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Mudflat
@mudflat14.bsky.social
Grumpy old man
Vet, Pro-Democracy
Lover of the real world in the PNW
No soy fanático del fascismo.
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Please watch and rewatch this movie, in the U.S. Archives from the @usarmy.bsky.social #DontBeASucker a reminder of how the Nazis conned their country into becoming the cause of mass murder and all the other horrors that Nazis unleash. The lessons are true for the USA🇺🇸 , in 2025 youtu.be/vGAqYNFQdZ4
Don't Be a Sucker
YouTube video by US National Archives
youtu.be
March 23, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Portugese cartoonist Zez Vaz nails it.
February 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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In a real sense, US democracy has died’: how Trump is emulating Hungary’s Orbán
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘In a real sense, US democracy has died’: how Trump is emulating Hungary’s Orbán
Trump has moved to gut the federal government, fire critics and reward allies – a path similar to ‘would-be dictators’ like Orbán, experts say
www.theguardian.com
February 14, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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This is going to be EPIC: All your favorite Democratic creators (and a few huge surprise guests) are coming together for a MASSIVE zoom Tuesday.

This is going to be one of the most important conversations of the Trump presidency.

Will you repost and join us? 🧵
February 10, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Listen, Broligarchy is not some cute synonym for oligarchy. It's genuinely different & WAY more dangerous.

I'm a sociologist who's been studying the ultra-rich globally for 17 yrs, entering their world as an offshore wealth mgr. Published 2 books abt them.

🧵Broligarchs are distinct in 3 ways:
There’s a sort of Trump apologist, a relatively small but loud subset, who probably don’t realize or intend to be, but are so attached to a previous hyperbolic claim that they deny anything important changed.

-US was already an oligarchy
-US was already fascist
-Biden gave Israel a blank check
-Etc
November 15, 2024 at 9:01 PM
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February 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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“Let’s not doubt we are facing, as MLK said, ‘the fierce urgency of now.’ As he put it six decades ago, ‘This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.’ Our renewed defense of democracy starts now.”

www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-f...
Snapshot: Fascism Day One
Nazi salutes, pardons for violent criminals, threats of foreign invasion
www.americaamerica.news
January 22, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Who made this?
December 21, 2024 at 6:52 PM
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ABC News: Three former aides to Tulsi Gabbard said she regularly read and shared articles from the Russian news site RT, which the U.S. intelligence community characterized in 2017 as "the Kremlin's principal international propaganda outlet.”
December 5, 2024 at 3:44 PM
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November 29, 2024 at 3:54 AM
The Onion buys Infowars
Here’s Why I Decided To Buy ‘InfoWars’ — theonion.com/heres-why-i-...
Here’s Why I Decided To Buy ‘InfoWars’
Today we celebrate a new addition to the Global Tetrahedron LLC family of brands. And let me say, I really do see it as a family. Much like family members, our brands are abstract nodes of wealth, int...
theonion.com
November 17, 2024 at 4:20 PM