@rbreich to paraphrase Xkcd:
The first rule of circular reasoning club is the first rule of circular reasoning club.
@gdinwiddie
"Sarge, but why?"
"The violence, private."
"But we're the ones committing the violence, Sarge."
"What's your point, private?"
If it sounds good, it should be believed. The world's warriors think in clichés. Otherwise, there would be no wars.
Remember the names of the people who bought themselves a fascist dictatorship:
1. Elon Musk $291,482,587
2. Timothy Mellon $197,047,200
3. Miriam Adelson $148,304,900
4. Richard Uihlein $143,498,936
5. Ken Griffin $108,402,284
6. Jeff Yass $101,128,680
7. Paul E. Singer $66,800,800
8. Marc Andreessen $42,365,113
9. Stephen Schwarzman $40,202,039
10. Timothy Dunn $35,780,200
11. Rob Bigelow $34,991,500
12. Diane Hendricks $33,165,417
13. JJ Ricketts $32,273,650
2/
Remember the selfish, greedy people who remade America into Hitler 2.0.
14. Shirley W. Ryan $32,198,116
15. Warren A. Stephens $25,895,650
16. Laura Perlmutter $25,344,890
17. Vince & Linda McMahon $23,961,659
18. Ronnie & Nina Cameron $21,372,500
19. Jan Koum $20,855,091
20. Thomas Klingenstein $17,410,263
21. Rob Walton $17,572,601
22. Janet J. Duchossois $16,306,033
23. Howard W. Lutnick $16,503,667
24. Kelcy L. Warren $16,151,105
25. Walter W. Jr. Buckley $15,522,500
3/
The names of the people buying a Civil War over tax cuts & fossil fuel subsidies:
26. Thomas Peterffy $14,305,900
27. Anthony Pratt $14,000,000
28. Sherrilyn Fisher $13,299,894
29. David Millstone $13,413,486
30. Lynne Walton $13,037,750
31. Charles Schwab $12,801,600
32. Stephen Wynn $12,518,750
33. Anthony Lomangino $9,529,705
34. J. Christopher Reyes $9,536,425
35. Jay Winters Faison $9,084,324
36. James Davis $8,497,854
37. John W. Childs $8,694,286
38. Patricia Duggan $8,446,099
4/
Remember the names of the people who corrupted the courts & enabled a madman in the presidency.
39. Richard G. Haworth $7,500,800
40. Marc J. Rowan $8,721,299
41. Jeffrey & Loeffler Specher $7,052,013
42. John L. III Nau $7,030,556
43. Shannon V. Addison $6,757,065
44. Robert H. Book $6,986,387
45. Susan Fox $6,687,414
46. Patricia Perkins-Leone $6,606,600
47. Jeffrey Hildebrand $6,508,389
48. Bernard Marcus $9,397,150
49. Steve Brodie $6,481,298
50. Daniel Newlin $6,063,928
5/
Remember the names of the people so bigoted they fried a planet.
51. Trevor D. Rees-Jones $5,765,124
52. Sarah Perot $5,643,416
53. Harold C. Simmons $5,596,530
54. Kelly Navarro $5,373,100
55. Alice Walton $10,248,000
56. Rob Granieri $5,587,899
https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/biggest-donors
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https://www.newsweek.com/project-2025-full-list-organizations-proposals-1923240
The people behind Project 2025:
Hoping for trials for crimes against humanity for each.
Heritage Foundation
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heritage_Foundation
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_contributors_to_Project_2025
The money behind the fascism & their practices
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/09/american-accountability-foundation-project-2025
https://democracyforward.org/the-peoples-guide-to-project-2025/
We can, in fact, prosecute American #fascists for #CrimesAgainstHumanity when the fascist regime has been deposed.
We just need the next President to invite the #InternationalCriminalCourt to do it.
And it won't matter if they all bought Trump pardons.
The battle against oligarchy & corporate fascism is global.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatocracy
After both WW1 and WW2, international governance gained a foothold with the UN and other institutions.
Perhaps after the axis alliance of fossil fuel despots, Koch Network, OPEC, & Russia loses WW3, we can build stronger & better institutions to preserve democracy, the environment, and humanity.
If we survive the WW3 that oil oligarchs are fomenting...
https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2025/04/01/musk-trump-tech-oil-oligarchs/
Skepticism is justified, since we haven't seen any Democratic POTUS recognize the #ICC before.
But we can, and must, demand that the post #fascist USA be made more resilient. That has to include prosecution of the #fascists and their #collaborators.
#Democratic candidates for President in 2028 are going to know that getting my vote requires this.
Despite a world war that cost 90 million lives, $4 trillion dollars, & the UK just paid off its war debts in 2006, there has been no meaningful effort to criminalize fascist threat funding by the wealthy.
Aristocrats, monarchs, industrialists, and influential elites promoted the ideas of antisemitism, Jim Crow, & ethnic cleansing to get & stay rich.
Fascism is wage, voter, & social suppression for monetary gain.
Bigotry is profitable. Ecocide is too.
@rbreich, no #altText‽ Come on!
"We're being deployed because of the protests about us being deployed."
The cartoon is signed by ADT, which is Adam D Thompson. The cartoon was published by #TheNewYorker.
@rbreich Reasoning doing a lot of heavy lifting there
but it reminded me of another circle, your, Wheel of Resistance, i made into this