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A.R. Moxon (juliusgoat.bsky.social) 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 (juliusgoat.bsky.social) Profile picture
Apr 28
Seven lessons learned from a quarter century in a war-oriented society.

It's 2001—the year the movies promised we'd make contact with aliens—and the United States has rather recently been attacked by terrorists who flew passenger planes into buildings.

the-reframe.com/war-or-nothing/
I have a distinct memory from the day of the attacks, of a news anchor announcing—before the buildings even fell—that we were now at war, which we technically weren't yet; thanks to my high school civics class I knew that news anchors aren't empowered to declare war.
But sure enough, here in late 2001, old what's-his-name the news anchor has been proved right: we're heading to war in Afghanistan. Old what's-his-name knew, with the sage wisdom of somebody living in a war-oriented society; when you are attacked, war is not optional.
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A.R. Moxon (juliusgoat.bsky.social) Profile picture
Apr 20
In 2017 American Nazis invaded Charlottesville, VA, which is a major U.S. city in case you didn't know. Maybe you remember this. They called themselves "Unite the Right." They wanted what Nazis want, and did what Nazis do, which was to kill.

the-reframe.com/americans-who-…
They also wore polo shirts and held tiki torches, and chanted Nazi chants; about blood and soil, and others predicated on the idea that the white race was being replaced by races that Nazis view as inferior.

Probably it is worth talking about what 'the white race" means.
"The white race" is a pretend thing that certain people made up in order to consolidate social and political power and wealth by organizing the application of brutality and violence.

Anyway the Nazis believed they were white, and this was very important to them.
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A.R. Moxon (juliusgoat.bsky.social) Profile picture
Apr 7
Cargo ship Dali lost power and from there it was only a matter of time before it destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

We hadn't maintained the bridge for collisions of this type, we're learning. You'd think we would have—it's critical infrastructure.

the-reframe.com/blame-manageme…
But we're often the sort of place that fails to maintain what it has built; mostly because maintenance costs eat into tax revenues, and revenues could be used for tax cuts, and tax cuts help profits, and profits are very important, so collapses are just a thing that is coming.
But even if we had performed adequate maintenance, the bridge was probably doomed. Dali is the size and mass of a skyscraper (far larger than container ships used to be—but larger ships lower prices in supply chains, and lower prices help profits, and profits are important).
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A.R. Moxon (juliusgoat.bsky.social) Profile picture
Mar 24
I'd like everybody to yell at me, so I wrote about the upcoming election.

Or, to put it more specifically, I wrote about what an anti-fascist coalition might look like and how it might fall apart, using the election as a context.

the-reframe.com/binaries-and-i…
We’re dealing with rising fascism both globally and domestically, as I might have mentioned once or twice recently—“domestically” for me meaning the United States, though maybe you find it is true in your part of the old cosmic blueball, too.
I think there are a lot of people who realize this and agree that it should be stopped, and that’s good for people who want to stop fascism’s rise—people who I am going to assume includes you, the reader of this. Isn’t that nice of me?
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A.R. Moxon (juliusgoat.bsky.social) Profile picture
Mar 19
OK, let me tell you a joke. It’s a joke about context.

(One of the most popular topics for jokes, I know. I give the people what they want.)

Here’s the joke:

Say somebody gave a rally, and a lot of people came.

the-reframe.com/the-way-it-is/
Say that the person who was the focus of the rally was a politician, a man who had once been president of the United States, had stopped being president of the United States, and now was running to be president of the United States again.
Say the person was going to use the rally to talk about all the violence he thought should happen, and who he thought the violence ought to happen to. Say all the people who came to the rally came because they liked to cheer at suggestions of violence.
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A.R. Moxon (juliusgoat.bsky.social) Profile picture
Feb 19
EVERY ACCUSATION A CONFESSION

At the U.S./Mexico border, Republicans are defending their right to make themselves feel safe by murdering refugee men, women, and children, using as rationale a once-fringe Nazi conspiracy theory they are promoting.

the-reframe.com/every-accusati…
They’re talking about a civil war in order to protect this "right." And yes, they’re framing it all as self-defense, as if they—the ones eager to murder both foreigners and fellow citizens—are the ones in danger, and the rest of us—who they are eager to murder—are the danger.
And yes, they’re also against antisemitism, they’ll tell you, whenever they aren’t promoting their Nazi conspiracy theory.

A Nazi conspiracy theory? Yes indeed.
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