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Fash faces thread, here's who's otg in Philly trying to fuck up democracy #otgphilly #CountEveryVote
Jovi Val being extra in the corner
These chuds
It's hard to tell with the mask but I think that's Proud Boy Tyler Yamaguchi shooting me death glares on the right
More faces
More chuds
These fuckers came for Trump signs and took off West down arch, so be on the lookout
On their way west
This guy has been waving a Ukrainian flag around, fash are fucking weird
Also with the crew that headed west
Might be some repeats, I am terrible at telling white middle aged chuds apart which is also why I'm not trying to make ids on the fly
This lady livestreaming and getting in people's faces and extremely lucky she doesn't have a black eye or worse yet
Tini and Orlando on the scene doing some COVID hoax theorizing for the crowd

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil Profile picture
6 Nov
I am feeling very anxious about the potential for far right terror right now, more than I've felt at any other time since I started doing this research, and I literally specialize in Nazi terror Telegram.

Philly's already had a foiled terror plot and a bomb threat in <24 hrs.
I'm glad we're out here militantly defending the results, but I also feel our vulnerability extremely strongly right now.

To the chuds behind the police barricades a little, but to folks who are keeping a lower profile much, much more
Folks who follow me hopefully remember and recognize that I am very frequently at the front edge of encouraging folks to come out and confront fash.

I am not a nervous person when it comes to this crowd.

Tonight, though?

Tonight, I'm nervous.
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6 Nov
I'm on the ground at the Philly vote count center, here are some happy smiling MAGA faces ImageImageImageImage
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Here, have some dispirited Proud Boys, as a treat ImageImageImage
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6 Nov
I'm going to keep saying it, this is the moment where dangerous people get desperate and do increasingly desperate things, with the Philly vote count centers being a very obvious targets.

Mobilize, but be watchful and mindful.
Realize that there are MAGA and especially QAnon folks who are seeing a Biden victory as apocalyptically bad, and I am not exaggerating.

QAnon people are sucked in *deep.*

We don't have much of a consensus reality as it is right now, but they're far gone from what's left.
There are also militia and boog types who understand that this situation is a powderkeg and are extremely hoping to find an excuse to light a match.

They may not feel much or any loyalty to the Trump, but many are absolutely hoping to use his loss to spark civil war.
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6 Nov
Speaking of Bannon, I know the official left position is that liberals basically hallucinated him and Putin entirely, but I really remain convinced that we are deeply lucky that Trump's ego wouldn't allow him to tolerate the man in the White House after SNL puppetmaster sketches.
Idk that Bannon is anywhere approaching genius, but he absolutely had a streak of brilliance when it came to building common cause and narrative between reactionaries in the white working class and eugenicist billionaires.
I talk a lot about the importance of vision, and Bannon was an expert at both articulating a vision of a protectionist white nationalism that appealed to reactionaries across the economic spectrum, and an alternate vision of horror that terrified those racists across the board.
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6 Nov
By the way, I know I give a lot of flags on how it is/isn't appropriate to celebrate this moment, and reminders that this isn't over yet, but.

To be clear, I am all for celebrating Trump's apparent loss at the polls.

That is an unequivocal victory.
Not because it's a mandate, or a repudiation, or because it solves everything or redeems our country.

But because Trump is a fucking fascist leading a fucking fascist takeover of this country and it delivered a MASSIVE blow to that project.

Just, massive.
It's not over, he is going to try to marshal as much support as he can.

He is going to try and execute a legal coup, and he is going to incite his massive following to violence.

There is going to be a massive, armed, organized fascist presence in the US for years to come.
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6 Nov
You know, I really really do not like Hillary Clinton and I campaigned hard for Bernie in the primaries, but it was meaningful for me as a woman seeing a woman break the glass ceiling of presidential nomination.

These shatterings matter.
It's not that I felt HRC was ever the right choice, or that we should ever back or support a candidate who represents oppressive policy because of their identity.

Tokenism helps no one.
At the same time, when a marginalized person achieves an achievement their identity has been long barred from by law and/or prejudice, it materially changes things.

It can give a glimmer of hope to folks from that identity that maybe new roads have been opened.
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