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22 Feb, 4 tweets, 2 min read
On Amazon book banning. Early 2019 was the first time they banned any books, of course starting with the far right. I saw this as a dangerous precedent, made some effort to try to organize an open letter, all "free speech activists" were too scared. truthout.org/articles/after…
The ACLU stood up for literal Nazis back in the day. Today's free speech movement will not, it will ignore every infringement on free speech until the exact moment it gets to them. Now the line is "What about Mein Kampf?" It'll probably end with them banning that too. ImageImage
Liberals censor conservatives. Conservatives retaliate by cancelling Hitler. Like when they started calling for Khamenei to be kicked off Twitter after Trump.
Christopher Hitchens responded to the controversy over David Irving by not only standing up for his right to be published, but actually defending his work as a historian while acknowledging he was a literal fascist. vanityfair.com/news/1996/06/h…

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24 Feb
WOAH, @jasonintrator belongs to SIX WHOLE DEPARTMENTS.

That's how he comes up with original insights like Trump is a fascist! If he had only been in 5 departments, he would've called him Hitler, but the sixth gave his thought real depth so he saw the resemblance to Mussolini. ImageImage
Decided to get Stanley's book. Look at this work of art this once in a lifetime genius produced! Front cover has Germans giving the Nazi salute! What a perfect analogy to the present day! I heard they divided the world into US and THEM. Mind blown! ImageImage
Look at these chapters! Fascists are anti-intellectual, totally hung up about sex, look back to a mythic past. Where else can you find these arguments? Arbeit Macht Frei! He knows German too! Is that one of his departments? Image
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23 Feb
I’ve been paying attention to Afghanistan over the duration of the war. I still find stuff I missed that shocks me. In 2011, while the US “surged”, at a military hospital injured soldiers starved to death because doctors and nurses demanded bribes for food online.wsj.com/article/SB1000…
“Da­wood is the pre­mier hos­pi­tal of the Afghan se­cu­rity forces, akin to the Wal­ter Reed Army Med­ical Cen­ter in the U.S.” The Taliban may have unenlightened views on women, but wouldn’t have survived against the world for 20 years if they behaved like this.
The US tried to get the Surgeon General to do something about pharmaceuticals being stolen, came to suspect he was in on it. Image
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22 Feb
Looking over the CPAC roster, mostly predictable nonsense. I noticed two foreign politicians though. They both look like generic GOP congressmen put through an Asian filter, and are distinguished by their focus on China. One appears to be the Lin Wood of Korea.
Of course, it wouldn't be a conservative event without Gordon Chang telling them about the coming collapse of China. cpac.conservative.org/speaker/gordon…
Shows what a priority anti-China propaganda is. There are no other foreign politicians there. They really had to go out of their way to find these figures, with the Korean guy in particular they appear to be scraping the bottom of the barrel. This generation's neo-cons, same scam
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20 Feb
Madness. Looks like random street crime, stuff that happens to people of all races all the time in US cities. Our crime rate is a disgrace, and we should fix it. But some have been against Asians, so we've 1) invented a trend and 2) invented a politically convenient perpetrator
There could be a healthy sort of "identity politics," where the law abiding unite against criminals. But Democratic congressmen and liberal activists aren't interested in that, it must be minorities and woke whites versus other whites no matter what the facts are.
Here's a Congressman, who actually gives you a video of an attack but still tries to convince you it's white nationalism.
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9 Feb
New York Times outraged to find culture in which people apologize for offensive comments and move on, instead of being drawn and quartered.

In first few paragraphs, manages to try to stir up racial, gender, and generational strife in Japan. nytimes.com/2021/02/09/wor… ImageImageImage
Japan has adopted affirmative action and diversity quotas under pressure from the west, they're just not all in on importing feelings-based politics and cancel culture yet, but looks like they'll get there with a few more NYT articles. Image
"Elections in Japan are overwhelmingly local, with ideology or identity politics not playing a strong role." Western human rights organization wonders whether comments about women talking too much will lead swimming coaches to get away with touching young girls. ImageImage
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6 Jan
The Tea Party dressed like founding fathers, had symbols like Gadsden flag, country music. Things that indicate ideology or background, like every movement, right or left. These people have nothing but plastering Trump's name on themselves. Just so soulless and ugly.
SJW women have short dyed hair, revealing rejection of traditional standards of beauty and sexual modesty. Antifa symbol represents an idea, same with white nationalism, they have the confederacy, swastikas.

MAGA literally has no symbol or aesthetics beyond the cult.
There was the Blue Lives Matter flag for a while. That represented something real beyond the cult. But I don't see it much anymore. The cult doesn't have room for any idea, it doesn't have the attention span to care. They could be anti-cop tomorrow depending on what Trump says.
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