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In 1995 racism may wear a new dress, buy a new pair of boots, but neither it nor its succubus twin fascism is new or can make anything new. It can only reproduce the environment that supports its own health: fear, denial and an atmosphere in which its victims have lost the will to fight. The forces interested in fascist solutions to national problems are not to be found in one political party or another, or in one or another wing of any single political party. Democrats have no unsullied history of egalitarianism. Nor are liberals free of domination agendas. Republicans may have housed abolitionists and white supremacists. Conservative, moderate, liberal; right, left, hard left, far right; religious, secular, socialist — we must not be blindsided by these Pepsi-Cola, Coca-Cola labels because the genius of fascism is that any political structure can host the virus and virtually any developed country can become a suitable home. Fascism talks ideology, but it is really just marketing — marketing for power. inthesetimes.com

It [fascism] is recognizable by its need to purge, by the strategies it uses to purge, and by its terror of truly democratic agendas. It is recognizable by its determination to convert all public services to private entrepreneurship; all nonprofit organizations to profit-making ones— so that the narrow but protective chasm between governance and business disappears. It changes citizens into taxpayers- so individuals become angry at even the notion of the public good. It changes neighbors into consumers — so the measure of our value as humans is not our humanity or our compassion or our generosity but what we own. It changes parenting into panicking— so that we vote against the interests of our own children; against their health care, their education, their safety from weapons. And in effecting these changes it produces the perfect capitalist, one who is willing to kill a human being for a product (a pair of sneakers, a jacket, a car) or kill generations for control of products (oil, drugs, fruit, gold). When our fears have all been serialized, our creativity censured, our ideas "marketplaced," our rights sold, our intelligence sloganized, our strength downsized, our privacy auctioned; when the theatricality, the entertainment value, the marketing of life is complete, we will find ourselves living not in a nation but in a consortium of industries, and wholl unintelligible to ourselves except for what we see as through a screen darkly.

This is how Toni Morrison defines it:

“Fascism talks ideology, but it is really just marketing” “the narrow but protective chasm between governance and business disappears.” “so that we will find ourselves living not in a nation but in a consortium of industries”

inthesetimes.com/article/toni...

Fascism is the blanket term we are using to describe what is happening. And it DOES apply. But specific words are needed for this moment to teach people what is happening.

Ex. The US is not a democratic republic. It is a corporatocracy.

My girl right here was finna risk it ALL.

pumpkin pie being abolitionist food and co-opted to consumerist slop is not what I was expecting him to say lol

And personally, for us, I like both.

Got stuff prepped for tomorrow, got some food prepped for when I come home next week...them cakes gone have to get made tomorrow 😂

This is amazing lmao I finally done wrote a fuckin HIT 💕🫶🏽🌀🌴‼️

Decided to play this & mull it over while I prep this food for tomorrow and somewhere along the line I realized I'd been humming the chorus the whole time 😂

I don't see how Tesla's Model 3 can survive if Benz can offer an alternative EV this cheap, with this kind of performance, on top of the 15% tariff that it's charged in the US.

Imagine what this model does to Tesla in Europe, where Benz pays no tariffs.

It's like textually he's clearly our queer polyamorous anarchist whose comrades are sex workers. And then the white man happens to religion.

A house made of Legos
I know this shit cost a million dollars to build lol

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

Be kind to airport & airline industry employees this week and remainder of the holiday season. Don’t make me have to cuss 😒

Why do chicken coops have two doors?

Because if they had four doors they’d be chicken sedans

An honor and dream come true to perform alongside Yo-Yo Ma, presented by Celebrity Series at Boston Symphony Hall. 💜

🎼Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)

PLEASE 😭

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

St. Paul residents would always pretend that SPPD were way better than MPD, when it was really that they'd been bad under the radar. And I'd heard some wild stories (that are not mine to tell)

All of these plants are varieties of cabbage: kohlrabi, cauliflower, etc. Photo by Coyau, Wikimedia Commons

What do cabbage, kale, broccoli, brussels sprouts, cauliflower, collard greens & kohlrabi have in common?

If you said "they're the same species of plant, selected for different qualities", you're correct! Let's talk about the chameleon of the vegetable world, the Brassica!🧪

You dont understand how violating it feels for a stranger to touch you without your consent in ANY way until it happens to you. May not look like a big deal but it feels like one

Black mamas during Thanksgiving week:

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a large building Alt: GIF of Robert Downey Jr saying "Maaaybeeee..." while raising his eyebrows and looking at the interviewer deviously.

Do I wanna sign up for a magazine subscription?

I kinda miss that feeling of being a kid with a new Highlights in the mail 😂

This is absolutely Amazing...

Love a good underdog story 🥹 My 3 favorite people made it to the finals

It’s not just FedEx. You can deliver things like baking products and have a very good income generating business.

a woman wipes her face with a red cloth and says what do Alt: GIF of actress Jennifer Lawrence on Youtube series 'Hot Ones'. She dabs at her mouth, repeatedly saying "What do you mean?" in increasing levels of dismay/panic.

Cooking/baking shows are like my sports because what do you MEAN Paul gave 3 handshakes in the first round of the semifinals

hi guys, i got accepted into the psych program at charles r. drew university for science & medicine. the only HBCU on the west coast. 🤭

a man is making a funny face while sitting in a car . ALT: a man is making a funny face while sitting in a car .

I wish a WWE bitch would tell me my degree doesn’t count anymore

Just saw the first images from Nolan's The Odyssey, and this just proves my point

I’m tied of deciding what to eat. We really gotta do this shit EVERY DAY?!

FUCK