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It’s something that people condemning the razing of cultures by ISIS are suddenly champing at the bit to obliterate Iran’s.

War is war.
War crimes are war crimes.
The myth of American exceptionalism, that we are the arbiters of right and wrong and God’s chosen nation, and by extension that we cannot be fascist, is unbelievably dangerous. Our history shows a penchant for cruelty and is littered with war crimes.
Now, on the razor’s edge of war, we have to remember that conflict enables fascism. It hides senseless violence. We are capable of great wrongs and we have to recognize that lest we continue committing great wrongs.
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Jared Yates Sexton
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Threatening to put heads on pikes would be one thing if it just meant political targeting by Trump and a Stalinist purge from the party.

It’s a whole other thing with armed militias marching through the streets and Trump supporters mailing bombs to critics.
What we have to realize is that Trump’s shadow activities aren’t relegated to foreign policy. His politics are inherently authoritarian and violent lightly masked by traditional deniability. Republicans know he has supporters obsessed with and ready to do violence.
When a Republican considers speaking against Trump they not only consider the electoral consequences. They know they’ll suffer the immediate white hot spotlight of rabid Right Wing media, followed by consistent and relentless threats against their families.
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Jared Yates Sexton
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Anecdotes about Republicans not paying attention to the impeachment trial, not keeping abreast of evidence of crimes, and maneuvering to cover up treasonous behavior aren't harmless.

A party willingly subverting the rule of law for the purposes of maintaining power is fascism.
This is part of a fascistic disease. Covering up Trump's crimes, disenfranchising minority groups, standing by while a president undermines national security for private profit.

It's not strategy. It's not politics. It's the embrace of fascistic tactics for the sake of power.
Pundits and political analysts need to get with this in a hurry. They've spent so long analyzing bad faith politics as strategizing and effective game theory. What they're missing is that that bad faith and game theorizing has metastasized as society destroying, fullblown fascism
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Jared Yates Sexton
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Have me come onto your cable news show so I can scream about how game theory and the Nixonian political philosophy has eroded the rule of law to the point where society might break.
Come on. Let's make this happen. I'm happy to take your thirty second soundbite and hijack the conversation to talk about media profit strategy and how Donald Trump is the end result of decades' worth of spectacle fetishization.
Seriously. Let's spice impeachment coverage up and talk about how how the advent of television politics has turned American culture into a hall of mirrors that harms humans and prioritizes profits, turning crisis into a product and making cultural meltdown inevitable.
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Jenan Moussa
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1/ EXCLUSIVE: ISIS files I got in Syria show #ISIS drone budget was at least $1.1 million.

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How ISIS ordered it? Online from China, Hongkong, Europe &Turkey.

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 As #Iran downgrades the killing of ISIS leader al-Baghdadi by US special forces, a look at the past portrays an interesting image: Iran’s close ties with ISIS.
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War on #Iran has been a priority for Trump’s admin since the transition.

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