Sure Tom, keep spitting out your contrarian pieces. Just let us know when your own personal sense of security has been affected enough by what's going on in this country that you will allow us the use of the word fascism and the phrase constitutional crisis. - ThreadSky

scot-f.bsky.social • 43 days ago

Sure Tom, keep spitting out your contrarian pieces. Just let us know when your own personal sense of security has been affected enough by what's going on in this country that you will allow us the use of the word fascism and the phrase constitutional crisis.

Reposted from Tom Nichols

Another term that was overused (by everyone):
Calling everything a 'constitutional crisis' left us unprepared for the real thing www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb... via @msnbc.com

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bpaige.bsky.social•43 days ago

Oops

rsi2044.bsky.social•43 days ago

Come on Scot, can’t you just say “I disagree Tom,” and leave it at that? We’re all basically on the same team here. Trump thrives on divide and conquer, so I don’t think this is helpful.

scot-f.bsky.social•43 days ago

... Who is doing the dividing? Me with my 1500 follows or the writer for The Atlantic with 300 thousand who is berating people for using words which accurately describe our current state?

Which some might call gaslighting...

rsi2044.bsky.social•43 days ago

1/ We’re all entitled to our opinions. Full disclosure: I generally side with Tom on this issue. I think that some terms are overused or not precise (eg fascist, genocide, nazi) & that this is unhelpful to broadening the tent and winning elections.

rsi2044.bsky.social•43 days ago

2/ But I share your sentiment that Trump is very bad.At any rate, nuff from me.

mkwilson27.bsky.social•43 days ago

The word “fascism” has a pretty clear definition and describes MAGA pretty well.

scot-f.bsky.social•43 days ago

That's good for you and Tom. I'm happy for you that current events do not seem fascistic yet. I think the parable here is the man in the ivory tower though not the story of the boy who cried wolf.

Cheers.

thrillkillsulk.bsky.social•43 days ago

Please take a deep breath and a nap.

oxahath.bsky.social•43 days ago

Ah "I'm a small account so it's unfair to judge me." Absolute classic genre.

oxahath.bsky.social•43 days ago

Also, that's not what gaslighting means. Ironically, an excellent example of Tom's point of over-using words dulling their impact.

laurtuck.bsky.social•42 days ago

@radiofreetom.bsky.social tells us constantly that NOW is the time, that these words DO accurately describe our current state. He berates those who used the words BEFORE (and not, like, 2 months ago, but 10, 20, or 30 years ago), causing them to lose their power for TODAY's EMERGENCY!

rsi2044.bsky.social•42 days ago

1/ “Berates” in my opinion may be the wrong word.
He may vehemently contend (as I do) that certain words are more precise and less easy to mock for the existential crisis that we all agree has arrived (with some disagreement perhaps on when it arrived). Ultimately this is more of an academic debate

rsi2044.bsky.social•42 days ago

2/ than anything else, because only the collective of views really matter. But vocabulary matters. Take “climate change” and “global warming.” There is evidence that a Republican consultant steered the conversation to use CC rather than GW because it sounded less scary, and might deter policy.

rsi2044.bsky.social•42 days ago

3/ And every one uses CC now. Now I cannot prove that using CC instead of GW was one of many factors in why the international community has done little to mitigate and adapt to GW. But I think it was a factor.

laurtuck.bsky.social•42 days ago

Climate change is more accurate. Climate change will make (is making) the earth undergo all sorts of changes: heat, cold, droughts, flooding. See here: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/02/world/global-warming-climate-change-language-scn/index.html

laurtuck.bsky.social•42 days ago

From https://gpm.nasa.gov/education/articles/whats-name-global-warming-vs-climate-change (before it gets taken down!)

laurtuck.bsky.social•42 days ago

I have heard the opposite: that people on the left, and the climate/meteorology community, started using climate CHANGE so that people wouldn't take shifts towards colder temperatures (which happen also, under CC scenarios) as evidence AGAINST what was happening.

egyptttt.bsky.social•43 days ago

Only if they don't know what words mean.

apartment5b.bsky.social•43 days ago

laurtuck.bsky.social•42 days ago

Hasn't @radiofreetom.bsky.social been constantly telling us lately that NOW is the time to use the word "fascism" and the phrase "constitutional crisis"? Isn't that his point, that NOW IS THE TIME?

wankerjustice.bsky.social•43 days ago

You might want to delete this.

michjs.bsky.social•43 days ago

Um, Tom didn't write this. Did you open the link????

scot-f.bsky.social•43 days ago

I've already responded to him pointing that out.

sweetnfreee43.bsky.social•43 days ago

His repost is an endorsement . He would not repost something he disagrees with , without saying so first

waddell12.bsky.social•42 days ago

Bless your heart, it helps to read the article and if the content bothers you, address the actual author of said article.

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