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Britain does not think Starmer is the man for the hour, he's a Neville.
And we know Brexit has shot us in the foot, time for Westminster to admit it
"What if we gave Appeasement one more try? Is there some middle ground with Fascism I can inhabit?"" - Starmer
#Appeasement Is Failing: Why Fighting Back Against #Trump Is The Only Option
If there’s any lesson so far in Trump’s second term, it’s that playing nice isn’t just bad optics — it’s a losing strategy.
"Justin Hansford, a Howard Law professor and founder of the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center, argued that #capitulation had only emboldened Trump. 'The more that they cave in, the more damage that gets done,' said Hansford."
by Jessica Washington, March 15 2025
"Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., capitulated to President Donald Trump and the GOP over the budget this week, sacrificing one of Democrats’ last pieces of leverage as Trump bulldozes the federal government and jails activists. Schumer defended voting yes on the GOP budget that would neuter the legislative branch, arguing that he had no choice but to give in or face a government shutdown. He’s not the first to make that kind of decision.
"Leaders of businesses, universities, and nations across the globe face the same question: Should they fight Trump, or hope that by giving him what he wants he’ll somehow do less harm?
"Far too often, these leaders have chosen appeasement over #resistance — and, in return, gotten nothing."
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/03/15/appeasing-trump-doesnt-work/
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/j1U1P
#ResistFascism #ResistTrump #Authoritarianism #CorporateFascism #CharacteristicsOfFascism #USPol
The Intercept · Appeasement Is Failing: Why Fighting Back Against Trump Is the Only Option
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>> #Appeasement, Thy Names are Chuck #Schumer and Neville #Chamberlain
"Schumer argued that #Democrats would ultimately lose a #shutdown #fight."
So why bother to #fightBack at all?
via @newrepublic
#Pelosi has issued a statement against following #Schumer's lead.
Congress has the “false choice between a shutdown or a blank check,” Pelosi wrote. “Neither is a good option. But this false choice some are buying instead of fighting is unacceptable."
https://newrepublic.com/post/192787/nancy-pelosi-chuck-schumer-government-shutdown
The New Republic · Nancy Pelosi Takes Aim at Chuck Schumer After Shutdown SurrenderThe former House speaker is attacking Senate Democrats thinking about voting for the government funding bill.
If Trump demands Columbia University change it's name to 'Trump University', they'll do it.
Did the Universities in Nazi Germany fold this quickly?
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>> #Appeasement, Thy Names are Chuck #Schumer and Neville #Chamberlain
>> Schumer argued that #Democrats would ultimately lose a #shutdown #fight.
[So why bother to #fightBack at all?]
>> #Trump praised Schumer's "courage" in backing the bill
via @epluribusunumyo
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>> #Appeasement, Thy Names are Chuck #Schumer and Neville #Chamberlain
"#Schumer sent… #Democrats into fits of rage… by announcing that he would vote to allow… #Republicans to pass the stopgap #CR.
Democrats have pushed for language in the bill to stop #DOGE from cutting congressionally approved spending, but Schumer argued that Democrats would ultimately lose a shutdown fight"
[So why bother to #fight at all?]
#Trump praised Schumer's "courage" in backing the bill
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/14/house-democrats-chuck-schumer-shutdown
Axios · Inside House Dems' furious anti-Schumer movement
#Appeasement, Thy Names are Chuck #Schumer and Neville #Chamberlain.
"A shutdown would allow #DOGE to shift into overdrive. Let me repeat, a shutdown will allow DOGE to shift into overdrive. It would give Donald #Trump and DOGE the keys to the city, state and country," he said. "Donald Trump and Elon #Musk would be free to destroy vital government services at a much faster rate than they can right now and over a much broader field of destruction that they would render."
ABC News · Schumer defends support for GOP funding bill ahead of Senate votes to avoid shutdown
Hey Starmer, these sorts of benefits from sucking up to Trump,yeah? That what you mean?
Toadying up to bullies doesn't work.
The Guardian · Ireland could lose pharma tax to US after Trump accusations, experts warn
"Operation Chainsaw"
Starmer's cosy pre-election dinner with Trump, not Harris
They are for not us, they are for Trump
Starmer and Streeting are selling out the NHS to Trump.
We had suspected it, we're now getting into how they intend to do it.
Continued thread
"oh, I hope Mr Trump won't be mean to us, if we just ignore the Canadians and what they're doing, perhaps Mr Trump will be nice to us?" - UK
What you are seeing today is a Failure of Starmer's policy of sucking up to Trump in the hope that America won't be mean to us.
It didn't work.
He is not a 'Trump whisperer', there is no such thing.
Starmer has failed, you stand up to bullies, you don't enable them.
See how cowardly and pathetic the British State is, we don't want to side with Europe so we have 'no cards' as the Rapist says, so we just take the abuse and don't fight back.
Are we supposed to take pride in this weak, cowardly nation? Because I don't, wish I were Canadian or French, not a British worm...
This is exactly how I felt in January 2017.
Corruption levels were off the charts and nobody was reacting.
BBC going with "Trump the Dealmaker has done it again!"
Sucking up to a foreign belligerent power, imagine if they talked about Iran like that....
Oh wow, he actually did say this.
What a wanker!
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@andrewstroehlein The ☭
Chinese colonizer regime closing access to Tibet is *only part of the reason* the plight of the Tibetan people has been all but forgotten in the Free World.
The forgetting fully correlates — over the years and decades — with the volume of democracies' business entanglement with the CCP dictatorship.
Foreign business missions queueing up for audition at CCP's Beijing headquarters *only months* after the Tiananmen massacre of June 4th 1989.
US bi-partisan decision to grant the Chinese dictatorship the Most Favoured Nation (MFN) trading priviledges in 1994 against all ethical considerations.
The entire Free World agreeing to grant the Chinese dictatorship full membership rights (to manipulate at will) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001... and what predictably happened to world trade thereafter...
Mirroring this appeasement and empowering of the CCP regime, critical media coverage of CCP's domestic and colonial repression and exploitation began vanishing from the coverage of media organizations owned by foreign billionaires and state broadcasters alike.
Notice how trump and maga has been *normalized* in much of media? Same principle. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Perhaps one day after Ukraine is secure and free we might consider offering at least *moral* support for the nation that was entirely overrun and enslaved by an unrepentingly imperialist neighbour, back in 1950.
It is worth noting that one key reason putin felt emboldened to attack Ukraine in 2014 and again in 2022 was that the Chinese dictatorship was allowed to avoid any real consequences for its own genocidal expansionism for all these decades.
Maybe we should try *NOT REWARDING* repressive and military-expansionst regimes and see if that works out better for humanity?
#Tibet #Ukraine #CCP #china #PRC #colonialism #imperialism #appeasement
10 March 1959
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_Uprising_Day
en.wikipedia.orgTibetan Uprising Day - Wikipedia
#ColumbiaUniversity Bent Over Backward to Appease #RightWing, #ProIsrael Attacks — And #Trump Still Cut #FederalFunding
Instead of #outrage, the school’s interim president responded to the cuts by vowing to continue its misguided crackdown.
by Natasha Lennard, March 8 2025
"Columbia University could hardly have been more draconian in the last year and a half since students began speaking out against Israel’s assault on #Gaza.
In early November 2023, four months before the Columbia #GazaSolidarity encampment even began, the university banned its chapters of #StudentsForJusticeInPalestine and #JewishVoiceForPeace. A few hundred students from the groups had had the audacity to walk out from classes and hold a “die-in” protest on campus — some of the most widely celebrated nonviolent protest tactics available.
"The crackdown was just getting started.
Since then, the university has ordered police raids on campus three times, leading to the arrests of over 100 students. Last week, the school expelled four students, three from #BarnardCollege one from Columbia. Many dozens of students have faced discipline and suspensions for participating in pro-Palestine protests and speech.
"Professors have been slandered before Congress, censured, removed from positions, and reportedly pushed into retirement over their support for Palestine and criticism of Israel. The campus has been essentially locked down for almost a year.
"Again and again, Columbia has shown a willingness to throw #students, #faculty, #FreeSpeech, and academic freedom under the bus in acquiescence to a #RightWing, #ProIsrael narrative that treats support for Palestinians as an affront to Jewish safety.
"For all Columbia’s #appeasement, President Donald Trump’s Federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism announced last week that it would cancel $400 million in #FederalGrants and contracts to the university.
"'Columbia has worked overtime to appease,' wrote Layla, a student at Columbia’s School of Social Work, who asked to withhold her last name having faced doxxing attacks and harassment from Zionist groups. 'Students are miserable. Campus is a #panopticon. And their funding was still cut.'
"The Trump administration can be expected to use its perverted conception of antisemitism to further its explicit plans to decimate, #corporatize, and #ReWhiten #HigherEducation. The shame here lies with university leaderships — at Columbia and schools nationwide — that have failed to stand up for their purported missions of #CriticalThinking and #AcademicFreedom. Instead, they have put some of their most vulnerable community members, particularly international students and students of color, at risk.
"There is no appeasing a political force like the #TrumpianRight, intent on a program of destruction. And there is no appeasing a nationalist #Zionist worldview that, defying reason, sees #antisemitism in every call for #Palestinian freedom. Columbia is proof of the failure of caving in; the administration has offered up a platter of repression for more than a year and is still slated to lose $400 million."
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/03/08/columbia-trump-funding-gaza-israel/
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/jrNva
#Fascism #Appeasement #FreePalestine #Gaza #RightToProtest #Censorship #Fascism #ICE #ACAB #Authoritarianism #USPol #FreeSpeech
The Intercept · Columbia Bent Over Backward to Appease Right-Wing, Pro-Israel Attacks — And Trump Still Cut Federal Funding