America, currently experiencing near historic low birthrates. Well below the replacement level of about 2.1 children per woman, which is the level needed for a population to replace itself without immigration. And now... scientists are disappearing! #America#Economics#Finances
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Neil deGrasse Tyson: “There’s an intellectual scientific vacuum that is descending upon the US and that has consequences. If you’re okay with the US losing its scientific leadership, you will get the country you voted for. That country is one where we will no longer innovate. We will be less secure, less healthy, and less wealthy because some community of people who influence what this country is do not see the value of science”
.@elonmusk believes that Britain is heading for “a reckoning”. @zannymb challenges him on that claim, his support for the far right and on the picture he paints of Britain to his hundreds of millions of followers. Watch the full Insider interview: https://t.co/ON3TUgyVqh
Democratic autocracy (sometimes called electoral authoritarianism):
The system maintains the veneer of a democracy through the holding of regular elections, but the ruling party uses state resources, media control, and the suppression of political opposition to ensure it cannot lose. Power is concentrated in one leader or a small ruling group. Institutional Subversion is a core feature of democratic autocracy. The ruling regime politicizes ostensibly independent branches of government—such as law enforcement, the judiciary, and the civil service—to enforce the executive's will and target dissidents.While citizens go to the polls, the process is compromised by gerrymandering (Memphis, TN), biased voter registration, or outright fraud. #trump #America
Stephen Miller. A deranged sick man who thrives on conspiracy mongering. An authoritarian neuro-sclerotic thug with a penchant for coercion, physical violence, brutality, and death. He is driven by hate and enjoys inflicting pain American citizens whom he doesn't consider to be real "blood and soil" Americans. He is second in command of a subculture of bullying, abusive language, snide putdowns, misogyny, and racism, and xenophobia.
He has given license to masked federal agents with AR-15 rifles to pump bullets traveling at speeds up to 3200 feet-per-second into the internal organs of American citizens and immigrants -- a blank check for brutality, wrapped in the familiar excuse of self-defense. He represents the collapse of intellectual standards. He fits perfectly the divide, distract, destroy mold of an autocrat. He is moral decay, chaos, oppression. He is the age of darkness. #TrumpAdministration #America #USA
This speech by @StephenM is so deeply evil it’s hard to fathom it coming from a White House employee. This is pure Nazism.
The in-group is “morally superior,” “ordered,” “beautiful” & “normal.” The out-group is “abnormal,” “scarred” & “deformed.”
The in-group goes to church on Sunday (Miller is Jewish).
The out-group is “violent,” “junkies,” & “predators”
This is precisely how the Nazis spoke about their political opposition. It is a full-throated commitment to eugenics as policy.
In reality, you just need to watch Miller to see everything he claims to be afraid of: hatred, jealousy & violence. He is the most “deformed” man in America.
Finally, when Miller brings up the boogeyman of “Antifa,” it’s important to remember the original “Antifa” were antifascists in Weimar Germany who were the first people sent to Dachau.
There is no left vs. right anymore. There is life vs. death.
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“The leftist is fundamentally motivated by envy, by hatred, by jealousy. The leftist looks at what is beautiful and what is good and what is natural and is filled with envy and hatred.
The leftist looks at a perfect family with the perfect life and a perfect job and perfect kids who goes to church every Sunday and is filled with the feeling of inadequacy and jealousy and they covet and they turn those emotions ultimately into a desire to subjugate, to oppress and to inflict pain and suffering.
It's not a coincidence that when you look at these violent antifa demonstrations and you see any photograph of those who were assembled to be blunt, not one of the people that is demonstrating looks like a normal person. Not one looks normal. They're all deformed in some way in their appearance, in their dress, in their mannerism.
Why is that? Why? You look at two photographs and you see a normal American street, you see an antifa protest. Why did the people that are violently demonstrating? Why is there not one normal looking person among them? Every one of them through the course of their life and their decisions has scarred their body and their appearance in many different ways.
The point in which their outer appearance becomes a manifestation of their inner hatred. Trust your instincts to all people and cross all civilizations. You know what normal is. You know what beautiful is. You know what good is. You know that families are right. You know that children are precious and beautiful and must be protected. You know that the criminal and the junky and the predator is a threat to normal, healthy living.
This is so much deeper than issues about taxation and regulation, although they're incredibly important. It's about normal, healthy, ordered living. And the violent leftists for these deep-seated reasons, going back to the earliest wisdom taught to us in the Bible about coveting.
And I'm not talking about rich versus poor. I'm talking about a much deeper kind of coveting. Coveting people who are morally superior. Who are superior in the simple, truthful way they live their lives. People that they look at who are happy and ordered and peaceful and contributing to the communities.
That burns an ember in them and that's how you end up with the horrors we've seen throughout history. Where good families are dragged that into the street and executed.”
Fascist, Nazi enthusiast, and Jeffrey Epstein admirer Nick Fuentes says, "I called up 'my people' in the administration immediately". Question, WHO are Nick Fuentes's 'people' in the administration? Stephen Miller?
FLASHBACK — Trump Secretary of State @marcorubio in 2016: “For years to come, there are many people on the right, in the media, and voters at large who are going to have to explain and justify how they fell into the trap of supporting Donald Trump.”
(h/t @RpsAgainstTrump)
Donald Trump is a failure.
He has run out of cards to play in the midterm elections, which is why he’s now talking about the “communist menace.”
Some thoughts on the bigger picture... https://t.co/eodgOT4VQI
“It is not the military’s job to save the republic from political impasses,” write @GenCQBrownJr, Peter Feaver, and Andrew Kragie. “Indeed, if you ask too much of the military, you risk the entire enterprise.”
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Don't forget to mention that Russian citizens who criticize Vladimir Putin somehow end up falling from the of a building or somehow come in contact with lethal poisoning. That part is kind of important. #Ukraine#Russia
APPLEBAUM: Putin presented a fake image of Russia to the world. He talks about himself as leader of traditional society.
In fact, divorce rates are very high in Russia, abortion is very common, very few Russians go to church, and less than 5% of Russians have ever read a Bible.
So it's not an especially religious or traditional culture, but Putin has made himself the face of that idea because it's politically advantageous.
He uses it both to build support, to court, and to win over sympathizers in the West, and maybe he uses it at home as well.
It looks a little bit like how in the 1930s Soviet communists also sold a vision of the Soviet Union to Americans and Europeans about how marvelous it was and how they had discovered a new kind of political system.
If you've never been to Russia, Russia is a large country, it's far away, so you can imagine a lot of things about it. You can create a kind of imaginary Russia, an imaginary Soviet Union.
Especially if you only visit Moscow and St. Petersburg, like most tourists do. But most of the people who admire Russia haven't even been to Moscow and St. Petersburg.
It's very similar today. You have a part of European right and American right who have this imaginary Russia that they use as a symbol, without understanding that it has no relationship to reality.