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Literature went from Horatio Alger to Holden Caulfield how?

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The relationship between Elites and Experts is much like that between Jeffery Epstein and his posse of perverts.

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There is no good reason to argue with fascists. For every atrocity, they will find a rationalization. For every rule, they will invent an exception. It is a shell game that no one should play. The only thing that matters is defeating them.

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At minimum, social analysis of modern America needs to distinguish between on the one hand, the top .1%, the remaining 9.9% of the top 10%, and the remaining 90% and on the other hand, the solid third of Americans that are undeniably fascist.

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Neither the Roman Republic nor the Roman Empire nor the Third Reich can adequately analyze the structure and practice of The MAGA Republican Party.

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AI "is an insult to life itself." variety.com/2025/digital...

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The Court System is incapable of handling a situation in which the government ought not be entitled to the presumption of good faith.

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America is not yet lost

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Accurate assessment of gutlessness. www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

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Asking the Media to rise to the occasion when reporting on Trump is like asking the workers at McDonalds to cook a 5 star meal. They neither know how nor have the tools to do so.

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We are knee deep in fascism and people are, in March (damn near April) 2025, starting substacks to… resist fascism?? You can’t do it. IT CANNOT BE DONE. You can’t resist fascism when you pay 10% of your revenue to the Nazi bar which then literally pays revenue to Nazis. You’re buying Nazis drinks.

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

Whatever you thought you’d be doing when fascism came knocking, you’re doing it now. That includes asking your readers to walk into a Nazi garden to read the stuff you write. That includes paywalling content on substack that can only be read if your readers pay your Nazi tithe. Get off of SS.

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

Reposting this Open Letter to #PhilosophyTube

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Judges asking for comparable cases is funny as though responses to a fascist takeover have a basis in precedent...

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I feel confident in predicting history will judge this decade or so as the absolutely stupidest time in American history. Honestly our kids and grandkids will read about this time and be shocked that adults existed.

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Walter Benjamin writing about fascism in 1936 "Fascism attempts to organize the newly proletarianized masses without affecting the property structure which the masses strive to eliminate. Fascism sees its salvation in giving these masses not their right, but instead a chance to express themselves."

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A bunch of white commentators simply do not have the range.

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Among their many other faults, these are clearly among the three least reliable allies against Republicanism you could name. Cuomo colluded with Rs in the NY legislature to frustrate Dem majorities, Rahm hobbled the Obama admin’s chance to address Bush era atrocities, and Gavin is podcasting.

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representation is not a source of leadership as all presentation is anarchic

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Chuck Schumer is not a leader, he is a flunktuous toady who waited for a long time for his turn to waive the stick and by gosh he is going to wave it just as much time as those before him...

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Someone with more direct experience needs to write a comparative history of the american legal profession (especially with respect to mentorship, associates, and junior partners) and the postward bdsm community of the leather daddies

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Everyone responsible for this should get a Nuremberg style trial.

submitted 6 days ago • 53 comments

Learned Helplessness

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We shall postpone fighting on the beaches, we shall keep an eye on the landing grounds, we encourage everyone else, should the right circumstances come, to fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall eventually retreat to the hills; we shall never explicitly surrender.

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If voice is understood functionally and if there is a middle domain, there is also a middle range. The same implies the middle image and the middle preimage.

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The Democratic realignment is creating some crazy alliances

submitted 6 days ago • 106 comments

Incredibly disappointing to even talk about this in tactical terms

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Warnock: They are busy attacking ordinary people. They don’t understand what it’s like to ration your prescription drugs or what it’s like to try to figure out how to afford groceries. In the words of that prophet who just spoke at The Super Bowl: They not like us

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New, from me: Trump recently issued a memo giving the Office of Personnel Management, and not agencies, final say on which new employees get to stay in government. This centralization of personnel authority tells us a lot about Trump's mode of governing. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/centralizi...

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they want to make us slaves

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If the lesson you take from this current moment is that there is some "return to normal" that you think will happen, I think that you're going to be very disappointed. If you question whether what you were previously living under was ever normal, then you're on the right track.

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jfc this is just a positivist (quinean) proscription against saying anything meaningful at all. the irony of calling something barbaric in english while rejecting non-english words. Orwell is fundamentally wrong.

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If you think english is not up to the task of assigning moral culpability to fascists or adequately defining fascism without compromise that is a political failure on your part not an epistemic lack of the english language.

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Tom Nichols continues to repeat the same tired arguments because his capacity for introspection is nil. But sure, go get a cookie. You deserve a treat.

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Despite what some legal experts claim, this country has been in constitutional crisis since the 2000 election when 5 Republican Justices decided to stop the counting of votes.

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Tonight, hours after the Paul Weiss news broke, an associate at Skadden Arps sent a firm-wide email: "Please consider this email my two week notice, revocable if the firm comes up with a satisfactory response to the current moment...We do not have time. It is now or it is never..."

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"Stuff you didn't like:" Torture Warrantless surveillance Drone-killing of US citizens 👀

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"All who defame others, with their own blemish they stigmatize"

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It’s important, and even subversive, to continue to insist on the truth in the era of Trumpism. In that spirit: lots of prosecutors would not have charged Tarrio for swatting away somebody’s arm. That’s the kind of interaction that often — even usually — doesn’t get charged. He’s still a scumbag.

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I saw this image of men, heads shaved, forced to look at the ground as subhumans must, to be reduced to nothing but fear, with thugs and tyrants with clubs and guns arrayed around them and I understood with perfect clarity, all those guards deserve the extreme, as do their masters

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In addition to politics and civil society we need to recognize the existence of an uncivil society. These range from the Federalist Society to John Birch to the Ku Klux Klan.

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