The official narrative is that Ukrainian government is illegitimate and ruled by Nazis, abd the country needs to be “liberated” from their rule.
Okay but we, over here on the good side of the sanity line, know that’s not true, right? It justifies nothing.
You mean like this sort of thing? I’m appalled at how easy it is for me to believe they’d go for something like this. 😁
“Bring in your documentation unsigned and tell them you used invisible ink. They have to accept it.”
Well, they are going to have to do everything perfectly. One screw up of any kind and for the next ten years every discussion of diversity or women in leadership positions is going to include a Republican saying, “Yeah, well just look at what they did to St. Paul.”
My rage wouldn’t let me finish the article. Fuck these fuckers, fuck everyone who votes for these fuckers, and fuck everyone who keeps trying to tell me we should just try to “understand” how Republicans got to where they are.
Never heard of them before myself. If we assume for the moment that they have accurately portrayed themselves on their website:
The American Iron Front is a network of Americans participating in direct action to counter the fascist and anti-democracy agenda perpetuated by groups and individuals in the United States. This agenda is being perpetuated by mainstream parties and fringe groups alike through misinformation, pseudo-patriotism, and weaponization of the law to disenfranchise voters, women, minorities, and those that oppose their bigoted agenda. They are actively recruiting in the cities and towns of America and radicalizing recruits online.
Our goal is to stand as a direct counterpoint to the nationalism of the alt-right and its corruption of American values by building solidarity, unity, and common defense of the Constitution.
https://www.ironfrontusa.org/about-us
Edit: Based on imagery alone (see wikipedia page), I would guess the organization is inspired by this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Front
The Iron Front (German: Eiserne Front) was a German paramilitary organization in the Weimar Republic which consisted of social democrats, trade unionists, and democratic socialists. Its main goal was to defend democratic socialism and liberal democracy against totalitarian ideologies on the far-right and far-left. The Iron Front chiefly opposed the Sturmabteilung (SA) wing of the Nazi Party and the Antifaschistische Aktion wing of the Communist Party of Germany.[1] Formally independent, it was intimately associated with the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). The Three Arrows, originally designed for the Iron Front, became a well-known social democratic symbol representing resistance against monarchism, Nazism, and Marxism-Leninism during the parliamentary elections in November 1932. The Three Arrows were later adopted by the SPD itself.[2]
It’s OK, he probably learned some quality life skills from the experience. /s
The Florida State Board of Education’s new standards includes controversial language about how “slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit,”
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is intensifying his efforts to de-emphasize racism in his state’s public school curriculum by arguing that some Black people benefited from being enslaved and defending his state’s new African American history standards that civil rights leaders and scholars say misrepresents centuries of U.S. reality.
“They’re probably going to show that some of the folks that eventually parlayed, you know, being a blacksmith into doing things later in life,” DeSantis said on Friday
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/22/desantis-slavery-curriculum/
It total, since 2013, MPV has recorded 12,318 police killings in the US,over 5,000 more deaths than all US military personnel killed in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen and other “war on terror” battlefields from October 2001 through October 2019, according to the Watson Institute at Brown University.
So, like usual, DRM only fucked the people trying to play by the rules.
Even if they’d been right - it’s not a justification for taking away peoples’ right to choose. I’ve made many decisions in my life that I regretted afterward, some irrevocable. (And at least one that I’m certain has a far greater than average regret rate) That’s NOT basis for making it illegal for me to make those decisions, and it’s for sure not justification for making it illegal for others to make those decisions.
Actually he only introduces this one, nearly everything is directly from the other folks I mentioned. (IIRC) He essentially platformed the organizers to release this information via podcast.
For anyone interested, this podcast miniseries from Robert Evans has a discussion of tactics and ethics from many of the folks who were the main organizers of the Portland protests in 2020. A large number of them are teenagers - to the point where they took steps to hid the kids’ identities for the podcast. Not a direct tie to the folks from the article I would guess, but very similar group.
It was a very interesting series, and (unsurprisingly) paints a very different picture of what went on in Portland in 2020 than police and magas try to claim.
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-uprising-a-guide-from-por-73255667/
As with any such podcast miniseries, this is best listened to in release order.
You could very well be right, but even if true it gives the lie to weeks of their excuses for how they have handled this so far.
Hey look, they CAN do something other than bomb the place into rubble and shoot everything that moves.
As long as they think fascism will only hurt the people they want hurt, they will go right along. By the time they realize their mistake it will be too late.
Why can’t Democrats just go full on Red Scare McCarthy on them?
Funny you mentioned that.
I’m sad to have recently discovered that a tech journalist from my youth (who I already knew had rightward leanings) has unironically called for the opposite version of this.
If there’s a surge of neo-McCarthyism I think unfortunately this is probably more how how it will look, IMO.
This systemic anti-Americanism is as un-American as can be. It’s time to consider bringing back HUAC. First of all, most of the documented abuses of HUAC were studied and are preventable. And even the abuses, which included the Hollywood blacklist, were over-rated, by today’s standards. I recall all the protests over HUAC that played on the nightly news. It was always nihilistic beatniks who did much of the protesting.
I am so glad that nothing I do in life will ever cause this problem to matter to me.
The way I was taught in school, the answer is clearly 1, but I did read the blog post and I understand why that’s actually ambiguous.
Fortunately, I don’t have to care, so will sleep well knowing the answer is 1, and that I’m as correct as anyone else. :-p
Good point and probably not, but I’m too lazy to look right now.
Edited to add: Presumably same editorial team, so the seeming dissonance between the two articles isn’t lessened much by having different authors.
Same paper that just ran the “Women should stop shunning Trump supporters in their dating pool” article. I guess that’s so they’ll be less likely to abused under the pending dictatorship?
Maybe there are some of those people. I still doubt they (or anyone voting for him) is going to be swayed by his use of the N-word.