johnturing.bsky.social
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AEI still vying to be the world's most un-think-iest "think tank."
The timing on the world's dumbest useful idiot take on military parades couldn't have been more embarrassing.
I can't imagine anyone intentionally working at AEI has a sense of shame, but @kschake.bsky.social should be ashamed.
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AEI still vying to be the worlds most un-think-iest "think tank."
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Ethics and policy certainly mean nothing to the current Orwellian Department of "Justice."
Those who still care about those things are either resigning or being purged.
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Remains to be seen whether ethics and policy will be relevant to the judiciary branch when (if?) his appeal reaches them.
Or if the "Unitary Executive" will have effectively made any dissent something that could lead a federal justice to being disappeared to a foreign gulag without due process too.
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If you're recruiting fascists to help you win, you've already lost.
Ro Khanna should resign and go to hell.
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He makes a classic fascist argument for far-right notions of "populism." Built on the belief that they are being humiliated by the "enemy." The enemy is at once too strong *and* too weak.
A billionaire promoting ethnonationalist conspiracies is a common man victim to an "elite" school board member.
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It is often impossible to accurately describe the lives and careers of fascists without sounding completely incoherent and insane yourself.
e.g. There was no way to look sane and warn about Trump's insane connections to the Russian Mob, the Kremlin, and "The Torturers' Lobby" yahoos in 2015.
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What if the "suspect" attempted to flee into the gaping black abyss where their sold souls used to be?
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Gotta love the optimism that somehow there won't be even worse and growing fascism in four years.
As if the 2020 election wasn't a complete fluke due to the pandemic and other variables while American fascists continued to consolidate power over their party, the information war, and the government.
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"Will you check the map again?"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH39...
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They say that if you roll your window down on quiet night on the interstate, you can hear a formerly young couple from the 1980s still arguing about being lost and not stopping to get directions.
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The war on objective truth was never just about convincing people of the lies. They wanted to convince people that the objective truth wasn't even knowable.
People can either accept their "greater truth" or wander in the chaos and anarchy left in their wake.
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The "professionalization" of American police forces runs through all sorts of eugenics, "race science" and white supremacy (generally whitewashed from the usual abridged credit to August Vollmer).
They played a key role in segregating America nationwide throughout the Great Migration.
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Most of my archival research is in the interwar period when many of our local police, police chiefs, State's Attorneys, judges, etc. were Klan members...
...even right here in the "Land of Lincoln."
Deputized white supremacists are arguably the most traditional law-enforcement here.
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The coverage also noted that the Urbana PD was having its shifts covered by officers from the city next door so they could attend his funeral.
The UPD having been notoriously thanked for its collaboration with the Klan over the years by none other than infamous Klan raider S. Glenn Young.
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When the local "Exalted Cyclops" died less than a decade after his very public role running the local Klan, the local newspapers appeared to have forgotten their own reporting on that.
He was instead remembered fondly as "Urbana's Santa" a local judge and member of almost every other organization.
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At this point he's not even the chairman of the Axis of Autocracies.
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Norman Osborn, the "Iron Patriot."
They had a special series just on how he manipulated the media with disinformation and turned every accusation of his past and ongoing crimes against his accusers.
In addition to having far-right news media collaborating to bolster his version of "reality."
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Heck, a wealthy old New York villain with absurdly impossible hair convincing America he is a savior and put in charge of everything was the actual plot of the Dark Reign event in Marvel comics.
He turned heroes into villains, rebranded villains as heroes and co-opted the far-right news media.
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It's not like they weren't warned.
For generations by the government, in art, literature, and every aspect of our culture.
Specifically how it would market itself to Americans.
e.g. 1945 "Army Talk" pamphlet from the War Department:
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Dude is still desperately trying to find the right message to win over fascists who want to eradicate him.
As if their neighbor getting disappeared means they'll suddenly want to play "democracy" again with people they view as the enemy and existential threat to civilization.
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Even when fascists disagree on what exceptions should be made on the long their list of enemies and "undesirables," you can be sure of one thing:
*** They would still rather watch their friends and family get disappeared by imperfect fascists than allow you to have a path to power. ***
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There is no effective communication or right message.
They want to eradicate you and the "other" they believe pose an existential threat to them, their families, America, and Western Civilization as a whole.
You're trying to win at "democracy" while they are fighting to end it.
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It is simply the reality of what they voted for. Even if they were duped or dumb. They voted for fascism, sold through mainstream fascist appeals, and they had generations of warnings about how it would come to America.
e.g. 1945 War Department pamphlet on how to spot fascism:
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Or aviators that helped create it in the first place, like D'Annuzio in Italy... or folks like Lindbergh popularizing and Americanizing fascist ideas.
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Reminds me of D'Annunzio's obsessions with technology (especially flight) and his contributions to the proto-fascist aesthetic in Italy.
It seemed like a large portion of the aviator community all got sucked into the fascist milieu in the interwar period.
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Napster BAD!
FIRE BAD!!!
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If you're still rationalizing the necessity of the fascist project this deep into America's descent into autocracy, you're a fascist too.
A fascist with reservations, perhaps, but that ain't nothing new in fascism.
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Those of us fortunate to know some sane and reasonable Republicans throughout this nightmare have sadly seen them go through these purges.
I no longer feel sympathy, however, for those we've heard lament *in private* while continuing to rationalize the extremism to their constituents in public.
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National politics isn't happening in a vacuum. Even at the local level, the GOP has become a white nationalist extremist party, purging those not sufficiently loyal to the leader and his far-right movement.
"Bipartisan" isn't a good thing if it means collaboration in the fascist project.
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How ever will your reputation survive?
Keep up the good work!