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START w/ the Golden Rule + UNIVERSAL human rights; what anyone abides be done to any person/group, they enable to be done to themselves and others. Nationality/ethnicity/race/sex/gender/religion/LGBTQIA/etc. don't determine character. Against cruelty.

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Wide Mind-Fierce Heart 🦓🥄@wydmindfeersart· 11d

Encyclopædia Britannica - fascism - Common characteristics - Scapegoating: www.britannica.com/topic/fascis... #fascism #Scapegoating

https://www.britannica.com/topic/fascism/Extreme-nationalism#ref219382

Encyclopædia Britannica - fascism -Common characteristics - Scapegoating:

Scapegoating

Fascists often blamed their countries’ problems on scapegoats. Jews, Freemasons, Marxists, and immigrants were prominent among the groups that were demonized. According to fascist propaganda, the long depression of the 1930s resulted less from insufficient government regulation of the economy or inadequate lower-class purchasing power than from “Judeo-Masonic-bolshevik” conspiracies, left-wing agitation, and the presence of immigrants. The implication was that depriving these demons of their power and influence would cause the nation’s major problems to go away.

Wide Mind-Fierce Heart 🦓🥄@wydmindfeersart· Jun 4

In the US, neither the legacy press, nor the leaders of either of our political parties even inform the people what human rights are. The country's political, economic, and information systems have all been captured by narcissists and sociopaths. We need a revolution of values. #HumanRights

Wide Mind-Fierce Heart 🦓🥄@wydmindfeersart· Apr 20

From an essay written by Albert Einstein and published in 1949: archive.org/details/Albe...

"Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands. The result is an oligarchy of private capital, the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society. This is true since the members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population. Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed most cases quite impossible, for the individual to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights."

- Albert Einstein, 1949

Wide Mind-Fierce Heart 🦓🥄@wydmindfeersart· Mar 7

??? Conservatism: www.britannica.com/topic/conser... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conserv...

Wide Mind-Fierce Heart 🦓🥄@wydmindfeersart· Feb 11

How did the Holocaust happen? www.theholocaustexplained.org/how-and-why/...

A screenshot of a section of the webpage at https://www.theholocaustexplained.org/how-and-why/how/persecution-and-ghettos/. It reads:

Forced ghettoisation was a large escalation from the pre-war anti-Jewish policy in Germany. Prior to the war, the Nazis had focused on encouraging Jews to emigrate from the Greater German Reich through their antisemitic policies and actions. By 1939 in Poland, the Nazis escalated their actions, and segregated and imprisoned Jews for future deportation. At this stage, the Nazis planned to deport Jews to Madagascar or lands further east. Later, in 1941, as both of these options were realised to be infeasible, the Nazis created extermination camps to liquidate the populations of the ghettos instead.

Wide Mind-Fierce Heart 🦓🥄@wydmindfeersart· Feb 8

The "normies," including corporate media and centrists, normalized and mainstreamed right-wing extremism and ultranationalism, and now we're here.

Wide Mind-Fierce Heart 🦓🥄@wydmindfeersart· Jan 25

"An essential step in the fascist march to acceptance and power was to persuade law-and-order conservatives and members of the middle class to tolerate fascist violence as a harsh necessity in the face of Left provocation." - Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism (2004)

Wide Mind-Fierce Heart 🦓🥄@wydmindfeersart· Jan 20

1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Pa...

$1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Palestinian_expulsion_and_flight Location: Mandatory Palestine Date: 31 December 1947 – 20 July 1949 Target: Palestinian Arabs Attack type: Ethnic cleansing, forced displacement, dispossession, mass killing, settler colonialism, biological warfare Deaths: Unknown. Aref al-Aref gives the number of Palestinian deaths as 13,000, with the majority of that number being civilians.[1][2] 15,000 deaths estimated by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics "from 1947 to 1949".[3] Victims: 750,000+ Palestinian Arabs expelled or fled Perpetrators: State of Israel Haganah Irgun Lehi Motive: Anti-Arab racism[citation needed], Zionism, Settler colonialism In the 1948 Palestine war, more than 700,000 Palestinian Arabs – about half of Mandatory Palestine's predominantly Arab population – were expelled or fled from their homes.[4] Expulsions and attacks against Palestinians were carried out by the Zionist paramilitaries Haganah, Irgun, and Lehi, which merged to become the Israel Defense Forces after the establishment of Israel part way through the war. The expulsion and flight was a central component of the fracturing, dispossession, and displacement of Palestinian society, known as the Nakba.[5] Dozens of massacres targeting Arabs were conducted by Israeli military forces and between 400 and 600 Palestinian villages were destroyed. Village wells were poisoned in a biological warfare programme, properties were looted to prevent Palestinian refugees from returning,[6][7] and some sites were subject to Hebraization of Palestinian place names.[8]$

Wide Mind-Fierce Heart 🦓🥄@wydmindfeersart· Jan 9

An image of the cover of the 2004 book "The Anatomy of Fascism," by historian and political scientist Robert O. Paxton.

Wide Mind-Fierce Heart 🦓🥄@wydmindfeersart· Dec 25

How did the Holocaust happen? www.theholocaustexplained.org/how-and-why/...

A section of the webpage at url: https://www.theholocaustexplained.org/how-and-why/how/persecution-and-ghettos/

The text included in the image is:

"Prior to the war, the Nazis had focused on encouraging Jews to emigrate from the Greater German Reich through their antisemitic policies and actions. By 1939 in Poland, the Nazis escalated their actions, and segregated and imprisoned Jews for future deportation. At this stage, the Nazis planned to deport Jews to Madagascar or lands further east. Later, in 1941, as both of these options were realised to be infeasible, the Nazis created extermination camps to liquidate the populations of the ghettos instead."

Wide Mind-Fierce Heart 🦓🥄@wydmindfeersart· Dec 19

Wide Mind-Fierce Heart 🦓🥄@wydmindfeersart· Dec 10

The secret police of the 40+yr, right-wing European dictatorship I was born under started as border/immigration enforcement; then trained w/ the Gestapo. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIDE We're going to keep repeating atrocities until we *insist* on UNIVERSAL human rights — not just for our *own* groups.

Wide Mind-Fierce Heart 🦓🥄@wydmindfeersart· Nov 25

I care for people and animals and plants and other living things. Nationalism destroys empathy.

Wide Mind-Fierce Heart 🦓🥄@wydmindfeersart· Nov 24

Media Matters for America found that just between Jan 2019 - Jul 2021, US legacy/mainstream news outlets published over 200 articles that used ANTI-immigrant/immigration activists who work at ANTI-immigrant/immigration orgs as immigration subject matter "experts." www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2022...

An image of the "We're all trying to find the guy who did this" meme.

Wide Mind-Fierce Heart 🦓🥄@wydmindfeersart· Nov 21

Feb 2018: United Nations report concludes that the persistence of extreme poverty in 🇺🇸 is political choice made by people in power and calls on govs to address the underlying problems facing the underclass rather than "punishing and imprisoning the poor." www.dw.com/en/un-report...

Source: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=22533&LangID=E

Dec 15, 2017

• US health care expenditures per capita are double the OECD average and much higher than in all other countries. But there are many fewer doctors and hospital beds per person than the OECD average.
• US infant mortality rates in 2013 were the highest in the developed world.
• Americans can expect to live shorter and sicker lives, compared to people living in any other rich democracy, and the "health gap" between the U.S. and its peer countries continues to grow.
• U.S. inequality levels are far higher than those in most European countries
• Neglected tropical diseases, including Zika, are increasingly common in the USA. It has been estimated that 12 million Americans live with a neglected parasitic infection.
• In terms of access to water and sanitation the US ranks 36th in the world.
• America has the highest incarceration rate in the world, ahead of Turkmenistan, El Salvador, Cuba, Thailand and the Russian Federation. Its rate is nearly 5 times the OECD average.
• The youth poverty rate in the United States is the highest across the OECD with one quarter of youth living in poverty compared to less than 14% across the OECD.
• The Stanford Center on Inequality and Poverty ranks the most well-off countries in terms of labor markets, poverty, safety net, wealth inequality, and economic mobility. The US comes in last of the top 10 most well-off countries, and 18th amongst the top 21.
• In the OECD the US ranks 35th out of 37 in terms of poverty and inequality.
• According to the World Income Inequality Database, the US has the highest Gini rate (measuring inequality) of all Western Countries
• The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality characterizes the US as "a clear and constant outlier in the child poverty league." US child poverty rates are the highest amongst the six richest countries

Wide Mind-Fierce Heart 🦓🥄@wydmindfeersart· Nov 21

Wide Mind-Fierce Heart 🦓🥄@wydmindfeersart· Nov 9

Ugh - I pasted the wrong text into the alt-text in for the image in the post above — my apologies. Here it is again with the correct alt-text:

Image of portion of webpage with info about "fascism" on the U.S. Holocaust Museum website. (https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/fascism-1)

Vsible text:

Definition and Beliefs

Fascism is an ultranationalist, authoritarian political philosophy. It combines elements of nationalism, militarism, economic self-sufficiency, and totalitarianism. It opposes communism, socialism, pluralism, individual rights and equality, and democratic government.

Fascism places the importance of the nation above all else. The unity of the national community is prioritized above the rights of individuals. This leads to an intense interest in defining which groups belong or do not belong to the national body. Fascism is characterized by:

- strident, often exclusionary nationalism

- fixation with national decline (real or perceived) and threats to the existence of the national community

- embrace of paramilitarism

In fascist states, violence is accepted — even celebrated — if it serves...

Wide Mind-Fierce Heart 🦓🥄@wydmindfeersart· Nov 8

How do *you* define "insist"?

Wide Mind-Fierce Heart 🦓🥄@wydmindfeersart· Oct 31

Contrary to the false narrative routinely put forth by billionaire-run news media and millionaire politicians, poor people are the *least* likely to be or vote for Republicans.

Wide Mind-Fierce Heart 🦓🥄@wydmindfeersart· Oct 31

Contrary to the false narrative routinely put forth by billionaire-run news media and millionaire politicians, poor people are the *least* likely to be or vote for Republicans.

Wide Mind-Fierce Heart 🦓🥄@wydmindfeersart· Oct 26

Wide Mind-Fierce Heart 🦓🥄@wydmindfeersart· Oct 24

Not that it matters, but poor people are the *least* likely to be or vote for Republicans. Billionaire-run mainstream media has this country so misinformed that even people with bios like the one in your profile are reveling in the thought of starving poor people. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Wide Mind-Fierce Heart 🦓🥄@wydmindfeersart· Oct 8

?? Encyclopædia Britannica - conservatism: www.britannica.com/topic/conser...

Wide Mind-Fierce Heart 🦓🥄@wydmindfeersart· Oct 7

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Wide Mind-Fierce Heart 🦓🥄@wydmindfeersart· Oct 3

I saw/saved this on/from Twitter years ago.

Wide Mind-Fierce Heart 🦓🥄@wydmindfeersart· Sep 30

“[T]he liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism...” -Franklin D. Roosevelt, Message to Congress, Apr 29 1938 www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/me...

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/message-congress-curbing-monopolies

Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd President of the United States: 1933-1945

Message to Congress on Curbing Monopolies.
April 29, 1938

To the Congress:

Unhappy events abroad have retaught us two simple truths about the liberty of a democratic people.

The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism—ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.

The second truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if its business system does not provide employment and produce and distribute goods in such a way as to sustain an acceptable standard of living.

Wide Mind-Fierce Heart 🦓🥄@wydmindfeersart· Sep 29

The U.S. political, economic, and social systems are in effect: "dictatorship by capital." This isn't "democracy," or even "representative democracy;" and this dictatorship will continue to consolidate until our civilization and world are destroyed or until we demand *universal* human rights.

Wide Mind-Fierce Heart 🦓🥄@wydmindfeersart· Sep 29

Encyclopædia Britannica - fascism - Intellectual origins: www.britannica.com/topic/fascis... "Mussolini and Hitler did not invent fascist ideology. Indeed, fascism is neither a 20th-century creation nor a peculiarly Italian or German one..."

https://www.britannica.com/topic/fascism/Intellectual-origins

"Many fascist ideas derived from the reactionary backlash to the progressive revolutions of 1789, 1830, 1848, and 1871 and to the secular liberalism and social radicalism that accompanied these upheavals. De Maistre condemned the 18th-century Enlightenment for having subverted the dominance of traditional religion and traditional elites and paid homage to the public executioner as the protector of a divinely sanctioned social hierarchy. Taine lamented the rise to power of the masses, whom he suggested were at a lower stage of biological evolution than aristocrats. Le Bon wrote a primer on how to divert the barbarism of the masses from revolution to reaction. Barrès fused ethnic rootedness with authoritarian nationalism and contended that too much civilization led to decadence and that hatred and violence were energizing remedies."

Wide Mind-Fierce Heart 🦓🥄@wydmindfeersart· Sep 25

The "immigration system"— the employer-sponsored visas, the detention industrial complex, the creation of "illegal workers," etc. has created one of the —if not THE— largest global human trafficking rings since chattel slavery. All funded by the victims, the taxpayers, and end-consumers of products.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_trafficking

Human trafficking is the act of recruiting, transporting, transferring, harboring, or receiving individuals through force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of exploitation. This exploitation may include forced labor, sexual slavery, or other forms of commercial sexual exploitation. It is considered a serious violation of human rights and a form of modern slavery.

Wide Mind-Fierce Heart 🦓🥄@wydmindfeersart· Sep 23

From a 1949 essay written by Albert Einstein: archive.org/details/Albe...