What’s absolutely insane about it is that we literally got here by accident. Some homeopathic crank was selling diluted poison water to people, so he created a double blind test to prove his “medicine” was actually better than doing nothing and telling someone they would feel better, which ended up proving him absolutely wrong conclusively along with creating the wellspring of all medical advancement in the last century.

Behind the bastards did a series on the guy who invented this, and how he was a charlatan who’s only achievement was creating the means of proving himself wrong lmao Added a link if you want to check it out

Right this should be a no brainer.

If there isn’t already a Facebook group putting people on blast for openly advocating fascist white supremacist positions with their ACTUAL IRL NAMES AND FACE attached to it and ruining their lives idk how could we hope to make a dent taking out the sewer rats forum sliding on reddit.

I quit fb in like 2017 so it never even comes to mind. (Imo if you’re still on Facebook you’re already complicit, but I can’t deny that it gives you access to the masses.) Maybe a Herman-Cain-award-esque group for outing fascists would gain traction. We can foment unrest by showing boomers what their kids are doing under their nose.

Idk. I’m just spitballing. Trying to convince myself that individual militant activity is not going to move the needle until there is a critical mass of social upheaval over the conditions. Considering this as a vision board to create that opportunity.

This was my main concern when I started thinking about it in practice. I guess we need anonymous or some professional hacking group to break open the reddit servers to get into that stuff. Hopeful as I may be I don’t think they’ll hear this.

Cautiously going to say I’ll take your word for it but I’m not putting my faith in anything except my own abilities to agitate, organize, and disrupt govt functions. If there were a mechanism for creating real change able to be used by congress we wouldn’t be allowed to vote. System’s working perfectly. It lasted long enough to let a despot and his cronies infect every aspect of the system, just to tear it down and replace it with the open face nazi government the oligarchs have been demanding since 1865.

These books should have been required reading for the last 80 years. The fact you can graduate high school without being able to articulate how the Nazis controlled Germany is an act of evil against every citizen who enters the world.

It was not some ubiquitous evil spirit that usurped the free will of Germans, it was a choice and a set of instructions in which disobeying would lead to death.

Like the passage you quoted - it is a self perpetuating social structure requiring obedience while demanding that “you know what you’re doing is wrong in the moral eye of the government” i/e “we don’t have to say it’s illegal to teach kids to think, we just have to make sure that the moment a kid starts thinking they know to report you for subversion”

Education around nazi germany starts and ends with “they were ontologically evil” and were leading a unified Germany. This is stated as fact without any context of how the election in which they gained control of the government was won with 30% of the vote. We aren’t taught that the liberal politicians voted alongside nazis to implement these laws that dissolved the German constitution and gave Hitler full control. We aren’t told that they did this “to avoid the disaster of a failed government” and to not be targeted for retribution after the laws passed.

Instead we are given a Disney movie story of Hitler unilaterally usurping supreme control over every German, only being stopped by the heroes of the allied powers once we learned how terrible it was.

No record of the NYT platforming nazis, the German American bund, the resistance to joining ww2, the business plot, chamberlain, Henry Ford NONE of that history is taught.

And now we see why.

The university said it’s reviewing the Trump administration’s letter. “We are committed at all times to advancing our mission, supporting our students, and addressing all forms of discrimination and hatred on our campus,” it said in a statement.

Yep, it’s done. We’re already right here: “The new Nazi commissar wasted no time on the amenities. He immediately announced that Jews would be forbidden to enter university premises and would be dismissed without salary on March 15; this was something that no one had thought possible despite the Nazis’ loud antisemitism. Then he launched into a tirade of abuse, filth, and four-letter words such as had been heard rarely even in the barracks and never before in academia. . . . [He] pointed his finger at one department chairman after another and said, “You either do what I tell you or we’ll put you into a concentration camp.” There was silence when he finished; everybody waited for the distinguished biochemist-physiologist. The great liberal got up, cleared his throat, and said, “Very interesting, Mr. Commissar, and in some respects very illuminating: but one point I didn’t get too clearly. Will there be more money for research in physiology?”" https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/controlling-universities#:~:text=The%20new%20Nazi,research%20in%20physiology%3F%22

Did I miss something this week?

I’ve seen something about this pop up occasionally on my feed, but it’s usually a conversation I’m nowhere close to understanding lol

Could you recommend any resources for a complete noob?

It’s almost like they’d vote to make opposition parties illegal in an effort to avoid being called obstructionists. They’ll get theirs. They always do.

“Wow! You know, I also support white nationalism and the rise of American nazis”

• Gavin Newsome to Steve bannon

Steve bannon gave a nazi salute at cpac BTW, this is the guy “the left” wants so badly to build bridges with.

Just a heads up, if they force YouTube to ‘embrace faith based programming’ you’re allowed to start killing people, it’s in the constitution

Reddit is already fully onboard pushing this dumb fuck narrative, if you were doubting whether they were fully captured or not.

The inaccurate perception is pretending like any amount of political will should be expended on barring trans people from school sports regardless of how many there are.

Congrats on your personal experience it does not change the fact that this is fucking stupid. Fencing is not an NCAA sport you’re just doing agitprop for fascists by implying that a fencing club is the same as a sanctioned competitive sport jesus fucking christ. You also are not speaking for all trans people by pointing out your experience of being overrepresented in YOUR school fencing club that is not subject to oversight by the governing sports body FIFTEEN YEARS AGO.

I’m quoting the person in charge of the organization and youre quoting a personal anecdote that is fifteen years old. Who is skewing perception of the current state of collegiate athletics?

Okay? Who cares? If 60% of college athletes were transgender it doesn’t change the fact this is fascist biological essentialism and explicitly exists to harm those it targets. You are trying to create a spectre that does not exist. Stop acting like it matters what number of trans athletes this harms.

Only 10 trans athletes

I’m getting that number from the president of the NCAA

Did not notice, thank you!

Big shocker the people in power would fail to do their objective duty to protect their students in service of a fascist government threatening their power. Nothing left to do now but wait for the inevitable firing squads for those who dare stand up against this regime now that these cowards have set the standard of resistance at “cower and beg for leniency”

When I’m in a schizophrenic rantings competition and my opponent is an American Christian:

There are probably more people with tetanus than there are trans college athletes. There’s literally only 10 of them. It is by definition a moral panic. The people crying about it are lying and evil.

I could see it happening that way lol Add a little rat at the bottom or something to really drive home the point!