Also, I wonder if this “epidemic” is predominantly an American thing. (A quick search indicates it may be.) I wouldn’t be surprised if it is, since many other Western countries have had policies that support increased gender equity and equal division of domestic labor for decades now.

I think the only reason Uganda isn’t on the list is that he’s rather smitten with Mamdani.

Silicon Valley is full of very dumb, greedy people who are convinced they are very smart people because they were able to get someone dumber and greedier to loan them money to finance their dumb, greedy ideas.

Ngl, I didn’t even listen to what he was saying bc I couldn’t take my eyes off the intentional misspelling of the plural of Treasury. Had to go look it up. Mark me as unconvinced. This seems like a gimmick by media companies (or companys, lol) that just looks dumb to me. www.cnbc.com/amp/2009/08/...

most reasonable people can read the dictionary definition of “fascism” and see that it’s broadly applicable to the current administration and don’t really want some pedant claiming it’s “not that bad” just because we haven’t yet had public executions of left-leaning Supreme Court justices. /end

But the increased centralization of power under the “unified executive” theory of government under Trump is significant, and our current federal government is actually using the guise of states’ rights as a cudgel rather than recognizing it as a legitimate built-in check on its power. So yeah, 3/

a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, and that is characterized by severe economic and social regimentation and by forcible suppression of opposition.”
Then someone like him will come along and quibble that we still have federalism/states’ rights at some level. /2

The problem is that he makes his own definition. A textbook definition of fascism is one like the following: “Fascism : a populist political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual, that is associated with 1/

Tom Nichols does this all the time, parsing the definition of fascism and saying, “Well, it’s not *real* fascism if you’re still free to draw political cartoons and post about the Orange Narcissist-in-Chief without getting sent to a gulag.”🙄

Idk how much of a factor that is overall, but it’s certainly a trend in the middle-to-upper-middle classes.

Also, I tutor HS math and see many kids who, if they’d been born Gen-X, would’ve done 2 years at CC before transferring to a state school. Now many of those kids’ parents are willing to spend a small fortune to send them directly to university, even if it’s some little college you’ve never heard of.

It’s also a play on a really old joke (see the old Electric Company skit). But in previous versions it’s the customer who’s out of line and the waitress who’s normal/relatable. youtu.be/VCc6OejUhkg?...

Trump’s second administration is like a rewrite of All in the Family in which a reactionary bigot from queens who basically wants to be liked by the people he meets is instead influenced by his wife Ann Coulter (not the lovely Edith) and his child Nick Fuentes & his live in “friend” Stephen Miller.

Who?

I’ve never read someone state this so eloquently.