https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42964280
Hi HN, Wanted to share a project I made over the weekend - a real-time fascism tracker. The site fetches recent news from trusted sources, filters it for keywords related to fascism and the current US administration, and then sends it to GPT-4o for classification according to the 14 characteristics of fascism described by Dr. Lawrence Britt. With the rapid pace of news in the US, especially post-election, it’s hard to keep up. I built this site so you can quickly see important topics and draw parallels with similar historical events. Would love to hear your thoughts. - Ryan
Did they stop printing “in god we trust” on dollars and swearing oaths on the bible?
High level of religious and government mixing is when the dollar says “in god we trust”
What is it to you, bishops in congress? Nevermind the normalization of pushing christianity through government property then, what about Trump creating a religious office to target anti-christian bias?
If the threshold for “high danger” to secularism is religious imagery in governemnt issued things, then probably most of the world would be classified as “high danger.” This would, as you could guess, make the whole metric pointless against actual dangers.
Nitpicking these small things first instead of showing the big thing first, like you did, is counter productive. People aren’t affected by phrases in money, but they sure as hell will be affected by that in the article, so start with that.
Other than the fact that the very purpose of replacing the old motto with “In God We Trust” was to link religion, state, and capital during the Cold War.
Would you like to guess what the name is for the union of state, enterprise, and religion?
BuT tHaT wAs sO lOnG aGo
Yes… Yes it was.
I was intentionally making a snarky remark, but not purposefully being counter productive. That article is breaking news, I just saw it after posting the comment.
The point I was(n’t) trying to make is that the US has a substantial level of religion in its politics, and it’s just so pervasively normal.