In March of 1945, the US Army issued this "fact sheet" to guide conversations with soldiers on the topic of fascism, paying particular attention to the ongoing threat that domestic fascist movements posed to the US. Their analysis of what a homegrown US fascism would look like is interesting.

The third fascistic tactic to watch out for is their tendency to label anyone they disagree with who is to their left "a Communist." Fascists claim that they alone can save their nations from "the communist menace." Anyway, the 2024 GOP platform contains the phrase "Christ-hating communists."

Finally, in 1945 the US Army said that another key hallmark of a fascist form of politics was that it would be obsessively fixated on calling everyone to their left "a communist" who posed an existential threat to America. bsky.app/profile/seth...

*taps sign*

Dean Withers here, showing that not all young white American men are modelling themselves on Charlie Kirk or Andrew Tate.

I'm old enough to remember Facebook booting Palmer fucking Luckey on his ass for being a Trump-boosting prick and now they've circled back around to working with him again.

Yall should write physical letters to ABC cause it makes em shit their pants

Bashful. Oil on wood, 9x12 inches.

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

Happy birthday, HeartGold and SoulSilver! 💛🤍

thank god we’re all against political violence

Something wholesome to cleanse the timeline

"but we can't support trans rights, it's unpopular!" just a reminder that US approval for marriage between black and white people at the start of the civil rights movement was 4%, reaching a whopping 20% by the end of the movement it's 95% now you don't wait for popularity for a rights movement

Some Fucking Nazi: *dies* People Who Accepted the Genocide of Gaza and Police Brutality and Murders of Trans and Queer People as Unavoidable Parts of Society and Insisted For Decades You Simply Must Shrug Off For the Sake of Some Imaginary Sense of Harm Reduction: violence is never acceptable

theres a million fake etsy "witches" and one legit OG thousand year old powerful and wise crone living in a bog somewhere who went "oh this will be funny"

Charlie Kirk was a disgusting, racist, homophobic asshole, who said the civil rights movement was a mistake. I'll sleep fine tonight. My thoughts are with the kids who were shot in Colorado.

Listen, i understand the concern but I think the "don't make a martyr and give them a reason to escalate and retaliate" argument loses a lot of steam when theyre already declaring war on their own cities, creating concentration camps, dismantling power structures and stripping us all of rights

lmao holy shit

look at this bullshit.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on the shooting of Charlie Kirk: "Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."

This is the line that Dems need to push. It can't be simply. "Political violence is bad" it MUST be "Political violence is bad and Trump and his ilk are responsible for creating conditions ripe for political violence"

Oh, hey. Visa and Mastercard now say you can't pay for WoW. Magic the Gathering. FFXIV. DnD. Lord of the Rings. Because they're all "adult" content against their ToS just for being "fantasy". Let that sink in. Spread this like wildfire and have people in those circles call them. No quarter.

Apropos of absolutely nothing, I present to you a great song from Wicked. youtu.be/Fe9N3Xcwtso

every time an evil freak dies, the most tepid people on earth ask how anyone could celebrate death and violence, how people can act so inhuman. do you think I want to live in a world where this is what it takes for me to feel relief or a sense of justice? why don't you ask who took my humanity.

Reminder to the thoughts and prayers crowd that the pro-fascist, pro-theocracy, 'submit to your husband', anti-gay, anti-trans, hateful bigot who just died said that the cost of lives lost to gun violence was just the price we have to pay in this country for that 'right'. Fuck him. Rest in Piss.

Meanwhile another school shooting happened around the same time, and there's less coverage of kids getting shot over the fucking Neonazi because it's been so normalized

It’s important to remember how Americas ruling class treats its own & recognize what’s left out of many of their legacies at the end of the day. Reject the idea that monsters are deserving of being mourned and embrace the idea that the world is simply better off without willing monsters being in it.

If you want to be remembered well in death then don’t be a monster in life. Period. We are not nor should we ever be arbiters of innocent peoples’ death — but we are allowed to celebrate when goblins that turn themselves into that are finally gone from this world. And that is perfectly okay. 👍🏾

This is also why every chain has gone from having a unique style to a square grey brick - easier to resell the land if you move or close. Dominos out here flexing though, like, fuckit, we're leaving the hut and painting it blue MFers

May I remind everyone that there is currently NO cure for rabies. May I also remind everyone there is absolutely NO scientific proof connecting ANY vaccine that we produce today with autism. This is true regarding vaccination in both humans AND in dogs. Vaccinate your pets please.

Goodie goodie. Another dev suddenly let go and no backfill. Expected to do the same amount of work, plus all the qa, and then some. This shitshow is a trainwreck and I want off it. There's nothing but disdain from business side toward devs.

What a fucking time to be alive and unfortunately literate in English.

BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.

Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it will ask “do you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.” Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment. No questions asked. No proof required. Pass it on.

Bullied by my fiancé because he asked what I was listening to so I unplugged my headphones to share. He made an unpleasant face at me and plugged them back in.

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This is why it's important for you to remove source identifiers from links!!

starmer is doing all the anti-immigrant and anti-trans "popularism" stuff the centrists are demanding US dems do and this is the predictable result:

He wasn't arrested over "comments" or "posts" He was arrested because he literally encouraged his followers to stalk and physically assault specific trans people. AKA conspiracy to commit assault. Enough with the vague titles, journalists!

Goodie, personal laptop seems to have battery swelling and screen deformation. Time to dispose of it I guess. 🙃

The difference between the text of the post and the headline of the article below it is staggering

Happy Labor Day my fellow workers!