Germany's claim to have reckoned with its racial supremacist past is fraudulent, proven by decades of supporting fascist regimes.

Esad Širbegović: https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/germany-support-israel-far-right-alliances-shatters-denazified-facade

@badastro
I stopped reading at "A team of astronomers at the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology examined".

If you're wondering why the pundit class and the mainstream media organizations that employ them have been so tepid in their criticism of Trump, so unwilling to name the fascist beast and draw the logical conclusions the regime's actions imply, perhaps it's because they know they've been complicit in this fascist nightmare? As Joan Westenberg notes in this brilliant March 15th drag out piece, the normalization of the fascist ideology the Trump regime is running on now has many fathers in American society, and not all of them are folks who'd want to be known as supporters of MAGA fascism; but that's precisely the role they've served, for personal gain:

https://www.theindex.media/the-pundit-class-played-devils-advocate-now-the-devils-at-the-door/

The Pundit Class Played Devil’s Advocate. Now the Devil’s at the Door.

"A revolving door of New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post columnists made a career of platforming people who—either blatantly or through implication—argued that transgender people shouldn't exist. That democracy had "gone too far." They raged against "wokeism" because they couldn’t conceive of a world where it wouldn’t prevail. They bemoaned "cancel culture" not because they cared about free speech, but because they mistakenly believed the right-wing ideologues they dined with had been cast out for good.

In their intellectual stupor, they decided that the forces of social change were so overpowering and unstoppable that the world needed a voice to speak up against them in an infernal balancing act. And it felt daring, didn't it? To be the literary equivalent of the Cool Girl—not like those Other Girls who care about freedom, equity, history, and common sense.

They dressed themselves up as the beatniks of cultural commentary. They convinced themselves of their "underground" status. They basked in institutional protection, indulging in a self-congratulatory circle-jerk of mock dissent where the stakes were always someone else's problem. They positioned themselves as lone voices against an imagined tide of unthinking dogma, pretending that they were fighting against orthodoxy when, in reality, they were just reinforcing the status quo with a hipster filter. They weren't holding truth to power. They were selling a brand: rebellion without responsibility, provocation without principle, and the posture of dissent with none of the burden of consequence.

They dined on the aesthetic of courage without ever taking a risk. And why not? The market for disaffected liberals playing footsie with fascists was lucrative and full of opportunities for highbrow grift."

@gimulnautti @randahl Moreover, this is #PsyOps #PrepConditioning #Normalization

@EUCommission

How is it allowed for any country int he #eu to elect #nazis then?

Your post is like showing off a huge building called #democracy. But if you look closely, the interior was hollowed out by #fascist rats.

The tunnel the rats got in is called #lobbying and #normalization.

Fascist, state-like #companies that „#deport“ 10.000+ people per year from their jobs because „higher profits!“ like #apple #google #microsoft.

Fascism behind a golden mask.

“If lawyers had followed the norm of no execution without trial, if doctors had accepted the rule of no surgery without consent, if businessmen had endorsed the prohibition of slavery, if bureaucrats had refused to handle paperwork involving murder, then the Nazi regime would have been much harder pressed to carry out the atrocities by which we remember it” (p. 40).

#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #TimothySnyder #normalization
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"Former German chancellor Angela Merkel’s first mistake with Donald Trump, she writes in her memoir, was treating him as if he were 'completely normal', but she quickly learned of his 'emotional' nature and soft spot for authoritarians."

~ Jem Bartholomew

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #normalization #HumanRights
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/22/first-thing-icc-seeks-netanyahu-arrest-over-allegations-of-war-crimes-and-crimes-against-humanity

"It is frustrating and, frankly, frightening that the defense of basic rights and democratic self-government against the authoritarian onslaught depends so much on powerful individuals and institutions that have so far proved largely unable and/or unwilling to model anything but normalcy, compliance, and acquiescence. We need and deserve better."

~ Thomas Zimmer

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #normalization #HumanRights
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https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/elite-acquiescence-and-treacherous

#CharlamagneThaGod #Slams #CNN Again, Says #Network ‘Assisted in the #Normalization of #ConvictedFelon #DonaldTrump’s #Fascism’

The #radioshow #host and #author previously told #AndersonCooper the #network’s #handling of #Trump’s #fascism is “#bullshit”.

https://www.thewrap.com/charlamagne-tha-god-slams-cnn-normalization-of-donald-trumps-fascism/