This is Part 6 of my list of Antifascism related articles. Check out [Part 1], [Part 2], [Part 3], [Part 4] and [Part 5] for loads more articles.
Europe’s fight against the far-right - A look at the state of Fascism and Antifascism in Europe.
Shitposting, Inspirational Terrorism, and the Christchurch Mosque Massacre
Nazis Have Always Been Trolls - Hiding behind insincerity and irony has always been a feature of fascism
Eco-fascism is undergoing a revival in the fetid culture of the extreme right
[ID: three tweets from Existential Comics/@existentialcomics:
1: Bill Gates made his money by extinguishing free software and forcing us to pay him a tax just to turn our computers on. This was only possible because the State was ready to violently enforce his “intellectual property”.
He didn’t create a computer revolution, he destroyed one.
2: Zuckerberg made his money in the exact same way, of course - by destroying a free social network. A social network was bound to emerge, what Zuckerberg did was prevent it from following open protocols, like email, so just anyone couldn’t set up a server to socialize with anyone.
3: To say these people added value to the world and therefore “deserve” their billions is absurd. They subtracted value, an enormous amount of value, and stymied progress to seize control and extract wealth. Computers and the internet would be more advance if they had never existed.]
(via Researchers find a western-style diet can impair brain function | Science | The Guardian)
(Source: theguardian.com)
(Source: theguardian.com)
UK to close door to non-English speakers and unskilled workers -
Britain is to close its borders to unskilled workers and those who can’t speak English as part of a fundamental overhaul of immigration laws that will end the era of cheap EU labour in factories, warehouses, hotels and restaurants.
Unveiling its Australian-style points system on Wednesday, the government will say it is grasping a unique opportunity to take “full control” of British borders “for the first time in decades” and eliminate the “distortion” caused by EU freedom of movement.
But industry leaders immediately accused the government of an assault on the economy warning of “disastrous” consequences with job losses and closures in factories and the high street.
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(Source: theguardian.com)
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Next time someone complains that academics love their journal paywalls because they’re elitist, I’ll show them this:
Yes, folks, that’s a journal charging £588.20 (or £754.65 with VAT) for an academic to quote their own work from one of their journals.
Is there a reason you’ve added a comic explaining vaccinations to my post not about vaccinations or???? I mean I support vaccines but again????
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