The Skinny: Climate of Fear and Indifference

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Watching Us Fall

In the nazi “shock doctrine” environment of the second Trump administration it’s hard to simply keep track of all the assaults being conducted on our rights and communities, let alone actively oppose them all. As violation after violation rains down on our society a certain numbness and exhaustion appears to be setting in all around us, with deadly consequences for that passivity looming on the very near horizon. Here on NIDC however, we don’t know the meaning of the word surrender and that’s why I kept my keyboard to the grindstone this week to keep readers up to date on all the fascist bullshit the Kelpto Kaiser’s regime can throw at us. As always you can follow the links below to check out these stories on my Fediverse blog, or simply read them in their entirety on page two by using the navigation buttons at the bottom of this article. Put your mouth guard in and get ready for a bumpy right folks, because the Pork Reich never sleeps.

 

April 16th – 19th Blogs

Jewish American Left Says “Not In Our Name”

“The truth however, is quite different from the picture you’re allowed to see on television; Jewish Americans are actually massively overrepresented in the anti-genocide protest movement, and a vibrant, growing collage of Jewish left organizations are risking the personal safety of their members to vigorously oppose a fascist regime and say, quite directly, that not only are the regime’s actions putting Jewish people in danger, they will not allow genocide, deportations, and fascist repression to be conducted “in their name.”

 

A Christian Nationalist Purge Is Coming

“Like most fascist movements, “Trumpism” is actually a quilted patchwork of reactionaries, supremacists, and eliminationists who are ideologically aligned under the big picture fascist umbrella, but have, at times wildly different priorities and concerns on the micro level, inside each individual clique. One of the core constituencies in the fascist Trump alliance are Christian Nationalists and the evangelical right; whose loyalty to the regime was rewarded with an anti-trans pogrom and assaults on public education (among other things) the moment Trump was inaugurated. Now, slightly staggered as their two prior fake moral panics become exposed as just bog standard fascism, what better way to right the nazi ship of state than to drum up a third moral panic about anti-Christian bias?”

 

Disenfranchising Trans People is Intentional

“At this point can anyone paying attention (a very small group indeed, as far as I can tell) claim to be surprised that trans-eliminationist nazis are trying to pass a law that further erases trans people from public life and social participation, yet most of American society hasn’t even registered that as a potential consequence of this disastrous, anti-democratic bill? After all, when the president of the United States signed an executive order more or less saying that trans people didn’t exist, which historically is a sure sign that a government intends to make that a reality, most Very Serious PeopleTM in our discourse shrugged and pointed to public polling as an excuse to not speak out to defend trans people. So why would this act of erasure and disenfranchisement be any different?”

 

Weaponizing Jewish People to Crush Dissent is Antisemitic

“This government doesn’t care about antisemitism; it cares about its genocidal settler colonial client state in the Middle East, Israel. But the Trump administration, which frequently dabbles in open antisemitism, is happy to use the fight against really existing hatemongering against Jewish people as a cudgel to accomplish its fascist goals; namely allowing Israel to complete its genocide in Gaza, purging student dissidents with experience fighting the regime, and seizing control of higher education as part of a Yarvinite scheme to create a fascist dictatorship under Trump.”

 

A Nazi Billionaire Crank and His “Legion” of Spawn

“When a billionaire nazi who grew up under the apartheid system in South Africa starts talking about the dangers to human “civilization” presented by higher birthrates in “the Third World” and the need for “educated people” to have more babies, it doesn’t take a psychic to realize that he’s really talking about a perceived fascist need for white people to literally out breed non-white people as part of some implied racialized struggle for “the future of human civilization.” He can dress his odious ideas up with nonsense about going to Mars. or preserving “civilization” and the human race, but it’s very clear what “civilization” he’s hoping to save and what kind of humans he’s hoping to “preserve” here; this is bog standard nazi shit.”

 

Gorka Says Opposition to Trafficking Migrants is “Terrorism”

“As such, it should absolutely alarm you when Seb Gorka goes on TV to repeat and reinforce the US government’s fact-free claim that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is literally a “terrorist,” and starts characterizing people who oppose Trump’s illegal “deportation” of Garcia as folks potentially “aiding and abetting” terrorists; because again, for some mysterious reason (they’re all nazis too) the Trump regime gave this disgraced War on Terror-era reject authority over protecting America from whoever the hell the regime says are “terrorists” apparently. How Gorka finds the time to do so amid his typically busy day of doing Islambophia, warmongering, and spreading fascist ideology, remains a mystery.”

 

I Don’t Know How To Make You Care About Trans Lives

“The fascist American right has openly admitted that they’re trying to drive trans people out of public life, and we’ve caught them on tape admitting they want to criminalize being trans and ultimately end the existence of trans people. Hell, the goddamn nazi President of the United States publicly acknowledged he wants to end all gender affirming care, even for adults, and on his very first day in office he issued an Executive Order officially declaring that there were only two “biological” genders and thus trans people don’t exist. Now the larger fascist right seems poised to use anti-sterilization laws meant to protect marginalized people from eugenicist freaks and federal funding mechanisms, to deny life-saving gender affirming care to everyone in America, regardless of age.”

 

It’s Not the Sci-Fi Stories, It’s All That Fascism

“I think at this point it’s pretty uncontroversial to say that guys like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and even Jeff Bezos are deeply unserious thinkers whose wealth allows them to surround themselves with actual scientists, engineers, and inventors who can turn their pulp fiction fantasies into reality; so it’s not really a surprise that these rich dilettante get their ideas from mass market sci-fi novels. What I think is far more instructional however, is to look at which science fiction ideas these folks gravitate towards; specifically the hyper-capitalist, racist, fascist, and authoritarian ideas commonly found in the sci-fi novels they grew up with.”

 

 

• Nina Illingworth

 

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