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any idea why this is such a big deal to Nazis? I know they go after other people too, but it's really eerie watching it replay scene by scene.
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I view it more like a battle between two groups of the elites. The left/right prism is a distraction. Personally I think both political parties got taken over by what we used to call the Neo-cons. The Republicans underwent an internal revolution that sidelined the Neo-cons inside it. So I view this as a battle between one group Neo-cons vs this new group represented by the current administration. I don't have an opin…
I can help here: the group who is canceling life-saving treatment for millions of people, including 566,000 children, as part of a purge of “political enemies” are the bad ones.
Does anybody have an example of federal data that has disappeared already? I'm interested what kind of data it's about.
> At the Department of Justice, a database detailing the vast array of criminal charges and successful convictions of January 6 rioters was removed, according to a report from Donie O’Sullivan and Katelyn Polantz at CNN
> Several pages on the Center for Disease Control have also been removed, including information on LGBTQ+ rights, HIV and adolescent health, reports Will Stone and Selena Simmons-Duffin from NPR
From https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2025/feb/04/the-fight...
So, are the feds saving money on hosting costs?! What's the point of this.
Does anybody have an example of federal data that has disappeared already? I'm interested what kind of data it's about.
Examples: > At the Department of Justice, a database detailing the vast array of criminal charges and successful convictions of January 6 rioters was removed, according to a report from Donie O’Sullivan and Katelyn Polantz at CNN > Several pages on the Center for Disease Control have also been removed, including information on LGBTQ+ rights, HIV and adolescent health, reports Will Stone and Selena Simmons-Duffin from…
This wholesale purge of data is an effort to rewrite history. Hopefully the Internet can mostly remember.
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any idea why this is such a big deal to Nazis? I know they go after other people too, but it's really eerie watching it replay scene by scene.
Scapegoating politically and culturally disempowered groups is super useful to such movements. Notice how literally every single problem in our country is “caused by DEI” now? It helps because it’s easier to solve fake problems with fake solutions instead of real ones.
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This is of course a deliberate move. By actively destroying ideas and work you don’t agree with, rather than archiving it, you make it harder for the other side to realize their vision. It’s a kind of scorched earth strategy.
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