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You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.
By Janus Rose | Feb 5, 2025 at 11:47 AM
https://www.404media.co/you-cant-post-your-way-out-of-fascism/
If there’s one thing I’d hoped people had learned going into the next four years of Donald Trump as president, it’s that spending lots of time online posting about what people in power are saying and doing is not going to accomplish anything. If anything, it’s exactly what they want.
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We don’t need any more irony-poisoned hot takes or cathartic, irreverent snark. We need to collectively decide what kind of world we actually do want, and what we’re willing to do to achieve it.
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Over a hundred Indian nationals were deported from the US on a costly military flight. The operation underscored the Trump administration's commitment to cracking down on illegal immigration, with each deportee's journey amounting to over $10,000 due to the high cost of military transport.
The flight, a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III, landed in Amritsar on Wednesday with 104 deportees aboard. The C-17 aircraft is a US military transport plane that is significantly more expensive than both first-class and chartered flights typically used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for deportations.
Military flights are considerably more expensive than civilian ones. According to documents released by the US Air Mobility Command, the cost of operating a C-17 aircraft for transport is $28,562 per flight hour. After more than 43 hours in the air, the flight landed at Amritsar Airport.
The total cost of the flight, factoring in the return journey to a US air base, is estimated to be over $1 million, or more than $10,000 per detainee. By contrast, a commercial one-way ticket from San Francisco to New Delhi typically costs around $500, or $4,000 for business class.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/donald-trumps-deportation
-push-how-much-did-it-cost-us-to-deport-104-indians/articleshow/118008634.cms
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Autogolpe
What’s really happening beneath the Musk/Trump chaos
By Paul Krugman | Feb 07, 2025
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/autogolpe
For those writing or talking about what’s happening, it is important not to get distracted by Trump’s bright, shiny objects. No, Trump isn’t going to take over Gaza, annex Canada, try to retake the Panama Canal or seize Greenland. Trump’s bizarre announcements are a distraction.
Until a few days ago I thought a gratuitous trade war would actually happen, since tariffs have been a Trump obsession for decades. But his ignominious climbdown over tariffs on Canada and Mexico suggests that I may have taken the distraction all too seriously.
The alliance between Musk and Trump, two men with giant but obviously fragile egos, could break down. Musk’s meddling at Treasury and the assault on federal workers may lead to some highly visible disasters. Voters may eventually realize that Trump’s claims of success are smoke and mirrors and wonder what happened to his promise to make groceries cheaper. And at some point the American people may notice that Russell Vought, the father of the immensely unpopular Project 2025, is actually making policy.
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Donald Trump campaigned against consensual reality and won. Every plank of his platform – from the economy to immigration to abortion – was based on easily provable lies.
Despite Trump’s bombastic assertions to the contrary, inflation is down, growth is up, illegal border crossings are down, crime is down, and vaccines work great. Tariffs are taxes on imports and American companies say they’re planning to raise prices.
Delusion strongly predicted a vote for Trump. An Ipsos poll in the final weeks of the campaign found that voters who falsely believed that we are living through a record-breaking violent crime wave favored Trump by 26 points, while those who knew the truth broke for Harris by 65 points. Those who knew that the inflation rate is back to the historic average favored Harris by 53 points. Respondents who knew that illegal border crossings are down favored Harris by 59 points.
CBS correspondent Leslie Stahl once asked Donald Trump why he constantly attacked the press. “I do it to discredit you all and demean you all so when you write negative stories about me, no one will believe you,” Trump replied.
Trump also discredits the government as a source of information. When the latest statistics showed that crime was down, Trump accused the FBI of making them up. When the jobs report was revised, Trump accused Harris of faking it.
Trump’s followers reinterpret his 34 felony convictions as evidence of the plot against him, rather than evidence of his terrible behavior.
Once you dismiss any evidence that clashes with your prejudices as part of the conspiracy, you are free to create your own reality.
This is why social scientists have been warning about the link between conspiracism and totalitarianism for a century. Care for an example? There was never any evidence that the Jews secretly controlled the world – but it didn't matter because lack of evidence was proof that the Jews controlled the press, and the universities, and science and the arts. Jews in pre-war Germany didn't control any of those things – but no evidence to the contrary could penetrate the conspiracy theory. And the complete absence of evidence for their hegemony was just proof of Jewish total domination of Germany.
If everything you don't like becomes evidence of your opponent's plot to destroy you, you can't discuss anything rationally. Care for a more recent example than Nazi Germany? Human-caused climate change is a fact. But conspiracism takes the debate out of the realm of evidence and into the realm of character assassination of scientists and their supporters. It paints them as hoaxers and saboteurs. Vaccines have saved hundreds of millions of lives, but instead of debating their merits based on evidence, anti-vaxers portray their opponents as agents of a nefarious coverup to kill children. And it's completely irrefutable within their conceptual framework. When scientists or the government or journalists come forward with evidence that vaccines save millions of lives and prevent untold suffering, the conspiracist answer is: Well, that's what conspirators to kill our children would say.
https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/the-one-belief-that-predi
cted-trump-voters-with-scary-accuracy/
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Law Professor Flags Trump 'Doomsday Scenario' That'll Cause 'Real Constitutional Crisis'
"A lot of lawyers are worried about" it, warned New York University's Ryan Goodman.
By Lee Moran | Feb 7, 2025, 03:49 AM EST
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/law-professor-donald-trump-doomsday-sce
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What happens if Donald Trump decides he will not abide by a court ruling?
Simmons suggested “we’re in a real jam” if Trump simply tells the Justice Department to ignore any court orders that prohibit him from carrying out his agenda.
Goodman agreed.
“That’s right. I think that is the doomsday scenario,” he reiterated.
Goodman pointed out that it “hasn’t happened yet” that the Trump administration has refused to abide by a court order, despite it possibly appearing to some people that they are.
“But what happens come the day that they do lose at the Supreme Court?” he asked. “Because I think some of these cases are just losers. And if they really want to push it, we’re in a real constitutional crisis.”
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Co-President Elon Musk's Tesla is having sales trouble in Germany because of his Nazi salutes -- "Sieg Heil, mein Führer Trump!" (We are not Nazis say Nazi Trumptards)
In January of 2025, only 1,277 new Teslas were registered in Germany, according to the German Federal Motor Transport Authority. This marks a 59.5% drop in sales from January of 2024. However, the German EV market has grown over 50% year after year. As a result, Tesla's market share dropped from 14% to 4% in the country containing the company's only European manufacturing plant, reported Financial Times.
Tesla owners in Germany are reportedly attempting to distance themselves from Musk as much as possible, with one artist and designer becoming overwhelmed with orders for a bumper sticker he created reading, "I bought this before Elon went crazy." The designer, who is from the south-west state of Baden-Württemberg, said he received 2,000 orders for the sticker in one weekend.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/tesla-sales-plummet-as-experts-bl
ame-musk-s-government-overhaul/ar-AA1yxQwu
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Co-President Elon Musk's Tesla is having sales trouble in Germany because of his Nazi salutes -- "Sieg Heil, mein Führer Trump!" (We are not Nazis say Nazi Trumptards)
In January of 2025, only 1,277 new Teslas were registered in Germany, according to the German Federal Motor Transport Authority. This marks a 59.5% drop in sales from January of 2024. However, the German EV market has grown over 50% year after year. As a result, Tesla's market share dropped from 14% to 4% in the country containing the company's only European manufacturing plant, reported Financial Times.
Tesla owners in Germany are reportedly attempting to distance themselves from Musk as much as possible, with one artist and designer becoming overwhelmed with orders for a bumper sticker he created reading, "I bought this before Elon went crazy." The designer, who is from the south-west state of Baden-Württemberg, said he received 2,000 orders for the sticker in one weekend.
Yeah. There's a lot of woke and white guilt still in Germany.
We'll fix them.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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I wonder how much USAID money people like Kevin Drum have been getting.
I wonder how much longer people like Kevin Drum will be making his brainless little graphs for his brainlet readers when he's not being paid to do so anymore?
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Quote:6ixStringJack, you are on Medicaid for diabetes and your little brother is receiving SSI after being dropped on his head by a bipolar mommy -- wasteful Federal spending. https://www.ssa.gov/ssi
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I wonder how much USAID money people like Kevin Drum have been getting.
I wonder how much longer people like Kevin Drum will be making his brainless little graphs for his brainlet readers when he's not being paid to do so anymore?
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
Meanwhile, Kevin Drum got rich by working, unlike the angry poor white trash who are Trumptards. All the Trumptards I know tell me they are very important people who are entitled to success in America despite being without achievements. No Trumptard is entitled to better than being kicked in the head. Not long ago, America was more than the sum of its parts. Now, it is less. Around World War II, we were proud as a people but modest as individuals. Fewer than two people in ten said yes when asked, Are you a very important person? Today, more than six in ten say yes. All Trumptards say yes. Where we once thought ourselves collectively strong, we now regard ourselves as individually entitled.
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The difference between Kevin Drum(you) and I is that I don't live my life complaining about everything. People actually enjoy my company.
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