Aaron<p>If you are in the US and are not trembling in fear right now, you have not grasped the full seriousness of the situation we are now facing.</p><p>Please join the discussion on what to do about it here:</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/fightfascism" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>fightfascism</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/FightFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FightFascism</span></a></p><p>We are at the 11th hour.</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/FuckYouFascists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FuckYouFascists</span></a><br><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a><br><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/NoKings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoKings</span></a></p>
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Aaron<p>The dust has not even settled from the announcement that ICE will be receiving more funding than the entire US prison system, and that a new concentration camp is opening in Florida, and already Trump is announcing he will deport US citizens.</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/FuckYouFascists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FuckYouFascists</span></a><br><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a><br><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a><br><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/NoKings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoKings</span></a></p>
Aaron<p>Dammit people, do you not see the crossroads we are at? We are in Nazi Germany, at the twilight of civility before fascism firmly takes root and can no longer be stopped. You can't just stand there aghast and scandalized and talk about how it's illegal or shocking or vile. If we don't take *action*, the chance for action will pass.</p><p>We are witnessing the active consolidation of power by a fascist government as politicians and judges are arrested and harrassed, people are rounded up and sent to camps, the armed forces are mobilized against our citizens, rule of law is discarded, and war is looming.</p><p>What else do you need to see to convince you that we are OUT OF FUCKING TIME? Act now, in defense of your neighbors and your representatives and your nation, or expect it all to be yanked from your hands for the duration of the long, dark night. It is a countdown to war and death camps. This isn't a game. This isn't a hypothetical. IT IS FUCKING HAPPENING RIGHT NOW!</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a><br><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a><br><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nazis</span></a><br><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/war" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>war</span></a><br><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/camps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>camps</span></a></p>
phryk 🏴<p><a href="https://phryk.net/article/say-the-fucking-f-word/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phryk.net/article/say-the-fuck</span><span class="invisible">ing-f-word/</span></a></p><p>Say The Fucking F-Word. It's <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a>.</p>
Mary Austin VOTED 4 HARRIS!<p>Another masterpiece from cartoonist Jesse Duquette.</p><p>We all stand with California! ✊🏼 </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LosAngeles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LosAngeles</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/California" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>California</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/50501movement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>50501movement</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/protests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>protests</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ice</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a></p>
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DHS</span></a> CONTRACTORS ARE AN INVADING ARMY<br>instead of a foreign government, they repond to a corporation ―a form of government that only serves its investors.</p><p>AMERICANS NEED TO UNDERSTAND <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TRUMP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TRUMP</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/REPUBLICANS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>REPUBLICANS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PROJECT2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PROJECT2025</span></a> from the standpoint of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CORPORATISM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CORPORATISM</span></a>, aka corporatist <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> & how these fascists are hiding behind the frameworks of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LimitedLiability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LimitedLiability</span></a> to destroy <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USGov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USGov</span></a> </p><p>TL;DR to destroy the Trump corporate regime, destroy their corporate shields & veils: </p><p><a href="https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2014/03/27/the-three-justifications-for-piercing-the-corporate-veil/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2014/0</span><span class="invisible">3/27/the-three-justifications-for-piercing-the-corporate-veil/</span></a></p>
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦<p>you know how every accusation by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> is projection?</p><p>well, what is the one significant difference between American and European <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a>?</p><p>American fascists see THE CORPORATION as the organizing structure for ALL of society; untethered from birthright nobility and geographic nation-states</p><p>Trump & Republicans, as <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/corporatist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corporatist</span></a> fascists, believe no laws applicable to governments apply to them: A CORPORATION IS DOING THE “PREDATORY INCURSION” AND INVASION, not a government.</p>
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦<p>REMINDER:</p><p>if a white person is using <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/woke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>woke</span></a> to insult another white person; given that the word is from African American vernacular and it’s related to activism, just substitute the word for N*-lover. </p><p>as Toni Morrison liked to remind us, there is no <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> without <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a>.</p><p>related: </p><p>Cori Bush: “Anti-Woke” Is Barely Disguised Code for “Anti-Black” | Truthout <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/cori-bush-anti-woke-is-barely-disguised-code-for-anti-black/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">truthout.org/articles/cori-bus</span><span class="invisible">h-anti-woke-is-barely-disguised-code-for-anti-black/</span></a></p><p>How the n-word became the ‘atomic bomb of racial slurs’ | PBS News<br><a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/n-word-became-atomic-bomb-racial-slurs" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">pbs.org/newshour/show/n-word-b</span><span class="invisible">ecame-atomic-bomb-racial-slurs</span></a></p>
Anachron :void:<p>Here is my statement about <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/fosstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fosstodon</span></a>, <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/afd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>afd</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/maga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maga</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> and alike.</p><p><a href="https://blog.cron.world/article_12.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.cron.world/article_12.htm</span><span class="invisible">l</span></a></p><p>Maybe people will figure out how to read this wrong or rub it into my face. Truth is, I don't care. </p><p>There was a time where this view was sane and "normal". You didn't even have to write it down because everybody knew it was considered the norm. But where are we now, having to explain all of this again?</p>
Analyst Hyacinth, in the moss<p>> via The Contrarian (<a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/substack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>substack</span></a>)</p><p>>> "The Disappeared:</p><p>Deported. Disappeared. Dehumanized.</p><p>Mahmoud Khalil<br>Rümeysa Öztürk<br>Mohsen Mahdawi<br>Yunseo Chung<br>Alireza Doroudi<br>Badar Khan Suri<br>Kseniia Petrova<br>Kilmar Ábrego García<br>Andry José Hernández Romero<br>Jerce Reyes Barrios<br>+ Hundreds More</p><p>Don’t forget their names and don’t look away. Keep fighting until justice is served and every abuse of power is held to account."</p><p><a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/StateSponsoredKidnapping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StateSponsoredKidnapping</span></a> <br><a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/TrumpRegime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpRegime</span></a> <br><a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/contrarian/p/the-disappeared" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.substack.com/pub/contrari</span><span class="invisible">an/p/the-disappeared</span></a></p>
Lorry :unverified:<p>Why isn't the world going insane at Republican politicians visiting concentration camps and posing in front of people who will likely be dead within the decade.</p><p>This wasn't even normal in 1942. It's not even normal in North Korea - Fascist regimes usually keep their death camps a secret.</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nazis</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/concentrationcamps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>concentrationcamps</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/deathcamp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deathcamp</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/CECOT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CECOT</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Religion</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Supposed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Supposed</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Catholic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Catholic</span></a></p>
Galad<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gop</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nazis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>usa</span></a></p>
Stephen Elliott~Buckley<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@greenpeace" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>greenpeace</span></a></span> </p><p>BC: a few new <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wind</span></a> projects in December.</p><p>What social attitudes must we create to stop the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pipelines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pipelines</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fracking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fracking</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LNG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LNG</span></a>, etc.?</p><p>We have the awareness, through society, but the desire isn't there. It's opposed by status quo convenience & <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BigCarbon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigCarbon</span></a> & weak politicians.</p><p>We also have the knowledge & ability to address <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climatechange</span></a> in BC, but without leadership, and STARTing, we can't reinforce positive change!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cdnpoli</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>canada</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mexico</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/antifa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antifa</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/elbowsup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>elbowsup</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/greenenergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>greenenergy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bcndp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bcndp</span></a></p>
Analyst Hyacinth, in the moss<p>>> BRIAN: Well, there's a lot of evidence for that. I mean, look at the joy and abandon with which <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> and <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/Bezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bezos</span></a> and <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/Zuckerberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Zuckerberg</span></a> have jumped into <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a>! They're completely happy to be there. In fact, they're quite proud, it seems to me. </p><p>> Q: What do you think of the argument that we don't need to tax rich people more, because they can use their money to give away to charitable causes, or be beneficiaries?</p><p>>></p>
Aral Balkan<p>We cannot rely on the US to protect or nurture the commons. Think of the US as a giant shopping mall with guns. That’s it. That’s the whole philosophy right there.</p><p>We want to safeguard the infrastructure of civilisation, we have to do it ourselves here in the EU before it’s too late. And we can start by acknowledging our own failures and redoubling our commitment to fundamental rights and democracy (and not limit our own potential by having every single decision framed by the fucking “Single Market”).</p><p>You want to end up like the US? Then let’s keep going as we are. You want something different? We must invest in the commons, embrace our diversity, embrace equity, and move to an inclusive, post-capitalist existence.</p><p>It’s up to us. The bacteria in places we haven’t even visited yet that will survive long after we’ve made ourselves extinct – should that be the route we decide to take (because yes, it is a decision) – don’t really give two shits either way.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/humanity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humanity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/humanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humanRights</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/commons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>commons</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GiftArticle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GiftArticle</span></a></p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/America" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>America</span></a> Is Watching the Rise of a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DualState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DualState</span></a><br>For most people, the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/courts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>courts</span></a> will continue to operate as usual—until they don’t.</p><p>On Sept 20, 1938, a man who had witnessed the rise of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> packed his suitcases & fled his home in Berlin. He arranged to have smuggled separately a manuscript that he had drafted in secret over the previous 2 yrs. This book was a remarkable one. It clarified what was unfolding in Berlin…, the catalyst for its author’s flight.</p><p><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/05/trump-executive-order-lawlessness-constitutional-crisis/682112/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxXIqlJnvnf_thi93W4-JS0Y&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theatlantic.com/magazine/archi</span><span class="invisible">ve/2025/05/trump-executive-order-lawlessness-constitutional-crisis/682112/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxXIqlJnvnf_thi93W4-JS0Y&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share</span></a></p>
Ned Yeung<p>U.S. could lose democracy status, says global watchdog.</p><p>"If it continues like this, the United States will not score as a democracy when we release [next year's] data," said Staffan Lindberg, head of the Varieties of Democracy project, run out of Sweden's University of Gothenburg.</p><p>"If it continues like this, democracy [there] will not last another six months."<br>---<br>U.S. President Donald Trump's speech at the Department of Justice on Friday was 'one of the most extraordinary ever by a sitting president,' according to a professor who studies democratic erosion.<br>---<br>The report refers to ongoing events in the U.S. as unprecedented, mentioning Trump pardoning 1,500 criminals who supported him; firing independent agency watchdogs without process; purging apolitical police and military brass; ignoring laws; and his unilaterally deleting federal programs, and even a whole organization, created by U.S. Congress.</p><p>He's just called his predecessor's pardons void and vacated. He gave a bitterly partisan speech at the Department of Justice, demanding the prosecution of the media and certain adversaries. He threatened numerous universities with sanctions. He invoked a 227-year-old war measures law during peacetime — for the first time ever — to deport accused gang members without due process. And, most importantly, when that deportation plan wound up in court, he may have — although it's still in dispute — defied a court order, cracking the ultimate constitutional safeguard.</p><p>It's not just the scope of what Trump's done that has Lindberg envisioning the once-unthinkable: removing the U.S. from the democratic list and shifting it to the second-lowest tier among five, to a so-called electoral autocracy. It's also the speed.</p><p>Lindberg said Trump is doing many of the same things as Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Turkey, Viktor Orbán in Hungary and Narendra Modi in India — only faster.</p><p>"It's the pace," Lindberg said. "He's trying to do in a few months what it took them eight to 10 years to achieve.… It's very dire."</p><p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-democracy-report-1.7486317" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbc.ca/news/world/trump-democr</span><span class="invisible">acy-report-1.7486317</span></a></p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a></p>
Aral Balkan<p>For those of you not paying attention (because Middle Eastern country, amirite?), Turkey followed the neoliberalism to fascism pipeline (in this case Islamofascism) almost a quarter of a century before the US (with Christofascism/technofascism… Christo-techno fascism?)</p><p>Lots to learn here and a glimpse into your future in the US unless you can do something about it. (Hint: appeasement and compliance do not work.)</p><p>Here’s a talk I gave at an event in Berlin eight years ago against Erdoğan’s representative and regime. I also haven’t been back to Turkey for eight years. This is not a coincidence.</p><p><a href="https://ar.al/notes/my-speech-at-general-assembly-in-berlin-november-2017/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ar.al/notes/my-speech-at-gener</span><span class="invisible">al-assembly-in-berlin-november-2017/</span></a></p><p>(İmamoğlu’s people actually invited me to give a talk a few years ago and I asked them if they could guarantee my safety if I flew into Istanbul. Needless to say, the answer was no.)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/turkey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>turkey</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/erdogan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>erdogan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/imamoglu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>imamoglu</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/turkiye" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>turkiye</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dictatorship</span></a></p>
Aral Balkan<p>And now they’ve arrested him.</p><p>Erdoğan, the dictator, doing what dictators do.</p><p><a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/world/middle-east/2025/03/19/mayor-of-istanbul-arrested-as-part-of-crackdown-on-opposition-to-turkish-president/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">irishtimes.com/world/middle-ea</span><span class="invisible">st/2025/03/19/mayor-of-istanbul-arrested-as-part-of-crackdown-on-opposition-to-turkish-president/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/turkey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>turkey</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/erdogan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>erdogan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/imamoglu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>imamoglu</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/turkiye" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>turkiye</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dictatorship</span></a></p>
Aral Balkan<p>Turkish university annuls Erdogan rival's degree, preventing run for president</p><p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/istanbul-university-annuls-istanbul-mayor-imamoglus-diploma-over-irregularities-2025-03-18/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reuters.com/world/asia-pacific</span><span class="invisible">/istanbul-university-annuls-istanbul-mayor-imamoglus-diploma-over-irregularities-2025-03-18/</span></a></p><p>This is what democracy looks like when there’s no democracy.<br> <br><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/turkey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>turkey</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/erdogan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>erdogan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/imamoglu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>imamoglu</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a></p>
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