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A.R. Moxon Profile picture
@JuliusGoat
Aug 14, 2020 • 24 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X
It's best to understand that fascists see hypocrisy as a virtue. It's how they signal that the things they are doing to people were never meant to be equally applied.

It's not an inconsistency. It's very consistent to the only true fascist value, which is domination.
It's why accusing Democrats (who for all their many flaws are not fundamentally fascist) of hypocrisy has been an effective tactic for Republicans, while accusing thoroughly fascist groups like Republicans of hypocrisy has been such an ineffective tactic for Democrats.
So: Republican gridlock and manufactured governmental ineffectuality after building their brand complaining of Democratic gridlock and governmental ineffectuality is indeed hypocrisy, but it's very consistent to their only true value, which is domination.
So: Republican dismantling of democratic institution after building their brand complaining of (non-existent) Democratic voter fraud and election tampering is indeed hypocrisy, but it's very consistent to their only true value, which is domination.

So: Brazen Republican cronyism and corruption after building their brand complaining of Democratic cronyism and corruption is indeed hypocrisy, but it's very consistent to their only true value, which is domination.

So: accusing Biden of nepotism for the benign act of asking his son to deliver a speech at his nomination, after 3 years of Trump allowing his vapid spawn to drive policy is indeed hypocrisy, but it's consistent to the only true fascist value, domination.
So: attacking the very form of voting they themselves enjoy and utilize is indeed hypocrisy, but it's entirely consistent with the only true fascist value, which is domination.

Without the hypocrisy, how can you tell you're truly dominating others?
It's very important to understand, fascists don't just see hypocrisy as a necessary evil. It's not that it's an unintended side-effect.

It's the purpose. The ability to enjoy yourself the thing you're able to deny others, because you dominate, is the whole point.
To demand peacefulness while violent
To demand civility while enjoying cruelty
To demand honest dealing while corrupt
To demand unity while dividing through bigotry
To expect fiscal responsibility while engaged in displays of monstrous greed

Hypocrisy is the wage of the fascist.
So: while it is indeed hypocritical to claim to be "pro-life" even while demonstrating, in every aspect of public life, a casual lack of concern for the lives of other people, the hypocrisy is actually *the key selling point* for a fascist politician.

People who want very much to enjoy privileges that they would deny others—without even having to suffer the discomfort of being confronted with the fact that this is what they want—are attracted to a fascist politician demonstrating his ability to commit brazen acts of hypocrisy.
"If this person can ignore basic laws of human decency even while claiming to be a paragon of human decency, one can conclude that this person could also manufacture a similar state for me."

Or: "he's hurting the right people."

Or: "he's saying what we're all thinking."
The fascist politician is engaging in hypocrisy because his true moral principle is domination of others.

In so doing, the politician is advertising to fascist-aligned voters their ability to do this. The hypocrisy is their reward for themselves, and their proof to followers.
Once you understand that for a fascist, their religion and their God is domination over other human beings, then what Trump is saying becomes perfectly clear.
Once you understand that, you understand that standing in front of the church holding a Bible is not the most important part of this image to the Evangelicals who support trump.

The most important part of this image is the fact that he tear-gassed BLM protesters to stand there. Image
Tear-gassing peaceful protesters wasn't the thing he did so he could stand with a Bible.

He stood with a Bible so that he could tear-gas peaceful protesters.

Demanding peace while violent is how you demonstrate domination.

Hypocrisy is a virtue to a fascist.
Demanding peace while posing a present threat; hypocrisy is a virtue to fascists.
Bringing violence to one group while allowing violence from your own group is hypocrisy—a hypocrisy that demonstrates the exercise of domination, which is the only true fascist principle, to which they keep consistent.

Hypocrisy is a virtue, for fascists.
Bringing violence to one group while allowing violence from your own group is hypocrisy—a hypocrisy that demonstrates the exercise of domination, which is the only true fascist principle, to which they keep consistent.

Hypocrisy is a virtue, for fascists.
So: Urging your followers to commit voter fraud after railing against non-existent Democratic voter fraud is indeed hypocrisy, but it's very consistent to a fascist’s only true value, which is domination.
So: Excoriating a political opponent for an infraction of the rules you’ve spent the entire pandemic telling people to break is indeed hypocrisy, but it's very consistent to a fascist’s only true value, which is domination.
Hypocrisy is a virtue, to fascists.

It's how they know they will be permitted to do that which they will not permit others to do. It's the vouchsafe of their only true principle, which is domination over others.

Hypocrisy is a virtue, to fascists.

It's how they know they will be permitted to do that which they will not permit others to do. It's the vouchsafe of their only true principle, which is domination over others.

Hypocrisy is a virtue, to fascists.

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There's a moment in Steven Soderbergh's film Traffic where the newly freed drug boss says to the drug lawyer who had been working behind his back "do you know the difference between a reason and an excuse? Because I don't."

At this point the lawyer knows he is in deep shit. 🧵
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Anyway the lawyer knows he's in deep shit because "do you know the difference between a reason and an excuse" means "I'm not buying your bullshit," and if newly-freed-drug-lords-behind-whose-back-you've-been-working aren't buying your bullshit, then it is murder goon o'clock.
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One thing I’ve noticed is, the meanest tables are often popular ones. Sometimes they are the most popular. My observation here would be that bullies know that cultivating friendly relationships is useful and necessary for effective bullying.
Any abuser knows they need accomplices. If dad is getting drunk and beating mom up he’s going to need everyone to keep nice and quiet about it, and if anybody squawks then it’s got to be quickly framed as something bad being done to him rather than the other way around.
If it looks as if the truth of the story is about to get around he’s going to need people to stand up for him in that moment and say things like this: “Nooooo! Not him. I know him. He would never. He has never been anything but nice to me.”
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I’d like to talk about what leadership is and what governance is. I’d like to talk about the compass, the navigation, the travel, and the corrections.

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When people decide to leave the place they are and move to a different place, there’s an observable order to it. The order is very important.

So, in movement, there is the moment of arrival at the destination.
But before that moment, there is the actual journey. We began here. We moved until we got there. We put one foot in front of the other. We set sail and kept going until we arrived. The aircraft cut its way across the sky. This is the journey.
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Sep 24
There's so much scandal all the time, it can be hard to remember where we are, much less how we got here. But they say it's important remember the lessons of the past, or else we're fated to do...something, I forget what, I forget, I forget.

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Where we are.

It's really hard to know where to begin when it comes to where we are. There's only so much sheer volume of blatant corruption and noxious hate that a person can stay aware of even if they're trying. Eventually something pushes out.
It came out this week that NC Republican gubernatorial nominee Mark Robinson has in past years spent his time posting pro-slavery and pro-Nazi comments on porn sites, and other things of that nature, many of which are so bad CNN, who broke the story, declined to print them.
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Sep 18
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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