this post was submitted on 26 Mar 2025
1752 points (99.3% liked)
Microblog Memes
7911 readers
2967 users here now
A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.
Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.
Rules:
- Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
- Be nice.
- No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
- Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.
Related communities:
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
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
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.
Merger is the key word.
Corporates do have some power, to greater or lesser degrees, in most government systems. But very few have the level of control over writing laws and paying politicians that the USA has.
So watch out for more signs of fascism, particularly when corporate rights trump individuals.
Corporatism doesn't have to come with racism. Technically fascism neither, but nobody uses it like that.
Sex, size, place of birth, lineage. Why is race necessary to divide people?
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.
lol. Gotta remember freedom means dollars and press means buying politicians.
Not to mention the many actual journalists murdered by empire. There have been hundreds in palestine alone... Plus prisoners like chelsea manning, etc.
Palestine is under Israeli occupation, and as we all know, Israel doesn't care about human rights.
Publishing the documents weren't the crime, the crime was obtaining it illegally.
Similarly, Edward Snowden obtained it illegally, but Glenn Greenwald got it legally from Snowden who has already already obtained the documents. So that's why Snowden has a criminal case, while the journalist Greenwald never got in trouble for it.
This is not to say that I agree with their prosecutions, I do not. It's just that, legally, that's what's not currently protected by the First Amendment (although it really should be protected).
In this case, Jeffrey Goldberg obtained it legally via someone else's fuck up, that's why he didn't get in trouble (yet, but since this administration does not obey laws... we'll see if anything happens).
Greenwald and Goldberd would've never been able to publish it if this was Russia or China. (Although, it seems like the US is heading in that direction now)
At a minimum, multiple states are/were all they way up to the Governor's seat. Yes.
USA was founded by slavers who were the pre-cursors to fascism.
USA was fascist from inception even before fascism.
They helped building it, by constantly taking the "moral high ground" (succumbing to fascists, not calling them fascists because some people making racist jokes might weren't actually fascists).