H.E. Bibbs notes the inversion tactic the US right has used for some years now: you're the racist if you discuss and challenge racism; you're the fascist if you use that word. Bibbs says,

"According to the President of the United States, comparing 'wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis… is directly responsible for the terrorism we’re seeing in our country.'”

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https://www.liberalcurrents.com/hitlers-shadow-trumps-shield/

"The administration is now arguing that words themselves—specifically comparisons to Nazis and Hitler—are responsible for violence. And yet, in much of the mainstream coverage of this crackdown, as in the mainstream eulogies of the late Charlie Kirk, the very words at the heart of the controversy have been erased from the record."

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"It is vital for writers and journalists to name the contested language at the center of Trump’s crackdown. Remember, this all began when three brave women organized a demonstration at a restaurant in D.C., where they loudly declared, within a few feet of the President’s face: 'Free D.C., Free Palestine, Trump is the Hitler of our time.'”

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"What we learn from the State’s response is that the one association Trump despises—perhaps even more than Epstein—is his association with Hitler. ...

Our obligation [is] clear: to say, loudly and plainly, that Trump is using the death of Charlie Kirk in almost the same way Hitler used the Reichstag fire."

#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #Hitler #Nazis #fascism
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"His chief of staff, Stephen Miller, appears to be using Kirk in the same myth-making way Joseph Goebbels used Horst Wessel. That must remain fair ground for public discussion."

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"I’ve always had a healthy regard for how quickly fortunes can change—being the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor will do that to you—but the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s murder has made Republicans’ effort to bring any ideological foes to heel feel that much more immediate."

~ Marisa Kabas

#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #Hitler #Nazis #fascism
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https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/jimmy-kimmel-free-speech-trump

Oliver Markus Molloy reprises statements in the German media (Deutsche Welle, especially) drawing the Trump-Hitler parallel. He says,

"When Germans look at Trump, they see Hitler 2.0."

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https://www.fascism.link/p/german-news-report-about-the-charlie

"Today, Trump openly admitted that networks are not allowed to cover him in a negative light, and if they do, their licenses could be revoked. ;They’re 97% against, they give me wholly bad publicity...I mean, they’re getting a license, I would think maybe their license should be taken away,' Trump said.

~ Aaron Parnas

#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #Hitler #Nazis #fascism #FreeSpeech
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https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-republicans-embrace-cancel-culture

"Writer and activist Marcie Bianco calls fascism 'the slow, methodical stripping away of civil liberties until people look around and realize they are living in a cage.' Or, put simply, fascism is what happens when capitalism gets mean.

So yes, this is fascism."

~ Jacqui Lewis

#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #Hitler #Nazis #fascism #FreeSpeech
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https://jacquilewis.substack.com/p/this-is-what-fascism-looks-like

"Calling the current moment a 'war' is not simply a provocation; it’s a strategic move. In wartime, many rules fall away. Crying 'war' is the public-discourse equivalent of declaring martial law; 'war' means the norms and laws change."

~ Negin Owliaei and Maya Schenwar

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https://truthout.org/articles/jimmy-kimmels-suspension-is-shocking-but-the-worst-could-be-yet-to-come/

"State-sanctioned murder — including mechanisms like an increased use of the death penalty and state-justified police-perpetrated killings, as well as jailing and confinement without due process — become not only admissible, but normalized practices."

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"The censorship, lies and disappearance create, like a jigsaw, an alternative universe where Trump won in 2020, climate change no longer exists, and the covid vaccines never worked. More chillingly, it’s a place where certain minority groups no longer exist in data or in the mind."

~ Benjamin John Worthy

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https://www.liberalcurrents.com/trumps-war-on-transparency/

"This was the terrifying end point that numerous 20th century writers warned about and which is behind the concerns of a new dark age. Hannah Arendt hoped, sometimes against hope, that facts and the truth will out. Others were less sure. Primo Levi wrote in the Drowned and the Saved of how the guards in Auschwitz would taunt the prisoners that ‘no one will ever believe this happened’."

#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #Hitler #Nazis #fascism #FreeSpeech
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Noting a New York Times headline on 4 February 1939, "Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime," Gene Weingarten draws a clear, explicit parallel between the Trump regime and Hitler's regime.

As he says, Hitler never dirtied his hands with attacking comedians, but delegated this to Goebbels: now enter Brendan Carr.

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https://geneweingarten.substack.com/p/goebbels-drives-a-carr