Update: they’ve reportedly reinstated the #antifa hashtag. As well as #noAFD, which was, apparently, also blocked.

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Hey FLOSS.social, do you understand that “antifa” stands for “anti fascist?” Do you know what folks who are anti-anti fascist are? That’s right, they’re fascists.

While you’re at it, you might also want to look up what the “F” and the “L” in your name stand for.

If they don’t fix this ASAP, I’d recommend a swift #fediblock by any instance that isn’t fascist.

Important edit:
Meanwhile, the admin responded and clarified the situation. It was a configuration mistake. #antifa was auto blocked because of spam (if I got this correctly?) and #NoAfD basically for the same reason. The latter, however, wasn't resolved that fast because it has never been reported. Which is believable because it's super German specific.
https://floss.social/@admin/114041817627451631

Original:
@admin I'm sorry, what?!

#Fediverse #Mastodon #FLOSS #antifascism

Wouldn't it be a shame if a bunch of us posted this ad that the cowardly fascists, led by #Bezos, at #WaPo first agreed to run and then backed out of doing so? #Musk would be so upset.

So, first things first, all US bases in the EU should be shut down as a matter of urgency. The last thing you want is soldiers of a hostile state within your own walls. Would we have Russian bases in the EU? No? (Well guess what? Now we do.)

Heck, at least the Greeks had the common courtesy to hide in a wooden horse.

So, fascists hand in hand.

#Feixisme #Racisme #Classisme #Capitalisme #ClasseTreballadora #GuerraDeClasses #DivideixIVenceràs

Google, a brief history

2004: Don’t be evil
2018: OK, be evil but at least don’t kill people
2025: Fuck it, kill people

https://www.independent.co.uk/business/google-drops-pledge-not-to-use-ai-for-weapons-b2692533.html

Palantir CEO and sociopath Alex Karp, addressing investors during a board meeting, defending DOGE:

“Palantir is here to disrupt and make the institutions we partner with the very best in the world. And, when it’s necessary, to scare enemies and on occasion kill them. And we hope you’re in favor of that.”

Yeah. “Kill them.”

(Hat tip: @sergiodomeyko)

A message to my fellow Europeans.
Don't be paralysed by overseas fascism.
It is time for Europe and its citizens to focus less on the USA.
Stop obsessively following the news in a country where you cannot change anything.
Focus your attention on where you can make an impact.
All attention is needed here to fight growing fascism.

In case you're confused about why #elonmusk calls USAID a "criminal organization": The agency played a role in ending his beloved #Apartheid.
#trump #fascism

Dear folks in tech,

You don’t have to literally pull a trigger to erase vulnerable people from existence. You can do it with just a few keystrokes. And pave the way for those who will pull the triggers.

Withhold your keystrokes.

Use your keystrokes to resist.

Your keystrokes can kill or they can protect.

Your keystrokes will determine the person you have to live with for the rest of your life.

When the most successful person in your system is a fascist, your system might just be fascism.

I updated the Paradox of Tolerance.

@Gargron

The c/a/n/a/d/a project: nice, but not kind

Is your child a far-left extremist?

Look for warning signs:

I've had this #cartoon in my files for decades. It's no longer a cartoon but the reality many Americans voted for.

A photo by Dorothea Lange of Kimiko Kitagaki, tagged and numbered like the luggage surrounding her, as she and other Japanese Americans awaited their forced removal to an internment camp for Japanese Americans, most of them citizens, in World War II. The photo is in the National Archives, and is available for sharing online at Wikimedia Commons.

It CAN happen here. It HAS happened. And we refuse to learn from our barbarism in the past.

#fascism #cruelty #USA

"Drug-Sniffing Police Dogs Are Intercepting Abortion Pills in the Mail"

https://theintercept.com/2024/10/16/abortion-pills-mail-usps/

"The fact that a registered Republican shot at the Republican presidential candidate with the gun that Republican politicians have worshipped so much they literally wear it as a badge of pride and pose with it in Christmas photos like the weird family you warn your kids to bike nowhere near, no, that doesn’t mean that Democrats bear the responsibility for this attack and that Democrats have to adjust their rhetoric."

~ Kevin M. Kruse

#Trump #violence #fascism
/23

"Now it’s the existential threat of climate change and a far-right politics that makes even the worst fears of a prospective Richard Nixon presidency seem tepid by comparison. The white backlash remains and is, it seems, eternal."

This bears repeating: "The white backlash remains and is, it seems, eternal."

Racism still fuels the engine of Republican politics, and many of us never intend to get over the ugly racism that determines our political decisions.

#Trump #violence #fascism #MAGA
/22

"The unrelenting pace of events echoes 1968, the standard for tumultuous years in politics, with the assassinations, an incumbent Democratic president who is unpopular despite his historic legislative accomplishments, and his party’s convention in Chicago. The backdrop is different. Then it was the Vietnam War, white backlash to the civil rights movement, and a generational moment as the baby boomers came of age."

~ David Kurtz

#Trump #violence #fascism #MAGA
/21

"Support for political violence is not evenly distributed across the population. Across all surveys, we find a consistent pattern. ...

Republicans are 2.5 times more likely than Democrats to support political violence. One-third of Republicans (33%) believe that true American patriots may have to resort to violence to save the country, compared with 22% of independents and 13% of Democrats."

The figures are from: https://www.prri.org/research/threats-to-american-democracy-ahead-of-an-unprecedented-presidential-election/

#Trump #violence #fascism #MAGA #Republicans
/20

"We have to remain clear-eyed about where the real threat to our security and democracy lies. Today, that threat disproportionately lies with Trump’s MAGA movement, which has taken over one of our two political parties, and with Vance who is now aiding and abetting it. These conclusions are backed up by clear evidence."

~ Robert P. Jones

#Trump #violence #fascism #MAGA #Republicans
/19

"Why would an assassination attempt make a candidate more popular. Because we live in a country where many people’s entire philosophy of life can fit on the front of a t-shirt."

~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#Trump #violence #fascism #media
/18

"The news media proclaim the image of him with fist raised 'iconic,' begging us to behold him in all his majesty:"

~ Paul Waldman

#Trump #violence #fascism #media
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