Since the Second World War, we've said 'never again' like we were casting a spell of guarantee.

@kristiedegaris The lip-service becomes ceremonialized (becomes misunderstood) becomes a stance in its own right becomes the next cycle of aggression and revenge.

(FWIW this is why I'm a not-even-white poppy type; nothing about the story of war, before/during/aftermath, deserves respect or amplification.)

Since the Second World War, we've said 'never again' like we were casting a spell of guarantee. But 'never again' was a commitment, and we did not keep it.

The world has witnessed the rise of fascism in the United States, and the most disturbing part is that almost nothing stood in its way.

Feeling deeply worried. For my kids. For us all.

Since the Second World War, we've said 'never again' like we were casting a spell of guarantee. But 'never again' was a commitment, and we did not keep it.

The world has witnessed the rise of fascism in the United States, and the most disturbing part is that almost nothing stood in its way.

Feeling deeply worried. For my kids. For us all.

Since the Second World War, we've said 'never again' like we were casting a spell of guarantee. But 'never again' was a commitment, and we did not keep it.

The world has witnessed the rise of fascism in the United States, and the most disturbing part is that almost nothing stood in its way.

Feeling deeply worried. For my kids. For us all.

Since the Second World War, we've said 'never again' like we were casting a spell of guarantee. But 'never again' was a commitment, and we did not keep it.

The world has witnessed the rise of fascism in the United States, and the most disturbing part is that almost nothing stood in its way.

Feeling deeply worried. For my kids. For us all.

@kristiedegaris We feel the same. We're heading into dark times. But I won't give up hope, that even in the USA at this advanced state of fascism the people will rise up and throw out that poisonous gov and all its supporters.
The silver lining of all this: maybe Europe will finally learn to better stand together, become more independent from USA, but also China and Russia. We need to learn the benefits of solidarity again.

@xylophilist Also not a poppy type. I thought the whole point of memorialising was to remember. I feel constantly in shock.

@kristiedegaris what we are witnessing in the USA is the behaviour exhibited during the pre Civil Rights era. Jim Crow laws were fascist. When you think the final dismantling of Jim Crow laws didn’t happen until 1968 you realise how supremacist the USA is. And I say is rather than was because those who harboured these views didn’t go away, they just tempered their language and behaviour. They instilled these views through the generations. Trump emboldened them to come out from the shadows.

@energisch_ I hope for the same but I also worry so much for everyone putting themselves in harms way to protest and fight this.

Fascism needs to be stopped before it gets settled and in Europe we still have a small window of opportunity to do this. Maybe what's happening in the US will provide the motivation. I don't know if it's enough.

Since the Second World War, we've said 'never again' like we were casting a spell of guarantee. But 'never again' was a commitment, and we did not keep it.

The world has witnessed the rise of fascism in the United States, and the most disturbing part is that almost nothing stood in its way.

Feeling deeply worried. For my kids. For us all.

@kristiedegaris
Every November, on the 11th, and on Remembrance Sunday, I see the great and the good, some of whom have taken us to war in the past, go through the act of remembering the "War to end wars". And then go back to business as usual and the arms trade and the euphemistically named "Defence Industries" and nothing changes. They are hypocrites, every one of them. I empathise fully with your worries as fascism stalks the world once more. The same old battles generation after generation.

Since the Second World War, we've said 'never again' like we were casting a spell of guarantee. But 'never again' was a commitment, and we did not keep it.

The world has witnessed the rise of fascism in the United States, and the most disturbing part is that almost nothing stood in its way.

Feeling deeply worried. For my kids. For us all.

@kristiedegaris the worst thing about Nazi Germany is that we tend to think of it as an unthinkable aberation when in fact it IS the way of H. sapiens.

Since the Second World War, we've said 'never again' like we were casting a spell of guarantee. But 'never again' was a commitment, and we did not keep it.

The world has witnessed the rise of fascism in the United States, and the most disturbing part is that almost nothing stood in its way.

Feeling deeply worried. For my kids. For us all.

Since the Second World War, we've said 'never again' like we were casting a spell of guarantee. But 'never again' was a commitment, and we did not keep it.

The world has witnessed the rise of fascism in the United States, and the most disturbing part is that almost nothing stood in its way.

Feeling deeply worried. For my kids. For us all.

@barrygoldman1 I hope the world gives me a reason to disagree.

Since the Second World War, we've said 'never again' like we were casting a spell of guarantee. But 'never again' was a commitment, and we did not keep it.

The world has witnessed the rise of fascism in the United States, and the most disturbing part is that almost nothing stood in its way.

Feeling deeply worried. For my kids. For us all.

@kristiedegaris

The last rise of fascism had its funding & inspiration from The Moneyed of the UK & USA.

Both empires never got over their hankering for colonialism, slavery & bigotry.

Fascism had the same kind of financial backers then as now.

1. Hitler got funding from Henry Ford & IG Farben

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/31/hate-speech/

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/ford-and-fuhrer/

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/11/henry-ford-antisemitism-jacob-schiff-money-kings/

2. The Duke of Windsor recommended bombing his own former London subjects & sold information on defenses ...

1/

2/

... Franco, Vichy, Salazar, and the Nazis.

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/the-windsor-file

https://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/the-passionate-eye/historians-believe-the-duke-of-windsor-actively-collaborated-with-the-nazis-during-the-second-world-war-1.6635225

https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/01/david-frum-show-fiona-hill-putin/685690/

https://www.rferl.org/a/trump-board-of-peace-putin-un/33656659.html

3. Standard Oil colluded with the Nazis

https://www.jpost.com/blogs/the-jewish-problem---from-anti-judaism-to-anti-semitism/arming-the-enemy-us-industry-hitler-and-the-holocaust-366097

https://royaldutchshellplc.com/2025/10/14/shells-dark-fuel-the-nazi-past-the-oil-giant-couldnt-bury/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/17/dark-money-review-nazi-oil-the-koch-brothers-and-a-rightwing-revolution

https://massivesci.com/articles/fossil-fuel-industry-oil-gas-white-supremacy/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/politics/koch-network-2024-election-trump.html

4. Six newspaper moguls promoted the Axis. So did radio.
https://aspectsofhistory.com/book_reviews/the-newspaper-axis-by-kathryn-a-olmsted/

https://thebostonsun.com/2022/11/17/the-nazis-of-copley-square-a-talk-by-charles-gallagher/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/opinion/larry-ellison-paramount-cbs-tiktok.html