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Who knew rejoining could be so easy?
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@governor.ca.gov stating that the national board has been deployed by the federal government rather than by his office and that they’re en route.
bsky.app/profile/gove...
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It should be, but as long as “nobody voted for Brexit” or “1 in 5 didn’t vote for Brexit” or “it was only an advisory referendum” is the main argument of so called pro europeans we will continue going nowhere
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Which is ironic given how Brexiters didn't have a coherent message other that they didn't like Europe.
It should be easier for joiners as, unlike global Britain, Europe actually exists.
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Pro-Europeans are too fractured and can’t gather around a coherent message
Until we can let go of the past and just concentrate on what is necessary to move forward we will continue to get nowhere
It’s easy for Brexiters, just be angry about everything and blame everyone other than themselves
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I suppose my point is that, even tho not visible & directed in the way that might have been expected, remainer anger is a hidden force in UK politics whereas, ironically, the enduring anger of leave voters is constantly visible & pandered to. So issue is also the latter's 'strange persistence'. 2/2
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Interesting analysis. Two thoughts: a) a lot of the anger & energy of 'remainers' has inflected British politics even though it hasn't coalesced into a rejoin movement b) Brexit was such a catastrophic defeat that many who tried to oppose it simply opted out of activism, but the anger remains. 1/2
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If we only ever take Fascism as the comparator, we risk reducing our understanding of authoritarianism - a phenomenon that consistently reinvents itself across time - to one specific variant.
Ironically, that can actively encourage complacency when contingent features (like uniforms) don't match up
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There are still reasons why we might be wary of the language of Fascism for the Trump regime.
There's a risk that we trivialise the term by overusing it - something I've written about in the past.
But there's also a danger that it shrinks our frame of reference, in a way that clouds our vision.
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As a result, we increasingly *do* see people in uniform on the streets.
Such claims also fuel ever more authoritarian demands for wartime powers.
It is now almost routine for Trump's outriders to talk up the Insurrection Act, the Enemy Aliens Act & the suspension of habeas corpus in the Civil War.
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It's true that Trump doesn't like foreign wars (though he has a habit of making territorial demands of his neighbours).
But he does consistently frame *domestic* politics as a war-zone.
On tariffs, migration, law and order, his supporters routinely talk of invasion, attack and insurrection.
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The weakest point is the lack of uniforms.
Uniforms were a feature of political organisation between the wars. They're not today, partly due to our memories of that era.
Fascists in the 2020s won't dress like Fascists in the 30s, just as modern criminals rarely wear fedoras or drive 1928 Cadillacs
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There was wind, but they had presumably locked it down! 😀
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I repeat. Mason is a massive Reform shill.
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Washing machines, wind turbines - anything that goes round and round with regularity, I find oddly calming.
There's a wind farm on the mountain pass I shall drive over today. Other day, there was a tiny box attached to one of the blades, with people working in it. It was tiny, and the blade huge!
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Moltissimes gràcies!!!
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The Catalan for a wind turbine 'farm' (I ·love· wind turbines!) is a…
parc eòlic.
An æolian park.
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Selfishly, we have both fixed that (sort of!) - expensively, complicatedly, frustratingly - by managing to get permanent residence in the EU, as we finally shake the UK dust off our shoes.
My OH's arrival today is the end of a process, and a new beginning.
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Absolutely. Though I had hoped it might involve FoM…
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Illustrating my, admittedly not very profound, prediction that disaffection with Brexit would come when it interferes with people’s travel and holiday arrangements.
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Ah, thanks. Deleted.