“We want to use these terms carefully, but this is a kind of #ForeignInfluence,” FilterLabsAI founder & CEO Jonathan Teubner said, adding that #RT is cultivating relationships w/American #conservative #influencers & micro-influencers as #Trump emerges as a leading figure in a #global wave of hard-line conservative #populism, inspiring #nationalist parties in #Europe & elsewhere.
@technotenshi who are disappearing from the internet: #lgbtq #trans #blacks #hispanics #progressives #left #palestinians #greenland #pinguins #woman If your are not a white #nationalist and #supremacist you are out!
Does this include #AntiZionists? You know that #Zionism and #Judaism are different things, right?
You also know #Zionists will call anyone they see as a threat to the #Isreali state #antisemite, right?
Doesn't matter if they're wrong, you're now giving a #judicial weapon to a bunch of #theocratic #nationalist #fascists who pine for their own "final solution" against all #Palestinians.
#Germany could withdraw #citizenship due to '#antisemitism' – DW – 04/01/2025
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-could-withdraw-citizenship-due-to-antisemitism/a-72104457?tg_rhash=08a3949f8533ef
Diaspora Jewish population has an inverse relationship to nationalism? I'm bought into this theory.
"There were 90,250 #Jews in #Montreal in 2021, according to the most recent #Canadian census—580 more individuals than were counted a decade earlier.
And while 0.6 percent increase might seem like a blip, it represented the first gain in 50 years.
McGill sociology professor Morton Weinfeld considers it noteworthy enough, given that Montreal had the larger #Jewish population than #Toronto prior to the decline: “The reason some people were so delighted with these results is because it may indicate a reversal of that trend.”
And yet, Montreal’s community hasn’t bounced back to its 1991 high of 101,000. The number has remained sharp in the minds of many since the community contracted following #Quebec’s #nationalist and language surrounding Bill 101."
20 Lessons from the 20th Century About How to Defend #Democracy from #Authoritarianism, According to Yale #Historian #TimothySnyder
in History | January 20th, 2017
"Timothy Snyder, Housum Professor of History at Yale University, is one of the foremost scholars in the U.S. and Europe on the rise and fall of #totalitarianism during the 1930s and 40s. Among his long list of appointments and publications, he has won multiple awards for his recent international bestsellers '#Bloodlands: Europe between #Hitler and #Stalin' and last year’s 'Black Earth: The #Holocaust as History and Warning.' That book in part makes the argument that #Nazism wasn’t only a #German #nationalist movement but had global #colonialist origins—in #Russia, #Africa, and in the #UnitedStates, the nation that pioneered so many methods of human extermination, #racist #dehumanization, and ideologically-justified #LandGrabs.
"The hyper-#capitalism portrayed in the U.S.—even during the Depression—Snyder writes, fueled Hitler’s imagination, such that he promised Germans 'a life comparable to that of the American people,' whose 'racially pure and uncorrupted' German population he described as 'world class.' Snyder describes Hitler’s ideology as a myth of racialist struggle in which 'there are really no values in the world except for the stark reality that we are born in order to take things from other people.' Or as we often hear these days, that acting in accordance with this principle is the 'smart' thing to do. Like many far right figures before and after, Hitler aimed to restore a state of nature that for him was a perpetual state of race war for imperial dominance."
https://www.openculture.com/2017/01/20-lessons-from-the-20th-century-about-how-to-defend-democracies-from-authoritarianism.html
#History #Histodon #Hitler #Fascism #Authoritarianism #HyperCapitalism #CorporateFascism #CorporateColonialism
For years, he has argued against #sanctions on #Russia, claiming #Serbia should distance itself from “Western values.” He also ran on pro-#Russian extremist election lists in 2023 (“#Nationalist Gathering”) and 2024 (“We – Power of the People”).
7/18
Beyond foreign malign influence, #Serbia’s #nationalist-revisionist regime – rooted in the 1990s – has aligned with #Russia’s aggressive, anti-liberal nationalist bloc. Serbian far-right groups are also well-known supporters of Russian #imperialism.
3/18
"By positioning America as an ally of #nationalist forces against these institutions (#Europe), #Vance isn't just ending an alliance - he's actively working to unwind the entire post-war European #peace architecture, which could have immense ramifications. In fact I think we can even legitimately ask ourselves if the U.S. doesn't now have war in Europe as one of its strategic objectives."
From: @rnaudbertrand
https://bird.makeup/users/rnaudbertrand/statuses/1890451912342008178
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/14/vance-munich-europe-security-ukraine/
#VPVance fully waded into #nationalist politics, blasting an audience of European prime ministers and presidents for failing to listen to their own voters.
“In America, you cannot win a democratic mandate by censoring your opponents or putting them in jail,” Vance told the gathered elite at the Munich Security Conference, in remarks that some European leaders interpreted as a slam that they were not truly democratic.
#JDVance is the most senior US official ever to meet with a leader from the party. He also met in recent days w/the leaders of #Germany’s 2 other major parties, which are locked in competition ahead of Feb 23 elections, in which the Alternative for Germany #AfD party might break through a post-World War II taboo & join a ruling coalition for the first time.
In his speech, Vance fully waded into #nationalist politics….
But wait there’s more
#JDVance meets w/leader of #FarRight #Germany party, exports #MAGA
The VP gave a scolding speech advocating that Europe’s centrist old-guard politicians move over to accommodate the rising anti-migration, #nationalist voices they have at times sought to block from power.
The meeting w/ #AliceWeidel, head of the anti-#immigration, nationalist Alternative for Germany #AfD party, was a major step for her movement….
#geopolitics #WhiteNationalism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/14/vance-munich-europe-security-ukraine/
Update. "White House budget proposal could shatter the National Science Foundation"
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/02/white-house-budget-proposal-could-shatter-the-national-science-foundation/
" 'This kind of cut would kill American science and boost #China and other nations into global science leadership positions,' [said] Neal Lane, who led the #NSF in the 1990s during Bill Clinton's presidency."
PS: I've never liked #nationalist arguments for funding or fostering science. Science is international. But the #Trump admin is putting us in a dilemma. Either we see deep cuts in US science funding. Or we use nationalist arguments to avert those cuts.
There are non-nationalist arguments to fund US science. For example, good science is usually expensive and those who do it well should be funded for the benefit of all. Unfortunately that argument is not likely to work on Trump admin officials. It's not US-specific and applies everywhere, even in China.
#Project2025 #coup success
#Senate confirms #RussellVought to lead #OMB
The Senate on Thurs confirmed #RussVought as the next director of the powerful WH budget office, installing a *#conservative* *fiscal* hawk [really just a #white #cis #hetero #Christian #nationalist] has promised to pursue sweeping spending cuts & empower #Trump to conform the budget to his political views.
#Republicans marshaled a 53-47 [ummm] vote in support of #Vought….
#law #TrumpCoup
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/06/russell-vought-confirmed-omb-director/
The #MAGA folks have never cared one whit about the Constitution - they are a #racist #nationalist movement, period. #Birthright citizenship is in the text and backed by 2.5 centuries of precedent. A ban on it is meant to get before #SCOTUS and cause years of chaos & uncertainty.
Over a week in an if it's not clear to you that #Trump and many in his administration are just #rulingclass #elite #nationalist #fascist #WarCriminals, you are likely very #propagandized and #complicit.
#Socialism is #workingclass #solidarity all around the world.
#Abolish the #capitalist ruling class.
Science, like critical reasoning, is a threat to #fascist and #nationalist movements, as is any kind of global coöperation and solidarity. That Trump is withdrawing us from the #WHO is unsurprising, but dangerous, for this reason. #Science & #HealthCare should not be manipulated.
#woke 
