Cannot stress enough that people laughed at Confederates and Nazis as unserious, clownish bozos right up until they started wrecking everything. Important to recognize that we are not living in some post-historical moment, immune to similar movements. - ThreadSky

brandonfriedman.bsky.social • 29 days ago

Cannot stress enough that people laughed at Confederates and Nazis as unserious, clownish bozos right up until they started wrecking everything.

Important to recognize that we are not living in some post-historical moment, immune to similar movements.

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adept2u.bsky.social•29 days ago

Do you mean white people Brandon? Unserious laughter was not the Black American response to confederates

jacobtransman.bsky.social•29 days ago

I’m a trans, Jewish person. Nothing in this moment seems funny or unfamiliar from history. Read about the Nazi leaders. Every single one of them was a clown. And look what they accomplished

johngage1.bsky.social•29 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/moonelixir.bsky.social/post/3lgklwarlgk2f

nina-studio.bsky.social•29 days ago

i don’t know anyone who is laughing

rhilovestv.bsky.social•29 days ago

they’re danger clowns. ridiculous, yes, but perilous all the same.

rmcgil.bsky.social•29 days ago

People gathered to watch the first battle of Bull Run! They figured it was going to be an easy federal victory… not quite

serenaindescai.bsky.social•29 days ago

Is someone with any kind of power uniting now, to save democracy and the planet? Have they been warned enough or do they plan to go on the same way that landed us here??

ca-nc-galady.bsky.social•29 days ago

We must organize, be united in our resistance. #DICKtator wants us exhausted, distracted, enraged, and overwhelmed by his use of psychological terrorism via all of his EOs. WE MUST NOT LET the 🍊🤡 win.

Go to sch, city, county meetings. Speak your concerns. We must get very invld @ locl lvls.

thefascistquestion.bsky.social•29 days ago

The bookend to that is laughing at the nazi firing squad as a final fuck you.

johnnyfog.bsky.social•29 days ago

really wish people read history! would be nice right around now...
all of the people freaking the fuck out would make sense to them!

riz4robot.bsky.social•29 days ago

I'm not laughing

geearge.bsky.social•29 days ago

Let’s hope mother earth has a big bowel movement and ejects this cancer. Send them to mars?

cardcatcher.bsky.social•29 days ago

During the Civil War, they had a term for Northern Democrats who sucked up to the Confederacy and thought they could appease the Slave Power. Dough Faces. Dough Face Democrats. They never left. Biden, Schumer, Durbin, Fetterman, Chris Coons. Dough Faces All.

kgsbca.bsky.social•29 days ago

while a lot of people know they are unserious clownish bozos, few are laughing. We know they are nazis trying to destroy the nation.

trixiedixon.bsky.social•29 days ago

They are in charge now.

jennvg.bsky.social•29 days ago

Clowns with flamethrowers still have flamethrowers. (Credit Charlie Sykes)

mattortega.com•29 days ago

The last quarter century of Republican obstructionism helped bring about this moment, too. (The sentiment goes back further but really heightened since 2000.)

mattortega.com•29 days ago

When people become cynical that "nothing ever changes," they believe the status quo continues on under its own inertia so they become numb to warnings about the future, even welcoming to the wrecking crew.

mattortega.com•29 days ago

Right-wingers, with an unpopular agenda that can't pass congressional muster, become open to authoritarian leadership by diktat to get what they want. Ends justify the means.

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