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1. The cult of tradition. 2. The rejection of modernism. – Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.” 3. The cult of action for action’s sake. – Thinking is a form of emasculation.” 4. Disagreement is treason. 5. Fear of difference. – The first appeal of a fascist or prematurely fascist movement is an appeal against the intruders. 6. Appeal to social frustration. 7. The obsession with a plot – At the root of the Ur-Fascist psychology there is the obsession with a plot, possibly an international one. The followers must feel besieged.” 8. The enemy is both strong and weak – By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak. 9. Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. 10. Contempt for the weak. 11. Everybody is educated to become a hero. – heroism is the norm. This cult of heroism is strictly linked with the cult of death.” 12. Machismo and weaponry. – both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality 13. Selective populism. – the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People. 14. Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. – all the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning.

Recently @amyremeikis.bsky.social reminded my of Umberto Eco's 14 points of "eternal fascism" in which "it is enough that one of them be present to allow fascism to coagulate around it".

And well , there is a sh*it load of coagulation happening.

Federal government should initiate a wholesale review of ABC governance, charter, complaints process, independence etc.

What’s been revealed in the past week is an indictment on basically every layer of management. And it’s only been revealed by this case. Imagine what we don’t know.

The US Government Is Not a Startup Elon Musk is moving fast and breaking things that can’t afford to be broken.

“It maps almost too neatly to his acquisition of Twitter in 2022: Get rid of most of the workforce. Install loyalists. Rip up safeguards. Remake in your own image… This is the way of the startup.” @wired.com

YouTube video by MeidasTouch New BOMBSHELL Exposé Reveals Trump-Musk Plan | On Democracy

Musk is acting on the dystopian vision he shares with Thiel, Vance, and Curtis Yarvin—dismantling democracy for billionaire overlords. Gil Duran has tracked it for years, and Fred Wellman breaks it all down with him in a new On Democracy.

He’s anti-democracy and pro-Trump: the obscure ‘dark enlightenment’ blogger influencing the next US administration Key figures in the incoming administration follow Curtis Yarvin, who’s pushing for an autocratic takeover of the US

If you wonder where Trump is headed with all this destruction of democracy, the answer may lie in the dark writings of Curtis Yarvin.

YouTube video by Behind the Bastards Part One: Curtis Yarvin: The Philosopher Behind J.D. Vance | BEHIND THE BASTARDS

Deeper: youtu.be/mYrPNvVhKLU?...

'Reboot' Revealed: Elon Musk's CEO-Dictator Playbook In 2022, one of Peter Thiel's favorite thinkers envisioned a second Trump Administration in which the federal government would be run by a “CEO”

If you want to know what’s going on in the US right now you need to look into dark enlightenment/the neo-reactionary movement and Curtis Yarvin in particular. Start here: www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-elon-...

SEN Radio parts ways with cricket journalist over Palestine social media posts Peter Lalor, whose X feed includes re-posts of news stories about Israeli attacks in Gaza, and about the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails, was told he could not cover cricket for SE...

An absolute disgrace.

www.smh.com.au/sport/cricke...

Screenshots showing Ronald Reagan date of death as June 5 2004 and a counter showing it’s 6969 days between June 5 2004 and July 5 2023

Ronald Reagan died 6969 days ago today. 1 reskeet is 1 piss on his grave

formaldehyde suggests the existence of casualdejekyll

Someone on Mastodon described Bsky as "a bunch of people hanging around in the parking lot after the mall has closed" and I thought it was A) accurate and B) pretty great actually

I have nothing interesting to say for my first post so please accept this dog posing with a pipe