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Aug 25, 2019 6 tweets 2 min read Read on X
They would rather lose then fight.
We need people who will fight against the fascist Republican Party for the lives of the human beings who live in this country and in the rest of the world, and if the DNC refuses to do it, then we need to fight them, too.
There are quite obviously those in Democratic leadership whose greatest fear isn’t losing in 2020 but winning with an unmistakable progressive agenda.
I’m sorry, but the Amazon is on fire, Greenland is melting, and you don’t get to say it’s a major concern but then also say you don’t want to discuss it.

There are candidates who want to discuss it, at length and in detail. There are quite a few. Let them.

Let the rest retire.
We are facing major existential problems, and for anyone who doesn’t want to even try to solve those problems, we already have a Creating Problems party. Go join them like you want to.

There’s a lot of work to do, there’s more of us than you, and you’re in our seats.
This is NOT a call to give up or give in to cynicism. This is a call to get behind people who’re solving problems, and scare the absolute piss out of those who aren’t

Call. Attend town halls. Reject their weak tea. Demand fighters. Make it clear their jobs are on the line

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Conservatives keep telling us they're oppressed, and when they define what form the oppression takes, they explain that other kinds of people ... exist.

You know what? Let's do it. Let's actually do it. I think we ought to oppress conservatives.

Other people *should* exist. 🧵
Let's oppress conservatives with a kind and open and generous world that they will hate and fear specifically because it will care for everyone, even them, while it refuses any longer to accommodate the revenge fantasies that they call "self-defense."
At the bottom of it all, it strikes me that conservatives are driven by fear. They're big fraidy-cats, scared specifically of the ongoing danger of good and necessary things, of openness and diversity and peace and plenty.

We should stop accommodating those fears.
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Last Tuesday Donald Trump shat his pants on national TV. Ever since, he's been scooting his butt around on the national carpet to dislodge the detritus of loserdom. It's standard wounded narcissist self-care behavior, and it would be nice if all of this could be *only* funny. 🧵
Unfortunately, it can't be only funny; Trump and his gang are engaged in some shockingly evil rhetoric even for them—promising that, for the crime of existing while undesirable to conservatives, as many people as possible will be hurt, as soon and as badly as possible.
Incidentally, this thread is part of an essay that you can read right here on my weekly newsletter, The Reframe.

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Aug 19
"The whole point of the post-menopausal female." It was an off-handed comment, I suppose. It was said in an off-handed way.

It was made by Peter Thiel VC guy and podcaster Eric Weinstein, and agreed to by Theil VP guy and flopsweat enthusiast JD Vance, and it reveals a lot.🧵
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"The whole point of ..." The topic seems benign—the benefits of having grandparents help raise children—which is a very true thing. It's easy for those who want to defend the comment to frame anyone who finds the wording creepy and sinister as overreacting.
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Aug 11
I can't get over the signs.

Republicans held their Nuremberg rally last month, and shook their official MASS DEPORTATION NOW signs representing accelerated atrocity against our neighbors on an unimaginable scale.

The choice this presents is stark. It should be starker. 🧵 A nice-looking smiling older lady holds a MASS DEPORTATION NOW sign.
Sure enough, the convention featured the usual gleeful celebration of cruelty and domination as virtues, and the usual eager expressions of desire to continue dismantling our shared society for profit, and the usual listing of the undesirable qualities of undesirable people.
And there were the usual celebrations of bullying and violence, and the usual eager promotion of national myths of cultural purity mediated by a nationalist myth of purification through systemized violence, which are the hallmarks of any gathering of Republicans.
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Aug 9
Recent "what ever happened to 'when they go low we go high?'" hand-wringing puts me in mind of this essay I wrote in May. It's about the moral necessity of dealing in bad faith with fascists.

Thread and link below, but key parts here: the-reframe.com/lying-to-fasci…


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Here's how fascism rises: on a tide of goodwill.

Here's what I want you to understand today: These Americans who want to kill Americans have, through their intent and actions, already destroyed the thing you want to protect. The norms you want to protect are already gone.
Either fascists get their way, and society is no longer accessible to most of us, or they don't, and everyone including them gets to access society. Therefore, I think they shouldn't get their way or be treated as if they should.
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Aug 4
Not so very long ago, it wasn't "normal" to be trans or gay or even nonconforming to strict gender roles in any way. It wasn't normal to be a woman with a powerful job, or to be a woman with a paid job, or a woman with an opinion.

Not so long ago, all of this was *weird.*
And it wasn't "normal" to be Jewish, it wasn't normal to be Muslim, it wasn't normal to be Hindu, it wasn't normal to be an atheist; nor to be Black, or Asian, or any identity in a category called "nonwhite" that people used without really thinking about it.

Again: weird.
It wasn't normal to be chronically sick or disabled, and it certainly wasn't normal to expect to be treated as a full member of society if your way of being was not normal. And there were many other ways of being that weren't "normal" either.

They were different, other—weird.
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