We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

January 28, 2026 - 21:25 UTC

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They really do embody the stereotype of late 2010s liberals that they created for themselves
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what's that line about accusations being confessions
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This makes sense paired with their (especially mcconnell’s) willingness to put winning over everything.

They now embody what they see as “true power,” or some dumb shit like that.
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Typical projection.
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not even mentioning how the right wing media apparatus invented and perfected the concept of publicly cancelling against anyone they didn’t like and it was only a problem when the tide turned against them
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I am a big bean
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"power bottom fascism"
"brat fascism"
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You're just describing the conservative ethos. Permanent victimhood despite having all the money, power, and media
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America

You need to look at the fact that trump is saying Americans can't have guns

He has made new police the orange mask thugs
he is buying armor/armed vehicles from Canada

I'm telling you we have a problem

Do something before it's too late

He is sinister we are in trouble
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How many more? youtu.be/_hpd3CPNPOY?si=tvoZn13un0sTdSlC
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Fascism always requires double-think. 1984 nailed that. They simultaneously believe that gay people are weaker than real tough straight men, but also gay people are an all-powerful cabal that controls hollywood and the government and all aspects of life.

Its because they're bullies.
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"Smol bean fascism" is just one more way to DARVO
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I connect this directly to the "trauma" of ppl who have to tell their children what a trans person is, or who have to read pronouns in an e-mail sig. I wasn't there then, but I'm sure whites were complaining about the "trauma" of desegregated bathrooms 60 years ago.

It's not new, really.
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This is, in fact, a classic example of "Reverse Victim & Offender" -- the RVO in DARVO (an acronym for familiar tactics abusers use to escape accountability for their violations of others).

As a long time worker in the field of domestic & sexual violence, the pattern is hard to miss.
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Tell me more about the liberal wine moms who are outsmarting the multi-billion dollar militarized agency using a free app that the SECDEF couldn’t figure out. 🍷
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This is a perfect corollary to "The worst thing in the world to experience is to be accused of racism"
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Great conversation with Greg Sargent today on the ethno-nationalist schism in the regime. @gregsargent.bsky.social
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Like the police officer who killed Daniel Shaver in 2016 and got a medical retirement for his supposed PTSD.
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So, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak?
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Stop trying to make "smol bean" happen, Gretchen.
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They thought they were beating someone's head with a gas canister in a safe space.
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You're accurate.
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It feels connected to the observation post WW2 that all the former nazis wanted to talk about was how *hard* it had all been on them. How they *suffered* making those *difficult* choices during the Holocaust.

Basically, they want that same pity, but while carrying out the goddamn atrocities.
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A “difficult choice” would have been to face the firing squad for refusing to murder people.
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icelist.is/
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verry smol beans
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Your post is making me think of how furries described Nazi furry infiltrators and other abusers as performing the tactic of saying, "UwU I'm a smol bean", as they pretend to be cute and innocent whenever called out for bigotry, abuse, hate, and harm. It is what we referred for it for decades.
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this is a corollary of regular fascism, where the enemy is simultaneously laughably weak and terrifyingly strong,
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One day they'll realize everyone is not "only think about yourself" like they think. Hyper-individualism is damaging. If history has shown one thing, the individual is an immutable thing. Being obsessed with it to the extent of thinking community doesn't matter will inevitably lead to tragedy.
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I don't know why the psychos have successfully infiltrated Immigration and Customs Enforcement, but people need more communitarianism. But that requires a level of responsibility and a commitment to ending division.

#DailyPatrioticWishes #ThoughtsofaNonWhiteWoman #IVotedForHarris
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“Making me look bad!”
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I've noticed a trend among these types. They often will act real tough, but the moment they are under any threat of consequences for their actions, they default to "I'm just a little guy, it's my birthday!!!" type behavior.
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"Are you scared of a fucking whistle dawg?"
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They should be traumatised. Because as soon as Trump is gone they are all going to prison
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Only acceptable use of “smol bean”.
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😂
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Particularly comic form of what Paxton describes in anatomy of fascism, worldview where your culture/race/nation is under constant threat from enemies of all kinds so every thing the fascist does, no matter how violent is always always always in self-defense & they're always still the victim
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The mere _existence_ of the Other is a perceived threat to their existence, allowing for any and all use of lies and force.

bsky.app/profile/edgarallandoh.bsky.social/post/3lyyhdolv4s2o
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I have often thought about you & the phrase/title "The Cruelty is the Point". Did you ever in your wildest dreams expect all we have witnessed in recent months?
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"Why was Alex Pretti even protesting? He shouldn't have been there 👉👈"
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Fascists are always like that, casting their enemies as both strong and weak at the same time.
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Yes. That’s exactly it.

The “smol” part is a costume. The power is real, the harm is real, and the innocence is performative.
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Hear hear
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"smol bean"?

What's wrong with "smol dick"?
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You are on fire. 🔥
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Well ICE & Snowflakes are related....
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you might have just said it all...
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I think that's just fascism.

It justifies itself through a narrative of grievance and fear, and it famously constructs enemies who are simultaneously impossibly powerful, and pathetically weak.
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bravo, well played sir
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If this wasn't so deadass I'd laugh out loud in this book shop... but I'm kinda scared.
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👏👏👏
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Kinda think this is regular fascism. Nazi Germany had a lot of this going on too as the regime tried to justify insane crackdowns.
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"Commando Harriett"
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bsky.app/profile/joelmathis.bsky.social/post/3mdj5k6b7qc2v
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*murders innocent American citizens in the streets*

"Hey, c'mon, I'm just a little guy. And I wear glasses. And it's my birthday. uWu 👉 👈"
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I've seen so many "guys ICE agents are so stressed and scared 😥" posts and it makes me want to run into traffic. They have guns! They get to kill us! They joke about it, I've read the "7 shots 5 holes" texts!
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I've become a fan of the term "crybullies"
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I like "crybullies". Looked up "smol bean" in the urban dictionary and it means small and cute. Nothing "cute" about these toxic people IMHO.
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Excellent term. We know those guys.
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The admin is very responsive to hard power. Frighteningly so. NO walkbacks in Greenland until Europe sent troops. even for sympathizers of realpolitik abroad, it is starkly concerning that the first walk back of ICE policy comes on the heels of NRA (though thx for finally speaking out!) opposition.
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The narrative highlights how the abuse of power is not only physically harmful but also creates profound, lasting psychological damage on victims and witnesses, often recorded and distributed online.
This type of rhetoric often appears in "tradwife" or other
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online right-wing spaces that valorize a version of "white, innocent" femininity or masculinity that acts as a shield for more radical, authoritarian views.
This perspective suggests a form of "gaslighting" where the powerful act as though they are under attack by the very people they are harming.
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As a life long photojournalist- my camera a look ways upset ppl more than if I was carrying an Assault Weapon.
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It’s Israel coded fascism. Cry bully and victim blame
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I can't wait for the rightwing movie "They Tried to Silence Us," about ICE agents bravely facing off against the sonic cannons of immigrant criminals & Antifa terrorists.
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Hopefully Immigration and Customs Enforcement will be saved from bad apples and Noem before that propaganda will be created.

#UDFIRICE
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Generational trauma
Perfect 😂
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Sure, let's talk. Let's talk about brutality and force, about the small application of both literally ends entire family trees, or how this reporting can't be an isolated incident & that this is only the ones they let loose. What's it actually mean to be a majority in minority power under tyranny?
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It's to try and appeal to wildly uninformed Republican voters who want to believe the protesters are lawless thugs harassing nice cops.
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I love you America, we are winning the war, this battle is our will against their want to be in charge of us, that's not going to happen. Keep coming out on the streets, we win this with SHOWING UP, with our hands in the air, demanding our freedom as Americans. NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW!
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Could not agree with you more.
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I’ll never submit to violent stupidity. Seriously. If they didn’t have guns, I wouldn’t even listen. I’m a post-menopausal 60yo women. Fuck ALL the way off with your patriarchal horseshit.
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Cry bullies
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Explain smol bean fascism" to a Brit?

....Maybe the #operationinflation is the most punk thing that ever happened on the united States since the real mohicans? Punk as in, The Sex Pistols.
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Vance giving speeches with all the language of Tumblr and the content of Stormfront
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Where is the little dastardly devil? I haven't seen his ugly mug in a while, I haven't turned on the tube either though...
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I know it's become a trope in some circles because of what is the focus of most of the book, but Schulman's "Conflict is not Abuse" is about some of this.
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meh

c4ss.org/content/57711
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ICE does not have immunity when committing crimes. The problem are the officials who take no action to hold them to account--even when they continue to lie to us about how "no one is above the law."
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Bean would like to know why you pickin' on him.
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Bean looks like me coming out of the restroom at the club in the 80s. 😁❤️
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My ‘beans’ would like to know the same. *She relayed this message to me via her liminal form*; she’s a ghost these days, literally. 👻
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Because Bean is a bully breed, and they're dangerous as hell. They'll eat your baby faster than a dingo!

C://fonts/sarcasm.font
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🙂
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Fascism has always, to an extent, been about self-pitying and grievance politics. Hell, *the* classic fascist book, Mein Kampf, is literally just Hitler complaining about how unfair things were for him, and why it was everyone else's fault that his life sucked.
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Definitely.
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Exactly so. “Emotionally dysregulated toddler man ranting about how his life of fuck ups are everyone else’s fault” was too long for a title esp in German.
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The truly courageous are the ones facing ICE and the CBP, while the ones with the guns and masks are afraid of being photographed.

So, who are the real "snowflakes" here?
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*kitten fighting back tears meme*

"u wil not repwace us!"
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Ok this one made me laugh
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The 'real' fascists are the soccer dads who cussed us out along the way. 🥺
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Moms and seniors are the worst of them all, it's like when a bunch of kindergarten kids run off the highschool gang. Just too embarassing for words.
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The absurdity
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I get what you're saying for it is indeed especially notable with these weirdos, but on some level I think this is actually just fascism. Fascists love narratives of victimhood, which are critical to their narratives of national decline.
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Filming abuses are what fascists fear most.
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I remember Hunter S. Thompson called the Raygun government, "Low rent fascists"
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The Trump administration and MAGA are basically job programs for rapists, violent racists, creeps, and losers. We just need to openly acknowledge this and not back down.
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soy fascism is so lame man
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This is the 8th common feature of fascism according to Umberto Eco.

"The enemy is both strong and weak."

“By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”
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Used to call that Alpha Victim Syndrome
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Crybullies
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V good term.
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I feel like this is just classic fascism tbh

“Our enemies are simultaneously weak, cowardly degenerates and terrifying, planet-swallowing monsters”
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It is. Just as they are alternately the naturally superior ruling by nature ubermensch and at the same time victims of the pathetically weak vermin but somehow all powerful ruling elite.

Making sense has always been optional for Fascists.
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Schrödinger’s Enemy
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Look at how the Trump campaign talked about Biden in both 20 and 24. He was a doddering old man who couldn’t remember his own name, and was a mastermind bent on destroying the country.
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Yup, its always been DARVO through double-think. That's Fascism 101.
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This completely sums it up.
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A couple years ago, I learned about the term DARVO and, boy, is every fucking thing on the planet DARVO.
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Crybullying in its most absurd form
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I guess us normal Americans just don’t appreciate how traumatic it is to brutalize and murder people for a job. After all, they are ‘just following orders’. Why are people so upset?
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So many voices in society (especially in media) swallowed the proposition that Republicans have no agency. They are nothing but software designed by God to produce ordained outcomes based on how their opposition chooses to behave. It's not surprising that they ended up believing it.
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Your auditory startle reflex is getting triggered by the mean people with the whistles and it's really making your life so hard!
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because you’re so high IQ
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“The bullying, the tears, the lies and contradictions. Claiming everyone (who counts) is on their side, and anyone who isn’t is part of a conspiracy. Above all, a sense of entitlement to something they aren’t owed.”
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“Fundamentalism is authoritarianism in microcosm, or on the margins. Fascism is essentially fundamentalism in power, and it continues to nurse a sense of being the moral majority, as well as a sense of being beleaguered and “treated very unfairly” at the same time.” - @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social
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Ask what marshal Tito would do
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Just wait til someone Stands Their Ground on one of these guys
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Powerfully stated. Thank you
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I don't mind when they act like smol beans because it makes them easier to identify, and easier to scare back into their holes.

Make Fascists Afraid Again
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A friend visited the controversial Yasukuni Shrine when in Japan. He said the revisionism was worse than he expected: as it might have it, Imperial Japan engaged in self defense all the way into the middle of China.
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That's frightful revisionism
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Umberto Eco discussed this - for fascists, the enemy must be simultaneously too weak and too strong.
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Hmmm idk what to say
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Beans out here catching strays when all we want to be is healthy protein and fiber.
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And they're making it hard to eat in restaurants...poor little dickless wonders.
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I honestly don't think there is a "rise" in this. You can see it pretty clearly demonstrated going back decades in different forms.
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It was all over the place in Gamergate bullshit, Comicsgate bullshit, ongoing TERF bullshit, and the rest of the troll bully brigades

Plus any number of Bigot Meltdown Videos, practically a whole genre by now
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Crybullying is another thing ICE learned from training with the IDF
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The cowards couldn't even handle a single dildo
www.closertotheedge.net/p/the-dildo-distribution-delegation
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"The air vibrated with that very specific end-of-empire energy where your brain says this is insane but your soul says don’t stop, this is sacred." Lmao incredible
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It's so true. Look at how unhinged the criminal-in-chief became when a single calm unafraid voice rang out at the Ford plant, "Pedophile Protector." The regime doesn't like it when we laugh at them or when we show that we are unafraid. That is where our power lies!!
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This is fucking amazing lmao
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Snowflakes are made of ICE.
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@hcrichardson.bsky.social @joycewhitevance.bsky.social
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Establishing your enemy as both weak, degenerate, and unworthy, but also terrifying and powerful is kinda their thing
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Oh they have a reason! They are destroying us ON PURPOSE WITH THE OLIGARCHS HELPING THEM
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Never seen a bunch of bigger whiners, cowards, and scared-shitless assholes than this group of supposed alpha leaders.
Just like their dear pancaked leader.
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Some guy called me a cripple and hoped I would be killed by ICE.
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Some heterodox youtube did a "here's the law" on the Peretti killing focusing on the reasonable fear standard, and the comments all blasted him for ignoring the broader context that "minneapolis is a hell hole where they are terrorized every day!!!" as that was enough to justify the murder
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Determined to ignore the "reasonable" part of "reasonable fear"
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This has been a tenet of fascism since it appeared. The “Enemy” is always both strong and weak. Go read Arendt and Ecco. Or Snyder’s “On Fascism” (if you’re in a hurry).
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Snowflakish even.
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I think it’s more smol dick
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Can’t remember who said it but it went something like “you’re not ready for twee fascism”
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🤜🏾🤛🏼👏💪
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Yup, just trying to wrap that around my brain, it’s fuk up man
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I'm so so tired of watching what amount to government produced snuff films everywhere. We can't allow ourselves to become numb to this depravity.
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The entirety of modern American conservatism is built from this contradictory, bullshit material. “Smol bean fascism” is exactly right. It’s Schrödinger’s nation, in terms of strength & durability. It’s simultaneously always bigger & badder than ever, but also one drag story time away from collapse.
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Conservatives are annoying, but they're the only ones who understand the purpose of the justice system, and that drugs actually aren't cool. Also, nobody seems to be conservative anymore, there's too many nazis.

#USIndependentsClub
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I mean that’s kinda just how fascism has always been, we just have different words for it now.
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It looks like it starts from the top and is threaded through all of the hiring practices
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The asymmetry is astounding
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Jamelle Bouie likes to talk about the Trump Regime as "cargo cult fascism": they go through the motions of brutal fascism, but only end up making Americans angry, instead of afraid.
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i is smol bean, and i take umbrage w your choice of words… but agree w point you make.
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Great title for an article.
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Sorry to be out of the loop, but I haven’t heard of “smol bean fascism”. Can someone explain? Where did that term come from?
Thanks in advance.
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Smol and smol bean are used in reference to things, creatures, concepts, and people that are adorably small in stature.
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Its an odd thing. People take selfies all day, but when someone else takes photo/video of them at "work" they lose their minds. If what they're doing is legit, what's with the fear of cameras, and them wearing masks, and no badges or IDs? The lack of transparency is itself, rather telling.
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Your piece today was incredibly moving.
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Holly, are you referring to the OP. Where is this fabulous article. I’d love to read the whole thing. We all need to cultivate this from coast to coast.
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If you like that, go ahead and Google how the Red Cross started.

Hint: one man said oh hell no, look at this mess of dying soldiers you have. All y'all get your asses in here and help these people. Doesn't matter who they are, just extend compassion.
And the people did.
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There are christians and there are antichrist-ians.
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I’m sure Obama will be recommending an Ezra Klein podcast to discuss this emerging phenomenon.
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They've always been ready to pivot to utter cowardice. Just listen to them talk about how glitter bombing them was aggravated assault, or insisting that a guy with a knife has a lethal threat range of 20 yards to justify lethal force.
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The difference is that in Nazi Germany, ordinary people were shot in the streets at the discretion of the thugs working for the government of the day.

Whereas in MAGA America ... oh ... wait...

#AntiFascist #AusPol
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They're cowards. We should call them cowards. Or worse.
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How fitting that ICE turned out to be the real snowflakes.
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They have this sick need to be the victims even while actively victimizing others.
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👏👏
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bsky.app/profile/andylevy.net/post/3mc6ho4sy422g
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#SmolBean is my new favorite.
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Jackbooted thugs, more accurately known as Stormtroopers, never hesitated to go after white men and still don't. I'm sure there was some point there, but darn if I see one.
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Oh! Should we attribute the "smol bean" expression to you? Looks like it. (Sincere question.)
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This is a pattern.

Police are both heroes and in need of all the cheerleading we can give them.

The President is a Big Strong Man who is trashed by people who don’t appreciate his gifts to the nation.

The authority figure is both savior and child, in highly (read: abusive) dysfunctional systems.
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The thingy is for some in MAGA the people in ICE are gods!
They are on camera killing an ICU nurse, an American citizen. A by all accounts helpful and kind citizen.
Well ICE murdered him, Trump made up excuses disproven with video. So what do they?
Ignore the video, because well Trump said so!
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Tell them they'll be ok if they go back to only shooting up schools...
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He is far too gracious in his judgment of her, branding her an inept monster. She may be sidelined for now, yet the fundamental issues remain unaltered until the fanatical Stephen Miller is expunged as well. Has there been any substantial transformation in Minneapolis? I surmise not.
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It seems the side willing to kill citizens are exploiting the fact that the opposition will always play by the rules because that is who they are. They are mostly right.

Their flaw is that they are creating a society where no one is safe; including them.
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Love you and your torty cat!
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Yes. And I just got a MEGAPHONE with a siren.
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Isn’t that just a core tenant of fascism. Enemies are simultaneously weak and strong at the same time
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Yup - Biden both being senile and running a shadow world govt
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Well put
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It's also the one where your culture is so fragile and weak that it can't handle pluralism and your people are so soft and scared that they need to be strapped to go grocery shopping.
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“8. The enemy is both strong and weak. “By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.””

www.openculture.com/2024/11/umberto-ecos-list-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.html
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Read the linked article to identify ICE collaborators and start organizing a boycott.

Encourage others to boycott ICE partners too.

#BoycottICEPartners #BoycottICE #AbolishICE #ICE
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Read this article to identify ICE collaborators, then organize a grassroots boycott of those partners.

#BoycottICEPartners #BoycottICE #AbolishICE #ICE
truthout.org/articles/heres-how-to-find-out-which-corporations-are-collaborating-with-ice/
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I take some small comfort that they will never attend a sporting event without being triggered. It is the very least in terms of accountability.
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Adam. MAGA is just a Safe Space for bigots and bullies. This manifest destiny pacification of America cannot happen if people are gonna call people "fascist" (to their face no less), kick them outta public spaces & blow shrill whistles.
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People Need To Hear This. This Stuff Was Done By Both Parties Regarding Immigration & The Masses Did NOT Realize What Was Actually Happening.

youtu.be/E-TlSiaQ2nw?si=UrQKXyOFvOG8VI6r
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DARVO on the frappe setting
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“DARVOchino, extra whipped….? Yeah, what name? ‘Lance Manly’. Right”
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Seriously!
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Talk about toxic masculinity. Do these smol bean fascists think that’s what women really want?? (Hint: we do not.)
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Imo, they don't really care about women & what they want.

Part of toxic masculinity is being pathetically desperate for MALE approval.

Women prefer dad bods, but toxic men 'gym-max' for admiration ftom other gym rats.
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Me realizing that I have no way to tell what week he wrote that.
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This post underrated 👏🏆
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That's just normal fascism. "The inferior and weak mud people are a threat to our very way of life... our very existence"
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Won't somebody think of the fascist murderers?! 😭
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You have the title now write the piece!
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Part of me thinks it’s a new thing and part of me thinks it’s an extension of the classic fascist “our enemies are both super week/subhuman and the greatest threat to humanity ever”
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Seeing you use ‘smol’ on an otherwise extremely serious tweet is amazing
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It definitely has its roots in "you're violating my freedom of religion by forcing me to acknowledge your rights"
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They’re the same people, just way less inhibited.
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Poor ICE snowflakes (the ugly ones)
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Abolish ICE. Abolish DHS. Arrest & prosecute Stephen Miller.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWKSoxG1K7w
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Slow it down, now!

All we need to do is unmask, defund, fire, imprison, retrain Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

#UDFIRICE
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Yep, Micro Nazi Bovino wants you to think the seven guys beating down a protester and executing him are the "victims."
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I think that's just regular fascism, man. They always do that.
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Honestly, it's all downstream from the "It's okay to talk about mental health/PTSD" stuff that became vogue in right wing circles via SOF operators and vetbro podcasters. The Hegseth confirmation hearings were another low point in it lol
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As Luke O'Neill put it, shooting and crying. www.welcometohellworld.com/we-deserve-it/
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they've always been like this I think, it's part of the mindset, the same thinking that makes their enemies somehow simultaneously strong and weak, but inverted
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Will we be extremists for hate or for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice or for the extension of justice? — Martin Luther King Jr.

There aren’t enough white persons in our country who are willing to cherish democratic principles over privilege. — Martin Luther King Jr.
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It's crybullying in its purest form.
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Seconded... people who subscribe to this position (tyrannical oppression/imagined superiority) can't be reasoned with. That sucks, but it also means there's no reason to hold back or be polite. I've had success just calmly dismantling the word salad and laughing at their temper tantrums. 🤷‍♂️
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“They blew whistles at me and told me to go fuck myself. The nightmares never cease 😫😭”
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Nutless Nazis.
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Thank you Adam
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I just saw this waking up and for half a minute thought it was a NYT op-ed.
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The GOP isn’t feckless, it is aggressively cruel and racist. We want no part of their All White America with Stephen Miller as the standard bearer. History will not allow them to peel off the generational stink.
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That's just standard fascism.
Fascists believe that they are vastly superior to their weak, degenerate enemies. At the same time they're constantly threatened by these enemies and struggling against them.
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Isn’t that funny?? “You’re under arrest for the violent use of a canine whistle!”
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Honestly what's there to talk about? A manufactured sense of victimhood is the keystone of fascism. If they weren't claiming the armed and armored agents of the federal government were victims of the civilians videoing them, their whole ideology would tumble in seconds flat.
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Please help a foreigner: What are „smol beans“?
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If someone is presenting themselves as a small (smol) bean, they’re presenting themselves as tiny, harmless, like a cute little creature who couldn’t possibly do anything bad.
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That's always been a trait of fascists. They're big strong manly men who can'tbe beat and could trounce anyone they choose, but also need to be able to justify their militarization via powerful outgroups and traitorous operators.
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Scary, huh?😱
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They have to be the victim no matter how awful they are.
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Perfect description of the zionist squatter state.
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Did you really equate an action in which more than 1000 people died and dozens were taken hostage to “whistles and being recorded”? Dumbass.
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This is just an extension of movement conservatisms enormous victim complex
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These people have been, while having outsized political influence due to the structure of governance in this country, been wailing about Being Oppressed for as long as I've been alive.

No shit their brownshirt faction behaves the same.
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God damn. You've been smoking hot lately
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It's amazing how upset they are that people are *checks notes* exercising their rights.
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crediting this tweet for activating the smol bean threads here on bluesky. not the same gist as what it has become, which is much better, but this, IMO, started the smol bean discourse.
bsky.app/profile/cait.bsky.social/post/3md6oj3j7s225
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the 'smol bean' thing was new to me, but i ran into it yesterday & i immediately fell over onto my keyboard, stunned,
bsky.app/profile/davelevitan.bsky.social/post/3mdgqxdzwfj26
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Classic fascist mentality on display in the IDF for generations, yep
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Very good observation! So true.
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MAGA are the powerless victims, by their telling. Always.
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Exactly bsky.app/profile/grudgie.bsky.social/post/3mdioxf7wgs2s
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