Tablet Magazine tries to explain the nuances found among Nazis, illuminating various forms of antisemitism taking over the GOP.
By hosting Fuentes, Carlson offered his audience two flavors of antisemitism: explicit and denied. Fuentes names the Jew; Carlson insists he has nothing against Jews at all. But the coordinates are identical, and preferring one or the other is simply a matter of taste. They coexist comfortably because both point to the same destination. Antisemitism is not dangerous because it’s mean or offensive to the feelings or sensibilities of Jews; it is dangerous because it creates and circulates lethal fictions. It produces a weaponized alternate reality, one that leads inexorably to Jews being harmed or killed.
The GOP now is positioned to move into ethnic cleansing as either adoption of explicit Nazism, or implicit Know Nothingism, or both.
Some don’t seem to understand that Fuentes lauds Hitler and praises Stalin together as a compatible ideology of mass atrocity. His performances, showing desperation for the kind of absolute attention that both Hitler and Stalin craved, is indeed consistent as raw aspiration to seize power for purposes of abuse. He may as well list any other tyrants in history. The likely explanation is he’s too lazy to read about other atrocities, so he can only come up with praise for Hitler and Stalin.
The reporting is still a bit vague but apparently a Tesla driver in the Marin Headlands decided to jump out and stab a cyclist.
Around 11:40 a.m., the driver of a Tesla and a cyclist got into an altercation, and at some point, during the confrontation, a knife was taken out. The CHP said the cyclist was stabbed…
This certainly is a twist on Elon Musk’s personal promise that his cars will prevent harm to cyclists. If the driver instead had run over the cyclist he probably would have blamed driverless and not have been detained. This knife fight is unusual, yet also reminiscent of the Los Angeles attacker who repeatedly jumped out of his Tesla to attack women. Perhaps it reflects who still would drive a Tesla.
I can’t imagine why anyone in law enforcement would ever step foot in a Tesla. It’s like asking them to holster a firearm known to discharge unpredictably. This death of a police officer was entirely preventable.
Los Angeles County Fire Department personnel were called at 2:15 a.m. to the Saugus neighborhood, on Cinema Drive and Bouquet Canyon Road, where they found a Tesla engulfed in flames, a spokesperson for the fire department said
News video from the scene shows the Tesla sedan destroyed in the fire after driving off the road and slamming into a traffic signal pole.
Early morning fatal loss of control into a tree is a recurring Tesla theme.
Two people were killed and two others were injured after a speeding Tesla crashed into a tree and caught fire, igniting a nearby home in Petersburg early Saturday morning, according to authorities.
Colonial Heights Police said an officer clocked the Tesla at speeds over 70 mph in a 30 mph zone on the Boulevard around 1:20 a.m.
A witness perhaps put it best.
So I came out of my house and saw… the car was lodged in between the tree and my house. And then a few minutes later, the car burst into flames. And it was a Tesla, so it’s extra dangerous.
Extra dangerous. She’s seen a lot of crashes, apparently, and knows the difference.
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