He's so basic

Tough call, how on earth does one win the war of ideas with the tremendously unpopular ideology of fascism?

The NYC mayor saga is so instructive for me (a Brit) vis how Trump happened

...squishy

Quite a gathering. Just sayin'

This very same thing, but for the UK

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Quarter agree with this. Yes to some extent they are the "Fuck You" party and for some that is the main message. Reform do exploit existing racist sentiment. But much more I think they foment it, they're not riding an authentic herrenvolk wave as much as astroturfing a fake one, any-grievance-u-like

Trump aims to make Americans stupider and thus easier to manipulate. That means bathing them in AI slop and conspiracy theories so they don’t notice he’s imposed a dictatorship until it’s too late to stop it. (It’s not too late to stop it, but almost.)

Good to finally see a bare minimum acknowledgement. Let's see where it leads

“We’re”

Really looking forward to the totalitarian when crime is impossible for anyone except the state, which more than makes up the difference

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Well yes. Which is very, very odd, given they have supposedly the finest info and the sharpest minds available.

The migration freakout is not a thing rising organically from the herrenvolk of semi rural Lancashire or Wales. This is being thrust upon us, a mask forced in to the face of British public opinion. You might expect that from the Daily Mail, but this is BBC6 Music ffs!

Exact same thing this morning. First item on 6 Music News is a story about migrants trying to get on boats in France 🤯

Surprising. Yeah, esp given Reform are the current Big Deal in medialand. And this is not just bribery. This is bribery *to work for Putin's Russia*, not to grease some local construction process. I.e. treachery and spying. This is a huge story, whatever could be going on?

Very much this. I'd just add that we do not need to unite with the far right and their thugs, but to defeat them and force their stupid, noxious ideology back to the fringes of society.

That explains a lot.

Trumpofascism is absurdly accelerated, it's true, and it is comforting to think that Trump's lamp post moment might be similarly accelerated. Hopefully, but let's not take that for granted

This only happens to you once

Someone book a big but dilapidated venue in Geneva for the next few years

Mission creep

Earhart does sound vaguely like Epstein

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This chimes. The bubble will burst, but can stand a little more inflating yet, and why waste a good bubble?

We are so humiliatingly deep into tinpot dictatorship territory. The government has just brokered the coerced sale of a major media platform to an ally of the president, who is openly boasting about converting it into (even more of) a partisan propaganda outlet.

Political violence does have a place in the USA, and that place is the White House

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Ah but what if citizens could gain kudos points by reporting potholes, and thereby gain access to privileges such as GP appointments?

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This is Patriotism, apparently

The USA has already lost WW3, without a fight. So the rest of 'the West' is in big trouble

TZ has been amongst the sharpest commentators on US politics for the past some years imo, really worth subscribing

Little bit I spose

From war crimes to infosec to distributed resilience to shaving, all the things Hegseth thinks are tough guy things are in fact wuss things

Very much this. And given the context KS is responding to (far right nativist protest and riots), I'd just highlight the implications regarding exactly *which community* he means to give control to

The success of the far right is not only measured in votes and seats but in its impact on rhetoric, policy and ideology. The fact that a (nominally) social democratic head of government with a huge majority choses to say and do this is maybe the biggest success of the far right in Europe yet.

When was this failure of 'the left'? Starmer blaming the left for 14 years of Tory policy. Genius.

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It is possible to deal with this, as done quite well here. Report that Farage is spouting fash nonsense, rather than discussing the content of the fash nonsense. The people and institutions boosting this crap are doing it because they want to

The central point is that when fascism came to America it wouldn't call itself that, nor would it be wearing a swastika. It would call itself "patriotic" and "100% American."

Rationalisationism

i maintain that heretics & apostates are much more useful terms than "not real christians"

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