YES!!
It’s been bugging me for SUCH a long time that events like Brexit and Trump were described as crises on the left when they were plainly crises in conservatism.
a key divide that emerges from this - do you visualise ideologies as discrete categories, or as existing on a continuum/ spectrum?
Very interesting from @polphilpod.bsky.social.
"It's not as if fascism ever went away...Fascists have fought to undermine conservatism from within...Fascists took elite conservatives' measure nicely...The future will belong either to liberals or fascists."
www.liberalcurrents.com/it-wasnt-fas...
No one has better explained the transformation from conservativism to fascism under Trump. Or made the jump to answer the question: what we should do next now that conservatism is dead?
Brilliant by @polphilpod.bsky.social @liberalcurrents.com—it should be assigned in political theory classes
It Wasn't Fascism All Along | Conservatism was a distinct ideology but it is dead and it is not coming back.
www.liberalcurrents.com/it-wasnt-fas...
I think Trump is only pro *his* businesses - doesn't seem to give a crap to others.
An article describing how a Norwegian immigrant married a US citizen but ICE detailed her and refused her insulin, causing blindness and almost killed her. In between, an ad from the common sense leadership fund lauds the president's "understanding of the art of the deal" and boosts his alleged pro-business agenda
The contrast is ghoulish. A "pro-business" president nearly killing people because cruelty is the point.
Jesus wept.
The burning oil refinery in Tehran tonight.
This ancient city of 10 million people is being annihilated by the US and Israel.
(🎥 BBC Verify)
BREAKING: The US has bombed Tehran’s main refinery and burning oil is now flooding down the streets into the city’s sewers.
This is a vision from hell, unleashed by the US tonight.
(🎥 Vahid Online)
The US destruction of Iranian oil refineries constitutes a war crime because the refineries themselves are a civilian target and not a military one. This action is intended to inflict suffering and loss to civilian populations with minimal impact on any military installations.
Someone please tell me how striking a school is combatting Iranian terror? Who is going to answer for the murder of these children?
they've blown up 13 hospitals
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
The Gulf states & Israel depend on water desalination to live. If Israel & US break the taboo of bombing vulnerable desal infrastructure, they risk catastrophic harm.
Percent of drinking water from desal:
Israel: 80%
Kuwait: 90%
Saudi Arabia: 70%
Oman: 86%
UAW: 42%
www.ndtv.com/world-news/i...
I like this Ben Stiller fellow. When he made a movie in Wilmington, Ohio, he was nice to people. And look — he stands up for himself rather than allowing himself to be ritually humiliated.
Trump was asked if the US was responsible for the attacks on desalinization plants, and he not only refused to deny it (didn't answer the question), he tried to justify it. bsky.app/profile/robe...
If they are hitting water infrastructure in Iran, that’s a crime against humanity on an enormous scale. I planned to publish something on Iran’s water crisis this week but it obviously got bumped. Iran was already in a critical state pre war, destroying water infrastructure will kill innocent people
Matt Schlapp has attempted to justify the killing of more than 100 young girls at an elementary school in southern Iran, by claiming they were saved from religious extremism. trib.al/DnV2JkG
There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.
Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.
Kristi Noem personally approved all DHS contracts over a certain threshold.
But before the contracts reached her, they had to be approved by political appointees. Lewandowski was typically the last to OK a contract before Noem, DHS officials said.
While one would like to buy into Rubio’s pearl clutching, it’s worth noting that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has openly admitted to setting aside the rules of engagement—who’s to say he doesn’t have the same attitude toward international law? trib.al/erGMwRo
AFP: "It breaks my heart": UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher says "we're seeing staggering amounts of money, reportedly a billion dollars a day” being spent on the Middle East war, rather than addressing the world’s “huge humanitarian caseload.”
Australia: ‘There are crocs absolutely everywhere’: NT residents warned to stay out of flood waters as hundreds evacuated.
Entire Daly River town evacuated as Bureau of Meteorology warns river levels expected to rise in coming week.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Sitting in his Senate office this week with canisters of Planters peanuts and hundreds of scattered papers on his desk and signed MAGA hats on his shelves, Graham was almost giddy about persuading Trump to bomb Iran. One of the newer hats reads "Make Iran Great Again." "What are they going to do to me?" he said of critics who opposed his efforts. The senator said he was already talking with Trump about further military interventions in Lebanon and potentially Cuba, which he said would happen soon. He wasn't particularly concerned about what was next in Iran, he said.
These lunatics should live in a zoo
Better to learn respect early!
So, Johnson, Farage, Badenoch, the Telegraph… howl about the UK being “an irrelevance on the world stage”.
Remind me again who decided to isolate us with a strategically and economically idiotic Brexit, relying on a trade deal with the US to save us from exactly the kind of weakness they now bemoan.
When my parents divorced in the early 70’s, my uncle was required to sign all documents along with her, including a checking account in her name
Hillary Clinton once couldn’t even get a credit card in her own name. Yet some Gen Z women are being algorithm-fed “tradwife” fantasies without understanding the history. Women’s independence isn’t trauma. It’s evolution. #Pinks #Momsky
