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20 Mar, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Totally normal and not at all unwell or racist society we’ve got going here.

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I tell you, when your country is full of people threatening students who didn’t win a game or trafficking conspiracy theories because a comic book movie gets shelved or released by accident, that’s when you know things are going greeeeeeeat.
For what it’s worth, there’s a direct line between threatening fans, fascists attempting a coup, mass shooters, and these poisonous conspiracy theories.

They demand reality to conform to their every wish and they’re willing to hurt people to make it so.

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The poison of white patriarchal greed and aggrievement kills us, wrecks society, and has resulted in unnecessary cruelty, inequality, and even apocalyptic climate change.

It happens on those huge levels and even inconsequential things like basketball games.

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22 Mar
Studying the history of white supremacy, the conspiracy theories always repeat.

Whether it’s the 17th century overthrow of Maryland’s government, the stirrings of America’s revolution, the Red Scare, or the Capitol Coup, it’s always foreigners and traitors using people of color.
There’s something inherent in the pursuit of white supremacy, a projection of malicious intent that legitimizes violence, enslavement, and exploitation, a constant paranoia that the sins of that exploitation will themselves be exploited.

And that fear allows anything.
As I’m making my way through history it’s gotten so predictable how those white supremacist paranoias will take shape, how aggressive actions will be legitimized through the same foreigners/traitors/bipoc lens.

It’s a maddening cycle.
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21 Mar
Just a reminder that we have a massive segment of media that treats politics like sports, overlooks human suffering in favor of messaging and gamesmanship, and is so disingenuous and devoid of any sense of reality that it constantly and inevitably contradicts itself. Image
Our politics has become an interactive TV show ala American Idol, where fabricated obstacles and manufactured scandals/crises are sold through narratives to gauge how public figures will navigate them, but only in their communication.

It’s broken. So, so broken.
We have to reject this spectacle-driven politics that treats life or death reality as entertainment and a game.

It’s addictive and omnipresent, but we simply have to move beyond it.
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19 Mar
Just need to remind everyone the growing connection between the American Right and Putinism isn’t just about isolated elections.

It’s about white identity power and the creation of a criminal illiberal democracy.

It’s not just Trump and Fox. It’s their think tanks, culture.
What the Right sees in Russia is a white-identity society that crushes opposition, clothes itself in weaponized nostalgia, runs rigged elections that provide a veneer of democracy without the risk, and allow the wealthy and powerful full, oppressive control.
Even Koch and his constellation of think tanks and organizations have moved toward embracing Russia, and it’s about removing democracy as an impediment and making this exploitative order secure and expediting profit and power.
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16 Mar
Again. Please. Republicans operate as trolls. They post outrageous, infuriating opinions that have no purpose other than to bait you into responding and increasing their reach, their fundraising, and their stature among the Right Wing media.

Choose not to take the bait.
These social media and media systems rely on commodifying outrage. It’s poisonous to society but hard to reject. The GOP isn’t a party, it’s a public front fir the wealthy and powerful that exists through artificial, bad faith provocations. Don’t fall into their traps.
There are plenty of us monitoring the dangerous aspects of the Right, their signaling to extremists, their attempts to radicalize. You don’t have to engage with these bad faith, attention-seeking troll jobs. They only increase their reach and power. We can do better.
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14 Mar
When a president doesn't create multiple crises or scandals a day the pundits will go ahead and try and create their own scandals in the absence.

Remember this when piecing together the reasons the former president was able to gain traction and win office.
The political ecosystem is largely an entertainment complex that runs on scandal, spectacle, insider/specialized knowledge commodified, and profit off palace intrigue.

It's a TV show, a brand, a franchise, and it will find a way to produce.
Reagan gifted the political media ready-made segments with pomp, circumstance, and network-friendly optics.

Trump gifted them breathless segments and inches on his corruption, offensiveness, cruelty, and continual crisis. When they told you he was good for business they meant it
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11 Mar
You can’t organize Republican beliefs logically because they are inherently illogical. This isn’t an ideology, it’s a reactionary, panicked defense of white patriarchal supremacy and entrenched power. It is whatever the moment needs it to be and will find any possible outlet.
The old mythologies of exceptionalism, meritocracy, and nationalism are failing, leaving Republicans to embody a teeth-gnashing denial of that fact coupled with whatever cultural or political cudgel might help. They’re A-B testing cudgels every single day in desperation.
Again, there is no Republican plan fir the future beyond a desperate push to force us backward. None of this is logical or consistent, it’s trying to find a means to get back to segregation and protected capital and however it gets there will do.
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