Post AnUpjGsIoQaYFvs7pA by StrangeCulprits@c.im
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(DIR) Post #AnUm6lfc5B0obrsx6W by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-29T10:16:02Z
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For reasons of rhetoric and ideological similarity many people have been scrutinizing the rise of fascism in Germany. It's not the only example of fascism, but it's the most destructive, singular and horrifying. The type specimen. I can't help but notice that the hardships of the German people after WWI have little resemblance to the inequities and flaws in the US economy.There are no huge classes of people who have suddenly found their lives changed. 1/
(DIR) Post #AnUmMQEvWncImHrqoi by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-29T10:18:53Z
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What makes more sense, I think, is looking at events that happened in the US after Reconstruction. In particular the reaction to the first black elected officials. In that context this reactionary movement makes perfect sense.
(DIR) Post #AnUnlxls61b7y21I7k by femme_mal@mstdn.social
2024-10-29T10:34:41Z
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@futurebird People get so angry with me when I say the unifying motive behind MAGA is patriarchal white supremacy.White people. Getting angry. When confronted with the ongoing existence of white supremacy."But my family member isn't racist, they're just MAGA!"I have to bite my tongue at that point because they're just not ready to deal with the whole truth if they're still defending a MAGA family member.
(DIR) Post #AnUnpYRiCEyUa5IqA4 by StrangeCulprits@c.im
2024-10-29T10:35:20Z
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@futurebird 💯What we were witnessing now seems to be the modern equivalent of dismantling reconstruction *and* late 19th century robber baron consolidation and entrenchment.The former took a century to start remediating in any meaningful way; while the latter only took a couple of financial crises for the government to make 'too big to fail' money grubbers fall in line, for awhile anywayOur modern economic royalists and vampires crave nothing less than a new, postmodern feudalism, and in the US, this odd coalition of MAGA and Christofacists is merely a means to an end.
(DIR) Post #AnUomH5yLi0Hr28OH2 by hydropsyche@ecoevo.social
2024-10-29T10:45:56Z
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@futurebird I was interacting with a Republican claiming economic hardship,.She was complaining that it cost $80 to fill up her gas tank. It cost me $25 to fill up my tiny car's gas tank yesterday. The only people paying $80 to fill up are people driving SUVs and pickups that cost $50k or more. She's not experiencing economic hardship. She's a wealthy person who made a bad choice and bought a dumb car and somehow wants to blame Joe Biden for that.
(DIR) Post #AnUpjGsIoQaYFvs7pA by StrangeCulprits@c.im
2024-10-29T10:56:36Z
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@futurebird One other observation, which we often expressed during Trump's administration:How did we go from electing possibly the *most* qualified Black person in America (President Obama was both a professor of Constitutional Law and a local community organizer), to the actual *least* qualified white person?White rage, fueled by mostly (though not exclusively) racist moneyed interests, still licking their wounds after the 2008 global financial meltdown they brought about through buying deregulation in the 1990s. It's a simple as that.Though the Obama administration did far less than they could (should?) have done to punish the rent seekers, this rent seekers still wanted to flex. Trump was their answer, and America was merely collateral damage.We see a parallel with Vice President Harris. As California's Attorney General, she refused to sign off on the National Mortgage Settlement until banks are forced to pay *much* more than they were otherwise willing to pay, because then AG Harris made it clear, she would prosecute *and* lock up crooked bank CEOs. To the CEO class, Harris as president will be a waking nightmare.They moneyed filth know that Trump will never lock them up so long as they stroke his ego, as he is one or their own...a dullard to be sure, but an entitled, rich (for now) dullard.
(DIR) Post #AnUsoZSXRWZvCm2Wsy by williampietri@sfba.social
2024-10-29T11:31:10Z
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@futurebird Totally agreed. The period after Reconstruction failed is sometimes called the Nadir [1]. Rev Barber has for years talked about the civil rights era as our "Second Reconstruction", and the time we are in as the "Third Nadir". When I read about that it all snapped into context to me: one long war against racism. One that we keep failing to finish.[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadir_of_American_race_relations[2] https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/the-urgency-of-a-third-reconstruction/
(DIR) Post #AnUsywKdG5JV2SHnKi by JonnyT@mastodon.me.uk
2024-10-29T11:33:02Z
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@futurebird There is, as far as I am aware, also no large scale Communist* movement in the US (or, well, anywhere) as far as I know and fascism was permitted to gain momentum and arise as a bulwark to communism by the elites of the time all across Europe and the US. The absence of any real 'threat' - like Communism - is also a stark difference to the situation in post WWI America and Europe.* A real one, not the imaginary one of the GOP.
(DIR) Post #AnUtZgzrEjq0Bz5srA by JonnyT@mastodon.me.uk
2024-10-29T11:39:41Z
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@futurebird The 'economic hardship' excuse is nonsense anyway, given that the people who have caused a significant amount of it are the people who run the GOP and the people the GOP is run for. All those billionaire backers of the party didn't get their billions by being generous to their employees or the 'average Joe'.
(DIR) Post #AnUuMcFJgjMJeEeYXQ by schatzberger_gold@mastodon.social
2024-10-29T11:48:33Z
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@futurebird Also, the rise of fascism in post WWI-Germany wasn't exclusively due to economical hardship... It was a multifaceted disaster.
(DIR) Post #AnUyv76jqqbV1gLWMK by tkinias@historians.social
2024-10-29T12:39:35Z
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@futurebird I do think that the global polycrisis factors in here in a big way—in the sense that anxiety about more material factors (like the gross inequities in the changing forms of capitalism) brings out the latent racism. Europe didn’t suddenly become more racist recently, nor are black & brown immigrants a new phenomenon; but the postwar dream of broad-based prosperity under social democracy died, and that is bringing out the white rage.
(DIR) Post #AnV2vPwmCt4hGv5Rh2 by ravenonthill@mastodon.social
2024-10-29T13:24:28Z
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@futurebird I agree. I keep muttering about the compromise of 2025 and hoping we avoid it.
(DIR) Post #AnV4U9Njt4xFzAp9oO by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-29T13:41:56Z
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@vikxin can we just not?