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A.R. Moxon Profile picture
@JuliusGoat
Aug 14, 2019 • 23 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X
Once again, the worst thing Trump supporters can imagine is being known for what they are.

The worst offense they can imagine is accurate criticism.
They aren't being called 'animals' by the president.
No stadiums chanting "send them back"
No bathroom laws for them.
No travel ban.
No concentration camps.
No child separation.

Just that look in our eyes.

Just that look on our face.

Just an accurate appraisal.

The nerve.
No marriage nullified for them
No dishonorable discharge
No high executive calling them "enemy"
No years living without water
No dying without insulin
No dread of seeing a rapist in charge
No dread of seeing a sex criminal in the highest court

Just that look on our face.
No bakers refusing service for them
No conversion therapy
No stop and frisk
No school lockdown drills
No racist gerrymander
No disenfranchisement

All they have is everything else

They have everything else, and they're still not happy

They have everything, except our approval
Get used to it, MAGA America.

Get used that look in our eyes.

Get used to that look on our faces.

Get used to that accurate appraisal of your moral character.

it’s going to last a while.
Don't ever dare think that accurate assessment is something being done to you, Trump America.

Think instead, for the first time, of what's been done to everybody else.

Enjoy your everything. You won't like having it.

And who cares?
Every abuser, every villain, demands to be seen both as hero and victim of their own story.

When the villain succeeds, the audience boos. When he's defeated, they cheer. The boos and cheers aren't something they do *to* the villain.

They're commentary.

People's natural reaction when Republicans admit their affiliation isn't partisan, and it isn't something being done *to* them.

It's commentary.

You're *still* on board? Really?

With *this* guy? Really?

desmoinesregister.com/story/news/pol…
You're *still* on board?

Really?

Save your reasons.

Do you think your reasons matter?

You're *still* on board?

Really?

No wonder you don't feel as if you can admit it.

What you're experiencing is shame, which is a natural and healthy response to atrocity.

As is anger. wjtv.com/news/children-…
You're *still* on board?

Really?

We can all see this stuff, you know.

It eats at us.

nymag.com/intelligencer/…
This is exactly the stuff we all warned Trump would bring.

You said "that won't happen."

Now it's happening, and you're pretending it's not.

So we clearly know it's not you didn't think it would happen; it's either you wanted it to, or you didn't care.

washingtonpost.com/national/after…
Get used to the look in our eyes, the look in our face.

It's just us, seeing you clearly.

Get used to it.
What you're feeling is guilt, Republicans. What you're feeling is shame.

It's a natural and appropriate response to cruelty.

As is rage. As is disgust.

You're *still* on board?

Honestly don't know what you expect from us.

apnews.com/290fe000b4584d…
In Trump America, children have to fight a legal battle for soap and showers. It's a huge win for them to get them, in Trump America.

Think what else is being done, if that's what they have to fight for

You support this? Still?

Take the consequence.

You’re still on board?

Still?

Then yes you should be ashamed to admit it.
You’re still on board?

How do you expect us to respond?
The fact that some people still have consciences isn’t an aggression against people who have sold theirs away.

You’re still on board?

Still?

How do you expect us to react?
Still on board?

Still?

How do you expect us to react, honestly? Do you expect to be treated as if you’re not in support of this?
Do you think we can’t see you?

We can see you.

You don’t want to receive accurate criticism?

Change.
Still on board?

STILL?

You are what you are. People will notice.
Still on board? Still?

How can you expect to maintain the same comfortable relationship as before with people, now that they know what’s acceptable?

STILL ON BOARD?

You expect us not to react?

What do you think of us? buzzfeednews.com/article/hameda…

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A.R. Moxon Profile picture
Jul 20
My book is about the tradition of American supremacy & the ways it shapes all of our lives, sabotages our natural shared society in order to steal all value from it for a few, makes others pay its unnaturally high costs ... and what we can do about it. armoxon.com/books/very-fin…
I find it useful to begin with art—with the idea that humans are art. The idea that to be a human is to be a unique expression of unsurpassable worth, whose worth is natural and inherent.

Focusing on this truth makes it easier to spot supremacy's anti-human lies.
These laws are *foundational*—literally, present at our founding. Our founding lies are:
1. We are not related to one another; a rejection of society
2. Life must be earned; a rejection of the humanity of others
3. Violence redeems; a rejection of one's own humanity
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Jul 14
Well I'm given to understand that today & for a VERY limited time, our nation's political violence party is shocked—shocked!—to learn that we currently live in a world of normalized political violence, and would like very much to know who is to blame.

(link to essay in thread) Photo by Sandi Bachom shows a truck with a vinyl wrap depicting Joe Biden bound and lying in the bed.
I'm kidding, of course. They've already decided who is to blame. It's the same culprit they hold at fault for every other real and imaginary problem in their lives: Everybody except them.
I think we all know the news by now. Yesterday in Pennsylvania, a gunman took some shots in the direction of the former president—the adjudicated rapist, 34-time convicted felon, insurrectionist, and daily fomenter of political violence, Donald Trump.
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Jul 13
LOST is streaming on Netflix—an excellent time to revisit the show, using the viewing guide I'm publishing in my newsletter (link in thread).

Many think the story isn't coherent. I think it was. My lens is the one the show itself suggests: a dialectic of observation and belief. John Locke holds two game pieces; one dark, one light.
This dialectic isn’t too tough to detect. There’s even an episode called “Man of Science, Man of Faith.” In a dialectic, the opposing ideas operate in concert with one another. While these ideas are oppositional within the artistic work, they aren’t opposites. John Locke and Jack Shephard sit on a beach.
The main reason I want to do this is as an investigation of story—particularly an investigation the way I look at story. LOST is story that lends itself very well to investigation of how story does and doesn’t work.
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Jul 6
I've been thinking of American conservatism—which has proved itself irreducible from American fascism—in terms of burdens.

I find burdens an apt metaphor, because christian fascists claim to worship a Jewish rabbi from antiquity named Yeshu ben Yosef (Mr. Jesus if you're nasty). illustration of an elderly peasant carrying a clergyman and a nobleman on his stooped back
Interesting thing about young Mr. Jesus: He was very sharp-tongued with the politically influential religious hypocrites of his day. There's a whole chapter of him reading them the riot act, calling them whitewashed tombs and broods of vipers and blind guides etc etc.
It's a real hum-dinger that ends with Mr. Jesus saying he doesn't really see how any of them are going to escape being condemned to hell, and you should check out the whole thing, but today I just want to think about his open salvo, which is an amazing tee-shot.
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Jun 24
I want to dig into this, since my book VERY FINE PEOPLE comes out tomorrow, and it's in large part about precisely this sort of polemic trickery in service of bullshit apologia of supremacy.

There's a slight of hand at the start that catapults us into the massive lie.
Let's do the slight of hand, first. The article presupposes to answer the question "Did Trump call Neo-Nazis and white supremacists 'very fine people'?

This is savvy if what you want to exonerate the comments, because it answers the wrong question, and dismisses the right one.
What Trump said is that there are "very fine people on both sides."

That would be the side counter protesting against the Nazis who organized a pro-Confederacy protest.

And then the side full of Nazis and those who found common cause with Nazis.

That's the "both sides."
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Jun 22
THE HUMAN PROBLEM
Last week an image went viral online. It was generated by a computer from the classic movie 12 Angry Men. It added no value, and it was being used for no good reason.

It's a perfect encapsulation of where our dominant cultural narrative has brought us. A grotesque AI generated extension of a scene from 12 Angry Men.
It's my belief that things that provide positive value to humans are good, and that those who make good things should be compensated for it.

I also believe that people should have access to good things whether or not they can pay. It's the reason I love libraries, for example.
This strikes me as an appropriate way to organize society, provided that we believe society is meant to benefit humans rather than money, and that humans—being inherent generators of value and of limitless potential value—deserve the fruits of society even if they can't pay.
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