A woman in a checkout line was blasting MAGA propaganda on her phone. After tolerating it as long as I could (not very long) I asked her to turn it down. She accused me of being Mafia. I called her a Nazi. She did have a German accent. I am Italian American.
And this is why I’ve been telling people to stop making an excuses for Republicans. We do not have the luxury of trying to distinguish between the useful idiot and the true believer. They are all fascist. They are all our enemy.
Every MAGA Republican who gives a Hitler salute and/or condones it is a Nazi. Not just "owning the libs", not merely a Nazi sympathizer, but an actual Nazi. PERIOD.
Here I was thinking Trump's big push would be bringing back the n-word.
I guess I should be somewhat thankful he chose the maximalist option that makes the most people the most viscerally uncomfortable before giving them permission to do the thing they wanted to anyways.
I’m glad you’re coming around but I really need you to understand that these people have always been Nazis, for years, and ppl like you called people who called it out alarmist/irrational/extreme
Sorry if I am being slow... what is the mechanism you mean here by ratchet effect?
Example: I saw the town hall in rural OR where people were shouting tax the rich and booing the Republican candidate. Is he really gonna move right? Under pressure from MAGA, you mean?
The ratchet effect (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratchet_effect) is the phenomenon where the right wing pushes politics further right, while centrists (even when in power) spend their energy maintaining the status quo, preventing any movement to the left
With the net effect being that whenever the right wing has the keys, so to speak, they make advances towards their goals; but when their “opposition“ is ostensibly in power, they hem and haw and ultimately expend just us much energy arguing against progress as protecting their position
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Why not THIS?
Now the Nazi salutes have the Corporate media chiding libs for calling it a Nazi salute
https://bsky.app/profile/aaronsojourner.org/post/3l7jfyc7st22i
Where is my leadership in this? Is Dark Brandon going to be the last clever own we got?
If you fuck a goat, even if you say you're doing it ironically, you're still a goat fucker.
I guess I should be somewhat thankful he chose the maximalist option that makes the most people the most viscerally uncomfortable before giving them permission to do the thing they wanted to anyways.
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hate-watch/ok-sign-white-power-symbol-or-just-right-wing-troll/
Layers of irony and plausible deniability always serve as cover for mainstreaming Nazi radicalism
Example: I saw the town hall in rural OR where people were shouting tax the rich and booing the Republican candidate. Is he really gonna move right? Under pressure from MAGA, you mean?