"You can make the point historically, too.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"You can make the point historically, too. In Germany in the 30s or in Russia in the 2000s, when the comedians went, that was a sign that freedom for everyone else was going as well."

~ Timothy Snyder

#Trump #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
/1

https://snyder.substack.com/p/speak-truth-to-power

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"This isn’t people getting canceled because of a cultural pile-on. This is the US govt silencing voices that they disagree with. If they can come for Kimmel, they can come for anybody. This is happening. It’s time to act. Figure it out. Find a way. Come together. Push back. Because if this goes, it’s over.”

~ Comedian Marc Maron quoted by Ron Filipkowski

#Trump #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
/2

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-politics-bulletin-210-91925

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"You cannot speak truth to power if power controls your words. …

Power is the rock on which truth founders. It will always find willing enforcers: no one ever lost money by telling billionaires what they want to hear. The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital."

~ George Monbiot

#Trump #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
/3

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/20/journalist-40-years-forces-profession-power

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"We live in an age of monsters: Elon Musk, Donald Trump, the Ellison family, Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel, the sundry billionaires who don’t own apps. … And the function of the Trump era has been to wind them all together into a single formation, first by allurement and then by force."

~ Josh Marshall

#Trump #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
/4

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-age-of-monsters

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"The years after 2010 spawned the idea that the very wealthy and the extremely powerful needed to be afforded more protections, more privacy for their giving then ordinary people who might donate $50 or even $5,000 up near the candidate donation limit. …

The more political power they got, the more rights they needed because they were so different from everyone else."

#Trump #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
/5

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"When the history of this era is written, there will be much to say about the behavior of large corporations. And none of it will be good. … What we are witnessing now in the way of corporate acquiescence to the rise of authoritarianism is a familiar story."

~ Austin Sarat

#Trump #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
/6

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/19/trump-ben-and-jerrys