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16 Nov, 6 tweets, 2 min read
We need to be very frank about where we are and what we're facing.

With Bannon framing himself as politically persecuted and the Right embracing Rittenhouse as a hero, tensions are poised to boil over into widespread political violence.

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Years of conspiracy theories and fearmongering by Trump and the GOP have so radicalized a base that they're calling for military coups, widespread violence, and the systematic destruction of democracy.

History tells us where this goes, and we're heading towards chaos.
This moment we're living in looks a lot like the moments in the past before sectarian violence began and widespread civil war commenced. It's honestly really, really disturbing how much so.

We need to understand exactly how much danger we're in at this time.
I know this is disturbing and hard, but living in delusion and just thinking everything will just *work itself out* only gives room for these bad actors to gain strength and numbers.

We need to be very clear-eyed about where we are and where we might be heading.
In this episode of the podcast I talk about flashpoints, or moments where the tension might spill over. Arrests, trials, cultural debates about justice often set off a chain reaction that devolves into violence and oppression.

We're tiptoeing around so many of these moments.
There are plenty of people grifting off radicalization right now, making a living and winning elections.

Bannon is an ideologue and the people pushing violence have an agenda. They're looking, literally, for any opportunity to escalate the situation.

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10 Nov
All right.

We need to talk about the GOP sharing images of themselves killing political rivals, the history of conspiracy theory as a political appeal, and how all of this puts us in extreme danger and almost ensures bloodshed.

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Of course, we're talking about Rep. Paul Gosar, who widely shared a video of himself decapitating AOC and attacking President Biden.

It's an absurd thing, but part of a larger trend of escalating violent rhetoric and fantasies that inspire violence and antidemocratic actions

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The video is repulsive and childish, but is part of an ongoing narrative the GOP uses to win elections.

That narrative promises that Democratic victories will lead to an apocalypse, which necessitates a war the American people must fight, legitimizing violence.

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7 Nov
Just a reminder that, for as long as there has been law enforcement and Right Wing paramilitary groups, they have both shared members and cooperated.

What we’re seeing right now is a building, antidemocratic movement with one shared goal: maintaining white patriarchal power.
Here’s a deep dive into the history. Law enforcement and Right Wing paramilitary groups are linked by a worldview that considers common people an existential threat.

Both legitimize violence through a conspiratorial mindset that oppression is necessary.

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Our law enforcement and military are filthy with white supremacist paramilitary members, and it’s because of the mindset that they are at war with the people in defense of a political and economic system tuned to the wishes of the white, wealthy, and powerful.
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6 Nov
Notice all the articles and segments and speeches about “wokeness,” “CRT,” about how marginalized people hurt electoral chances.

The political, pundit, and media class only care about the economy and their own power and wealth. Everyone and everything else is dispensable.
The people who direct the discourse in America give themselves away by torpedoing any discussion about reform or progress or equality by positioning them as impediments to profit. This has always been the case. See it and you can’t unsee it.
The underlying message to these articles is that, sure, the GOP is a dangerous white supremacist movement, but Democrats need to appeal to the white supremacy and actively silence any voices calling for real, tangible reform that would make lives better.
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5 Nov
Fascism is the mechanism that kicks in when capitalism reaches a point of intolerable inequality and cruelty. It uses our conspiracy theories and worst prejudices to legitimize the violence and intimidation necessary to keep the system functioning.

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What we’re seeing with the GOP and conspiracy theories like the Deep State and QAnon is a radicalization of a base in order to ensure they continue living in an oppressive system. It gifts economic struggles a religious mythology and frames everything as an apocalyptic war.
We’re currently at a crossroads where this inequality and exploitation is intolerable and endangered by changing ideas. The wealthy are already embracing fascistic methods to maintain control and will, history tells us, throw in with fascist thugs to protect their power.
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5 Nov
When capitalism starts to buckle and the people demand dignity and equality, liberalism’s soft pressures and meritocratic promises give way to fascism, which reinforces the economy through violence and offers meaning through war.
The market disguises patriarchal, white supremacist hierarchies, blaming human suffering on forces “beyond the benefactors’ control.”

When that fiction wears thin, fascism celebrates those ideas as natural and supernatural, the bedrock of society, and protects them as sacred.
Fascism rises from the stumbling of capitalist systems, replacing the internal, quiet systems with bombastic violence and attacking reformers as traitors and conspirators until the society is brought under widespread, self-destructive control.
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4 Nov
The problem is our economy and political system was handed over to corporations and the wealthy, resulting in stagnating wages, gridlocked government by design, and now, as the system buckles, they’re using authoritarianism and conspiracy theories to maintain control.
All of these “outrages” and conspiracy theories are just a means of transferring blame for economic exploitation to vulnerable populations so that the exploitation can continue and increase. It’s the hiding of a crime, and until we start treating it as such it’ll keep working.
“CRT outrage” is about hiding actual history and taking control of culture so that it’ll become an indoctrination cycle. Deep State/QAnon nonsense is about explaining globalism and de-industrialization through supernatural means.

These are cycles we’ve seen over and over.
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