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Mark Holtom (aka Kingbeard)Fascinating poster from the American Holocaust Museum. Thank goodness we aren't exhibiting any of these right now.
Teri Yaki 🖌️🎹🚲💻@MarkHoltom How many boxes can we check already?
Flex Foot
Beige CatsWhoCode@Ihazchaos All of them, or so it would appear! @MarkHoltom
@Ihazchaos this is the main reason I started my whole anti-censorship project! I've been preserving webpages on the Wayback Machine about marginalized groups, women's rights, science and the arts, etc. And I'm also writing articles about how to use anti-censorship tools, because some of them are a little complicated to set up. 😺 @MarkHoltom
Paul Armstrong@Ihazchaos @MarkHoltom I can think of a solid example for ticking each and every one of those 😠
mastodonphan@Ihazchaos @MarkHoltom Every one of them except the last. Guess we'll have to wait until 2026 to see if that last one comes true or not.
Ge0rG@mast0d0nphan
I guess that https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/ completes the list already
@Ihazchaos @MarkHoltom
I guess that https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/ completes the list already
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Lazy B0y@Ihazchaos
i was wondering which one US cannot check…
and here in Germany we’re getting pretty close
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bookworks Harris Walz💙@MarkHoltom deargod. How spot on is this?
Corpomancer@MarkHoltom We at Corporate do feel disproportionately safe, probably nothing.
Kierkegaanks regretfully@MarkHoltom huh. Except for fraudulent elections and military supremacy, that’s basically the entire west when i was growing up
Martin Vermeer FCD@Kierkegaanks @MarkHoltom Right? And even those two, if you look a little harder...
xs4me2It is not as if these telltales are not known but rather why it still is happening again.
Fascism and tyrants however are not forever. May they get what they deserve. Also this time…
Mr Lawrence 🇪🇺🇷🇼@MarkHoltom Oh good grief we are f••ked.
Toadofsky@MarkHoltom I don't remember this from that museum. I wonder when and where it was installed.
TawdryHepburn@MarkHoltom Its surprising that the follwoing are not included:
- a preoccupation with degeneracy
- Targeting of sexual and gender diverse minorities.
- Labelling marginalised groups as less than human.
- a preoccupation with degeneracy
- Targeting of sexual and gender diverse minorities.
- Labelling marginalised groups as less than human.
PapyrusBrigade@MarkHoltom The interesting thing about the poster, which had been displayed in the gift shop of the US Holocaust museum according to Snopes, is that it was based on the below-linked 2003 article by Laurence Britt, who wrote it due to concerns about George W Bush. Which helps place Trump as part of a lineage, not a spontaneous abberation.
Jeff@PapyrusBrigade @MarkHoltom this is a fantastic op-ed and should be read more widely, even if it is already "the most reprinted and pirated article in the history of the magazine"
Jimmy@PapyrusBrigade @MarkHoltom GOP always manages to dig deeper than the last bottom of the barrel. We thought Bush was the worst, but who will they find to make Trump appear relatively bearable?
rozodru@MarkHoltom it sure is ironic that Israel is also doing the same thing.
vuuc@MarkHoltom hahaha 🙀 ☑️ ☑️ ✔️
Cromley@MarkHoltom
This poster was once sold at the Holocaust Museum, but was never part of an exhibit.
Fact check: https://share.google/xakaVF1RXKOUw4qLd
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@MarkHoltom It looks like a normal day in Bulgaria.
Steve Dallape ☑️ 🌎@MarkHoltom It almost seems as though someone saw this and adopted it as a blueprint for their fascist takeover of our government. Except I seriously doubt anyone who is anyone in MAGA would ever even approach the Holocaust Museum. They are probably trying to get it closed.
EndlessMason@MarkHoltom
It's kind of crazy that you would even bring it up...
It's kind of crazy that you would even bring it up...
G. Gibson@MarkHoltom Old Democrats Must Go or Trump NEVER Will
Old Democrats Must Go or Trump NEVER Will
Jeff McNeill@MarkHoltom Weird that these things are totally happening in Israel...
ruurd@mastodon.social@MarkHoltom @glynmoody reality check? Items on this list have been present in an obvious way in US society FOR DECADES!
DoomsdaysCW@MarkHoltom This version is by #LawrenceBritt, based on #UmbertoEco's list.
#CharacteristicsOfFascism #Fascism #Authoritarianism #CorporateFascism
Log 🪵@MarkHoltom A lot of those go back as far or further than my memory does.
Tyler Parker@MarkHoltom mar-a-lago's new dinner menu? #nokings
Rock'n'Roll_φapy 🔻
Unholy OrdnanceAll in plain sight - not even hiding !
Legit_Spaghetti@MarkHoltom We're like 13 out of 14 on this list.
Well, shit.
svin of the land of fumo 🐝@MarkHoltom damn that's a stupid sign.
impressive
impressive
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Chase Turner
@MarkHoltom So, the post was SOLD but not displayed at the museum. The poster is still being sold by the original group, #SyracuseCulturalWorkers .
DoomsdaysCW (@DoomsdaysCW@kolektiva.social)
Some background about #LawrenceBritt 's #CharacteristicsOfFascism, which was sold (but not displayed) at the Holocaust Museum. The article does NOT mention that Britt's list was obviously based on #UmbertoEco's version. Oh well... Fact check: 'Early Warning Signs Of Fascism' sign was once sold at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Sarah Lynch, July 2020 "While a poster with the “Early Warning Signs Of Fascism” was indeed previously sold in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Shop, it did not originate from the museum and was not part of any exhibition or display. Britt wrote the words in a 2003 article in Free Inquiry, which Syracuse Cultural Workers reprinted and sold with his permission." https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/08/11/fact-check-poster-once-sold-u-s-holocaust-memorial-museum/5549019002/ The original poster is still being sold here: https://syracuseculturalworkers.com/products/poster-early-warning-signs-of-fascism #LawrenceBritt #CharacteristicsOfFascism #Fascism #Authoritarianism #SyracuseCulturalWorkers
Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦I'd love to own this as a poster. Do we know if such might be out there?
easily made yourself, or have a look at the American Holocaust Museum
Fish Id Wardrobe@MarkHoltom there is also Umberto Eco's list, which is good too. different but the same. https://www.openculture.com/2024/11/umberto-ecos-list-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.html
Umberto Eco’s List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism
Creative Commons image by Rob Bogaerts, via the National Archives in Holland One of the key questions facing both journalists and loyal oppositions these days is how do we stay honest as euphemisms and trivializations take over the discourse?
KineneComplete text of Umberto Eco's essay:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fascism
Derek the DIY Guy@MarkHoltom
May I share that at other platforms?
May I share that at other platforms?
Feel free. It is a photo of a public notice.
Milcom MiasmaNot a single box left un-ticked. 😔
Werner Rhein
fulanigirl@MarkHoltom We are WAY past early warning signs here in the US.
edit: spelling
kosure@MarkHoltom Tick "Controlled Mass Media" off the list
Edelruth, PBS Passport HolderAlas! We resemble this meme (USA).
Kevin LaRose, 8647@MarkHoltom @APBBlue Yep, most if not all of the boxes are checked. I fail to see how this is even debatable anymore. #Fascism is here. And to those who are okay with it, there’s an axiom I remember from my college days that perfectly applies to you. Lick it, stick it, and rotate it.
Ajay@MarkHoltom And a judiciary subservient to the executive.
https://traffic.libsyn.com/yinhistory/EP90-DictatorshipPhysics.mp3
https://traffic.libsyn.com/yinhistory/EP90-DictatorshipPhysics.mp3