gav on Nostr: fellas share an aneurysm with me 𓅜 doug henning 𒄇 @likethemagician · Nov 7 ...

fellas share an aneurysm with me

𓅜 doug henning 𒄇
@likethemagician
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Nov 7
These people are fine with fascism-lite if it wins elections. Completely amoral and unprincipled.
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Laila Al-Arian
@LailaAlarian
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Nov 6
Replying to @LailaAlarian
Louise Jordan on MSNBC: “The progressive era has to end if Democrats want to win again.”
dead gavin
@deadgavin1
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23h
fascism doesnt mean anything, theres an entire wikipedia page musing about what could conceivably be a heuristic for what might be fascism
say what you actually mean and not the most opaic term conceivable
𓅜 doug henning 𒄇
@likethemagician
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22h
Mass movement animated by deep-seated resentment, jingoistic militarism, blood & soil xenophobia, & anti-democratic faux populism obsessed with national rejuvenation and purification of unwanted elements, restricting suffrage rather than expand it, using the state to lift

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𓅜 doug henning 𒄇
@likethemagician
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22h
restraints on corporate domination & push the organs of society into politically loyal, private control.

The modern version doesn’t have the tinge of revolution or paramilitaries (yet) but this particular brand of far-right politics is a reinvention of the same bundles of
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𓅜 doug henning 𒄇
@likethemagician
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22h
hateful lunacy and is now festering worldwide, accelerated by economic distress and disasters.

But that wouldn’t fit in the original tweet. Besides, like obscenity, you usually know it when you see it.
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