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#farright

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Miguel Afonso Caetano

We really do need a lot more political literacy. This guy is totally uninformed. Supports Bernie but is anti-unions. Says that discovering Marxism around 14 made him open his eyes and that the idea of human dignity really mattered to him. Yet, ends up voting twice for Trump...

"DOGE claimed "We're going to end the deficit." And if you look at the charts, most of it is Social Security. I think Social Security is good. Again, human dignity. So that started to get disconnected from reality. You're on a high of winning, then you look at the facts, and they don't quite match.

Trump’s rhetoric against colleges starts to get more aggressive. I visited Columbia when the protests were going on. I think the Columbia campus is antisemitic. But scientific research is important. I was really excited about the "burn it to the ground" stuff, then you start to realize what "burn it to the ground" means. It starts to freak me out.

When Trump takes office, all hell breaks loose. You get the ICE stuff. I see videos of immigrants being put in handcuffs and deported on a plane chartered by the US government. That's the point where reason came to my senses.

Yeah, sure, I believe in massive government reform. But also, it's hard to cut Medicaid. And I hate unions, but a shitty engineer on DOGE publishing code on GitHub that has a filter by union is extremely stupid.

The other thing that made me dislike the administration as much as I do now is that I didn't realize how sycophantic people around him had become."

jasmi.news/p/fit-to-rule

@jasmine · fit to ruleBy Jasmine Sun
#Tech#FarRight#Trump
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Maik Civeira

He proposed “the liquidation of democracy, the Constitution, and the rule of law,” and the eventual transfer of power to a C.E.O.-in-chief, who would transform the government into “a heavily-armed, ultra-profitable corporation.” This new regime would sell off public schools, destroy universities, abolish the press, and imprison “decivilized populations.”

#politics #farright #curtisyarvin

newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06

The New Yorker · Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against AmericaBy Ava Kofman
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Jocelyn

#LeMonde's #leader today: "When #racism escalates to #farRight #terrorism"

"Behind #MarineLePen's respectable façade, the spread of the #RassemblementNational's #ideology, which has gained traction across much of the political spectrum, has fostered hostility toward #foreigners and incited tragic acts such as the murder of #HichemMiraoui."

"By viewing the tragedy solely through a #religious lens [one favors] the perspective preferred by all extremists."

lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/

Le Monde · When racism escalates to far-right terrorismBy Le Monde
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Nonilex

For the third consecutive year, #Louisiana lawmakers rejected a bill that would have allowed young victims of #rape to get an #abortion.

In an emotional & #religious-laced legislative committee meeting legislators objected to adding rape, in cases where the girl is under the age of 17 & impregnated as a result of the sexual offense, to the narrow list of #exceptions for one of the strictest #AbortionBans in the country.

#law #FarRight #MaleSupremacy
apnews.com/article/louisiana-a

In this June 29, 2020 file photo, Anti-abortion protesters wait outside the Supreme Court for a decision, in Washington on the Louisiana case, Russo v. June Medical Services LLC. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, file)
AP News · Louisiana lawmakers reject proposed exception to near-total abortion banBy Sara Cline
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"There’s no denying the threat posed by the tech industry’s embrace of far-right politics. After decades of being praised as genius future-makers, they didn’t like when it was time to answer for the harms caused by their “move fast and break things” approach. But by the time the delayed accountability came, they’d accumulated enough power and wealth to make a serious effort to evade it. They propeled Trump back to the White House hoping he would save them — a bet that isn’t working out exactly as they planned.

Yet that doesn’t mean these politics aren’t still dangerous, whichever one ultimately comes out on top. Lonsdale and Srinivasan each imagine a more authoritarian world in their own way, where the powerful can do as they wish and everyone else has to suffer the consequences. One tries to realize a tech-infused version of an Ayn Randian fever dream, while the other intends to accelerate an escalating arms race to serve his sector’s bottom line — while cloaking it in the language of geopolitical rivalry and American superiority.

Drawing a distinction between the new military industry complex and the Network State movement isn’t to root for one over the other. They’re both efforts to try to push as far as possible toward a political reorientation that serves their interests. We could even see one as a hedge against the failure of the other: if the effort to capture the US government fails, then tech plutocrats could still decamp to their semi-autonomous zones where they rule with an iron fist and can do as they please. They must both be stopped, as they have horrible implications for our collective future."

disconnect.blog/p/the-ideologi

Disconnect · The ideological rift on the tech rightBy Paris Marx
#SiliconValley#Ideology#Libertarianism
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Nonilex

The #legislation was expected to add significantly to the #debt, given the enormous cost of extending the #TaxCuts for corporations & the rich that #Republicans put into place in 2017, the central pillar of the bill. #FarRight lawmakers demanded that the party use their total #control of Washington to also slash #spending & contain the cost of the legislation, but the #CBO’s estimate was a reminder that the party fell well short of covering the roughly $3.8 trillion cost of extending the cuts.

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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"With old J.R.R. in his grave since 1973, there’s no way to be certain, but it seems likely he would have been deeply disturbed to see the words “Anduril” or “Palantir” inscribed on a cruise missile or an AI targeting system.

In other letters, Tolkien wrote that “My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning the abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs)—or to ‘unconstitutional’ Monarchy.” This is obviously contradictory and eccentric, and literature scholars have spent decades debating exactly what he meant by it. But we get a clue a few sentences later, when Tolkien writes that “The most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.” I take that to mean that Tolkien liked the idea of “unconstitutional monarchy” in theory, if a purely benevolent king like his fictional Aragorn could be found, but he didn’t trust any actually existing leader to fill the role, and so opted for anarchy and the “abolition of control” as a lesser evil. (Other readers will, doubtless, disagree.) At any rate, the bit about “those who seek the opportunity” to wield power being the least fit of all is another clear rebuke to people like Thiel, Vance, and Yarvin, whose entire lives seem devoted to becoming more wealthy and powerful. In fact, we could call that the moral core of Tolkien’s entire mythos.

It’s especially ironic, when you know the ins and outs of Middle-Earth, that Peter Thiel chose to name his surveillance company “Palantir.” In The Lord of the Rings, a palantir is not a good thing to have. Actually, almost everyone who lays a hand on one is cursed and driven to their destruction by the experience."

currentaffairs.org/news/how-th

Peter Thiel dressed in wizard robes, holding a crystal ball. Behind him is a crouching Gollum creature with the face of JD Vance.
www.currentaffairs.orgHow the Right Abuses TolkienFor Peter Thiel, JD Vance, and other figures on today’s far right, the works of J.R.R. Tolkien have become a cultural touchstone. Pity they don’t understand the first thing about them.
#USA#Libertarianism#FarRight
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Nonilex

#JDVance met privately Tues morning with #LauraLoomer, a #FarRight crackpot whose criticisms of some of the #Trump admin’s hires have led to their ousters.

Vance met alone with Loomer at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, according to a person with knowledge of the meeting. It was not immediately clear what the pair discussed.

#USpol #ConspiracyTheories
cnn.com/2025/06/03/politics/la

CNN · Laura Loomer meets with JD Vance at White House complex, sources sayBy Alayna Treene
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