Summary

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warned that the Trump is deliberately overwhelming the public with chaotic news to induce passivity.

Citing Steve Bannon’s “flood the zone” strategy and historian Michiko Kakutani’s comparison of Trump to Mussolini and Hitler, she argued that Trump uses the internet to spread disinformation, much like past dictators used film and radio.

Urging people to stay engaged, she emphasized that collective resistance can slow harmful policies and that small acts of opposition make a difference.

  • queermunist she/her
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    6 hours ago

    And the media! When Musk did a Nazi salute they all fell all over each other to run cover for him and “both sides” the issue. When his obvious government wrecking DOGE agency torches important programs it’s just presented as a “tough efficiency program”. The whole mainstream media is trying to pretend everything is normal.

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      6 hours ago

      To be fair, I don’t think the overall USA really cared about nor directly responded to the OG Nazis until… 12/7/1941? Of course, that was just the Nazi allies.