Category: feed_your_head

Pranksters vs. Autocrats, Why Dilemma Actions Advance Nonviolent Activism

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1. We don’t want war, we are only defending ourselves.
2. The other guy is solely responsible for this war.
3. Our adversary’s leader is evil and looks evil.
4. We are defending a noble purpose, not special interest.
5. The enemy is purposefully causing atrocities; we only commit mistakes.
6. The enemy is using unlawful weapons.
7. We have very little losses, the enemy is losing big.
8. Intellectuals and artists support our cause.
9. Our cause is sacred.
10. Those who doubt our propaganda are traitors.

Timothy Snyder, a leading historian of authoritarianism, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, joins Scott to discuss the threats to American democracy, echoes of 1930s fascism, and what still gives him hope.

More great information on his channel.

JD Vance, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and many other operatives in the Trump administration are all united in their belief in the ideological teachings known as Neo-Reactionism, popularized by fringe blogger-turned Silicon Valley darling Curtis Yarvin. His pseudo-intellectual ravings have been adopted by some of the most powerful people on the planet and could lead to the downfall of democracy in the United States.

10 most corrupt acts so far (we’re only 4 month’s into this nightmare)

Please overlook the cheesy thumbnail of this video. The content is very informative.

Anne Applebaum, a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and staff writer at The Atlantic, joins Scott to discuss the rise of kleptocracy in America, the global playbook of autocrats, and solutions to our democratic slide.

Trump ain’t no anomaly. USA has always had an ugly underbelly.

Steven Hahn is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian at New York University and the author of “Illiberal America.” In this conversation, he discusses some of the most illiberal periods in American history: Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act of 1830, Jim Crow, the Red Scare, Japanese American internment, Operation Wetback.

Protest & March – Saturday, April 19, 12-2pm. Parking lot on Hamilton between Water St. & NE Washington.

More detail here: https://events.pol-rev.com/events/9a622c2b-0a6a-4e4b-9d14-79b53bb8cbe1

. . . some balls, some ovaries, a spine, a conscious – anything. Republicans could stop this at anytime.

Murphy: Trump Is Dismantling Our Democracy. We Must Come Together And Act Before It’s Too Late.

How Donald Trump’s Authoritarianism Is Creating Instability Around the World

Orange Stain protest April 2025

Several good points here.

You actually have to have an existing Left to have Fascism. We don’t have that in USA.

Like Germany in early last century, USA has the veneer of a high civilization but underneath there is a huge swath of ugliness. Trump and the red hats have ripped off that veneer as Hitler did in that country.

Liberal cancel culture contributed to the rise of the red hats by shutting down discussion. Example: puberty blockers.

What is the Election Truth Alliance?

The Election Truth Alliance is a non-profit, non-partisan organization founded in December of 2024 when multiple individuals came together to share independent data, analysis, and research into the results of the 2024 US Presidential Election. As concerning trends emerged from our shared data we moved quickly, at the speed of trust, to make our findings more accessible and understandable to the broader public.

We are a non-profit corporation.

https://electiontruthalliance.org/about-us

One guy pointed out that this isn’t the way the USA treats human beings, regarding the shipment of humans in the middle of the night to El Salvador. Human trafficking.

Yes. It’s what USA does. The orange stain has just brought all of it out in the open. While good is mixed with the bad in this country, we were NEVER truly a role model for human rights.

The School of Americas trained dictators in torture techniques for years.

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Russia’s propaganda machine uses a calculated strategy—dismiss, distort, distract, and dismay—to manipulate perceptions and erode trust in truth worldwide.

Four Key Instruments of Russian Propaganda: Dismiss, Distort, Distract, Dismay

This did not age well as it ended on an optimistic note— most non-fiction books do. It was 2011. But this guy was/is onto something….

The first faction of this trifecta certainly paved the way for the orange stain and the chainsaw wielding robber baron.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1536504214558209

The precariat is the new dangerous class, because all elements in it reject mainstream political establishments.

Chompsky is relevant now more than ever…

One half of the species preys on the other half. Violence against females is such a common and global occurrence that it’s become blase. We are living in the Upside Down.

Former presidents and secretaries of state are completely silent on the betrayal of Ukraine by King Orange and his court jester. This is how we got here. Complicity. Biz as usual. Absolutely shameful.

Abstract: Facebook contributed to a genocide in Myanmar. Scholars, reporters, and United Nations investigators agree that the social media giant played a role in an explosion of ethnic conflict in 2017 that led to the death and displacement of hundreds of thousands Rohingya Muslims in Northern Myanmar.

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