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"I Doubt It Was A Life Of Joy That Drove You To The Zone."

a substantial portion of american politics since 1865 is literally the south enacting revenge on the rest of the country for the civil war
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Count me among those who believe that we need to drive these fascists out of power, stooping to dirty tricks if necessary. Strip their assets, hound them out of public life, make them afraid to even express their beliefs in public.

Drive them into exile before the only alternative is mass violence.
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I have encountered and engaged with many Trump supporters, hearing them patiently out each time: and every single one of them, whether beneath a veneer of politeness or not, exhibited a fundamental spite and meanness about their fellow human beings that I found horrifying.
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Engaging not to be a hater, but because this is quality discourse to platform:

That said, as a German historian, I don’t think there’s any way you can argue that conservativism and fascism are ideologically the same.

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Conservatives are so destructive, so violent, stupid, derranged and insane, there’s no insult or pejorative that begins to describe my contempt for them.

Trump is dying, thinks he’s going to hell, and wants to drag the entire world down with him.
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Our curse is survival and our duty is to wield it responsibly.
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In Korea, when the president declared martial law after midnight and erected barricades in Seoul, congressional reps from all parties ran into the streets, yanked ak47s from the army at the barricades, broke down the locked door to Congress, repealed the martial law order, and arrested the president
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Koreans have living memory of living under a dictatorship. They know the stakes. Americans collectively have no such perspective. Same with Brazil.
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I have had some version of "he wants all of us to be buried with him" in stuff I've written about Trump in the past and usually but not always taken it out. It didn't like looking at it, mostly, but over time it just became one of those things that was too obvious to bother with. It's all sickening.
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i'm just doing some research. don't worry about it
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Whatever happens next, we own this
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days like today i get incandescent with rage all over again that he wasn't in cuffs and an orange jumpsuit and perp walked on jan 21st, 2021
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Millions of American voters wanted to be villains. They came to believe it’s the key to success, while goodness is weak, woke, loser stuff, done only to signal.

Offered the option of unvarnished villainy, they enthusiastically took it. Seeing others suffer more made them feel big.

And here we are.
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The average Taiwanese person simply doesn't identify with China. I understand why people don't know this but like, it's a very essential part of the entire thing of modern Taiwanese politics.
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The pope is tweeting like a wide receiver. cc: @dennycarter.bsky.social
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"we don't have a murder fetish" which is why I talk like an NKVD chief reading charges to the Poles at the Katyn Forest before summarily executing them
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It's impolite to call Musk a genocidal white nationalist because "civility" in American discourse functions not as a neutral procedural norm but as an asymmetric weapon to shield the powerful from accurate moral characterization while policing the tone of those who object.
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It's hard not to think of Paxton's definition of fascism when considering the extent to which the federal government under Trump has been reduced to a) a rogue murder state outside the nation's boundaries and b) a rogue, ethnic cleansing/mass deportation operation *inside* the nation's boundaries.
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Israel is big Serbia at this point, imo
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Having a PhD doesn’t mean you’re always right, but it does mean that you unlock new and more powerful ways to be wrong.
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The US electorate rn
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The thing that's really annoying about this discourse is that Hasan has said so much ignorant shit over the years that there's a lot of very justified reasons reasons to not like him but it always gets portrayed as a vehicle for Israel-Palestine discourse
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DON’T lose sight of (3), (4).

There will be dozen op-eds when Trump loses abt “SCOTUS finds its independence” or such nonsense.

Think Roberts was often good at producing just enough outcomes like this to maintain a favorable narrative while consistently doing real harm to democracy.

Don’t bite.
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Lmao Jackson just fucking gutted Sauer
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death before detransition, as it always is
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"This war would not be happening were it not for the revolution, and most importantly, the success of the non-violent, civilian movement that overthrew the authoritarian dictatorship of Omar Al-Bashir."

on the ongoing counterrevolution in Sudan
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Happy International day of Transgender Visibility! All my homies say Trans Rights are Human Rights / anyone who's cool knows it too. We see you out there. Choose to be yourself and know that we have your back. Much love and respect today (and every day)! 🏳️‍⚧️
#transrights #transdayofvisibility
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