Reich calls out the Führer, there's a headline that writes itself.
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He's got a very unfortunate surname for someone who is so anti-Trump lol
It also means rich in german. It funny when he tweets against the rich.
I wonder if his dad was Robert Reich Jr...
His son is Sam Reich, CEO of dropout.
Early warning signs of fascism:
1.) Powerful and continuing expressions of nationalism
2.) Disdain for the importance of human rights
3.) Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause
4.) The supremacy of the military/avid militarism
5.) Rampant sexism
6.) A controlled mass media
7.) Obsession with national security
8.) Religion and ruling elite tied together
9.) Power of corporations protected
10.) Power of labor suppressed or eliminated
11.) Disdain and suppression of intellectuals and the arts
12.) Obsession with crime and punishment
13.) Rampant cronyism and corruption
14.) Fraudulent elections
so you mean to tell me my country was fascist all along
It's a sliding scale and it's recently descended into unambiguously facist territory.
Its like diagnosing a disease: just one symptom isn't conclusive, but when you have all the known symptoms you can be pretty sure what it is.
The Democrats were less obvious but still bow down to corporations.
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” — Benito Mussolini.
Freedom of the Press still exist
Exhibit A: The journalist that just exposed the government fucked up on OPSEC, and their attempt to shield their communications from official records as mandated by law, via the use of Signal
Not completely fascist, yet.
Then one day, out of nowhere, you'll hear a bunch of helicopters hovering, sirens wailing, your browser says "Unable to connect", calls get dropped, SMS says "undeliverable", phone says "Emergency Only" instead of the carrier name. Then you'll go to the grocerry store and on the way there, you see a bunch of soldiers with a roadblock thing and... it's a checkpoint...
...aaand enjoy! This is the Bad Place (now the actual Bad Place)
The auto-coup will not be televised (not for those within the regime anyways.
USA was founded by slavers who were the pre-cursors to fascism.
USA was fascist from inception even before fascism.
At a minimum, multiple states are/were all they way up to the Governor's seat. Yes.
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
- Martin Niemöller
Just in case people don't know the original.
That's not the original.
Hint: any version that doesn't mention "communists" is "filtered".
Good call, I didn't know that. This is the original
Als die Nazis die Kommunisten holten,
habe ich geschwiegen,
ich war ja kein Kommunist.
Als sie die Sozialdemokraten einsperrten,
habe ich geschwiegen,
ich war ja kein Sozialdemokrat.
Als sie die Gewerkschafter holten,
habe ich geschwiegen,
ich war ja kein Gewerkschafter.
Als sie mich holten,
gab es keinen mehr,
der protestieren konnte.
It's not straight forward to translate, because there is no active verb in English for "to remain silent".
When the Nazis came and took the communists
I remained silent
Since I wasn't a communist.
When they imprisoned the social democrats
I remained silent
Since I wasn't a social democrat.
When they took the trade unionists
I remained silent
Since I wasn't a trade unionist.
When they took me
There was no one left
Who could protest.
Good point. I forgot about the communist part and only copied the first one on wiki due to laziness. Thanks for reminding me.
AN INJURY TO ONE IS AN INJURY TO ALL
Looks like Robert Reich is in the Fediverse
Gonna take more than speaking.
Trump's implied support for Erdogan is also considered to be one of the reasons why Erdogan's trying this hard to keep himself as the leader even though protests are riling up all around the country. Speak out for us too.
We're past the point of speaking out.
I would like for you to consider why the US constitution outlines free speech in its first amendment, and the right to bear arms in the second. The reason why is not that different than the principal of charity, or the social contract of tolerance. The first amendment outlines and sets speech, language, as the first step in challenging authority. But implicit in that principal, is the idea that governments are precluded from not listening, or not being available to that speech. It is literally in why the US constitution is structured the way it is, in putting limits and restraints on governments, not people.
We have devolved long past the point where free speech is respected by the US government, under any interpretation of the words.
The second, is an enshrining of the right to to the use of violence when the first is no longer being respected.
You need to do more than speak out though. We've been speaking out about Trump for a decade and he's was reflected and is currently breaking America to rebuild it into some kind of dictatorship.
i like to speak up in loud bangs
If Trump can do it, then any president can do it. That's the real problem.
As awful as he is, I think he serves a good example of the opposite being true. It can serve as a warning.
"If we give any President this authority, someone like Donald Trump could use it if they ever got elected."
We need to disappear this regime.