How could anyone possibly justify these horrors? #Race. Discourses of #whitesupremacy & #racial #hierarchy were fabricated by the #European ruling classes to dehumanize the majority world, hiving them off from the realm of rights, ...
#Politics#Democrats#Republicans#Liberals#Conservatives#Vote#Election#DemocraticParty#RepublicanParty#DonaldTrump#Trump #JDVance#JoeBiden#Biden#KamalaHarris#TimWalz#Democracy#USA#Musk#Fascism#Fascist#BernieSanders#AOC#FraudSquad#Progressive
"Trump has inserted himself into just about every aspect of American life — beyond politics and governance. He is staging a cultural revolution reminiscent of the one in China in the 1960s and ‘70s that destroyed much of the country’s heritage and suppressed intellectual thought."
~ Dan Rather
#Trump#Republicans #authoritarianism #fascism#WhiteSupremacy #patriarchy#MaleEntitlement
/6
Trump wants to fundamentally change the culture of our country to reflect not America as it is today, but as it once was, controlled by an old, white, conservative patriarchy. …
He is using the power of the presidency to rewrite American history and destroy our culture as we have known it — and remake the nation in his sordid image."
#Trump#Republicans #authoritarianism #fascism#WhiteSupremacy #patriarchy#MaleEntitlement
/7
Trump wants to fundamentally change the culture of our country to reflect not America as it is today, but as it once was, controlled by an old, white, conservative patriarchy. …
He is using the power of the presidency to rewrite American history and destroy our culture as we have known it — and remake the nation in his sordid image."
#Trump#Republicans #authoritarianism #fascism#WhiteSupremacy #patriarchy#MaleEntitlement
/7
"Trump has inserted himself into just about every aspect of American life — beyond politics and governance. He is staging a cultural revolution reminiscent of the one in China in the 1960s and ‘70s that destroyed much of the country’s heritage and suppressed intellectual thought."
~ Dan Rather
#Trump#Republicans #authoritarianism #fascism#WhiteSupremacy #patriarchy#MaleEntitlement
/6
This right here. Taking hundreds and hundreds of unique and distinctive peoples and lumping them all together as "white people" erases their unique and distinctive histories, geographies, languages, and cultures. The irony is that the people proclaiming "white pride" and advocating for "white nationalism" (by which they always really mean white supremacy) actually harms the peoples and cultures they claim to care so goddamn much about, by wiping out the valuable distinctions and uniqueness of each of those peoples and cultures.
#whiteness, #whitefolk, #whitenationalism, #whitepride, #whitesupremacy
This right here. Taking hundreds and hundreds of unique and distinctive peoples and lumping them all together as "white people" erases their unique and distinctive histories, geographies, languages, and cultures. The irony is that the people proclaiming "white pride" and advocating for "white nationalism" (by which they always really mean white supremacy) actually harms the peoples and cultures they claim to care so goddamn much about, by wiping out the valuable distinctions and uniqueness of each of those peoples and cultures.
#whiteness, #whitefolk, #whitenationalism, #whitepride, #whitesupremacy
"Today, this explains why red state legislators can continue to focus on oppressing women and LGBTQ+ people instead of improving conditions for their states’ residents, while the poorest whites among them continue to re-elect them."
#Trump #sadopopulism #cruelty #fascism#Confederacy#WhiteSupremacy #homophobia#MaleEntitlement
/21
Jay Kuo asks why Trump constantly inflicts pain on his own followers and why they love him for it. He points to Timothy Snyder's term "sadopopulism,” "a terrifying but winning strategy if it isn’t addressed head-on and stopped in its tracks."
#Trump #sadopopulism #cruelty #fascism#Confederacy#WhiteSupremacy
/15
https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/trump-sadopopulism-ice-maga
"And when you zoom out a bit, you see that the entire Confederacy, and even the post-Civil War era of Jim Crow in the South, was built upon sadopopulism. It explains the public torture and lynchings of Black citizens while whites looked on with their children in tow, as if attending a happy social gathering."
#Trump #sadopopulism #cruelty #fascism#Confederacy#WhiteSupremacy #homophobia#MaleEntitlement
/19
"Today, this explains why red state legislators can continue to focus on oppressing women and LGBTQ+ people instead of improving conditions for their states’ residents, while the poorest whites among them continue to re-elect them."
#Trump #sadopopulism #cruelty #fascism#Confederacy#WhiteSupremacy #homophobia#MaleEntitlement
/21
"And when you zoom out a bit, you see that the entire Confederacy, and even the post-Civil War era of Jim Crow in the South, was built upon sadopopulism. It explains the public torture and lynchings of Black citizens while whites looked on with their children in tow, as if attending a happy social gathering."
#Trump #sadopopulism #cruelty #fascism#Confederacy#WhiteSupremacy #homophobia#MaleEntitlement
/19
"It explains how rich property owners in the South could continue to justify massive wealth inequality while dire poverty persisted in those states. The problem wasn’t the oligarchs; it was the Blacks, so the narrative went."
#Trump #sadopopulism #cruelty #fascism#Confederacy#WhiteSupremacy #homophobia#MaleEntitlement
/20
"And when you zoom out a bit, you see that the entire Confederacy, and even the post-Civil War era of Jim Crow in the South, was built upon sadopopulism. It explains the public torture and lynchings of Black citizens while whites looked on with their children in tow, as if attending a happy social gathering."
#Trump #sadopopulism #cruelty #fascism#Confederacy#WhiteSupremacy #homophobia#MaleEntitlement
/19
"It’s all encompassing and all powerful, and you just want so badly for it to harm others more than you. So instead of thinking about how we all might prosper together in the future, Trump would see us cast into different competing groups, fighting over scraps, trying to feel less relative pain."
#Trump #sadopopulism #cruelty #fascism#Confederacy#WhiteSupremacy #homophobia#MaleEntitlement
/18
"If Trump can successfully make people ignore what is actually happening and focus instead on long-held divisions and resentments, then his voters could find solace knowing that at least they are better off than them.
And the government? Trump wants people to understand that it inflicts pain. It makes you hurt."
#Trump #sadopopulism #cruelty #fascism#Confederacy#WhiteSupremacy #homophobia#MaleEntitlement
/17
"If you teach people that life is full of pain and grievance, Snyder argues, then at least Trump’s voters have the consolation that they are not suffering as badly as immigrants, minorities and queer people. And that, it turns out, is a powerful motivator."
#Trump #sadopopulism #cruelty #fascism#Confederacy#WhiteSupremacy #homophobia#MaleEntitlement
/16
Jay Kuo asks why Trump constantly inflicts pain on his own followers and why they love him for it. He points to Timothy Snyder's term "sadopopulism,” "a terrifying but winning strategy if it isn’t addressed head-on and stopped in its tracks."
#Trump #sadopopulism #cruelty #fascism#Confederacy#WhiteSupremacy
/15
https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/trump-sadopopulism-ice-maga
"It’s an especially striking counterpoint to President Biden, who credited Black women with his 2020 victory and made a point of breaking the glass ceiling for them during his presidency with the appointments of people like Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court and Cook to the Federal Reserve Board."
#Trump#Republicans#Texas#Misssissippi#WhiteSupremacy #gerrymandering #redistricting #racism #slavery
/14
"I usually cast President Trump’s anti-immigrant mass deportation agenda as a rule of law story. But it is of course so much more than that. It is fundamentally a story about racism, xenophobia, and othering. It’s about preying on our fears, differences, and prejudices to create a villainous foe whom he can easily vanquish in repeated set-pieces."
~ David Kurtz
#Trump#Republicans#MAGA#WhiteSupremacy #racism
/1
https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/trump-pushes-white-nationalist-agenda
Some things to know if you want to apply (you can't just buy — you have to apply!) for membership in this all-white enclave in small-town Arkansas:
1. You MUST be all-white (or you must imagine you're all white).
2. You MUST prove you're all-white by filling out a questionnaire about your ancestry and, if asked, by providing photos of your relatives.
Did I forget to mention the other important point as you try to qualify for membership in Return to the Land? You MUST be Christian — you MUST be a white Christian!
No one else need apply.
P.S. This is EXACTLY what the Nazis did in their reign of terror, demanding that people have proof of their pure Aryan ancestry generations back on hand when asked by the authorities to show that proof.
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