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15 Apr, 4 tweets, 1 min read
I don’t want to take your guns or for a one-world government to break down your door and terrorize your family.

I want you to understand that specific fear, that baseless paranoia, is a weapon that’s been used against you to pay you less and keep you terrified of change.
I want you to see that even as you scream that you’re not going to live in fear that you surround yourself with weapons of war, spend money you don’t have on panic rooms and bug out hideouts, and hand your paychecks over to a party that keeps you afraid to help corporations.
I want you to WANT to give up your assault rifles and weapons designed to kill humans because a free, open society, a country where we don’t drown in paranoia and conspiracy theories, is a place where we can live better lives, where we can enjoy actual freedom.
I want you to understand that white supremacy and its constellation of conspiracy theories is a weapon that serves the wealthiest elite and keeps you frightened and armed and on standby as their paramilitary force.

I want you to be better. I want you to be freer.

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14 Apr
The problem isn't a few "bad cops."

The problem isn't a lack of training.

The problem is that our law enforcement is founded specifically on the principles of white supremacy and carrying out a war of suppression.

The problem is the Blue Line.

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This idea that police are a "thin blue line" between freedom and violent anarchy is a crusader ideology.

It is a belief that law enforcement exists as a military unit dedicated to protecting the country from dangerous elements.

This is a mythology with terrible roots.

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The ancestors of our police forces were knights in the employ of lords and monarchs, warriors who could be dispatched to war, invasions of other countries, but also to police peasants and serfs, ensuring they would never rise up and trouble their economic superiors.

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13 Apr
We tried telling people that Vance was pushing classist bootstraps mythology and laundering cruel Right Wing propaganda.

But the media had no idea how to even begin covering Middle America or class and needed a Poverty For Dummies textbook to try and explain Trump.
The elevation of Hillbilly Elegy, which blamed the poor for not doing better while advocating predatory services and austerity AND saying people weren’t racist against Obama but jealous of his suits and salad, is just an egregious thing that still exhausts me.
Here’s the unvarnished truth. The poor in this country have been exploited, used up, spit out, and are constantly manipulated by the very people who have profited from it.

Vance just reiterated the same old story to empower himself and further the narrative. And people loved it.
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10 Apr
We have to talk about Tucker Carlson, Replacement Theory, and the Right's usage of white supremacist paranoia and apocalyptic fearmongering to legitimize violence.

This is fascism. Period. We've seen it before in Germany and here in America.

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I want to be very frank here.

What Carlson has done in recent weeks is advocate for a full and open embrace of fascism, launder the violence of January 6th into a legitimized action, and now is pushing white supremacist/white terrorist concepts of Replacement.

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Carlson's behavior isn't accidental. It's an intentional story he's telling, complete with calculated escalations.

He is airing white supremacist propaganda to bring his audience into full support of violence suppression of the Left and people of color.

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7 Apr
As a result of Republicans radically altering our economy, redistributing wealth from the bottom up, and destroying regulation, corporations have become nations unto themselves, removed from democracy and restraint

We’re witnessing a terrifying evolution

jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/a-nation-unt…
We’re still viewing reality through an increasingly obsolete lens. The era of nation states and democracy is giving way to a new dominant form: corporations that are their own states and control the nations that birthed them while silently destroying democratic institutions.
So much of our politics is spectacle, theater that provides entertainment and the illusion of control while masking that our government and society has become a subsidiary of corporations.

So much of our nonsense and self-inflicted damage is linked back to this.
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5 Apr
These are the minutes from an anti-reform society in 1792.

It is...astounding how little the fearmongering used by the Right to maintain their power and wealth changes over the centuries.
Worth noting, also, that the Association group here was inextricably tied to government and law enforcement, all of which planned attacks and undermining of the Left.

It’s the same story, from 18th century England to modern America.
History shows us our current situation is a replay of observable, predictable trends.

In Europe, in Red Scare and Civil Rights America, in this current struggle, the wealthy and powerful and law enforcement work alongside radical Right Wing organizations to fight reform.
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3 Apr
Here’s the state of the GOP.

Fallout from a brazen attempt to disenfranchise people of color is a “gift.”

Because all of it is a game. People’s lives. Democracy. The disintegration of shared society. Just one giant zero-sum game.
I wrote more about it here, but the Right has completely devolved into an organ seeking nothing but power, profit, and the protection of the white, wealthy, and powerful.

To accomplish that, they’ll destroy democracy and traffic in nothing but illusions.

jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/tossing-pape…
The Right wants, simultaneously, to wield absolute power and frame itself as a victim of conspiracies, culture, and dangerous, emerging trends.

This faux victimhood legitimized all the violence and oppression and underhanded actions. This is who they are.
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