"I have never seen an anti-feminist backlash quite like the one we are living through. The embrace of misogyny is thorough and unapologetic. It transcends just about every aspect of this administration, from the president down through his followers.

~ Jill Filipovic

#Musk #Trump #MAGA #destruction #chaos #fascism #suicide #empathy #morality #religion #WhiteChristianNationalism #misogyny #women
/8

https://jill.substack.com/p/boys-will-be-boys-but-women-are-too

'“To me, this disparagement marks a step in the destruction of our multicultural democracy, and provides a path from the verbal dehumanization of others to ope' discrimination and maltreatment.” ...

We are witnessing the construction of the ideological architecture to excuse violence and suffering on a mass scale."

#Musk #Trump #MAGA #destruction #chaos #fascism #suicide #empathy #morality #religion #WhiteChristianNationalism
/7

“'The disparagement of empathy is the flip side, I believe, of a deliberate effort to set up a permission structure to dehumanize others, and to narrow the definition of who should be included in a democratic state, or in a Christian community,' she said."

#Musk #Trump #MAGA #destruction #chaos #fascism #suicide #empathy #morality #religion #WhiteChristianNationalism
/6

"Susan Lanzoni, a historian of psychology and author of Empathy: A History, said by email that through all her research into the intellectual history of empathy, she had 'never seen empathy vilified in the way it has been in these current sources [on the American right]'."

~ Julia Carrie Wong

#Musk #Trump #MAGA #destruction #chaos #fascism #suicide #empathy #morality #religion #WhiteChristianNationalism
/5

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/08/empathy-sin-christian-right-musk-trump

"Our problems are much bigger than Trump, than MAGA, or than a Democratic minority versus majority. Our problem is, in too many ways, us. We have to be better than this. We are better than this, but we have to want that. We have to want to be the best versions of ourselves, and be willing to do the work that requires.

Otherwise, we lose."

#Musk #Trump #MAGA #destruction #chaos #fascism #suicide
/4

"And I believe the only reason he lost to President Biden in 2020 was because the pandemic was an immediate threat that was scaring the hell out of Americans and killed more than a half million of us.

But four years later, we forgot all about that."

#Musk #Trump #MAGA #destruction #chaos #fascism #suicide
/3

"We as a country need to face up to who we really are if we are to have any hope of not sliding over the cliff we’re currently approaching at a rapid pace. ...

it’s still hard for me to get past the fact that, for whatever reason (ignorance, racism, sexism, misinformation, disinformation, laziness), an incredibly large number of Americans voted for Trump. Twice."

~ Keith Owens

#Musk #Trump #MAGA #destruction #chaos #fascism #suicide
/2

https://wearespeaking.substack.com/p/who-are-we-really

@stux

This was a #Crime, to #hunt him into #Suicide.

More on #Trump’s #ExecutiveOrder to freeze federal #grants & #loans

"This order is a potential 5-alarm fire for #nonprofit organizations & the people & communities they serve. From pausing #research on cures for childhood #cancer to halting #FoodAssistance, safety from #DomesticViolence, & closing #suicide hotlines, the impact of even a short pause in funding could be devastating & cost lives,” Diane Yentel, president & CEO of the National Council of Nonprofits, said.

https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-orders-pause-all-federal-grants-loans-2025-01-28/