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Reply gal (mostly) who is still psyched to be here. Tom Cotton wanted to send troops into my neighborhood in 2020. After this +growing up rural, I have very strong feelings about our failed government, media, legal system, and rising fascism from the right
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 2 hr
The last week felt much like the other two events that most advanced American fascism—that being the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the Trump election. There's a pervasive and inescapable feeling of dread and despair around, because, as fascists see it, there is supposed to be.
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Adam Kotsko @adamkotsko.bsky.social · 3 days
"The Republicans really have engineered a situation where the only way to be certain that constitutional democracy will endure is if certain named individuals were dead and buried." itself.blog/2024/07/02/w...
What do they think is going to happen?itself.blog A few years ago, I was part of an event commemorating Milton Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom. Obviously, I was brought in to represent the "against" position (and you can read a version of my keynot...
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 4 days
Can we start treating this "You have less than six months" refrain from neo-Nazis and far-right extremists as anything other than open death threats? It's out of control
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 7 days
I guess the sad thing about all this is the realization that not only is the media not a defense against fascism but with its current incentive structures in 2024 is actively helping to usher it in
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Journalism nowadays is like “sure he lied, but did he do it EFFECTIVELY”
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 3 mo
I wrote about American Nazis and what they believe, and the white Christian movement that calls itself "conservative," and the differentiators between the two. Or perhaps I should say, the lack of them. The danger that's coming, and that which is here already. www.the-reframe.com/americans-wh...
Americans Who Want To Kill Americanswww.the-reframe.com An essay about the present danger, and the danger coming after the present danger. Supremacists who kill with laws and those who kill without them. Differentiators, Part 4
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 5 mo
A staggering $50 trillion. That is how much the upward redistribution of income has cost American workers over the past several decades.
The Top 1% of Americans Have Taken $50 Trillion From the Bottom 90%—And That's Made the U.S. Less Securetime.com A report shows that a $50 trillion redistribution of income to benefit the richest has made America less healthy, resilient, and secure
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