Freedom

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...convocation of a constituent assembly to draft a new constitution for Italy (presumably without the monarchy), the eight-hour workday, worker participation in "the technical management of industry," the "partial expropriation of all kinds of wealth" by a heavy and progressive tax on capital, the seizure of certain Church properties, and the confiscation of 85 percent of war profits.
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The Fascist program, issued two months later, was a curious mixture of veterans' patriotism and radical social experiment, a kind of “national socialism." On the national side, it called for fulfilling Italian expansionist aims in the Balkans and around the Mediterranean that had just been frustrated a few months before at the Paris Peace Conference. On the radical side, it proposed women's suffrage and the vote at eighteen, abolition of the upper house, ...
As the common understanding of reality crumbles, fascist politics makes room for dangerous and false beliefs to take root. First, fascist ideology seeks to naturalize group difference, thereby giving the appearance of natural, scientific support for a hierarchy of human worth. When social rankings and divisions solidify, fear fills in for understanding between groups. Any progress for a minority group stokes feelings of victimhood among the dominant population. Law and (see next post in thread)

America: love it or leave it. At least, that's how I put it to the GOP faction of the House Ways and Means Committee on the bird app.

Article I, Section 8, Clause 1:
Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises...

In 1913 the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution was adopted, overruling Pollock, and the Congress then levied an income tax on both corporate and individual incomes.

#taxes
#Constitution
#WaysMeansCommittee

We are once again losing more people in the States to Covid per week than we did on 9/11. Screenshot of data marked sensitive because mention of death.

#Covid19
#CovidDeaths
#CovidIsStillHere
#MasksWork
#GetVaxxed

Jake Sherman
@JakeSherman
A democrat screams during Scott Perry's long nomination speech -- "who are you nominating!"
3:32 PM · Jan 4, 2023

#HouseSpeakerVote2023
#HakeemJeffries
#KevinMcCarthy
#JimJordan
#ByronDaniels
#ZeroDaysSinceWhiteNonsense
#USPolitics
#HouseOfRepresentatives

Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman)

BOEBERT turns to McCarthy and says Trump should call him to tell him he does not have the votes and "it's time to withdraw."

1:55 PM · Jan 4, 2023

#HouseSpeakerVote2023
#HakeemJeffries
#KevinMcCarthy
#JimJordan
#ByronDaniels
#ZeroDaysSinceWhiteNonsense
#USPolitics
#HouseOfRepresentatives

Michael Flynn is operating much behind the scenes to stoke the emotions of conservative evangelical Christians and present to them his case for Christian Nationalism - a theocratic ideology that threatens the integrity of our representational government that is tied to a core mission of supporting human rights.

If you have to re-read ALLL of that, it is ok. I wrote it, and I needed a second look.

#MichaelFlynn
#ChristianNationalism
#WhiteSupremacy
#ZeroDaysSinceWhiteNonsense
#fascism