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7thSignSoul's avatar

Sorry, i admire your work but her DEAFENING SILENCE during NaziBidenzRegime HAS to earn THIS "Anti-Fascism" poser *AND* Jason Stanley, a place in the history books among the Hypocrites of the Decade Parade.

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Mark Taylor's avatar

I hear your point and even to a certain extent agree, though I am open to disagreement on individual arguments and stands. For example, I vehemently disagree with Tucker Carlson on most issues, but admire -- and post -- pieces where he properly calls out the US/Israel Zionazis genocide and neocon warhawks running the government and pushing us into more criminal wars.

Several months ago I read Alex Jones' two recent books and was shocked at the number of things he said that I agreed with.

The old rigid definitions of 'right' and 'left' are breaking down as the empire crumbles and the need for broadening alliances and listening to divergent views is necessary. Personally, while my values will not change, the means and alliances I make will as the circumstances demand.

One of the greatest handicaps of the American left is an expectation -- in many cases a rigid demand -- for philosophical purity. Voices are repeatedly exiled and smeared for the slightest deviation. The result has been a whittling away of the left and shattering of unity, paving the path for the fascists.

I'm simply not interested in or expect such purity. Given the fascism we are now immersed in, such purity is a luxury we can't afford. If I find another person and I agree on three of ten issues, unless there is some separate mitigating issue, I'm willing to align with them on the three and look for others to partner with on the other seven. That is what politics is about.

Just a note on Jason Stanley. He recently announced he and his family are moving to Canada for him to take a position at the University of Toronto. He cited his primary reason was for the safety of his two biracial children. Now, I DON'T know this, but I wonder if because of his high profile, his book specifically on fascism and what we are learning about spreading fascist terrorist threats to academics and the judiciary, if he may have been silent because of threats to his family. If -- and, again, I don't know -- that has been happening, nobody has the right to judge steps one has taken to protect their family.

Given what we all are facing, this is a time for the strength of the oak and the flexibility of bamboo.

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7thSignSoul's avatar

Same here on Carlson. His Matt Taibbi interview should compel a neutral-bias, BioPic film on the historical juxtaposition of man’s Russia : U.S. professional experiences!

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Mark Taylor's avatar

This video just popped up... "We’re Experts in Fascism. We’re Leaving the U.S." --

Legal residents of the United States sent to foreign prisons without due process. Students detained after voicing their opinions. Federal judges threatened with impeachment for ruling against the administration’s priorities.

In this Opinion video, Marci Shore, Timothy Snyder and Jason Stanley, all professors at Yale and experts in authoritarianism, explain why America is especially vulnerable to a democratic backsliding — and why they are leaving the United States to take up positions at the University of Toronto.

Professor Stanley is leaving the United States as an act of protest against the Trump administration’s attacks on civil liberties. “I want Americans to realize that this is a democratic emergency,” he said.

Professor Shore, who has spent two decades writing about the history of authoritarianism in Central and Eastern Europe, is leaving because of what she sees as the sharp regression of American democracy. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” she said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”

She borrows from political and apolitical Slavic motifs and expressions, arguing that the English language does not fully capture the democratic regression in this American moment.

Professor Snyder’s reasons are more complicated. Primarily, he’s leaving to support his wife, Professor Shore, and their children, and to teach at a large public university in Toronto, a place he says can host conversations about freedom. At the same time, he shares the concerns expressed by his colleagues and worries that those kinds of conversations will become ever harder to have in the United States.

“I did not leave Yale because of Donald Trump or because of Columbia or because of threats to Yale — but that would be a reasonable thing to do, and that is a decision that people will make,” he wrote in a Yale Daily News article explaining his decision to leave.

Their motives differ but their analysis is the same: ignoring or downplaying attacks on the rule of law, the courts and universities spells trouble for our democracy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXR9PByA9SY

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Baz's avatar

💯

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Orestes vasquez's avatar

I recently went scuba diving in Roatan, Honduras. I interacted extensively with the locals, probably 90 % are riled with Prospera. Fortunately, the leftist government revoked its charter endowed by the former narco-government of Juan Orlando Hernandez, who currently serves a 60 year jail sentence in New York on drug trafficking charges.

Prospera sued the Government of Honduras over $10 billion in the biased International Center for Settlement of International Investment Disputes, a third of the impoverished country’s GDP. Unfortunately, countries were bamboozled signing binding WTO agreements they didn’t understand . Fortunately, Trump has made the WTO irrelevant, but the libertarians are heavily lobbying the US Embassy, which is pressuring the government to live up to the unconstitutional charter.

LATAM is better off without USAID, as Evo in Bolivia and Correa in Ecuador proved when they rid USAID during their governments. Both countries reduced poverty to their lowest levels ever, while attaining their highest growth rates.

Why are locals upset? The great paying jobs went to expats, their mobility was restricted, obtaining necessary permits remains a burdensome procedure -an issue Prospera didn’t face-, the thuggish behavior of Prospera’s guards, using the island’s infrastructure tax free, the treatment of a native community in an attempt to expand its area, and others that escape me.

The libertarian paradise currently looks like a ghost town, some admin staff and the formerly “thuggish” guards remain. I pray the country is able to withstand the Embassy’s political pressure. If not, a load of migrants will end up in the US, regardless of the measures implemented by Trump and his corrupt cronies.

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Mark Taylor's avatar

Thanks for the report!

Between our corporate exploitation, CIA, and homegrown drug crisis, the immigration 'crisis' is completely 'MADE IN AMERICA'

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7thSignSoul's avatar

Libertarian is just another word for Fascist. In today's U.S. Global EconomicApartheid, typically TechnoFascist. It is a Crime Against Humanity that El Salvador's People were not better informed before celebrating their new DC-Backed, "Anti-Communist" OverLord.

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7thSignSoul's avatar

US Lifts Ban On Neo-Nazi Linked Azov Brigade In Ukraine

“After thorough review, Ukraine’s 12th Special Forces Azov Brigade passed Leahy vetting as carried out by the U.S. Department of State,” according to a statement by the Department

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/azov-ban-lifted/

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Mark Taylor's avatar

Yep, I'm familiar with the fascist history of the Ukraine tragedy.

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7thSignSoul's avatar

i know you are. However, too many BlueAnonz are not. And these NewsNight stories were buried by the algorithm, during BidenzReign. So, for all those facing Demz adamant claims that Biden and the Demz are NOT the fascists that Trump’s Administration is, it is incumbent on those who DO know to review and present the historical evidence that proves this propaganda washed POV a product of Fascist Engineering.

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Mark Taylor's avatar

Agreed. I have tried to be clear on that through my writing and political art since the beginning and throughout the US/Israel genocide I Gaza and the West Bank and now Lebanon, Syria, Yemen etc..

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7thSignSoul's avatar

🔥🙏🏽🔥 We Thank You for your stand for Liberty and Justice for All 🔥🙏🏽🔥

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Mark Taylor's avatar

Thanks.

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7thSignSoul's avatar

The topic is pernicious failure to call out the fascism of Biden and U.S. Dems.

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7thSignSoul's avatar

bbc NewsNight

➖NeoNazi Threat in New Ukraine

https://youtu.be/5SBo0akeDMY?si=Pv7erc9htiL3Zdk7

➖Snipers At Maidan: The Untold Story of Massacre in Ukraine

https://youtu.be/mJhJ6hks0Jg?si=NNvm8OeFsCoymu3w

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Baz's avatar
May 19Edited

Why so angry Seven? I thought she’d been consistently critical of Israel throughout this - in fact hasn’t she been banned from entering Israel? There are probably more worthy targets.

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JennyStokes's avatar

Most of what Naomi Klein has to say is about the USA in my opinion. I think she may be right because exactly what 'culture' is there in the USA.

Other Countries have been around for 1000's of years. Ain't going to happen to them.

There are different 'belief' systems all over the world.

Education is the problem with the USA.

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Thomas Balistrieri, Ed.D.'s avatar

I’m still stuck on the Telegram ‘72 Virgins’. If that isn’t evil then nothing is…

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