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27 Feb, 9 tweets, 3 min read
I’m sure this is just as much a coincidence as the last 1000 coincidental uses over the last few years by Republicans of Nazi slogans, memes, iconography, tactics, purposes, and methods.
It’s a Nazi Party. They’ve been telling us. Daring us.
Unassailable logic here. I think the simple fact that you recognized this as a Nazi s
"We are so unfamiliar with Nazi symbols that we can't help but use them over and over out of pure simple unfamiliarity—oops! we used another one!—and if you recognize it that makes YOU the Nazi" reminds one rather powerfully of Sartre's statement about Nazis. “Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of
What's amazing to me isn't that there is always some shrub of deniability for them to hide behind.

What's amazing to me is all the people who are willing to give them the benefit of the doubt and pretend they can't see them hiding behind it.
The day of Trump's inaugural ("America First"), in a DC ballroom, this was happening. (CW: extremely Nazi shit)

Charlottesville and Trump's defense of the Nazis there was months away.

"Stand down and stand by" for the Proud Boys was 4 years away.
The open defense of nationalism. The promotion of police violence. The encouragement to white supremacist organizations. The coddling of domestic terrorists. Years after years of it.

Shit like this.

But sure, the stage is a coincidence.

Nazis sure seem to think that Republican gear means Nazis.

But sure, the stage is a coincidence. huffpost.com/entry/trump-ex…
What is the *point* of using Nazi symbolism?

Real head-scratcher.

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A.R. Moxon, Cohost of The View Profile picture
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“Facts don’t care about your feelings” crowd just melting down over the plastic potato toy huh.
taters gonna tate.
Thank you very much, goodnight.
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A.R. Moxon, Cohost of The View Profile picture
26 Feb
Make them actually filibuster it. Then pass the same bill again and make them filibuster it again. Don’t stop.
Call every bill the “The Reason You Can’t Afford Anything Is The Republicans Block Every Bill Act.”

Let’s get creative.
Don’t use Hoe Manchin as an excuse. Fight. Throw everything you have. Make their intransigence their problem. Get creative and make their obstruction difficult and uncomfortable.
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A.R. Moxon, Cohost of The View Profile picture
25 Feb
Republicans don't have a crisis with identity. They have an unshakeable identity built around white supremacist grievance.

They have a crisis with reality. They refuse to live in it. Anybody who tries gets censured and shunned, threatened and expunged.
One of our two major political parties is openly proudly fascist. They are fascist in the only way fascists can be fascist, which is happily and angrily at the same time. Happily because they've found their purpose. Angrily because reality keeps intruding.

It's a dire problem.
I'm aware they think they're good people.

In fact, fascists always think they're good people—not just good people, but the best and greatest people. This on the way to believing that only they are people.

That's where they are. Ask them; they'll tell you.

American Fascists.
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The privately owned media has, by and large, failed its mandate. Seeing a lucrative demand for lies, they're working to capture it.
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If you must bring them on, lead with those facts, then state the reason you're platforming them anyway. Otherwise you're laundering lies.
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21 Feb
This is wild and frequently hilarious stuff, and a major embarrassment, but the life the hotel staff describes is basically life in a totalitarian regime, with praise for the Dear Leader a requirement just for basic survival.

It's the Republican vision.

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I mean just look at this shit.

And ask: what is the difference between a GOP member of Congress and a Trump hotel staffer, other than the fact that the GOP MoC has won the victory over himself, and truly loves Big Blather? Anyone who wasn’t a Trump fan quickly learned that putting
I ponder the massive popularity among Republicans for this spoiled toddler of a pig-president, demanding lavish ceaseless praise.

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Same energy.
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Almost feels like it is expecting disaster and has already planned for it.

I'd say we might want to change such a system.
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