The fascism playbook hasn't changed—only the speed we're flipping through its chapters.
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Violence is the only remaining language.
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It's time to focus on the playbook against it.
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I’m hoping that the pace at which people fight back and the emboldened turn to pariahs is exponentially quicker.
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It terrifies me the damage that will require repair once true Americans get this COCKSUCKING MOTHERFUCKING MONSTER and its LICKSPITTLES out of power. Years of repair to American values.
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The intelligence is being muzzled with the term: WOKE
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Not calling fools as "fools" was a big mistake. It's like not facing the reality that the "Emperor has no clothes".
When Bret Baier challenged Kamala Harris if she was calling MAGA voters as stupid, she should've said "yes" and explained why. Instead, she took the high-road and lost the election.
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Wow, that's so accurate!
Unfortunately, Dems have this bogus rule to never offend the voters. Bozo knew this "decency" weakness and exploited it.
I hope the next Dem candidate won't beat around the bush, but repeatedly explains to MAGA why they are fools fascinated by a fascist.
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Amen, dude.
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Your quote is perfect.
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A population of fools is a rich breeding ground for fascism. Having once spent a decade and a half living in the US, sadly what's happening now comes as no surprise at all.
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the MAGA morons!
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And 2 + 2 don't make 5 do they Donny.
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Something to think about
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It's been building since the late 70s and the beginning of my voting life with Thatcher/Reagan and the elevation of corporate interests above those of people.
Stealth fascism.
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A succinct summation.
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Donald Trump is nothing if not efficient. ☹️
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Technology has increased the speed and possibility of everything (even evil).
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Here in the UK we are a couple of pages behind in the twilight of the Weimar republic, we can treat them as normal political figures and fight them at the ballot box, section.
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(artist unknown)
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Fascinate the fools. ✔️ Muzzle the intelligent. (Current status).
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Everyone in America needs to ask themselves and their politicians,
Who do our police serve?
The city that actually got rid of the police
And rebuilt the department from the ground up. The strange, hopeful, politically complicated story of Camden, N.J.
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And fascinate the fools they did.
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Pretty damn scary isn't it and nothing is being done to stop it, damn scary indeed.
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This was how twentieth-century Fascism began: with a magnetic leader exploiting widespread dissatisfaction by promising all things.
Madeleine K. Albright.
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You have 60 days. Till US isn't your country anymore or recognize.
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Fascism starts like fasci-nate (the fools) and ends like criti-cism (of the intelligent).
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Maga are the zombies! They are brain dead and don't seem to die!
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“it is not possible to reason somebody out of the position they were not reasoned into”
This applies to the MAGA cult both in the govt and on Main Street ..
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Fascinating the fools is easy to accomplish when half of the USA’s adults don’t have a college or university degree.
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Fight or run.
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Always.
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Only if you accept the muzzle.
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ICE are all Nazi's, & the only good Nazi Is a dead Nazi.
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We’re here…
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Please consider joining if you haven’t and promote if you’re willing. We are running out of time to stop this and shutting everything down is likely the only way this administration is going to yield
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Trump is exiling kids undergoing cancer treatment because they are not white enough…and then will turn around and use TAXPAYER MONEY to charter a plane of white South Africans to grant them citizenship. He wants to start a race war. Republicans are in on it.
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The Trump administration is chartering a plane to bring the first white South Africans to the U.S. as refugees
President Donald Trump signed an executive order in February granting an exception for Afrikaners after suspending the U.S. refugee admissions program.
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MAGA= the fools
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Can we get to the part where the fascists are dangling in the breeze from the girders faster?
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Terrifying …
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I am really tired of my country sleepwalking while fascism takes over. We're beyond 'get woke.' Bitches need to get fucking caffeinated.
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It's fascinating how that fool Trump hasn't been muzzled.
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Those of goodwill, like minded & fearless to keep a sane civil society move into actions - while 🇺🇸 still has freedoms & liberty those proud & stubborn in their gullibility, greed, foolishness, & fear are the hindrances to avoid, fight against, or ignore.
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They offer the best tax breaks to the wealthy, spread hate and division among those who need it so bad, and circulate lies via shallow politicians and media.
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Maybe the sign of the second stage is going after Harvard.
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Where is SCOTUS? It is their #1 job to defend our U.S. Constitution! Their single most important job. Where are they? When the going gets rough, what do they do, take a nap?
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We need Hope.
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ATP online liberals have got to realize meme's are not a political strategy to win power in DC. We will see tho...
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I hate muzzles 🐶
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And there are plenty of fools in this country to fascinate not to mention the fact that these schools are so easy to fascinate. Our intelligentsia has been sacrificed on the altar of authoritarianism and I don't know that any who survived this will want to remain here. I don't blame them.
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So true
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It always ends the same way, so maybe let's just fast-forward to that part.
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Dangerous times
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Viva le Internet!
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And the Artists, Writers, Singers, and Soothsayers.
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Right on 🎯
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Teachers, professors, doctors, scientists and intellectuals are targeted. The educated are less likely to believe that classic Russian style propaganda.
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Relevant Book:
Amusing Ourselves to Death, by Neil Postman
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Kinda like how they pushed the whole Kung-flu virus scam.
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Chilling
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“Then, they muzzle the intelligent”, like law firms, medical professionals, media and universities?
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Exactly 💯 history has taught us exactly how this goes, first they come for some group, then they come for everybody else. It doesn't matter what group you're in they'll get around to you eventually. So stand up and RESIST why you still can
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1933 Whithout due process, they are concentration camps. Tell everyone.
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He was a seeker of the truth. Here’s one of my favorite quotes of his 👇 bsky.app/profile/patr...
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Clever right wing ideologists and industrialists have harnessed fear about the economy, put a puppet in place, and are ready to pounce and profit.
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#FireFascists
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Absolutely
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Are we going to let it get to phase 3? I suspect we will because no one wants to fight.
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Meanwhile ...
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Lasty they execute the…
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Not quite the quote, but reasonably close. Still, better to cite the exact words if you're using quotation marks.
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Quote Origin: Fascist Movement – To Fascinate Fools and Muzzle the Intelligent – Quote Investigator®
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I do not condone violence, satire is protected free speech
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Bertrand Russel was, of course, right but the speed is frightening.
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"The deep critical thinker has become the misfit of the world, this is not a coincidence. To maintain order and control you must isolate the intellectual, the sage, the philosopher, the savant before their ideas awaken people."
- Carl Jung
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I don't know, George. It's been ten years since they finished fascinating the fools.
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Now it’s a mere AI generated synopsis.
can we skip to the part where all totalitarian governments fail?
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We’re well into the 2nd part now.
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The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism..
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Echoes... Such strong echoes: bsky.app/profile/jnei...
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Exactly!
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Except in the 21st Century version, the New York Times political and editorial desks are among the fools rather than the intelligent.
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It really is some scary shit.
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And people thought we learned something from WW2... Sad to see that it's still possible and even easier than in the past.
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Did you say anything about Biden’s & Harris’s enthusiastic support of Israel’s racist & fascist programme in the Palestinian territories and in particular the ethnic cleansing of Gaza? Sympathy with the fascist cause started in the US before Trump returned!
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Actually the speed hasn’t changed. They’ve been fascinating the fools for 10 yrs. We’re right on track for it all. 😞
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You might disagree George, but it's time that 'Death to Nazis' went from mantra to practice. Gotta get them before they get to us. These 'ICE agents' are the Nazi probe that needs to be made an example of....now.
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Nah, Germany did it in 53 days. Nothing is faster.
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So in America, MAGA are the fools. Some of the intelligent are standing up (new media) but very few universities, law firms, captains of industry, etc.
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Hitler started by silencing the media, just like Trump is doing. @stevescalise.bsky.social @joniernst.bsky.social @lindseygrahamsc.bsky.social @ronjohnsonwi.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com @thehill.com @politico.eu
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We’re seeing it in real time!
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Terrifying!
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Well said George 👏
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NeverpoiLIEvre
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We're seeing this everyday in our political "leaders"!
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Been fascinating the fools for years!
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That playbook is 💯.
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WOW!
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Protest every day in your own way! Be courageous and determined. We outnumber them and we will prevail.
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Horrific
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Then they extinguish both equally…
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..it doesn't necessarily stick with muzzling...
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I CANNOT wait until we get to this chapter and I hope it’s really soon!
The defendants in the dock at the Nuremberg Trials
Hilter did not carry out the atrocities himself.
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We will never be muzzled.
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"I love the uneducated"
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This works well as a test of intelligence.
For instance, Bill Maher is fascinated by Trump. So ...
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Full quote:
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He wrote that in 1940, and it's just as pertinent today as it was back then, the fools have been fascinated, and the intelligent being muzzled (see the other platforms and their suppression of various commentators and activists speaking out against this onset of insanity)...
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Tbf they've been fascinating the fools for quite a while
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I am grateful that Prof. Russell is not here to see the death of freedom here, and I weep that the rest of us must be here for it.
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That's as disconsoling as it is brilliant.
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Fascinating the fools has become so much easier with the internet and social media.
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It’s happening exactly like that
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I really don't believe that our youth are literate enough to read the writing on the wall
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That’s a damned fine description of how they infiltrate a society…Cheers, Bertrand👍🏻
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We know you are fucking slow MAGA so..... you are the fools
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Well, the fools have been fascinated
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It happened to Germany just as quickly.
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just a friendly history lesson; #NaziHunting is an American Tradition.
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And demonize education as indoctrination
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Wow sounds like the USA right now
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Completely serendipitous seeing this immediately after just finishing re-reading History of Western Philosophy
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There is a reason Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini and Mao went after the intellectuals
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The speed is good, because it means the fall will come faster.
This regime is inept as hell.
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There’s no way back now. Americans still don’t realise ALL the checks and balances are now gone. That’s it. America is now ruled by a dictator, and dictatorships tend not to switch back to democracies without blood.
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Refuse the muzzle, at all costs.
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And then they shoot the dissenters.
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I wonder if Trump had never been on "The Apprentice" would he still have won? Seems like much of his MAGA base point to that show as proof of his business acumen.
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Fact!!!
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Truth!
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And then they arrest judges, and remove due process, but they wouldn't, would they?
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See something Say something Be Vocal...our lives depend on it.
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AI fash, it’s not better but it’s faster
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The biggest weapons that the fascists have this go around is the army of intimidation they can wield with a few words against someone innocent on social media.
Intimidate and defang that army and the fascists will retreat.
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To quote Hitler “What luck, for governments, that the people are stupid!”
Somethings will never change.
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Speed is ever more important, since we have history to compare to, so that the fools don't realise until it's too late.
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Just like 47 and his regime is doing!!
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Every gilded age has an ending & this one is our ending....👋
George Monbiot on Neoliberalism: "A self-serving racket"
George Monbiot on Neoliberalism: "A self-serving racket"
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Just look around !
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So True!!
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I seldom disagree with you George but today, I do. If your referring the US, I think it has been a slow, and viewed from the outside, steady drip; I remember a guy called Bush 20 years back. Also, looking at how Fox News was invisioned in the 70s shows how the forces have been building.
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Hitler actually took just over three months. Trump is slower but then he has more systems and people to overcome. And he even started last year, by getting SCOTUS to approve assassination (or arrest) of political opponents.
Yes, it's scary. But it's not faster.
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The fools were easy to fascinate. The ignorant are easy to brainwash. That’s why chump is attacking education.
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Well the fools have been fascinated
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On point
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Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
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Social media makes fascism really easy.
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...and the second part gets nasty!
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Will share
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Touché
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At some point, authoritarian takeovers have to go fast to succeed.
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Brilliant, I’ve never seen this quote before. Thank you.
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Thanks for this observation and sounding of alarm. My mimd is boggled, sadly.
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I think this is needed more now than ever.
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And finally the intelligent have a tribunal and the fools are killed. Its some sort of draining the swamp cycle.
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These two things are very disturbing. Learn the word Gaus. The predictive markets on elections were legalized on November 2024.
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That’s exactly what’s going on😟
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Well, surely Maga are some fascinated motherfuckers
