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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 05:05:33 JST Aral Balkan

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   • William Lindsey :toad:
   • Anna Anthro

   @wdlindsy @AnnaAnthro America is a “teetering capitalist democracy” insofar as a broken vase is a teetering vase. And that’s before we get to the oxymoron that is “capitalist democracy”.

   • William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 05:05:34 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "The unholy pact between Trump and America’s richest and most influential tech entrepreneurs marks a significant difference from his first term, when prominent business leaders mostly kept him at arm’s length (or outright opposed him). But partnerships of this sort are far from unprecedented in teetering capitalist democracies."

     ~ Aaron Rupar and Thor Benson

     #Trump #ElonMusk #EconomicElites #TechBros #SiliconValley #oligarchy #broligarchy #fascism
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     https://www.publicnotice.co/p/david-de-jong-nazi-interview-trump-musk

   • William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 05:05:35 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "Contempt is a dangerous way to lead a country."

     ~ Mariann Edgar Budde

     #Trump #Republicans #Americans #cruelty #fascism #arrogance #bullying #ignorance #immigrants #deportations #militarization #AmericanExceptionalism
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     https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/24/bishop-mariann-edgar-budde-sermon-that-enraged-donald-trump

   • William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 05:05:36 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "America’s love affair with confidant stupidity continues to reach awful new heights. The bill will come due. The piper will need paid. The damage will be extensive."

     ~ David DeWitt

     #Trump #Republicans #Americans #cruelty #fascism #arrogance #bullying #ignorance #immigrants #deportations #militarization #AmericanExceptionalism
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     https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/01/24/americas-love-affair-with-confident-stupidity-has-reached-awful-new-heights/

   • William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 05:05:36 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     “When I walk away from this experience, one of the things that is most alarming to me is just how easy it is to actually control people. It doesn’t take secret police. It doesn’t take guns. It doesn’t take gulags.”

     ~ David Pressman

     #Trump #Republicans #Americans #cruelty #fascism #arrogance #bullying #ignorance #immigrants #deportations #militarization #AmericanExceptionalism
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     https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/magazine/david-pressman-interview.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

   • William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 05:05:37 JST William Lindsey :toad:

     "All my life I have been an admirer of the United States and its people. But I am frightened of it now, and I am even more frightened of them."

     ~ Andrew Coyne, writing from Canada

     #Trump #Republicans #Americans #cruelty #fascism #arrogance #bullying #ignorance #immigrants #deportations #militarization #AmericanExceptionalism
     /1

     https://robertreich.substack.com/p/a-view-from-north-of-the-border