"We see a litany of pundits and politicians declaring their surprise at events. People feign shock to avoid accountability. They need desperately to proclaim that no one could see this coming because then no one could have prevented it." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/reichsta…
"When you see officials saying they can't believe this is happening -- that's their cover. That's to change your expectations of what public servants are supposed to do. They want you to forget that protecting the people is their job." -- @gaslitnation
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"Politicians want you to embrace this personality cult mentality where you cheerlead them from the sidelines as they do nothing more than tweet. They're tweeting, just like you -- only they have powers and obligations that you don't." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/reichsta…
"Officials pretend they don't know what's going on, but they know. This system failed before their eyes just as it did before ours. They've known the entire time, and they chose to do nothing about it. That is a *choice* they made." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/reichsta…
"At this point, complacency is complicity. There is no line between the two." -- @gaslitnation
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"There is a direct link between politicians' feigned ignorance about authoritarianism and their feigned ignorance about police brutality, about white supremacy, about the tyranny regularly aimed at black communities across the US." -- @gaslitnation
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"American authoritarianism is intrinsically linked to racism. That's the original sin. As the US becomes an autocracy, of course it's rooted in white supremacy. We already had slavery, Jim Crow, genocide of Native Americans, Japanese internment camps..." patreon.com/posts/reichsta…
