Here’s how we deal with blatant GOP hypocrisy. Don’t share the post, screenshot it and explain the purpose of deception.

“McConnell is now trying to change discourse around majority rule in the Senate to slow legislation after years of gleefully steamrolling the minority.”
Sharing the post gives the liar impressions, fries their reach, possibly even helps the lie trend.

Refuting the lie and providing context takes out the venom and might even help people who don’t know what’s happening understand the situation.
We have to start rethinking social media, messaging, and our relationship with this poison. Bad faith Right Wing messaging has an effect, as does sharing op-eds and articles by major outlets designed explicitly to outrage the Left and profit off their hate-sharing.
Obviously Twitter is a place for conversations, but it’s also a messaging machine and just continuing to use it in the same way that helped give rise to Trump is a non-starter. We have to get better.
Here’s another:

“Rubio has one move and that’s pretending to be a ‘good’ Republican above the fascists, but then using the threat of the fascists to push his agenda and frame reform or progress as dangerous because it might radicalize the fascists.”

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23 Jan
Normal was never normal, it was an illusion that allowed the wealthy and powerful to become wealthier and consolidate power. That illusion is flickering and has to be replaced. The question is whether the replacement will be mass violence or a realer, more human future.
There is no choice. To concede the future is to allow mass antidemocratic forces to kill and purge and plunge us into a dystopic future as long as the planet holds out.

The choice is to make a choice.
The more I study history the more I realize it’s just eras of illusions that hold sway and allow exploitation until the illusion gives out and a new reality takes its place.

The future belongs to people who recognize this and make a choice.
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21 Jan
Been thinking a lot this morning about bad faith on the Right and how it’s already in full bloom from its media and politicians.

It’s time to change the way we handle this, the way we experience it, the way it makes us feel and how it effects us.
For those who spent the early aughts watching The Daily Show it became a study in those bad faith tactics, how the Right was engaged in malleable ideology, nihilistic power grabs, and outright gaslighting.

It’s an incredible weapon and it’s time to disarm it.
We all know the Right has become a principleless, antidemocratic, fascistic movement dedicated only to power and profit. It’s time to stop pretending otherwise and allowing these snipes and bad faith efforts to have any oxygen whatsoever. They’re not a surprise, at all.
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20 Jan
Just a reminder that Donald Trump is a completely untalented man who has been so privileged that he became President of the United States because he thought he deserved it and never actually tried once to do the job.

Just a total failure, embarrassment, and shame.
Truly and honestly, no man has ever been the total embodiment of all the worst and reviled American, and human, traits. Trump’s existence is an indictment and a living, breathing warning should we not look upon him and immediately reconsider our culture and history.
This has been a moment of chosen ruin. A catastrophical mistake which a cult poisoned with white supremacy and weaponized conspiracy theories embraced and inflicted upon us.

The tragedy so far is unfathomable. It will only be worse if we don’t heed this warning.
Read 4 tweets
19 Jan
You know, forgiving student debt isn’t just about erasing debt.

It’s admitting college, a necessary function of open society, has been captured for perverse profit and opening the door to reform.

It’s a massive, desperately needed, stimulus that costs literally nothing.
Forgiving college debt is the first step in a needed confession that the economic changes of globalism created a captive class who were held hostage by profiteers and that did real and lasting damage to not just the debtors but the people who didn’t go and the country as a whole.
One of the steps to fixing this fascistic crisis is to reckon with the intentional divide between the college educated and those who couldn’t afford it. We need to vanquish this debt, admit it was a massive profit scheme, and begin the process of opening up education.
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19 Jan
If you want to understand the purpose of this 1776 Project garbage, I’ve already had it emailed to me a handful of times by people either threatening me or asking when I’ll publicly apologize for my book American Rule.

It’s a war on reality for people who want to war on reality.
When Trump pushed “patriotic education” he was being used as a puppet by people who wanted to cement exploitation and keep people under the sway of propaganda. It’s knowingly and malevolently twisting history into a weapon of white supremacy.
The 1776 Project is white supremacist propaganda seeking to inject poison into the educational system. It’s ugly and gross and just unbelievably, embarrassingly shoddy to boot.
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18 Jan
The putsch at the Capitol wasn’t the end of something, but a beginning.

Whether this situation today is a false alarm or just a called-in, passing threat, we cannot live in denial any longer that we have a crisis on our hands and it demands addressing.
First things first, the Inauguration needs to be from a secure location. Stop playing around with this thing and take the attack on the transfer of power seriously. After that, we have to address the conditions and individuals that created this crisis.
If we get past January 20th without a massive tragedy we should consider ourselves incredibly lucky but also understand that this crisis doesn’t have an expiration date and that it is much larger, much more complicated, and much more threatening that most want to believe.
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