"All of this fascism is just like... authoritarian communism. If only there was something, historically, we could more accurately compare the rise of Trump's fascism to. Some group, or movement in history that presages everything Trump is doing in a distinctly Pig Empire setting..."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/22/trump-stalin-national-center-atmospheric-research

American anticommunism is so reflexive we don't have the words to talk about fascism without spewing anticommunism, despite fighting a literal world war against the Nazis. It's incredible.

Trump’s shuttering of the National Center for Atmospheric Research is Stalinist

This is the latest in the relentless purge of climate researchers who refuse to be co-opted by the fossil fuel industry

The Guardian
@AnarchoNinaWrites We are so fucking propagandized.
@AnarchoNinaWrites When Nazi Germany surrendered, which nation's army was surrounding Berlin?
@AnarchoNinaWrites Just a bit of historical trivia that keeps being left out of cultural memory