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A.R. Moxon Profile picture
@JuliusGoat
May 21, 2021 • 6 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Quoting a white supremacist claiming there is no white supremacy problem.
What a surprise, a conservative Christian husband, would you believe he’s into sports. Image
You either die a gyro or live long enough to become a christian

look people these are the jokes
Basic ass unchallenged suburban lite beer polo shirt golf Saturday Sunday school teacher pornhub subscription motherfuckers have no idea how little interest I have in the cable news right wing radio regurgitation they consider “thoughts,” piss off, if Jesus hates anyone it’s you.
Now THAT was a sermon.
Welcome to the First Church Of Whiteness Is As Fake As Money, I’ll be your deacon today, our special is catapulting the pickled corpse of Rush Limbaugh into a volcano, can I start you with some drinks?

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A.R. Moxon Profile picture
Jun 24
I want to dig into this, since my book VERY FINE PEOPLE comes out tomorrow, and it's in large part about precisely this sort of polemic trickery in service of bullshit apologia of supremacy.

There's a slight of hand at the start that catapults us into the massive lie.
Let's do the slight of hand, first. The article presupposes to answer the question "Did Trump call Neo-Nazis and white supremacists 'very fine people'?

This is savvy if what you want to exonerate the comments, because it answers the wrong question, and dismisses the right one.
What Trump said is that there are "very fine people on both sides."

That would be the side counter protesting against the Nazis who organized a pro-Confederacy protest.

And then the side full of Nazis and those who found common cause with Nazis.

That's the "both sides."
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Jun 22
THE HUMAN PROBLEM
Last week an image went viral online. It was generated by a computer from the classic movie 12 Angry Men. It added no value, and it was being used for no good reason.

It's a perfect encapsulation of where our dominant cultural narrative has brought us. A grotesque AI generated extension of a scene from 12 Angry Men.
It's my belief that things that provide positive value to humans are good, and that those who make good things should be compensated for it.

I also believe that people should have access to good things whether or not they can pay. It's the reason I love libraries, for example.
This strikes me as an appropriate way to organize society, provided that we believe society is meant to benefit humans rather than money, and that humans—being inherent generators of value and of limitless potential value—deserve the fruits of society even if they can't pay.
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Jun 16
It seems certain people insist that we all as a society pay the cost of a serious problem they are creating, just so that they can imagine themselves to be the solution to it.

For example: the Prosper TX police and their brand new murder tank.

the-reframe.com/cruel-luxuries/
The tank is a MRAP, which stands for Mine Resistant Ambush-Protected vehicle. The MRAP has an MSRP of $689,000, which in case you didn't know is a lot of money—about a fifth of the school lunch debt for the whole state, to give a totally random example of another type of expense.
Some have dared ask why a prosperous town in north Dallas, which is presumably free of mines, needs a mine resistant ambush protected-vehicle.

So a local news affiliate provided a helpful explainer, uncritically transcribing the police rationale for the MRAP unchallenged.
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Jun 8
It seems to me that this is a nation mediated by fear—by who is permitted to feel it and who is permitted to spread it, and who gets to claim they are frightened or threatened, and who gets to define those parameters.

To explain, let me tell you about the trails I run. Washington man fatally shoots 17 year old who had BB gun, says he had a duty to act
When I run trails, I sometimes encounter people in twos or threes but mostly ones, and sometimes, as you might expect, some of those people are women.

I’ve seen pictures of me when I’m jogging; I’m 6’2” 230 lbs. and even if I’m trying to smile, exertion turns it into a scowl.
So, I do my best to seem as non-threatening as possible on the trail. I don’t know how successful I am, but I try to give space, and make a little unobtrusive cough from a dozen yards back if I’m coming up behind so as to not suddenly startle somebody with my sudden presence etc
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Jun 2
They found him guilty. The pig president I mean. White evangelical Christianity's bronzed calf. They found him guilty. That's good.

The funny thing is, he didn't even have to do the crimes. The bullshitter believed his cult's bullshit.

Full essay: the-reframe.com/not-better-but…
I'll admit I'm surprised they found him guilty. The pig president hasn't seen a lot of direct consequences, despite a lifetime of flagrant infractions against law and basic human decency.

In this immunity he is an extension of his cult.

It's worth detailing how how this works.
Our nation's country's cult of mostly male mostly white mostly Christian supremacists establish their immunity through moral authority.

To establish their moral authority, they use a variety of tactics that will be familiar to anyone who has spent time around a narcissist bully.
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May 19
I understand that suggesting we lie to fascists is a controversial thing to say. It's extremist, in a way that Sam Alito's stop-the-steal flag and Harrison Butker's speech will never be. It's dangerous divisive talk, in a way in ways that a plan to deport 5% of the nation isn't.
I think this tells you what sort of things are and aren't instinctively treated as normal by mainstream institutions.

Christian fascism can never escalate; it can only be escalated upon. It can never be exclusionary; it can only be excluded, and that exclusion is always unjust.
There's a strong current even among those not a part of our nation's popular and empowered cult of creepy religious bigots, that what's more important than opposing creepy religious bigots is dealing in good faith with them. The idea being that good faith will create good faith.
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