The Nazification of the World

Mr Vélez denies that the 1964 military ousting of democratically elected President João Goulart was a coup.

He also refers to the 21 years of military rule which followed as “a democratic regime by force”.

The president himself caused outrage earlier this week when he echoed comments made by his Foreign Minister Ernesto Araújo, who described Nazism as a leftist movement.

He said that the name of the Nazi party was National Socialist Party of Germany, implying that it had a socialist ideology.

His statement contradicted the information inside the museum he had just visited, which says that Nazism arose from radical right-wing groups in Germany angered by the rise of communism.

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But cutting funding for liberal arts is a great idea (say American universities), who needs that claptrap! /s

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We need this in Canada stat.

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Yup. Among other things, we need to frame Ford’s school cuts as what they are: a war on education.

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Yes! But funny.

The article reminded me of the Tell Vic Everything campaign, which was so fun and worked so well.

Something like that.

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Yes, but taking the piss out of His Nibs while letting everyone know in no uncertain terms that this is what he is waging. You need the edge of good satire, which is always based on truth.

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Hopefully literally

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This struck me:

Politics now, Kleiner believes, has moved far beyond the left-right divide, or even the progressive-conservative divide. “It’s increasingly, actually, about constructive versus destructive

It’s also about good vs. evil, plain and simple.

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Regardless of what else he’s done, he’s likely to end up in a torture cell for doing the right thing this time:

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On the other hand, one of the women in Sweden has apparently requested that the case there be reopened.
Good. Fuck Assange for that.

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Traditional procedural rules can be broken, but never to unshittify. First war, then denazification, then ennui, then renazification.

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I always thought collapse fantasies sounded familiar.

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In an event that surprised nobody, Settler Albertans elected the United Conservative Party - a party that put forward homophobic, racist, white supremacist candidates.

Albertans were presented with a choice: a choice between the authoritarians styling themselves as Canada’s GOP or the “hold the line” New Democatic Party. When given a choice between open white supremacists who vowed to out gay kids and steal wages or a party that promised to invest in Alberta’s infrastructure and health care, white albertans doubled down on white supremacism.

I’m not surprised. I’m angry. I’m tired.

You can lead a settler Canadian to water, but you can’t make 'em think. Societies prosper when they’re inclusive. Workers and local economies thrive when wages are increased and when proper infrastructure is put in place. But no, Settler Alberta voted for white supremacists over their own prosperity.

The UCP party campaigned on reducing wages for youth, on reducing wages for service workers, on reducing health care, on outing youth members of Gay-Straight Alliances, and on scrapping Alberta’s implementation of a carbon-reducing incentive program. UCP candidates made white supremacist statements, homophobic statements, and straight up conspiracy theories. (One conspiracy theory promulgated by the UCP was that Notley accepted bribes from american oil companies to stifle development in Alberta’s oilfields… which are owned by american companies. Don’t expect rational thought from white supremacists.)

This is an indicator of a widening divide in Canadian society. For years, Canadians prided themselves as being sane, fair, and justice-minded. But the ugly truth is that Canadians were never fair nor justice-minded. Settler Canadians have long grumbled about the hunting rights and federal payments made to First Nations folk. Settler Canadians have long grumbled that there were “too many foreigners” (read: people of colour) in Canada.

And now, they’re in the Conservative Party. Conservatives are by and large the party of white supremacy. And if Canada isn’t careful, the white supremacists will wrest control of the federal government, not just provincial ones.

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To their credit, when there were two parties (one fiscally-conservative and one alt-right), lots of people who couldn’t stand the NDP voted for the fiscal conservatives.

But, just like what happened when the PCs and the Reform party merged, the further-right party took over the new party, and the voters swung further right to meet the new party.

Back when Trudeau was actually talking about fulfilling his electoral reform promises, he asked something to the effect of: “Do you really want [Bigoted politician] to have their own party, with their own representatives in Parliament?”

Yes. Yes, I do. Because if you separate the bigots from the actual fiscal conservatives, then the latter have no reason to cater to the former. They’ve proved that the alternative to having a small alt-right party and a larger centre-right party isn’t that you eliminate the alt-right party and only have a centre-right party, it’s that the centre-right party gets pushed farther and farther right until you have a large alt-right party.

This is why I was against the party merger in the first place: I absolutely knew this was going to happen. Because all of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again.

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No, this isn’t some dark humor from a Woody Allen movie.

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perpetual embarassment to Canada and avid apartheid enthusiast Keean Bexte has been at it again. coincidentally, Bexte just happens to be employed by Rebel Media, the same white supremacist factory that created monsters like Loomer and Southern.

there’s a difference between being nice and being a good person. if you see Bexte, shout him down. (also, buy eggs! support your local farmers!)

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I am weirdly relieved this went about as well as one would expect:

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swiftboating is on the rise; american fascists are trying to poison the well against centrists now.

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