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I can't help about the shape I'm in, I can't sing, I ain't pretty, and my legs are thin. But don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that you want me to.
Oh well.
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Some very fine people in Spain whose hearts still go out to Francisco Franco (still dead).
www.foxnews.com/world/spain-...
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Since the 1950s the US right has been a coalition which has always included straight up fascists (like the people described in this post) who knew they spoke for a tiny minority, but who hoped to eventually take over the party for violent white nationalism. sethcotlar.substack.com/p/speaking-a...
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It's so obvious what Musk is doing with his Twitter bullhorn to anyone who has either experienced or studied authoritarian propaganda. But such people are obviously not the target audience for it...the target are those whose willingness to believe absurdities is preparing them to accept atrocities.
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Elon Musk's Twitter feed is just one nakedly propagandistic story after another, usually either factually incorrect or taken out of context, about some "parasite" who is a supposed threat to the nation, to western civilization, or just to you personally, a random American.
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The growth of fascistic political cultures looks like gradual acclimation by ordinary people who think of themselves as "good people" who come to accept ever more violent & oppressive actions by vigilantes and political figures "on our side" enacted upon disfavored categories of "internal enemies."
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Had Trump in 2016 directly said "someone will need to shoot Hilary Clinton," then that would have been too much for the people who mattered to him--the mainstream press and more normie voters who weren't down for explicit political violence, but who would tolerate joking/not joking ambiguity.
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When a Presidential candidate beloved by fascists in 2016 says that "2nd amendment people" might have to "do something" if Hilary Clinton got elected and everyone in the audience knew what he meant, he was able to wiggle out by saying he's just a 2nd Amendment fan. www.nbcnews.com/politics/201...
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And so the violent rhetoric is always leavened by a "joking, not joking" wink...when Trump said "you've got to fight like hell" on J6 he was being metaphorical! But when your opponent uses a similar metaphor, then they get a threatening letter from your DOJ. robertgarcia.house.gov/media/press-...
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Fascistic movements in democratic societies always have to tread carefully as they try to build power via persuasion (which they have to do up until they just take full political and military power). Saying out loud "we want to jail or just kill our internal enemies" obviously breaks the rules.
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You can read an interview with the author about that 2018 article here. The studied and intentional ambiguity around the symbol (is it *really* a Nazi salute if they deny that it is?) is the point. They both mean and don't mean it, but the audience gets it. www.processhistory.org/fronczak-fas...
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Historian Joseph Fronczak argues that a distinctive feature of the political culture of fascism in the 1930s was how it was organized around symbolic objects and gestures that invited ordinary citizens into a trans-national politics of "participatory antidemocracy" fitted to each nation.
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relevant info
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He’s whistling Deutschland Über Alles.. 😬
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5. Tom Hill, CEO of ESI Construction.
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4. Calvin Robinson
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3. Eduardo Verástegui
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2. Steve Bannon
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and rightly so.
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They're turning up everywhere
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Mass doesn't happen to have one of those redstate "hit and run on protestors is OK" laws, do they?
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Anyone who even considers this for a second, much less offers some bullshit appeasement.
Is also a nazi.
It is so explicit at this point, there is literally no fucking excuse.
They are nazis.
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"Moved to root out nonwhite people" is simpler, true, and fewer characters. A bridge to far for a paper whose motto is Truth Dies in our Editorial Office, though.
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I've only got two hands. I tend toward 3 guns is enough, more than that and you should be a professional shooter.
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Okay, this is brilliant.
(It bugs me that "Madam" isn't ACTUALLY a pronoun, but that's a quibble. From now on everyone should refer to these people by their opposite pronouns. Start calling Trump and Musk "she" and "her." Fucking brilliant. I don't know why it didn't occur to anyone sooner.)