www.kanopy.com/video/10605157

Kanopy is likely FREE with your local library credentials

www.kanopy.com/video/184581

Conclusion: Authoritarian tools have been used continuously; only the aesthetics have changed. The framing and moralizing of economic mobility as "fleeing authoritarianism" easerases *our* history and centers privileged panic, not the live marginalized experience.
www.kanopy.com/video/124932

B. Problematic Comparisons

•Superimposing analogies from Nazi Germany or modern Russia.
•Use of terms like “liberal democracy” ignores the lived realities of the U.S. poor, disabled, undocumented, and racialized people.

CRITIQUE OF CURRENT FRAMING BY MEDIA/ACADEMIA

A. Alarmist Tone in Media

Titles like “The First Signs of Tyranny” and “Experts in Fascism Are Fleeing” suggest *novelty* or *foreignness*. Not "new" not "foreign ideology"

Early U.S. Examples

•Alien and Sedition Acts (1798): Silenced dissent, deported immigrants without trial.
•Fugitive Slave Act (1850): Authorized kidnapping of Black people without due process.

20th Century which is still *living memory*

•COINTELPRO (1956–1971): FBI targeted civil rights activists, used illegal surveillance, fomented violence.
•Red Squads: Local police intel units suppressing leftist organizing.

21st Century
•Patriot Act (2001–2015): Mass surveillance, secret courts, eroded civil liberties.
•ICE raids and deportation machinery: Expanded under Trump, used against citizens and non-citizens alike.
•Prison Industrial Complex: Systematic disenfranchisement and containment of marginalized people.

Quick example- I had an older lady today come in to pick up her prescription and it's not ready b/c we're waiting on a PA but she's like "no I already got approval" and she shows me a notification from her dr aaaaand it was discount card info. So can Netflix get right on that pls???

Correct the first thing that comes to my mind is the song by George Hamilton IV. With our electric grid the way it is, a data center is not even remotely the first thing that comes to mind

I'm less familar with "modern" music because my method of discovering new music is still radio and the occasional IG reel

My other favorite example of an artist who adapted with the changing music market is
youtu.be/Rc7_lCfbQP0?...
Who also did the novelty song
youtu.be/QSA-yHzkvP8?...

I was trying to use the example of Dion famous for this:
youtu.be/nFch8vH81ks?...
But I actually first heard this off my parents CDs
youtu.be/rwn8hIyiHvI?...
It took me an embarrassing amount of time to figure out it was the same artist