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Lars Maischak

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Fighting fascism since before it became cool. Lectures and Interviews: https://www.youtube.com/@DrMaischak tumblr: http://larsmaischak.tumblr.com My Book: https://tinyurl.com/53vkj2k8

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Lars Maischak @larsmaischak.bsky.social · Jan 20

"But whoever is not willing to talk about capitalism should also keep quiet about fascism."

Max Horkheimer, The Jews and Europe, December 1939

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"But whoever is not willing to talk about capitalism should also keep quiet about fascism.
Max Horkheimer, The Jews and Europe, December 1939"

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Lars Maischak @larsmaischak.bsky.social · 7h

It will put all the professional writers of courtship letters out of business!

Lars Maischak @larsmaischak.bsky.social · 7h

Case in point, Dr'es Holyoke and Jones:

Professor's comments about Kirk sparks free speech debate at Fresno State

This story was produced by The Collegian, Fresno State's award-winning student newspaper and republished with permission by Fresnoland. After an audio

fresnoland.org

Lars Maischak @larsmaischak.bsky.social · 7h

On some days I look at my ex-colleagues in CA, liberal academics, smart people, and I am in absolute awe.
How do you live through a decade of momentous, catastrophic social and political changes, and emerge at the end of it with an unaltered mindset?
How do you manage to learn absolutely nothing?

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Lars Maischak @larsmaischak.bsky.social · 1d

Every time MAGA has open conflict in its ranks, liberals prophesy its imminent demise.
They miss that the conflict is never over basic goals and ideals, but over the correct interpretation and application of the ideals. The worldview of fascism is only ever confirmed in these disputes.

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Lars Maischak @larsmaischak.bsky.social · 1d

By the time we get to the Sacking of Washington, DC, it won't be worth plundering.
Besides, we've got another agonizing century or so to go before that point.
Optimistic assessment.

Lars Maischak @larsmaischak.bsky.social · 2d

Trade Caths (Spits in Egalitarian Disdain)

Lars Maischak @larsmaischak.bsky.social · 2d

I take Lard and Ardor over Law and Order, any time.

Lars Maischak @larsmaischak.bsky.social · 2d

Paging Albert Speer

Darrel Plant @darrelplant.bsky.social · 2d

The Arch of Trumpomph

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 2d

Donald Trump appears ready to leave yet another mark on the nation’s capital with a triumphal arch that could rival the Lincoln Memorial in scale.

Lars Maischak @larsmaischak.bsky.social · 2d

A weekend? For a pilgrimage? Fucking Larpers!
I knew a progressive hardcore Catholic who walked from Berlin to Santiago de Compostela *with no money* and in a penitent's gown.
A *weekend*!!!

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Lars Maischak @larsmaischak.bsky.social · 2d

I've always upheld the ideal of the bourgeois state as an argument against its reality. Leftists should.

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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 2d

Fascism is imperialism turned inward. Liberals are in an uproar about the announced Qatar facility in Idaho, but were perfectly fine with the US using its leverage to pressure other countries into surrendering their territorial sovereignty. The US empire consists of the 877 bases in 95 countries.

Military Empires: A Visual Guide to Foreign Bases - World BEYOND War

Explore All The Foreign Military Bases In The World Many countries operate foreign military bases; the U.S. by far operates the most, with 877 military bases around the world. But at least 18 other na...

worldbeyondwar.org

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Lars Maischak @larsmaischak.bsky.social · 3d

Healthier than any of the things he does

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 3d

This is the episode you have been waiting for.

The End of Sport @endofsportpod.bsky.social · 3d

Ep. 170: The Pseudoscience of Trans Exclusion

In a LONG awaited and vital ep, the whole crew is joined by Sheree Bekker and @annaposbergh.bsky.social to delve into and refute the 'science' deployed to justify the anti-trans movement in sport.

open.spotify.com/episode/0IO2...

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Lars Maischak @larsmaischak.bsky.social · 3d

Beware of failed comedians

Lars Maischak @larsmaischak.bsky.social · 3d

They wash their hands of the violence their campaigns of vilification have always served to justify.

Lars Maischak @larsmaischak.bsky.social · 3d

#Reichsbürger tun immer so, als sei die Reichsgründung 1871 völkerrechtlich legitim gewesen.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t know when it will sink in for Americans that they live in a fully fascist authoritarian state but I hope it’s sooner than later

Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 3d

“Our old tools for trying to create the appearance of neutral and detached nonpartisan decision-making by prosecutors don’t seem to be working." www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Experts fear impact of deepening polarization and perceived political prosecutions

Reforms enacted after Watergate to bolster public confidence in the impartiality of prosecutions are proving dated and ineffective, legal experts warn.

www.nbcnews.com

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Lars Maischak @larsmaischak.bsky.social · 3d

I'm sorry that happened! Went through this in 2017.

Lars Maischak @larsmaischak.bsky.social · 3d

Yes he does. Having first seen him as Frank'n'Furter, I am in awe at his range.

Lars Maischak @larsmaischak.bsky.social · 4d

A call of better nature, if you will.

Lars Maischak @larsmaischak.bsky.social · 4d

Tim Curry is brilliant in that role!

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Lars Maischak @larsmaischak.bsky.social · 4d

The Uncrustables - was the the sequel, or the prequel?

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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 4d

Attorney says video shows 'CBP agent taunting her—“Do something, bitch” before "steering unmarked vehicle into hers and opening fire."

"“La Maggie” Martinez survived a federal shooting in #Chicago, [h]er attorney says body-cam footage shows agents provoked it." migrantinsider.com/p/chicago-la...

Chicago Latina Shot by Border Patrol Survives, Lawyers Up

“La Maggie” Martinez survived a federal shooting in Chicago. Now her attorney says body-cam footage shows the agents provoked it. The public deserves to see the tape.

migrantinsider.com

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Lars Maischak @larsmaischak.bsky.social · 4d

Alles Lüge? Dann kaufe ich jetzt wieder Crunchy Frog toffees, da weiß man, was man hat (only the finest Iraqi tree frogs).
🐸

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 4d

Ever read the GK Chesterton Father Brown story The Hammer of God? Brown talks about how looking at people from a height (he's talking about more than just physical height here) leads to dehumanization and worse.

"One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak."

"I think there is something rather dangerous about standing on these high places even to pray," said Father Brown. "Heights were made to be looked at, not to be looked from."

"Do you mean that one may fall over," asked Wilfred.

"I mean that one's soul may fall if one's body doesn't," said the other priest.

"I scarcely understand you," remarked Bohun indistinctly.

"Look at that blacksmith, for instance," went on Father Brown calmly; "a good man, but not a Christian--hard, imperious, unforgiving. Well, his Scotch religion was made up by men who prayed on hills and high crags, and learnt to look down on the world more than to look up at heaven. Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak."

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