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4 Jan, 10 tweets, 3 min read
I don’t understand the point of fire alarms. They’re not actionable. There’s the whole segment that wants “awareness” of fires—to what end?
Speaking of an unshakeable commitment to an utterly failed and pointless strategy.

What's fascinating to me is that there *could be* a point at which comfortable centrists actually think to build a coalition with progressives, but instead they keep pursuing the same rapidly-diminishing & truly marginal group, anti-Trump right-wingers.
The left was totally right about Trump and Republicans from the start, and comfortable centrists were totally wrong, and still they can't see any other strategy than shitting on the left in the hopes of picking up the support of ... I guess *Liz Cheney*?
The most important thing when trying to fight rising fascist authoritarianism is to not ever mention it or talk about it.

A+ false equivalency here, as if a practical focus on systemic functionality that impacts people's lives is mutually exclusive from fighting fascists, or even can be separated from it—ignoring the fact that these sorts of practical improvements are ....

... exactly the sort of thing comfortable centrists always give up on at the first sign of pushback from the Liz Cheneys of the world in their ongoing failed strategy of ceaseless appeasement.

Anyway yet another thing from Barro that feels like chewing steel foil.
It's good to fight for things worth fighting for, in a time when malicious people are trying to destroy them.

And it's good to name the enemy rather than normalize them, in a time when the enemy is being normalized.
I have reached the regrettable conclusion that the type of moderates Barro represents, who seek any center no matter the poles, are at least as big an obstacle to a truly equitable society as the dyed-in-the-wool Trumper.

Centrist extremists.
I think Barro is the worst of them all. Some of the others occasionally stumble into an insight but from Barro it's bad every time; an utterly corrosive worldview posing as an ally, presented in the most smarmy self-satisfied way; sets my teeth on edge.

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A.R. (Antifa Roomba) Moxon Profile picture
6 Jan
Yes, the boat hit the iceberg, but putting the children in lifeboats is the most destructive thing imaginable to their psyche. It's time for us to stop all this evacuation talk and just complete the voyage.
Yes, the first 7 watertight compartments are now flooded with frigid North Sea water, but it's time for us to stop being ruled by our fears and get back to our normally scheduled travel. We MUST open the shuffleboard courts on the lido deck.
Look at children's faces when they're in lifeboats. They're frightened. They're confused. They don't want to be there. Their parents don't want them there. We need to put them back on the boat, whose deck is now pitched at 90 degrees.

It's time to declare this sinking OVER.
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A.R. (Antifa Roomba) Moxon Profile picture
4 Jan
Pretty amazing that at this point, after 800,000 people have died of Covid—and fake leftists have opposed all remedies for curbing transmission—prominent twitter dingbats can just cavalierly pretend 800,000 people haven't died of Covid and dismiss concerns as "sneering."
There are people whose whole thing now is acting as though the reason we still have Covid is because we refuse to start pretend that Covid isn’t a problem, which is exactly what Trump did, and honestly anyone doing that should be cut off from polite society forever.
If your roads are in disrepair, they remain so unless fixed.

To fix them, you have to actually agree to pay for the work, and then the work has to actually be done.

If you refuse to pay the price, you don't want to fix the roads.

Is this not obvious? I think it's obvious.
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A.R. (Antifa Roomba) Moxon Profile picture
3 Jan
POLARIZATION AND STRIFE

Let me suggest something that might seem counterintuitive: We have rarely been *less* polarized as a country.

Am I saying we’re not polarized? Far from it. I’m saying we’re miscategorizing what polarization even is.

getrevue.co/profile/julius…
We’ve never been more polarized in most of our lifetimes, at least that’s the word.

"This polarization is tearing us apart,“ says the pundit to a nodding panel. "Cancel culture is out of control. We need to stop fighting ourselves, learn to build bridges to each other.”
*We* and *us* are such interesting words. They leave a trail; you can follow them back to the lair of their underlying assumptions.

“We have never been more polarized as a country,” for example, says something clear about who is considered a part of this country, and who is not.
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A.R. (Antifa Roomba) Moxon Profile picture
31 Dec 21
This is the price of accommodating the beliefs of selfish assholes drunk on their own exceptionalism and fever-dreams of rugged libertarianism.
Nor do I, but the issue isn’t about blame, the issue is about accommodating; treating the beliefs of the malicious and duped both as if they are valid and should be considered when making policy.
There is no way to accommodate the ignorance and selfishness of the pro-Covid crowd without treating the lives and dignity of healthcare workers—and everyone else—as disposable.

It’s time for consequences.
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A.R. (Antifa Roomba) Moxon Profile picture
31 Dec 21
Hey why not?

The stuff I did I was most pleased with in 2021, a thurd. 🧵
I had more fun that should be legal with questions generated by this weird AMA.
This one was just for me based on the response but it still makes me laugh so you have to read it again.
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A.R. (Antifa Roomba) Moxon Profile picture
27 Dec 21
It really says something doesn’t it but every single one of these “open-minded” takes depends on a completely bananas misrepresentation of reality-based positions.

Nobody wants endless restrictions. We just want Covid to actually end; they don’t.
Their position is let’s just carry on as though Covid is over even though it isn’t, and whoever dies dies, and that will be acceptable losses.

That’s not a misrepresentation, that’s what they’ve been saying in just so many words from the very start.

The fuck out of here.
The idea that being in favor of both vaccines and preventative measures is an incoherent position is itself a position so incoherent, relying so much on the wholesale acceptance of the bad faith claims of malicious actors, it makes my eyes want to melt down my cheeks.
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