JD Vance's owner, Peter Thiel, says America is like Weimar Germany in the 1920s:
“Liberalism is exhausted… Democracy whatever that is, is exhausted… so we have to start talking far outside the Overton Window.”
This was precisely what the Nazis tried to sell to Germans, that Weimar was “too liberal” and needed “strong leadership” to save it from degeneracy. Thiel made these remarks at a talk to promote German philosopher Carl Schmitt, who was a Nazi, a racist, and a rabid antisemite, who presented his theories as an ideological foundation of the Nazi dictatorship and a justification of the Führer state.
https://t.co/V0uiy6rhsT
(much of the content of this post comes from a post by the excellent @jimstewartson)
It is never a bad time to post this clip from THE 49TH PARALLEL (in part because Anton Walbrook is a legend). But this is a particularly good time to do so.
https://t.co/YxoRgHUNRD
Is this what you wanted, @StephenM?
A mother who was 5 months pregnant - who'd just found out she and her American citizen fiancee were having a boy - lost her baby after federal agents in a detention center repeatedly denied her pleas for prenatal care.
Lived and worked in Tennessee for years. Detained by ICE for over a month. Forced to sleep on a prison cell floor. Served food with cockroaches. Said she was starving and having stomach pains. Guards told her it was normal. Begged to be deported so at least she could get prenatal care in Guatemala. ICE refused.
She delivered her stillborn baby in front of two guards who shackled her feet. Then, for two days, she wasn't allowed to call her fiancee or talk to anyone. She cried alone, and was deported to Guatemala shortly after the stillbirth.
DHS has only said they'd review the case. "Worst of the worst", right @TriciaOhio?
I wrote a short piece on recent events, specifically the human desire to manufacture small, controllable moral conflicts to distract us from real evil, and on what we can do to fight it.
https://t.co/a9eb89dglk
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SWORD AND PLANET by Christopher Ruocchio, from @BaenBooks.
The strength of an anthology is variety, this has it in spades without losing the spirit of the genre it's celebrating. Fans of Burroughs and Brackett will be pleased, and there's life yet in a genre as old as Barsoom.