'so much punditry over the last ten years has been fixated on what we are experiencing as precisely analogous in this or that way to Hitler’s Germany or Mussolini’s Italy—that only after key thresholds are crossed can we actually say it’s happening here—eliding the ways in which America has always been fascist'
#amerikkka #usPol #fascism #numberOneAlly #specialFriendship
https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/can-fascists-still-be-shamed
On cultural hegemony via deluge
"since the streamers began to make their presence felt, there have been eight official inquires into how best to ensure more Australian content is produced. In that time the regulations mandating the number of hours of Australian content on free-to-air broadcasters have been watered down, public funding for screen production has barely grown, the production industry has become more fragile"
#australianContent #culture #streaming #hegemony #numberOneAlly
Jelani Cobb interview
"America has been autocratic previously. We just don’t think about it...between the end of reconstruction and 1965, 11 states in the south effectively nullified the protections of the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments of the constitution, imposing Jim Crow laws, voter suppression and violence to disenfranchise Black citizens."
#usPol #fascism #numberOneAlly #trump
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2025/oct/18/jelani-cobb-race-donald-trump
In a new essay collection, the dean of Columbia University’s graduate school of journalism makes a compelling argument that everything is connected and nothing is inevitable about racial justice or democracy
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