@steadystatemcr@mstdn.socialOur statement on the rise of #POX (party of xenophobes and fascists), the threat they pose, reasons for their success, strategies, good and bad, for countering them.
Steady State Manchester | For local prosperity, justice & ecological safety
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.socialNow it's abundantly obvious that their hysteria about antifa was not due to antifa being in any way a terrorist organization (which it can't be, as it's not even an organization), but due to the fact that they are, indeed, fascists.
Antifa = short for anti-fascist. If you're anti-antifa, it's now absolutely clear you're at the very least pro-fascist.
@elduvelle@neuromatch.socialTypical #Mastodon (Fediverse?) moment:
@roelgrif@mstdn.socialThe fascists doing these razzia's don't care at all about children, even regardless of the legal status of their family members.
@aredridel@kolektiva.socialThat said: look sharp. There will be agents provocateur in many places, some dressed in 'our side' garb.
And watch out because the fascists are threatening to come out too.
@aral@mastodon.ar.al“The society said any judgments it issued that were potentially seen as political would do ‘more harm than good.’”
The Royal Society has already made a political announcement: that it is perfectly fine with fascism and having fascists as fellows. As far as political statements go, it doesn’t get any stronger than that. The only thing they could do to make their point clearer is if they hang a “Nazi Bar” sign above their headquarters.
@servelan@newsie.social"Two lessons here: 1) Use a marker with a wider tip than a Sharpie, so it’ll be more visible, and 2a) if civilians are able to get right onto your armored vehicle to write graffiti, maybe this wasn’t the kind of militarized raid that you needed an armored truck for in the first place, or 2b) at the very least, your security cordon sucks."
**Minneapolis Says No Fascists, DHS Won't Deport And Kill Preschooler Yet. Your ICE Times Roundup**
https://www.wonkette.com/p/minneapolis-says-no-fascists-dhs
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialGilroy: Fascists destroy communities... that's what Andor is about.
<conservative squirms uncomfortably>
▶️ What Makes "Andor" Left-Wing? | Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9kUFBXrw0DU&si=vzxQ87QvKL_77gAt
@mela@zusammenkunft.netI already said it and I will say it again: If you stand with trans people or not, if you will support them without questions and without holding back or if you think of them as acceptable losses, might be the tipping point if we can preserve our democracy — or not.
Acceptance of trans people — or rather the lack of it — is the pond fascists dip their toes in to test the water if we are willing and open to being divided.
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@crell@phpc.socialTechno fascists know exactly what they're doing.
https://youtube.com/shorts/s-BQhXdCs8Y
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioI don’t agree in one respect:
Neither OOP nor FP (nor 4GLs nor IDEs nor SOAs nor any of the other new hotnesses past) had anything remotely resembling the current money behind them. None led to companies speculatively laying off tens of thousands of employees for imagined productivity boosts that had not actually arrived yet. None shaped whole election cycles, or led to national proposals for preemptive deregulation. None led to the construction of nuclear power plants or the draining of rivers. None sent oligarchs or fascists into spasmodic wet dreams of world domination. None started quasi-religious cults like EA.
All •that• is the part that feels like blockchain — but even worse, if such a thing is possible.
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@steadystatemcr@mstdn.socialOur new statement on the rise of #POX (party of xenophobes and fascists), the threat they pose, reasons for their success, strategies, good and bad, for countering them.
Steady State Manchester | For local prosperity, justice & ecological safety
@markhburton@mstdn.socialThere's chatter today about #POX the little Englander Party of Xenophobes and Fascists high in the polls for a Scottish seat.
So how to fight them (and how not)?
https://ste…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Billy Bragg and The Blokes:
🎵 All You Fascists Bound to Lose (Blokes version)
#BillyBraggandTheBlokes
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@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social«What “win the center” pragmatists would have us believe is that the shock of the Missouri ladies over the shabby treatment of one of their “good ‘uns” means that they share our common value of universal human equality, even though there is scant evidence that this value is shared. This seems to be standard rhetorical practice when one is a pragmatic “win the center” type.»
Applies to all places where parties try to beat the fascists by moving towards the right
https://www.the-reframe.com/winning-the-middle/
@camerontw@social.coopReminder that pigs are intelligent and social, and even when exploited by humans, do a great service as food waste processors - they are too good to be used disparagingly when describing the brutishly stupid fascists being allowed to run various countries at the moments.
Pigs would never be fascists. (Urban Orwell, hanging out on a hobby farm his wife had to run so that he could write, has a lot to answer for.)
@steadystatemcr@mstdn.socialThe right wing threat and a viable future
A statement from Steady State Manchester Introduction With horror we see the electoral success of POX, The party of Xenophobes and Fascists (which, without irony, actually calls itself Reform UK1). In the May election round they gained 677 more councillors, took control of 8 councils, landed a regional Mayor and gained another MP, in a formerly safe Labour seat.
@wraithe@mastodon.socialBut you should stay on Twitter, so as not to be in an echo chamber!
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https://bsky.app/profile/cascoinfoundation.org/post/3lr6rqsknvs23
@newstik@social.heise.de"The #Fascists, #Autocrats, and #Dictators Looking to #Ruin Our
@grumpybozo@toad.social @camerontw@social.coopReminder that pigs are intelligent and social, and even when exploited by humans, do a great service as food waste processors - they are too good to be used disparagingly when describing the brutishly stupid fascists being allowed to run various countries at the moments.
Pigs would never be fascists. (Urban Orwell, hanging out on a hobby farm his wife had to run so that he could write, has a lot to answer for.)
@Barbarian@social.linux.pizzaI've started making a concerted effort to avoid using the terms "left" and "right" when talking about #politics.
Calling politicians/parties by more specific names (for example, social democrats, liberals, conservatives, fascists, corporatists, etc) makes everything far more clear and prevents so much confusion.
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caToday in “silly billboards in my community”. The first is by the very “truthful” (/s) people at LNGfacts.ca. Of course, the word "LNGfacts" does not appear anywhere in the dictionary because it's made up nonsense. Just like the "fact" that LNG “makes Canada stronger”... like we're going to win the war in Ukraine with our LNG or fend off #TheAmericanFascist. (Note: LNG is a tool of fascists not the other way around)
This billboard used to say “BC LNG WILL REDUCE GLOBAL EMISSIONS”... with a link to ‘bclnghelps.ca' but that was so clearly a lie that they were forced by the courts to remove it and delete their website, but I made a website instead in their honour called: bclngburns.ca
Back to today's billbboard though... Here's a fact from February 2025: “European LNG imports fell by 19% in 2024 as gas consumption reached an 11-year low, thanks, in part, to renewable energy additions.” (#BCPoli #BCLNG #ClimateAction #ClimateEmergency #ExtinctionRebellion #LNG #NaturalGas #Europe #EU #Ukraine #Russia
