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4 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Performative, thuggish masculinity is *extremely* appealing to a lot of men -- enough to outweigh other group/class/racial identities, enough to outweigh self-interest, enough to outweigh a quarter million dead Americans.
The single most terrifying & depressing thing of these last five years (which is saying something) is just how many American men witnessed Donald Trump & felt a deep, deep brainstem affinity. "Yes. I want to emulate/follow that."
Even more than the politics or policy, that aspect has been incredibly alienating for me. I'm separated from so many other members of my gender by an unbridgable gulf and it turns out I'm the weirdo, the outlier. I'm not articulating it well but it has really fucked my head up.
I wander around among the men of the world now and just constantly wonder, are you one of them? Are you one of those guys who get tumescent at the thought of imposing cruelty on weaker people? Who's just been waiting for permission to indulge? Turns out they're everywhere!

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Having a real dad moment here. My 17yo's in his room, talking to his friends about politics -- "if Texas goes blue, that's it" & "if Trump wins after losing the popular vote again, there's going to be unrest" & various other things I've ranted while he pretended to ignore me.
Your teens are only pretending to ignore you!
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Probably the single most depressing thought bouncing around my head these days is that, absent the pandemic, Trump would have won easily. Even with all the Twitter.
Yes, all you #actually's, I am aware of what the polling showed pre-pandemic. I just think the economy would have kept growing, the news cycle would have been more favorable to BS fake scandals, & swing/wavering voters would have "come home."
He only had to make it close -- close enough for the natural R bias of US electoral institutions (and/or, y'know, cheating) to get him over the line. As everyone is saying, Ds have to win by a landslide to actually win, & sans pandemic, I don't think you get a landslide.
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Wanna think about something that's not the election tomorrow? Let's talk about the city of Vancouver's amazing new climate emergency action plan. It will cost $500 million to implement over 5 years & contains 5 big moves. council.vancouver.ca/20201103/docum…
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One of the most disorienting things about this election is that American democracy is at stake & it really seems like the bulk of the population -- even the bulk of the politically engaged population -- does not understand the stakes.
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It's not exaggerating to say a second term would put future elections -- I mean having them at all -- in question. Law enforcement would become more explicitly a tool of Trump & his party, at all levels. The few remaining competent/knowledgeable professionals would leave.
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