a year ago the “reasonable” people running cover for trump -he’s not as bad as they say! he’s a moron but the media! don’t like him but he owns the libs!- yet again claimed to be horrified by the results of their work, and yet again returned straight back to running cover for him
the “reasonable” people are so angry at the media and the libs all the time because they know their weakness and are embarrassed. they know they’ll once again be summarily shoved back out of the way the next time the open fascists sense an opportunity
the reasonable people are petting zoo animals the fascists keep around to distract everyone while they do their work advancing fascism. january 6th illustrated it perfectly.
anyway, this is my big takeaway. everyone pretended to be mortified but then returned to their lib-owning, media-dunking, tu-quoqueing hobbies. it was just another bump sharpied on a hurricane or access hollywood tape. the perfect farm animals for fascism.
fascism cannot succeed without a cover story. naked fascism runs out of runway too fast because it’s deeply unamerican and unpopular and will be fought tooth and nail. the reasonable people, willingly or unwittingly, running cover are very necessary for it to establish itself
the reasonable people have all the power in the relationship. they can quit at any time, and quitting would wreck the fascists. yet they behave as if they have no choice. so yeah in a way the reasonable people are actually a little morally worse than the open fascists
great example from patrick here. I’ve been meaning to talk about this. if you weren’t around 6 years ago there are probably some tips you need to know about maintaining your sanity when these things show up in your mentions, let’s go through some pointers
the first rule is you must be fastidious about blocking every junk account you encounter in your mentions. these things are like roaches; if you see one and don’t aggressively kill it immediately, you’ll have a full blown infestation
second rule is reporting is useless, you can do it if it makes you feel better but there are always fifty burner accounts ready to go even if a ban results
if you don’t want to spring for a special feeder that’s ok, you can still feed orioles. they love the color orange and can spot it from a hundred yards away, so put a bunch of cut oranges out in whatever fashion you’ve got
if hamilton is there and howie passes on him I swear to god I will carve a beautiful 20 foot tall statue of howie and then drop it in the grand canyon from a helicopter