@krispijn@social.sargasso.nlAnd so it continues: US anti-fascism expert leaves country day after being blocked from flying to Spain.
No matter how many peace deals a Western leader states to broker, if you don't respect human rights you don't deserve the #NobelPeacePrice
#AntiFa
@cdarwin@c.imMark Bray, a historian who has taught courses on anti-fascism at Rutgers university, was attempting to board a plane at Newark airport late on Wednesday when he was informed at the boarding gate that reservations for him and his family had been cancelled.
“‘Someone’ cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second,” Bray posted on Bluesky. “We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared’.”
Th…
@steve@s.yelvington.comIf only we had a name for countries that don't allow their citizens to leave....
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/09/anti-fascism-mark-bray-rutgers-university
@servelan@newsie.socialAnti-queer fascism is coming around again - Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2025/10/04/anti-queer-fascism-is-coming-around-again/
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzI would like to see the abbreviation "antifa" phased out, and everyone saying "anti-fascist" and "anti-fascism" instead. Make it as obvious as possible what 47 and his buddies are trying to sweep out of their way.
#antifascism #language
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itI continue to maintain that Biden was one of the worst presidents in my lifetime - mostly due to an accident of timing. If he had been president in 2016 or 2000, he obviously would've been a huge improvement over Trump or Cheney, respectively. Heck, even in 2008 or 2012 or 1996 he would've been.. fine.
But after covid, BLM, 4 years of Trump 1.0 abuses, & subsequent open insurrection by literal fascism, he was the wrong person for the job. He gave the fash 4 years to prep
@katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchangeRead this from @… and then contact your Senators and Representatives.
Tell them to reject any policy that removes civil and human rights from our fellow humans. This is the key to expanding the ICE imprisonment and deportation and abuse and murders to trans citizens. They won't stop with them. Fascism eve…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioWhen Nixon adopted Goldwater’s Southern Strategy and won, that was a party realignment. The new foundation of the Republican coalition was “throw anti-Black racism lots of ethnonationalist red meat so they support the concentration of wealth.”
I’d venture that ethnonationalism captured to concentrate power is (or inexorably becomes) fascism. Nixon’s realignment made the Republican Party the fascist party.
@…’s post below on this topic touched off my train of thought here:
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https://jorts.horse/@AnarchoNinaWrites/114926186431482846
@johl@mastodon.xyzAt first I thought „Oh no, I need to peel off laptop stickers!“, but then I remembered that I won’t travel to the United States anytime soon (for large values of “soon”).
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/17/politics/antifa-terrorist-designation-trump
@cdarwin@c.imTrump is ramping up his
"anti-crime" agenda,
with armed troops on the streets of Washington DC
and threats that more cities will soon follow.
Immigration raids are ramping up across the country,
and deportations are surging.
So where does this leave the United States' democratic values?
Journalist and historian Garrett Graff says that the country has already slipped into fascism,
and he joins the show from Vermont
@inthehands@hachyderm.io[disclaimer: not a political scientist, talking out of my ass]
For the two parties are going to divide up the electorate, if one is the fascist party, maybe the other •has• to be the anti-fascist party — not just philosophically, but for practical reasons. Maybe you just can’t maintain a viable coalition to oppose a fascist party without bringing everyone who opposes fascism into your coalition. Sure feels that way now.
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@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caNot clear on the definition of Fascism?
Benito Mussolini 1932
#TeaParty #MAGA
"Fascism was not the nursling of a doctrine previously drafted at a desk; it was born of the need of action, and was action; it was not a party but, in the first two years, an anti-party and a movement.”
#Democracy #Freedom #Autocracy
“[Fascism] is opposed to classical liberalism which arose as a reaction to absolutism and exhausted its historical function when the State became the expression of the conscience and will of the people. Liberalism denied the State in the name of the individual; Fascism reasserts the rights of the State”
#PersonalIdentity
"Anti-individualistic, the Fascist conception of life stresses the importance of the State and accepts the individual only in so far as his interests coincide with those of the State..”
#WorkersRights #Corporate #Billionnaires
"Fascism is likewise opposed to trade unionism as a class weapon. But when brought within the orbit of the State, Fascism recognizes the real needs which gave rise to socialism and trade unionism, giving them due weight in the guild or corporative system in which divergent interests are coordinated and harmonized in the unity of the State.
#SelfExpression #Trans #LGBTQ
"if liberty is to he the attribute of living men and not of abstract dummies invented by individualistic liberalism…”
#totalitarianism
"Fascism, is totalitarian, and the Fascist State - a synthesis and a unit inclusive of all values - interprets, develops, and potentates the whole life of a people”
#austerity
"life, as conceived of by the Fascist, is serious, austere, and religious; The Fascist disdains an “easy " life.”
#environment #climatechange #peace #war
"[Fascism] does not believe in the possibility of "happiness" on earth … it therefore rejects the theological notion that at some future time the human family will secure a final settlement of all its difficulties.”
