#Rising fascism

[miniar]

Wanna look at another nation's political situation and go "wow, I guess it could be worse" Iceland edition?

any of you remember a while back when I talked about how our minister of finance eventually responded to the backlash after selling parts of a nationalized bank to his own father by "resigning" his position as the minister of finance....

... by becoming our foreign minister, in which position he promptly revealed to the world that he has no idea what was going on at all, was completely incompetent and unprepared and then followed that all up by refusing to follow through Iceland's already granted asylum to Palestinian refugees until the parliament agreed to whatever legislative changes he wanted?

Well... he's not our foreign minister any more.

You see... this year is presidential election season (WAIT FOR IT!). The President of Iceland doesn't have a lot of formal political power, but is often a beloved figurehead.

The highest political power in Iceland is the prime minister.

The leader of the (so-called) left-green party that formed the coalition government with the independence party which is lead by the aforementioned former minister of finance and now former foreign minister, has just resigned her position as prime minister of Iceland... to run for president.

As a result, that chair was left vacant.

Want to guess who's our current prime minister?

Yes, it's Björn Bjarnarsson. A man who's been involved in about 30 or so scandals, each one of the sort that would lead to the permanent disappearance from politics in any vaguely functional democratic nation that had any sense of propriety or dignity.

And you wanna guess what one of the first fucking things he did was?

Appear on television and blame asylum seekers for how he and his party have systematically underfunded Icelandic infrastructure of Every Kind for Decades.

...

on a slightly more positive note... there's a petition making the rounds wherein over 10% of the voting population has signed a statement objecting to him being the PM... not that he's actually going to acknowledge that petition nor do anything about it...

This country is so much more fucked than any of you have any idea.

#Iceland #Icelandic politics #Fascism #Rising fascism #This fucker is a fascist #He's also just an average member of his party

[inspectorspacetimerevisited]

Is the world going to Hell in a handcart?

Expect that to be reflected by the programme at some point.

#Inspector Spacetime #The Obelisk at the Beginning of the Earth (episode) #going to hell #going to hell in a handcart #rising fascism #expect that to be reflected #by the programme #it shows up time and again #Crapsack World (trope) #Crapsack World

[freedom-in-truth]

News: US police attack peaceful Jewish and allied vigil for Gaza

US police throw Jews down stairs, interrupting their peaceful candlelight vigil

Have you called your reps yet?

#usa #american #jewish #the us #social justice #jews for palestine #jewish voice for peace #jewsforpalestine #jews of tumblr #freepalastine🇵🇸 #free palestine #gaza #israel #israel is committing genocide #gazaunderattack #protest #palestine solidarity #solidarity #rise of fascism #fascism #call your reps #free gaza #palestine #jewblr

[miraculouslumination]

If you're in 2023 still thinking that labels like pansexual (and other mspec labels), asexual, aromantic, any aspec label, any xenogender, any neogender, anything MOGAI, mspec lesbians/gays, transmasc lesbians, transfem gays, and any other micro label is somehow encroaching on your identity and community

Then I'm sorry but you seriously just need to get over yourself

People are just trying to exist and live like you and I. If that offends you, then the only problem here is you

#Jean mumbles #Inclusionist #Radical Inclusionist #Queer #MOGAI #Just let people live #I can promise you that literally once you stop caring so much about why people are who they are #Your life will become better #And you can actually point that anger towards the fascism on the rise #Not to the person next to you

[tempesthreads]

:)

#ninjago #ninjago dragons rising #dragons rising #sora ninjago #tempest draws #i didn't get to draw anything ninjago yesterday so i'm making up for it with this. #this has probably been done before but whatever here's my version of sora saying 'fuck fascism'

[dagwolf]

"According to the Moms for Liberty website, the group now has over 265 chapters in 43 states with a total membership of over 110,000. As the maps from the group’s website shows, the movement is strongest in its home state of Florida, but it is clear that Moms for Liberty is now very much a national organization, with dozens of chapters in blue states like New York and California.

In Pennsylvania, the leader of a local Moms for Liberty chapter allegedly hijacked a dead woman’s Facebook page to harass her enemies, including using the N-word and saying they should hang from a noose. In Arkansas, the head of communications of the Lonoke County chapter said that librarians should be 'plowed down with a freaking gun.' In Chattanooga, Tennessee, a member of a local Moms for Liberty chapter harassed an opposing group, threatened to report them for child abuse, and called them 'pedophile sympathizers.' In Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, police had to be called to a school board meeting after members of Moms for Liberty accused attendees of being 'groomers' and wanting to show explicit pictures to children. In Charleston, South Carolina, a Moms for Liberty-affiliated member of the local school board publicly stated he would show up at his son’s teacher’s doorstep with a gun if the teacher came out as transgender."

#fascism on the rise

[profeminist]

READ THIS THREAD AND SHARE - I EXCERPTED THE KEY POINTS ABOVE

#fascism #us fascism #fascism rising #anti fascist #antifa #democracy #fall of democracy #u.s. coup #politics #right wing #scotus

[arctic-hands]

I also don't mind the aesthetics of the early new millennium coming back (it's literally only been three years since I was finally able to get my hair to part down the center in a straight line and not the zigzag I had since I was ten, and that was only because I buzzed my hair off) but like goddamn the most important thing young people need to know about those years after:

post-Nine Eleven hysteria and the rampant Islamophobia that bled into general xenophobia for anyone not a white immigrant from non-France western Europe

on that note, "freedom fries"

the begining of a twenty year war and bush enacting the "Invade The Hague" Act to cover his ass weeks before the unlawful invasion of Iraq

the designated "free speech zones" that to my knowledge the adults at the time didn't protest against and just let happen

The avoidable deaths by neglect during Katrina and the flat out eugenics at Memorial Hospital that went unpunished (this was mentioned by @penis-keeper before me, but it needs to be repeated and the knowledge spread around)

Queerphobia so normalized that PSA's had to go out to stop people from saying "that's gay" at every inconvenience or bad things that happened to them

is that bush's vice president dick cheney (sp? I've completely forgotten how to spell his last name) while in office once shot a guy in the face and then the guy he shot in the face apologized to dick for it and dick went unpenalized

#2000s nostalgia #bush years #i genuinely like the music i grew up with but goddamn i was 8 when 9/11 happened and even i saw the rise of fascism that came after it #dick cheney

[dissociatingdumbass]

The Portuguese people as a whole is stupid...

And I'm saying this as someone who IS Portuguese!

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the revolution of the 25th of April...

And we just elected a far right coalition... Make no mistake. This is Far Right.

This is not just PSD and their "light" type of Right — which still harmed people when they were in government.

It's a coalition that will need to join forces with the most absolute fascist party we have!

My parents fought for liberty because they lived through a tyrannical, fascist regime.

There was political imprisonment, torture, death, a colonial war, censorship, fear...

But I guess the majority of people have decided to get collective amnesia, because the fascist party got 3rd place.

Schools don't teach in depth about ww2 and our regime under Salazar and the PIDE. And the result is this...

Y'ALL VOTED FOR PEOPLE PROMISING TO CLEANSE THE COUNTRY!!!

YOU KNOW THAT'S A FUCKING FASCIST DOG WHISTLE RIGHT?!?

I'm feeling defeated and hopeless.

And for the first time in my lifetime actually afraid. For me, but mostly for my sons.

I wish this was just a nightmare... I truly do....

#probably going offline for the rest of the day until I calm myself down #portugal #politics #the rise of fascism I guess... #we're all truly fucked

[robotpussy]

i genuinely believe fascism and anti intellectualism go hand in hand

#considering that fascism is here and alive right now (not just a rise) like idk

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

𝔑𝔞𝔭𝔞𝔩𝔪 𝔇𝔢𝔞𝔱𝔥 - ℜ𝔦𝔰𝔢 𝔄𝔟𝔬𝔳𝔢

#Napalm Death #Mentally Murdered #Rise Above #Release date: #August 29th #1989 #EP #Grindcore/Death Metal #Themes: #Political unrest #Hate #Anti-fascism #Social issues #UK

[perpetuallyfive]

what moving forward really looks like

I’ve seen some discussions of g witch that seem to focus on the idea that in a capitalist hellscape with fascist undertones around every corner, there can’t be objective morality, so who can say what actions are truly good or bad.

And while I do think the show rejects overly binary thinking, it seems to me that the idea that your past mistakes aren’t really mistakes because you had no other choices goes entirely against the point it is making more overtly week to week. The show doesn’t want to engage in really simplistic moralizing of “this was a bad thing so this is an innately bad person.” I agree with that.

However, I do think the show wants to make the point that even in the worst circumstances, in a truly horrific world surrounded by relentless destruction, it’s possible to make your own choices for yourself that work toward being better and doing good, no matter what you may have done or experience before. That objective good can exist and is worth striving for, despite the horror around you, despite the murkiness in charting that course.

This episode both Miorine and Suletta model the idea that in order to truly move forward you must accept your past. A focus on revenge can keep you looking back but so can self-flagellation. If you become overly consumed with guilt, you won’t move beyond the mistakes you regret, which makes the remorse more selfish than productive. In order to grow, in order to do anything right, you have to accept the responsibility of your mistakes but you also very literally have to move beyond them.

Likewise, you have to learn to accept your pain, the things that have deeply hurt you, and you have to want to move past that pain in order to be anything more than an accumulation of agonies. Prospera’s quest for revenge is a motivation entirely derived from her past. Every time she “moves forward” she is actually looking back, focused forever on her own pain. That’s why the daughter in the machine — the child who never got to grow up — is more real to her than the one she has raised into her teenage years. Because those were years Eri never experienced, that is a truth the past her never knew.

Suletta’s accomplishments and chances for a happy and successful life — not to mention the objective good they could do as GUND-ARM, Inc. — is all secondary to the memory of her dead daughter forever stuck as data that can’t grow up, can’t move on. Both Eri and Prospera are stuck 21 years in the past, unable to mature or change or evolve. She doesn’t know how to change course, because to her that would would mean letting go; it would be a betrayal.

But Suletta demonstrates an ability to acknowledge where you came from, what you have experienced, how it has shaped you, and to still make choices of your own beyond that, to still chart her own path. In these last several episodes, Suletta has chosen to move beyond her regrets and anxieties and accept that all the things that have happened have made her the person who is here ready to take her next steps forward, where truly the only thing she is guaranteed to gain — in spite of all she risks — is growth.

Even though she thinks she learned the idea of moving forward from her mother, it’s very clear that Suletta has actually learned a more tangible way to gain two by actually learning to change and to grow. I’m not sure a more stark example of “do as I say, not as I do” has ever really existed.

#g witch spoilers #g witch #the witch from mercury #the witch from mercury spoilers #suletta mercury #and don't get me wrong i can see why people would feel like there's futility in doing ''good'' when the capitalists and the fascists #still seem to be winning #and desire to do good doesn't always result in succeeding and sometimes makes things worse #so it's easy to say that the clear intended message is that doing good is meaningless #but that idea is firmly rejected by the show's protagonist in the middle of her arc toward clear character growth #so it just doesn't seem like that's the direction the text intends? even if our impulses might lean us that way. #it really feels like they're trying to say there is hope in trying even in the face of hopelessness #and in our own capitalist hellscape with fascism on the rise i do think it actually matters to believe in the capacity to still do good #instead of throwing up our hands and saying none of it matters anymore

[prettyboysdontlookatexplosions]

the thing is i AM gonna take a break from this particular internet vice of mine but when i was considering it recently i was like….. ok but simply speaking realistically i’m not gonna do that before the album drops. i’m just not. i’m not gonna walk out of the explosions movie right before the last big action scene, y’know? so, in the meantime: This.

#it’s the ‘obvious’ that makes it #as well as the idea that taylor has spent even five minutes of her life contemplating the rise of fascism in interwar europe #i find it more convincing that taylor is gay than that taylor has ever read a book that wasn’t gone girl

[villainessbian]

This very week, in a vote about passing a law that would make France recognise that it deported Queer people during WW2, and make illegal any historic revisionism about the real and documented deportation and mistreatment of Queer people by the Nazis and Nazi-aligned Vichy régime, and require compensation for what the French régime did to Queer people during WWZ...

The French Senate voted with a wide majority that compensation would not be required. The French Senate voted that historic revisionism - that is, denying the reality of part of the genocidal acts conducted by Nazi Germany and the Vichy régime - would not be illegal as long as it was about Queers. The French Senate voted that the actions of the Vichy régime would not be acknowledged at all, only taking into account anything that happened after 1945.

The French Senate voted in favour of defending Nazi actions against Queer people. The French Senate voted in favour of letting people rewrite history around the Nazis and their allies as long as the victime are Queer. The French Senate voted in favour of Queer genocide.

France is not the only country where things are turning wrong. But this is one of the signs that should alarm you, wherever you are. One of the countries that pays the most attention to saying "there's the history and there's what we became," one of the countries with the biggest self-congratulatory streaks of being about Human Rights and International Law and Equality and the shining light of the Enlightenment and Liberal Democracy... voted, this week, that Queers are fair game for fascists to eliminate, and the country would turn a blind eye, fail to condemn it, never acknowledge that any of its tools were used.

#lgbt #lgbt+ #lgbtqia #politics #rise of fascism #homophobia #queerphobia #transphobia #lesbophobia #europe

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

A Letter from the Editor in Chief of the Cleveland Plain Dealer: The facts involving Trump are crystal clear, and as news people, we cannot pretend otherwise, as unpopular as that might be with a segment of our readers. There aren’t two sides to facts. People who say the earth is flat don’t get space on our platforms. If that offends them, so be it. As for those who equate Trump and Joe Biden, that’s false equivalency. Biden has done nothing remotely close to the egregious, anti-American acts of Trump. We can debate the success and mindset of our current president, as we have about most presidents in our lifetimes, but Biden was never a threat to our democracy. Trump is. He is unique among all American presidents for his efforts to keep power at any cost.

Personally, I find it hard to understand how Americans who take pride in our system of government support Trump. All those soldiers who died in World War II were fighting against the kind of regime Trump wants to create on our soil. How do they not see it? The March 25 edition of the New Yorker magazine offers some insight. It includes a detailed review of a new book about Adolf Hitler, focused on the year 1932. It’s called “Takeover: Hitler’s Final Rise to Power” and is by historian Timothy W. Ryback. It explains how German leaders – including some in the media -- thought they could use Hitler as a means to get power for themselves and were willing to look past his obvious deficiencies to get where they wanted. In tolerating and using Hitler as a means to an end, they helped create the monstrous dictator responsible for millions of deaths.

How are those German leaders different from people in Congress saying the election was stolen or that Jan. 6 was not an insurrection aimed at destroying our government? They know the truth, but they deny it. They see Trump as a means to an end – power for themselves and their “team” – even if it means repeatedly telling lies. Sadly, many believe the lies. They trust people in authority, without questioning the obvious discrepancies or relying on their own eyes. These are the people who take offense to the truths we tell about Trump. No one in our newsroom gets up in the morning wanting to make a segment of readers feel bad. No one seeks to demean anyone. We understand what a privilege it is to be welcomed into the lives of the millions of people who visit our platforms each month for news, sports and entertainment. But our duty is to the truth.

Our nation does seem to be slipping down the same slide that Germany did in the 1930s. Maybe the collapse of government in the hands of a madman is inevitable, given how the media landscape has been corrupted by partisans, as it was in 1930s Germany.

#democracy #both sides-ism #fascism #political #Cleveland Plain Dealer #rise of authoritariansim

[nyaskitten]

I love the heartfelt messages seen so far in Dragons Rising part 2, like that you shouldn't just back down against those oppressing and stealing from you and you should fight back, or that pranks can be fun but ONLY when they don't harm others, or that even if you screw up and do a bad job, that doesn't mean you'll always be bad! All you gotta do is try!!!

Also the message that even WITHOUT powers, you can still be strong (something that Crystalized clearly didn't get).

#also part one with the whole thing of imperium being undoubtedly evil #like no redeeming qualities #bc theres no redeeming qualities in fascism . which Imperium STRONGLY partakes in #ninjago #ninjago dragons rising #ninjago spoilers #ninjago dragons rising spoilers #raine's rambles