A war on fast food, corn syrup, sugar and processed meats. I know it’s not as edgy as being an anti vaxxer.
It’s criminal. Afa and Sika should pay him a visit.
WTF is an Alabama click? Do you mean Alabama tick, as in dug in like an Alabama tick?
I’m not familiar enough with it to know. There seemed to be a timeline problem with Warrens argument, but they wouldn’t let him answer for it.
Edit:
https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clinical/anti-vaccination-advocates-double-down-as-measles
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It seems the problem was multifaceted. His 2 cents probably didn’t help, but don’t know if it actually hurt either. Seems to have been some much bigger problems indemic to remote semi primitive pacific islands were at play there too.
His two cents tell us that he is unfit for the job. I wouldn’t go so far as to hold him culpable, but his take on the situation is borderline insane. But his whole family is full of weirdos and deviants.
I don’t think people voted for Trump to continue the status quo.
True.
I don’t have any tremendous expectations of this admin. Other people may. Maybe they’ll change the terms of business as usual, maybe they won’t.
Its a culture of no accountability and failure is always an option. Anything greater than that is, to me, a win.
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I’m finding particular interest in the many rhetorical leaps modern politicians and pundits take to call their opponents Hitler and or Nazis.
The word “fascist” is certainly coming back into vogue, especially after Elon Musk gestured in a way that left itself rather open to interpretation. Perhaps this is the time when the true white supremacist totalitarian intentions of Trump are going to manifest themselves. I’d need to ask someone at CNN to calculate the rough number of white supremacists Trump has emboldened in the last decade. Probably hundreds of millions, all set to step out of the shadows and begin acting any year now.
One of the things I like about history is that it that the hour of the gatekeeper is ending, as is the hour of the narrative-weaver. The study of history and shaping it into a coherent and well-supported story to explain the past will always be contentious, but with the information age truly dawning all of the bullshit narratives will eventually come to light and be rejected. It will either be well-supported, or not, or agreed to be unknowable.
One good example is the equating of Nazis with Fascists. The two obvious culprits, German National Socialists and Italian Fascists, certainly had similarities but they were two entirely different political movements with very different ideas about society and government.
If they were the same thing, why did Austrian Fascists ban the National Socialist party years before they were annexed by National Socialists?
Meanwhile, in 2025, local, state and federal politicians and pundits seem to want people to have the idea that people with ideas like mine are modern fascists, which is to say I share Hitler’s vision to a significant degree.
I don’t support central economic planning. Democratic Socialists do and so did the Nazis. Price controls? Yep. Rent control? Yep. Wage controls? Yep. Central planning of the entire economy? To varying degrees, but yes.
What about private property and freedom to produce and distribute the kind of goods and services you want to organize your time around? I like that idea.
To say Nazi Germany was “capitalist” is to acknowledge that Germans could profit through the system, and many did, but ONLY if they operated their business in accordance with the government’s directives.
Professor Hugo Junkers is a case study in the concept of “private property” in Hitler’s National Socialism. He was free to own and operate his business, until he didn’t want to make weapons for National Socialists.
Even today, well regarded (for good reason) authors like Tooze will point things like this out while also driving the narrative that National Socialism was somehow free market or capitalist oriented. It was not at all, by any stretch of the imagination.
Much of it is, in fact, interchangeable with Marxism. You can basically substitute the idea of “workers” in Marxism with “Ethnic Germans (aka ubermensch/Aryans)” in National Socialism, and your overall understanding of both wouldn’t be worse off because of it if you went down that rabbit hole.
What about rhetoric suggesting that a racial group is responsible for the problems in society today? Surely society has learned its lesson not to trust the people who suggest that people’s immutable characteristics should be used to classify society in an effort to right the wrongs of their historical narrative?
I mean, there’s no way we could trust powerful people who divide society up by race and then censor their political opponents again. Not after everyone’s read Anne Frank.
George Orwell, who was a socialist, but nothing like a woke socialist of today, explained why “fascism” was a mush word over 80 years ago.
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If we were at war and needed a factory to switch to making weapons, it would be making weapons. We had a draft after all, which could be called forced labor. We also rounded up Japanese Americans. War changes everything.
It would be more accurate to call ethnic Germans, Spartans, and the conquered people, Helots.
People need to see Nazism as Nazism and stop trying to call it something it wasn’t. Otherwise, Hitler wasn’t literally Hitler.
Junkers’ business was nationalized and he was placed under house arrest in 1934, five years before the National Socialists allied with Soviet Communists to invade Poland. This happened right after National Socialists took power, not during the war.
It doesn’t work that way at all in the USA.
You can agree to a government contract with DPAS conditions in the USA and then be faced with wartime command economy type decisions, but you can’t be compelled to enter into that kind of contract the same way you could under Hitler’s National Socialism.
This is similar to how a farmer can chase all kinds of subsidies in the USA, and many do, but you can still buy some land in Maine and use it to grow weed and also raise happy, healthy egg-laying chickens and then sell those eggs at the weed store 1/2 mile walk away from me.
Under National Socialism, you would not be able to use agricultural land in such a way, nor could you do something like a modern farm-to-table restaurant business that uses the land in a way that doesn’t contribute to the Volksgemeinschaft.
The opposite seems to be happening right now on the left.
Hitler planned on going to war prior to invading Poland.
Because the military industrial complex makes it so.
And your response is, “I know you are but what am I?” Just because they overstate the Hitler comparisons doesn’t mean you should. Hitler was literally Hitler.
Tell that to Hugo Junkers, who didn’t want to make weapons in 1933, and then men from the government with guns showed up to take his business from him five years before war was ever declared.
That’s totally right-wing, just like MAGA!
I don’t think I’m overstating anything at all. I can back up everything I’ve said with plenty of examples. What did I get wrong, exactly?
It would seem you’re here to continue the DSA ritual of saying “no, not really” in the vaguest possible terms.
I finally watched the video of that. Man, what a disappointment. The movement matched his “my heart goes out to you.” I don’t even think much of the guy, but the BS around that was quite the nothingburger.
“It’s not news unless we make it news!”
Newspeople everywhere
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Tell that to any kia draftee who didn’t want to go. You have people on the right who want to bring back conscription.
This is how women argue and it’s how I know I’ve broken you. You still haven’t learned you can’t trigger me by trying to put me on the defensive. You can’t redirect me. I have only stated that Nazism is Nazism and should be considered as its own thing. I know, because you think like a woman, you can only consider a binary world. I said what I said and you don’t need to do the woman thing and try to think what I’m really saying. You’re like the woman interviewing Jordan Peterson who kept saying, “so what you’re saying…”
I wouldn’t give that to my dog.
You broke me by being dead-wrong about National Socialist ideas about private property being a war time decision five years before the war? Yeah, you really got me with your vague disagreement that was completely wrong.
Meanwhile, your DSA allies continue their efforts here in Maine, where they all discuss public policy in the same manner you do. Vaguely and by insisting that whatever their opponents say isn’t really real.
We’ve gotten years of “That’s not really what is happening” to all critics who can point to what’s happening and demand answers from the radicals who’ve taken over our government.
Just this week our joint school committee and city council meeting included a slide on “combating misinformation” about utter chaos present in our schools. They don’t like the conclusions people are drawing when watching fight videos or listening to a recently retired, well-respected teacher’s viral video about the state of the institution.
According to our DSA leadership, the schools have become less violent under their watch. They showed us a chart that said so. They want us to listen to them and not the actual teachers making long, thoughtful social media videos, giving public comment at SC meetings or those who are too scared to share their concerns and do it anonymously.
Thanks to DSA efforts at dismantling what they called white supremacy in Maine, Lewiston public schools is now up to 42 languages being spoken by ELL’s, who make up 1/3 of the student population at LPS. That’s about 2,000 students dumped into the community by DSA activists and their allies in the human trafficking business.
Anyone with concerns about the DSA social experiment of using public wealth to find migrant resettlement is compared to, wait for it, a fascist.
Meanwhile, DSA politicians will say that Maine has secure elections and insist that the long lines of people who need translators to participate in local elections are all US citizens.
All of the DSA lies are crumbling, which is good, but we’re still left with the consequences of DSA policy implementation, even as they double down on calling their opponents “fascists”.
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