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A.R. Moxon (juliusgoat.bsky.social) Profile picture
@JuliusGoat
Aug 21, 2019 • 8 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
This isn't a call to civility, it's a call to enablement of abuse, which I suppose is an apt way to honor John McCain, a man who once called his wife a c*nt in front of a press gaggle and joked about bombing Iran.
Note, there's no attempt to unpack what it is we disagree on, or what the problems might be.

That's by design.

It's not a desire for civility. It's a desire for quiet.
What this reasonable-seeming line does is separate our national politics into two sides, neither of whom have any real stakes in the outcome.

Know who doesn't get to "agree to disagree?"

LGBTQ people
Muslims
Immigrants
People of color
Sick/disabled people
Poor/homeless people
The people the Republican Party intentionally targets for menace, harm, marginalization, and death, never ever ever get to opt out of it.

They never get to 'agree to disagree.'

They never get to agree OR disagree.

They just get to suffer.

McCain would have us abandon them.
Perfectly reasonable, right?

It's also the sort of thing a serial killer might murmur to somebody they have chained in a basement.

McCain just wishes her neighbors would stop complaining about the screams.

Our 9-11 call isn't about you, or your husband's legacy, Cindy.
John McCain deliberately elevating an ignorant incompetent race-baiting populist to the level of presidential candidate. He normalized that.

Then he deliberately ran an intensely racist campaign against the first black major party candidate.

You want his legacy? Here it is.
I don't agree to disagree.

I agree to never abandon friends and family and strangers who live under the daily threat and menace of harm, abuse, and death, to the deliberate cruelty of who seek to bring it about, or the civil cruelty of those who've made themselves indifferent.
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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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A.R. Moxon (juliusgoat.bsky.social) Profile picture
Jan 14
Promoting ideas and actions in the name of some fine thing that you don’t believe in and might actually oppose is what is meant when someone says "bad faith."

For example say your name was Elise Stefanik, and you were for example a US Senator

Full essay: armoxon.substack.com/p/lose-the-deb…
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Say also you belong to a political party whose leader is an open fascist who approvingly quotes Hitler in order to promote a conspiracy theory called ‘replacement’ that forms the undergirding bedrock of antisemitism, to better enact eliminationist brutality against refugees.
Now say that, in order to enact eliminationist brutality you find it useful to demolish and discredit things like awareness and knowledge and learning and the concept of knowable truth.
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If you want the whole picture, you’d better make sure you can see the frame, and if you want the entire story, you need the beginning and the end.

(I’m afraid explaining what I mean involves making some of you aware of Chris Rufo. I'm sorry.)

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Chris Rufo is a far-right supremacist agitator who uses bad faith techniques to opportunistically exploit weaknesses inherent in our institutions.

The way I know that this is what Chris Rufo is and that this is what he does is quite simple. I know it because he says so—out loud.
He’s very open about his supremacist assumptions—which would be his beginnings.

He’s very open about his eliminationist intentions—which would be his ends.

You might even say he’s brazen, as if he knows ignoring the bad assumptions and intentions is how his whole thing works.
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