By Professor Marc Murphy of the Brandeis School of Law
Cheetos can't melt steel beams.
this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2025
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Cheetos shit themselves
I've never seen anything in the US more complicit towards fascism and autocracy than the US media. They reported NOTHING negative about Trump for months? Why? Fairness? But Kamala got fucked every headline ''Job Numbers trending up, but are the numbers too soft because of Harris? " type of bullshit.
Why? Because right wingers own 98% of the mainstream media and push bullshit constantly while telling you and I that the left is controlling media and the government when they control neither in any substantial way.
Almost as if the rich and powerful have WAY too much control. Break out yer guillotines!
They want fascism. It's an element of class war.
Always has been. Have you ever checked out how the imperial media covers genocide?
I’ve never seen anything in the US more complicit towards fascism and autocracy than the US media.
yes, including social media. People think adopting Donald Trump methods of dehumanizing those you disagree with, Donald Trump Twitter-think and Tweet-length mental attitudes is actually addressing the problem... in reality, it is joining in with the bonfires of goodness. Instead of a "we are under siege mentality" of posting a thread to the top of every social media platform every 6 hours since 2015 when it was clear Donald Trump and Putin wanted to fulfill their "Conservative International 2013" politician aims, people have just mocked and gone along with the total mockery media values of MAGA / Donald Trump Twitter-tweeting thinking.
I’ve never seen anything in the US more complicit towards fascism and autocracy than the US media.
People are entirely unable to defend and resist absurd comedy, surreal humor, surreal absurd "jokes', they all end up joining in / jumping on the bandwagon with the mocking and mockery.
Neil Postman was correct in 1985: “When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985
The pathway to authoritarianism is lined with people telling you to stop overreacting
I hope as fuck that everyone who said that eventually realize they were warned, and take some humility into the future
Maybe, maybe, break Cassandra's curse. At least for a little bit
Yea, and then they’ll say “never forget” and build a monument and a museum. And then everyone forgets 2 generations later. Just look at Israel, the families there still materially experience the lingering effects of genocide yet they continue to perpetrate another one.
That is the unfortunate reality of it. I wish I could say that I hope it will be different this time but..
About the one hope I have is that during the next iteration we overhaul society's systems to so solidly work for the average person that it helps counteract this cycle, but it's hard to stay optimistic for sure
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I mean... I'm from the US myself and this is extremely true
2016 was worse for America than 9/11.
Yes. Trump's failure during Covid was killing a 9/11's worth of Americans weekly.
Trump was already responsible for one 9/11's worth of American deaths when he refused to send aid after Hurricane Maria. Then COVID happened.
Republicans preventing the US from joining the first world probably kills more than that every week.
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give 'em some time. it's still early in the first quarter and he's still getting warmed up
Jr Bush/ Cheney laid an awful lot of the groundwork for Trunk One’s malevolence
As did Reagan and Bush I. And for that matter, a lot of their people cut their teeth under Nixon. Some cancers take a long time to grow.
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rejected by who?
He did not point the finger at any particular paper. At least not where I saw the cartoon.
I bet most any publication would have rejected it at the time.
Uhhhh get this human generated slop out of here!
wait what
Needs an update:
Now of course the "Rule of Law" is already destroyed and the plane should be headed for the 2nd one...
I do think that Trump's first administration was fascist-lite. He had set precedence that future politicians will do. However, his second term has now gone full fascist and it is no longer "setting precedence", but making breakthrough and ripping apart the very heart of democracy and what it means to be human.
Kick a narcissist out of your home and tell them you don’t want them anymore, and if they manage to get back in, you won’t ever forget you crossed them.
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