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1. Shoq (shoq@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 19:06:43 JST Shoq

   Oh look, journalism!

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 19:06:43 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Kiudecan

     @shoq @kiudecan Alt text: social media post with photo of Trump as Hitler on magazine cover.

     The New Republic •
     @newrepublic
     We chose the cover image, based on a well-known 1932 Hitler campaign poster, for a precise reason: that anyone transported back to 1932 Germany could very, very easily have explained away Herr Hitler's excesses and been persuaded that his critics were going overboard. (1/5)

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 19:07:18 JST Aral Balkan

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     After all, he spent 1932 campaigning, negotiating, doing interviews— being a mostly normal politician. But he and his people vowed all along that they would use the tools of democracy to destroy it, and it was only after he was given power that Germany saw his movement's full face. (2/5)

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 19:07:47 JST Aral Balkan

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     Today, we at The New Republic think we can spend this election year in one of two ways. We can spend it debating whether Trump meets the nine or 17 points that define fascism. Or we can spend it saying, "He's damn close enough, and we'd better fight." (3/5)

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 19:08:19 JST Aral Balkan

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     We unreservedly choose the latter course. And so we have assembled herein some of our leading intellectual historians of fascism; a member of the fourth estate who learned firsthand what the Trump lash feels like; a leading expert on civil-military relations; a great Guatemalan American novelist with a deep understanding of immigrants' lives; one of our most incisive cultural critics; and a man with all-too-real experience in living under a notorious authoritarian regime. (4/5)

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 19:08:47 JST Aral Balkan

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     The scenarios they describe are certainly grim. We dare you to say, after reading these pieces, that they are impossible. (5/5)

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 19:28:07 JST Aral Balkan

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     • tuga

     @tuga https://accessibility.huit.harvard.edu/describe-content-images

   • tuga (tuga@masto.pt)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 19:28:08 JST tuga

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     • Aral Balkan

     @aral
     Why are you copying what's already in the article?!

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 23:21:21 JST Aral Balkan

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     • tuga

     @tuga Ok, dude, you think you can do better? Please, go right ahead. (The post is an image.)

   • tuga (tuga@masto.pt)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 23:21:23 JST tuga

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     • Aral Balkan

     @aral
     That's hardly alt-text, that's the whole post.
     The alt-text would be for the image in the post.