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“Crack-Up #Capitalism”: #Historian #QuinnSlobodian on #Trump, #Musk & the Movement to “Shatter” the State

#DemocracyNow, February 20, 2025

"Who are the minds behind #DOGE, and what do they really believe? Historian Quinn Slobodian says three strains of #conservatism have converged to form the second Trump administration’s #AntiDemocratic coalition: finance-backed #CorporateInterests previously friendly to the #DemocraticParty, #ChristianConservative think tanks who have long advocated for the end of the administrative state, and the online-driven movement of reactionary extremists who traffic in #WhiteSupremacist and #NeoNazi rhetoric. Meanwhile, says Slobodian, 'Trump is a person who doesn’t believe in much, but he believes in #money,' leaving him willing to enact the political visions of these three #ProCapitalist projects. Slobodian, an expert in German history, also discusses the connections between the Trump sphere and Germany’s far-right Alternative for #Germany (#AfD) party, supported by Musk and Vice President #JDVance.'"

Read / listen / watch:
democracynow.org/2025/2/20/qui
#USPol #FarRight #CorporateColonialism #Capitalism #ChristoFascists

Democracy Now! · “Crack-Up Capitalism”: Historian Quinn Slobodian on Trump, Musk & the Movement to “Shatter” the StateBy Democracy Now!

Incumbent right wing 'Labor' government does sneaky deal with far right wing 'Liberal' party in Australia in attempt to block minor party & independents from entering parliament.

"As teals attended drinks with Albanese, Dutton and Labor struck election overhaul

Political donations Australia: Labor, Coalition strike deal aimed at independents"

#auspol #australia #antidemocratic

theage.com.au/politics/federal

The Age · As teals attended drinks with Albanese, Dutton and Labor struck election overhaulBy Paul Sakkal

ready for a real #doomandgloom #shitshow? book: "The End of Reality: How Four #Billionaires are Selling a #Fantasy #Future of the #Metaverse, #Mars, and #Crypto" please ONLY use tor browser to download! annas-archive.org/md5/f68949cb

#trump wants to be #king of #USA
#dictatorship

#peterthiel "is probably the most clearly #fascist prominent figure in the #USA today including #trump" (was director at #facebook)

#stevebannon: "#Democrats don't matter the real #opposition is the #media" "flood the zone with shit until citizens become disoriented and reality lost all meaning"

#AI and #ChatGPT will enhance the #shitflood of #internet with #fakenews (aka #lies)

#bannon and #peterthiel instrumentalize #facebook

#curtisyarvin: "#antidemocratic philosophical movement known as the #DarkEnlightenment or #neoreactionary movement (#NRx)" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Y
#politics #ahoh #fascism #wtf #cantmakethisshitup #twitter #xcom

“Now 15 trade unions join calls demanding an inquiry into Met’s handling of Palestine march”

by The Canary @thecanaryuk

@palestine
@israel
@UKLabour

“Describing the Met’s approach as ‘repressive and heavy-handed’ they say police assertions of disorder are contradicted by video evidence and that this undermines confidence in policing”

thecanary.co/uk/news/2025/01/3

Canary · Trade unions call for inquiry into Met & Palestine marchTrade unions warn that heavy-handed policing, followed by the construction of false media narratives, are not acceptable from the Met Police
#Press#UK#MetPolice

What still makes me so sad about the 2024 election is that Donals Trump’s victory means that it no longer matters how dishonest, how cruel, corrupt, criminal, ignorant, misogynistic, how traitorous, or how anti-democratic a candidate for office in america is.

- Joe Walsh, American politician

The role this Oligarch and his cronies played in literally capitalizing, enriching, and then taking sole credit for the state funded, collaborative labor of unsung scientists and engineers over generations is an obscenity!

‘Free Speech’ Grifter Shares Billionaire’s Demonic Vision For America’s Future
#SamSeder #EmmaVigeland #MajorityReport #Politics #News #Oligarch #antiDemocratic #Illiberal #Monopolistic
youtube.com/watch?v=qTLWMrAycF

@Fud4thort dodgy slang, good one😅
@grrlscientist
RE
DOGE's goal is...working towards becoming a wasteful, lawless, & #antidemocratic bureaucracy in #washdc 🤑
#DOGE #ElonMusk #Corruption #DavidSacks

(they (#DOGE) said... at the end the video)

"We need super high IQ small goverment revolutionaries willing to work 80+ hours per week on unglamorous cost cutting"


#Trump LIKES #H1B and even goes to wanting to give a #greencard to every college grad (see video)

While I'm critical of the poverty industry, this recent comment by Musk is absolutely inhuman and right on-brand!

Snopes Fact Check
Elon Musk Did Say the Word 'Homeless' Is a Lie?
The tech entrepreneur has a history of suspicion towards organizations helping homeless people.
#Neoliberal #Fascistic #antiDemocratic #antiUnion #Monopolist
snopes.com/fact-check/musk-wor

Snopes · Elon Musk Did Say the Word 'Homeless' Is a LieThe tech entrepreneur has a history of suspicion towards organizations helping homeless people.