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I'm sure there are plenty of podcasts that cover this group and happening. This is the one I like.
They are doing the same playbook. The longer I'm an adult, the less inclined I am to defend parents' rights so strongly. Children are people, not property.
Also, children need education, not brainwashing.
…and not working night shifts cleaning meat-packing factories.
The only people worse are those that want grandparents rights. Those were always the worst legal advice stories. People would escape or try to escape their manipulative family and they would try to force them to give them visitation or stop them from moving out of state.
It's like no one knows what liberty means anymore
Sounds like it's time to post that Sartre quote again. It's about anti-semites, but you know, if the shoe fits...
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
In Ancient Greece they called it the "art" of rhetoric, nowadays we call it trolling. The techniques haven't changed much.
It seems to be a trend in some political movements to use terms in their name that are the opposite of what they defend:
...and so on.
Prosperity -> corporate tyranny
Moms for Hitler
Do get the name right please
Are these the ones who quoted Hitler in their newsletter? Or was that another crazy-ass mom’s group? (How sad is it that there are so many?)
Nah, this is something new. We don't know what the authoritarian capitalist endgame is going to look like, yet, but we likely will soon.
They (the nutjob "moms") are not doing this to be pro-business. There are multiple existential threats facing our basic rights and lives. Capitalism and Conservatism may often overlap in their methods, but they're distinct threats with distinct goals, and have to be treated as such.
If businesses could be magically brainwashed into thinking that they would get infinite money by letting everyone be one giant polyamorous group, they'd do it without blinking, because money is the only thing they care about. Conservatives, not so much; they of course care about money, but they care more about power over people.
The problem is that businesses naturally see choice as bad, because that implies the choice to do something other than what the business wants (which is for you to give them all your money). So they much more readily coalesce with the Conservative belief in removing personal choices/ freedoms, than they do with any notion of "free markets", which is why "true" Capitalism doesn't actually work.
If it’s in the name, it ain’t in the product.
It seems kind of like letting the HOA mom's take over... A disaster
I want there to be a movement on the left to reclaim these words and terms. Even though they are full of shit just the use of these words gives them some kind of legitimacy (at least to some people).
I've noticed that many of these right wing extremists really like the idea of "liberty" without actually knowing what it is or actually supporting it at all for anyone other than the mega-wealthy. They're legislating their own rights away. I blame 24 hour news.
They want to protect liberty by banning books, got it.