – he explains that they’re just “animals” – and you say, “Well, OK then.” (https://www.nbcnews.com/…/more-5-400-children-split…)

That you have witnessed all the thousand and one other manifestations of corruption and low moral character and outright animalistic rudeness and contempt for you, the working American voter, and you still show up grinning and wearing your MAGA hats and threatening to beat up anybody who says otherwise. (https://www.americanprogress.org/…/confronting-cost…/)

What you don’t get, Trump supporters, is that our succumbing to frustration and shaking our heads, thinking of you as stupid, may very well be wrong and unhelpful, but it’s also… hear me… charitable.

Because if you’re NOT stupid, we must turn to other explanations, and most of them are less flattering.

– Adam-Troy Castro

Tesla and Musk and the Swasticar.

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Every Nazis dream!

Welcome to the Land of the GOP

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I have spent the day putting the finishing touches to my 36th book of poetry – Fighting Words. This was one of the poems. We have a strutting fascist in the manner of Mussolini and a docile GOP willing to swallow their morality for self-gain. We have evangelicals swallowing their morals too. We have a fascist dictatorship looking to upset the world order. We have a tyrant who is siding with totalitarian regimes – Russia and North Korea. We have a man who is a twisted sociopath developing into a megalomaniac and wanting total control.

We’re in the rule of double-think, of conspiracy, propaganda and lies.

And the GOP, who once used to represent values, is now a hypocritical supporter of extremism!!

Welcome to the Land of the GOP

Welcome to the world of Trump

                Where rapists are moral exemplars, who can do no wrong,

Where it is normal to send your dollars to billionaires and give huge tax cuts to the wealthy.

Welcome to the NEW GOP

                Where greed is the essential characteristic and lying is a requisite

Where black is white, wrong is right and totalitarianism is the new aim.

Welcome to Project 2025

                Where the blueprint for the end of democracy lurks,

Where the taking over of all federal agencies, schools and police is normalised.

Welcome to the Evangelical Extremes,

                Where women know their place and do not speak,

Where they know their place in the kitchen and bedroom and pop out babies.

Welcome to the Conservative Right,

                Where books are banned and gays banished,

Where apple pie and family values hide a myriad of hypocrisy and filth.

Welcome to the NEW America,

                A land of white supremacists with guns,

Bible-bashing misogynists, burning crosses and a new form of slavery.

Welcome to the land of MAGA,

                Where we burn the world with relish,

Kow-tow to billionaires and tyrants and conform to patriotic thuggery.

Welcome to the Age of Conspiracy,

                Where the more outrageous the lie the more it is believed,

The flat earth society, alien lizards and baby-eating democrats.

Welcome to the Future,

                A land where the billionaires call the shots

And the minions fanatically fight for the right to oppress minorities.

You’re welcome to it!         Opher – 3.11.2023

They sing of the land of the free where billionaires hypnotise the masses and democracy wanes. Where Hitler is revered, the holocaust denied and racism rules.

The Confederacy fought a civil war in an attempt to keep their slaves and now that shame-ridden rag is raised as a rebel rallying call and racism is normalised.

This is the land where QANON and conspiracy rule; where experts are derided and immigrants like Musk and Murdock are the only acceptable people. Where Presidents build walls to keep immigrants out but it is OK to marry them.

This is the land of guns, hatred, division and conformity where patriotism is a weapon.

This is the land of superstition where education is suspect – who wants an educated, thinking populace – keep the minions dumb.

Keep the minions dumb.

They can’t even read this!