Coining "disordered organizing" as a term to refer to how fascists and reactionaries use NXIVM-style tactics to exploit deep-seated toxic masculine insecurity and assert cult leader-like control, you heard it here first
https://twitter.com/misstessowen/status/1486347449346281481
All organizing, be it right or left, depends on creating a network of relationships to assert power.
The strength, tenacity, and number of those relationships determine impact.
The strength, tenacity, and number of those relationships determine impact.
Reactionaries and fascists in particular almost always sustain those networks with relationships we'd consider disordered if they were familial or romantic.
They're about shame and control, because fascism is about shame and control.
They're about shame and control, because fascism is about shame and control.
They want to shame and control everyone, because that's fundamentally how they believe society should be ordered.
So they spend a huge amount of time shaming and controlling each other.
So they spend a huge amount of time shaming and controlling each other.
The moment they aren't able to exert escalating control, they snap and turn on each other.
Just look at what happened to the Proud Boys once federal prosecution interfered with their ability to exert control over each other internally.
Just look at what happened to the Proud Boys once federal prosecution interfered with their ability to exert control over each other internally.
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