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15 Oct, 5 tweets, 1 min read
There’s just a direct line between pop country fetishizing fake working class white “culture” for middle and upper class conservatives in order to sell them trucks and cheap booze and this dangerous but patently absurd Right Wing movement.
I talk about it a bit here, but there’s so much to this authoritarianism that is rooted in consumer culture and overcompensation among an insecure population that finds an outlet and meaning in all this cruelty and gleeful ignorance.

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Watching all these wealthy and privileged people pretend to be working class cowboys while supplementing their identities with big ticket purchases and the sneering anger of Trumpism is just so ridiculous and yet so dangerous.
Simultaneously, this authoritarian movement is both a consumer identity and an existential threat. Capitalism has just twisted politics in a strange, new shape and it’s a shambling, grotesque mess.
For the record. Watching a certain Right Wing “intellectual” play cowboy dress-up is pretty revealing. The movement is about insecurity. About overcompensation. It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so sad and disturbing.

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13 Oct
Every single day new information emerges that January 6th was an attempted authoritarian coup.

We have to recognize every failed attempt can become a successful coup and that there are forces working tirelessly to overthrow America.

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Despite witnessing with our own eyes the attempted overthrow of the 2020 Election and our government, people in the media and politics continue to tell us it wasn't that bad, that it was just a brief blip

But the truth is that is was part of an ongoing authoritarian movement

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Though January 6th has been framed as the culmination of that authoritarian movement, its failure does not represent an *end* but a beginning.

Failed coups represent a crossroads. The choice is ours as to whether it grows and is eventually successful in its goals.

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12 Oct
A stable society where people are treated humanely and enjoy freedoms is IMPOSSIBLE when the entire economy is programmed to reward businesses and grifters who peddle violent fascism as a product and view suffering as good for their bottom line.

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AT&T’s cultivation and funding of OANN, a network rooted in white supremacist paranoia, is telling.

Radicalizing viewers and calling for fascistic executions is good for corporate profits. While it destabilizes society and gets people killed, it represents a sound investment.
The line between grift and ideology is razor thin and often nonexistent. What we’re watching with companies like Facebook is a recognition that dangerous, murderous ideas can be incredibly lucrative. And the corporate obsession with profit at all costs means they’ll sacrifice us.
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12 Oct
Republican politicians banning mandates and ensuring their constituents will suffer and die, all to garner a brief thumbs up from Fox News, aid big business, and troll the opposition, is a truth that is so wildly horrific it’s almost impossible to really sit with for long.
Confronted with the fact that most of the GOP leadership and media class are vaccinated and enjoy the safety of mandates is a horror. It charges us to remember that so many of our crises are choices of pure greed and opportunism that override concern, empathy, and logic.
On tomorrow’s Muckrake Podcast we talk about rising fascism as corresponding with the wealthy seeing profit opportunities in marketing niches. And that’s what it comes down to. Grifters and opportunists prioritizing wealth and power over human lives.
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10 Oct
I regret to inform you that even if the government is violently overthrown and blood runs in the street that leading publications are still going to feature articles worrying over “troubling trends on college campuses” and “the Left’s illiberal wokism.”
There’s too much money to be made in catering to populations worried about social change, too much in advertising, too much cache in creating a sense of “impartiality.”

Not to mention, the leading publications are owned by the wealthy who want to avoid any substantive change.
Again, the Left/Right, Liberal/Conservative paradigm you’ve been forcefed is nonsensical.

These publications run these articles because they have a huge incentive to stifle anything from actually changing. That would mean risking wealth and power.
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5 Oct
This entire Manchin/Sinema debacle has been turned into entertainment by a media profiting off chaos and dysfunction.

This isn't a game. People are suffering.

We have to recognize how this ugly business has very real consequences.

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From the very beginning, Manchin and Sinema have been taking advantage of how our media treats politics like spectacle and entertainment, using their dissenting votes as an opportunity to gain attention and fundraise through lobbyists looking to affect their decisions.

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By focusing on incidents like Sinema being followed into a bathroom, attention has been shifted from the legislation which will actually make lives better for living, breathing people into mini-scenes of morality and ethics.

This is how our media works.

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29 Sep
If anything is going to change, national races have to start building around the concept of movements. All this lipservice about cooperation and bipartisanship on the Left has to go out the window.

Stated plans. Mandates. Broad, sweeping wins making governance possible.
And, to do this, Democrats have to at least start moving beyond neoliberalism and reject these anchors who reinforce austerity and special interests.

This, of course, isn’t something this party is capable of doing as it’s constituted. Which makes all this practically moot.
The smart move here is for Biden to use this absolute catastrophe and say to the people, look at this mess, I need more people to achieve X, Y, and Z. The problem is putting together that agenda, being bold, and accepting the GOP will call it tyranny and socialism.
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