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White Americans can split hairs over the difference, but what difference does it make to someone living outside of the US' borders?
What difference does it make to people being displaced by foreign mining companies or becoming refugees who get treated badly by the US? https://twitter.com/socialistmic/status/1314032506228797440
What difference does it make to people being displaced by foreign mining companies or becoming refugees who get treated badly by the US? https://twitter.com/socialistmic/status/1314032506228797440
Maybe the GND on its own isn't fascist in isolation, but it is fascist when combined with other parts of Bernie's platform. https://twitter.com/socialistmic/status/1314000787685560325
Bernie's rhetoric, on the topics of immigrants and global poverty, is super concerning. This short convo between him and Ezra Klein is one example. https://twitter.com/siggonkristov/status/1241433645388369924
He sees poor people from Third World countries as if they're vermin.
His concern for American workers is exclusive like Hitler's rhetoric on the German volk, where they don't extend their compassion to people who aren't of their supposedly great nations. https://twitter.com/siggonkristov/status/1192459306169450496
His concern for American workers is exclusive like Hitler's rhetoric on the German volk, where they don't extend their compassion to people who aren't of their supposedly great nations. https://twitter.com/siggonkristov/status/1192459306169450496
He also agreed with someone that said that Third World women are contributing to climate change by having too many children.
He agreed that doing something about that should be a *key feature* of climate policy. https://twitter.com/siggonkristov/status/1180714616080478208
He agreed that doing something about that should be a *key feature* of climate policy. https://twitter.com/siggonkristov/status/1180714616080478208
When climate crisis is influencing migration patterns, when a climate refugee crisis is staring at us, and when we're hearing that the US gov't is sterilising migrant women without their consent...
How can we not find this rhetoric as worrying?
How can we not find this rhetoric as worrying?
And forced sterilisation of migrant women isn't just something practised by the US; it's something that has been done in countries that Bernie Sanders admires, like Sweden and Denmark.
Bernie loves and admires Denmark, and points to its government and society as an example of what his "Democratic Socialism" would look like. https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1237154217627914240
Xenophobic/anti-immigrant sentiments aren't just generic fascist things; they also tie in to eco-fascism.
We'll see worsening refugee crises, people fleeing countries that contributed little to climate change but are hit the hardest, only to face violence in the walled world.
We'll see worsening refugee crises, people fleeing countries that contributed little to climate change but are hit the hardest, only to face violence in the walled world.
If you want to know what I mean by "the walled world" then check this out. I don't agree 100% with all the minor points but the overall picture is still important.
Peace, climate justice and migrant rights are inseparable in this day and age.
https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/walled-world
Peace, climate justice and migrant rights are inseparable in this day and age.
https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/walled-world
Bernie and the people that you already call fascists agree on 4 things:
- steal resources from the Third World
- damage the environment of the Third World
- keep wealth within the walled world
- keep immigrants and poor people out of the walled world
- steal resources from the Third World
- damage the environment of the Third World
- keep wealth within the walled world
- keep immigrants and poor people out of the walled world
You already admit that the GND involves plundering other countries' resources (which displaces people btw) so you should be able to see the result of this being combined with anti-immigrant rhetoric and American exceptionalism. https://twitter.com/siggonkristov/status/1221101554230595584
