Italy one of five ‘dismantlers’ causing ‘democratic recession’ in Europe, report says | European Union | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/17/italy-one-of-five-dismantlers-causing-democratic-recession-in-europe-report-says
Italy one of five ‘dismantlers’ causing ‘democratic recession’ in Europe, report says | European Union | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/17/italy-one-of-five-dismantlers-causing-democratic-recession-in-europe-report-says
This is partly why I think the #fediverse could give the building blocks to slow this down by neutralizing right-wingers to buying up the advertising and followers. But I don't see that happening for a long time.
Hungary's Orban vows crackdown on media, NGOs
> The #rightwing populist prime minister has stepped up his attacks on critics, largely journalists and civil society organizations, since #US President #DonaldTrump entered office
https://www.dw.com/en/hungarys-orban-vows-crackdown-on-media-ngos/a-71932327 #ViktorOrban #Hungary
"The #rightwing #authoritarian comeback is here, it is accelerating, and it is ruthless. Across the U.S. and Europe, the far right have seized power, stacked courts, rigged elections, and gutted democratic institutions with surgical precision. Trump and his allies have weaponized the government against dissent… Their assault on #transgender people is an active state-sponsored persecution, backed by bans on healthcare, forced detransition, and legal erasure."
https://www.theindex.media/the-pundit-class-played-devils-advocate-now-the-devils-at-the-door/
This is the #gaslighting, reprehensible, Nazi-loving scumbag destroying our country
Musk Retweets ‘Hitler Didn’t Murder Millions’ Message Amid Ongoing Nazi Controversy
#Tesla chief and presidential adviser Elon #Musk shared a post Thursday that said public sector workers, not Nazi dictator Adolf #Hitler, murdered millions of people, marking the #billionaire’s latest #Nazi-related post as he and his electric vehicle company face continued backlash and boycotts as critics say his embrace of #RightWing politics is veering more extreme.
#x #twitter #Autocrat #autocracy #fascism #ketamine
https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2025/03/13/musk-retweets-hitler-didnt-murder-millions-message-amid-ongoing-nazi-controversy/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qzo5WsNYO4
'#Hypocrisy is a feature of #fascism. Not a bug' ----- Mike Figuerado of The Humanist Report
The SHAMELESS Hypocrisy of #Rightwing #FreeSpeech Warriors: Then vs. Now
>> Should #Democrats let the government shut down?
That's a pretty facile framing. #Republicans are already shutting down the government.
If Democrats cannot stop the unwarranted and illegal firing of government workers, it is just #RightWing BS that "Democrats let the government shut down."
The #Plutocrat-#Bigot #socialMedia axis takes race swapping characters in #movies seriously
Because it's a pipeline to #farRight #politics, weaponized fake outrage
And they get to engage in #racism and #hate
"#AyoEdebiri ‘got insane death threats’ after Elon #Musk shared fake report about #PiratesoftheCaribbean casting
#TheBear #actor called Musk a #fascist and an idiot after his reaction to a post from a #rightWing account that claimed she was replacing Johnny Depp"
#MAGAjackass #EvilMusician #Music #Cancelled #SaveYourMoney
My mum knows I post info about musicians etc who most people wouldn't support if they knew their back story. So, she told me a while back that Miss #NoDoubt was a #rightwing arsehole
i find it interesting #Trump doesn't threaten to invade #Cuba
from a purely moron-#American #ultranationalist #imperialist perspective, it works. it works from the "evil #socialism" perspective
it even works from the hardcore #rightWing #CubanAmerican "Bay of Pigs was the greatest tragedy ever" perspective
but Trump goes after #Greenland and #Panama, #Canada and #Mexico instead
interesting that, no?
some #nonvoters are #rightWing turds too
we see the #toxicIdealism on the #left, the "it's not perfect so i won't #vote" because we're on #mastodon and in other social silos on the left, which amplifies our impression
still, it's a lot of people like that, enough to make a difference
which is why some of these toxic idealism voices we see are just #geopolitical #trollFarm #psyop, cosplaying their fake #leftWing bonafides and working hard to suppress the vote on the left
the #conservative mind operates on #fear
overactive amygdala
it crowds out the prefrontal cortex: reason
#plutocrat #rightWing #media and #socialMedia amplifies the imbalance on purpose
pushing lies that goose the fear, #ignorance and #hate, capturing their minds, addicting them, controlling them
as suitably brainwashed zombies, programmed like robots, they dutifully and enthusiastically go to #vote
while the #left is not so engaged
this is our problem
#American senator #RickScott posts a #video with the #Israeli flag clearly present and the American flag nowhere to be seen
the fact that Danielle Smith is going to be speaking with Ben f__ing Shapiro is just... over the top.
HELLO ALBERTA, GET RID OF THIS TRAITOR!
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #TradeWar #RightWing #AltRight #Nazi #TrumpTariffs
https://www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/danielle-smith-to-share-the-stage-with-ben-shapiro-at-florida-prageru-event/
#ColumbiaUniversity Bent Over Backward to Appease #RightWing, #ProIsrael Attacks — And #Trump Still Cut #FederalFunding
Instead of #outrage, the school’s interim president responded to the cuts by vowing to continue its misguided crackdown.
by Natasha Lennard, March 8 2025
"Columbia University could hardly have been more draconian in the last year and a half since students began speaking out against Israel’s assault on #Gaza.
In early November 2023, four months before the Columbia #GazaSolidarity encampment even began, the university banned its chapters of #StudentsForJusticeInPalestine and #JewishVoiceForPeace. A few hundred students from the groups had had the audacity to walk out from classes and hold a “die-in” protest on campus — some of the most widely celebrated nonviolent protest tactics available.
"The crackdown was just getting started.
Since then, the university has ordered police raids on campus three times, leading to the arrests of over 100 students. Last week, the school expelled four students, three from #BarnardCollege one from Columbia. Many dozens of students have faced discipline and suspensions for participating in pro-Palestine protests and speech.
"Professors have been slandered before Congress, censured, removed from positions, and reportedly pushed into retirement over their support for Palestine and criticism of Israel. The campus has been essentially locked down for almost a year.
"Again and again, Columbia has shown a willingness to throw #students, #faculty, #FreeSpeech, and academic freedom under the bus in acquiescence to a #RightWing, #ProIsrael narrative that treats support for Palestinians as an affront to Jewish safety.
"For all Columbia’s #appeasement, President Donald Trump’s Federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism announced last week that it would cancel $400 million in #FederalGrants and contracts to the university.
"'Columbia has worked overtime to appease,' wrote Layla, a student at Columbia’s School of Social Work, who asked to withhold her last name having faced doxxing attacks and harassment from Zionist groups. 'Students are miserable. Campus is a #panopticon. And their funding was still cut.'
"The Trump administration can be expected to use its perverted conception of antisemitism to further its explicit plans to decimate, #corporatize, and #ReWhiten #HigherEducation. The shame here lies with university leaderships — at Columbia and schools nationwide — that have failed to stand up for their purported missions of #CriticalThinking and #AcademicFreedom. Instead, they have put some of their most vulnerable community members, particularly international students and students of color, at risk.
"There is no appeasing a political force like the #TrumpianRight, intent on a program of destruction. And there is no appeasing a nationalist #Zionist worldview that, defying reason, sees #antisemitism in every call for #Palestinian freedom. Columbia is proof of the failure of caving in; the administration has offered up a platter of repression for more than a year and is still slated to lose $400 million."
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/03/08/columbia-trump-funding-gaza-israel/
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/jrNva
#Fascism #Appeasement #FreePalestine #Gaza #RightToProtest #Censorship #Fascism #ICE #ACAB #Authoritarianism #USPol #FreeSpeech
#elonmusk #musk #tesla #spacex #usa #republican #nazi #trump #donaldtrump #doge #presidency #president #america #unitedstates #rightwing #racism #war #ukraine #ukrainewar #starlink #satellites
The public could “collapse” Musk with a “ditch X and Tesla” decision. The sooner the better in my opinion.
Via #WantedInRome - Mar 08, 2025
#Italy must pay compensation to #migrants who were not permitted to disembark from a coast guard ship in August 2018, the country's top court ruled on Friday, sparking a furious reaction from the #RightWing government.
The 177 migrants who were held aboard the #Diciotti ship for 10 days were deprived of their personal #freedom, the #CassationCourt ruled, and accordingly are entitled to damages from the #Italian state.
https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/italy-top-court-orders-government-compensate-migrants.html
@TransitBiker
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The same folks seem to believe #ElonMusk when it comes to supposed alleged baseless claims of abuse, waste, and fraud. 1/
Right, #transactional, these #MAGA and or #rightwing types are Transactional (esp #Trump) but the good thing is, they show us who they are, but the #disinformation they absorbe, is still here, that's got to go, imo.