Fascism watch thread/news and discussions

[erowind]

Society of the spectacle, we’ve been living in an unreal cultural layer for sometime.

[wjfox]

Kanye West belongs in a mental hospital. And anyone who praises Hitler should be forced to watch Schindler's List, and read The Diary of Anne Frank, to see what this monstrous ideology leads to.

[weatheriscool]

Immigration seems to be one of the main reasons why the voting population of the uk wants reform. It makes sense in a electrol way to come out ahead of them and attempt to take the issue. The uk is a small island that is smaller then states like Oregon and Washington here in the United states...It isn't the same as the Us or canada.

[firestar464]

Ok, is that you, Powers? I'm happy to see you back.

[wjfox]

Immigration seems to be one of the main reasons why the voting population of the uk wants reform. It makes sense in a electrol way to come out ahead of them and attempt to take the issue. The uk is a small island that is smaller then states like Oregon and Washington here in the United states...It isn't the same as the Us or canada.

Well, Starmer is facing a backlash today, with his "island of strangers" comment being compared to Enoch Powell's notorious speech. I'm seeing a ton of Labour supporters now questioning their loyalty to the party.

I myself am disgusted by some of what he said.

Starmer should move back to the centre-left, instead of pandering to the hard-right (who'll just vote for Reform anyway). Labour will lose many of its core supporters who'll shift to the Lib Dems and Greens. I predict either a hung Parliament or coalition in 2029.

[zzz]

Ok, is that you, Powers? I'm happy to see you back.

Yep.

[firestar464]

Hasan Piker detained at the border and questioned for hours over politics

https://www.usermag.co/p/hasan-piker-de ... mmigration

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[caltrek]

Universalism Versus Nihilism: The True Divide in American Politics
by Jason Tebbe
May 13, 2025

Introduction:

(Liberal Currents) Political discourse in the United States for the past quarter century has centered around narratives of polarization and a “red versus blue” divide. But every day in the second Trump administration seems to demolish conventional political wisdom, including those dynamics of polarization.

Recent weeks have featured a curious phenomenon: conservative commentators like David Brooks and William Kristol have issued calls for radical resistance to the Trump administration, with Brooks famously referencing the Communist Manifesto. Viewed through the red-blue prism this does not seem to make sense. How is it that lifelong Republicans are some of the pundits most vocally opposed to Trump?

The answer is that the current polarization is based less in political parties than in political values. The true battle being fought, in the US and elsewhere, is not left versus right but nihilism versus universalism. Trump and his ilk of populist nationalists do not believe in universal principles, the rule of law or human rights. Their worldview is rooted in the poles of blood and soil, and their one and only mission is to elevate the people like them and punish the people they have defined as enemies of their national project. There is no higher principle involved here whatsoever because they do not believe in anything other than getting what they want.

This nihilism gives Trump and his minions the freedom to try to overturn an election, pardon criminals, arrest judges, deport US citizens, impound money spent by Congress, jail students for political speech, and render immigrants to a Salvadoran gulag. They are so shameless in their nihilism that they sent the Secretary of Homeland Security to said gulag for a photo shoot. The president openly brags about his intentions to render American citizens to the gulags, too. They post supposed ASMR videos of immigrants shackled in chains because they want to proclaim their nihilism to the world, not hide it behind platitudes. What was once done under “night and fog” is performed for the cameras in broad daylight.

Read more here: https://www.liberalcurrents.com/univer ... olitics/

caltrek’s comment: To put it into terms introduced by this article, many conservatives have been led into embracing nihilism. They are no longer true conservatives yet continue to use that label to describe themselves. My wife has many friends who have absent mindedly made that conversion, at least in my opinion. One tactic that we on the left might consider trying is to point out the nature of that conversion as I don't think of these friends as being mean spirited at heart. At least not for the most part.

[firestar464]

[firestar464]

US Attorney condemns local attempts to obstruct ICE operations

https://www.boston25news.com/news/local ... ZDA5OGM2I/

Reminder to not attack ICE or give them any legal reason to have you detained. Just exercise your constitutional rights and stuff (and protest!) No more. Else they'll have an excuse to crack down

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Multiple Trump White House officials have ties to antisemitic extremists

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/14/nx-s1-53 ... tisemitism

[firestar464]

Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan files motion to dismiss federal charges

https://www.wisn.com/article/milwaukee- ... s/64771051

[firestar464]

NYT- U.S. Charges Russian Scientist with Smuggling

https://archive.ph/0qEdk

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Supreme Court rejects Trump bid to resume quick deportations of Venezuelans under 18th-century law

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/su ... r-AA1EVrO1

[Yuli Ban]

Kanye West belongs in a mental hospital. And anyone who praises Hitler should be forced to watch Schindler's List, and read The Diary of Anne Frank, to see what this monstrous ideology leads to.

People who praise Hitler think Schindler's List is propaganda and the Diary of Anne Frank is a forgery by her father. They wouldn't be moved in the slightest. Now, the whole thing imploding around them? That'll change minds.