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@JYSexton
Nov 25, 2017 • 22 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
With Trump's base showing strong preferences for authoritarianism, and continuing to support a serial predator of children, it's time to look this problem in its face. 1/
This isn't a political problem. This is a societal issue, a major, major existential problem with who we are and how we view the world. 2/

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Oct 24
One of the biggest issues of the 2024 Election is going largely unreported.

Elon Musk has used his wealth to buy the shambling, decaying corpse of Donald Trump and MAGA in order to seize control over the government without ever appearing on a ballot.

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Everyone knows Trump is in decline, and Musk recognizes a prime opportunity to install a puppet who will rubber stamp his agenda while handing him unmatched and unaccountable control over the functions of government.

This is a major, major threat.
Trump as a spectacle soaks up so much attention, but the donors behind him and the oligarchical Musk are pulling the strings with only light scrutiny.

We are watching the co-opting of the presidency in real-time, and if it’s allowed to happen the consequences would be dire.
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Oct 6
It’s time for people to understand that Republicans and MAGA aren’t actually interested in curbing immigration.

They want to profit off fearmongering tethered to white paranoia and create an environment of sheer terror in which immigrants are more easily exploited.
The billionaires puppeting the GOP rely on immigrant labor as a means of maximizing profit and circumventing regulation.

What they’re pursuing is a country where immigrants have a huge, brutal system over their heads to keep them from challenging anything.
As resources are more scarce and conditions worsen, the Right will absolutely brutalize immigrants. They have created a subsection of people who are vulnerable and exploitable and expendable.

That’s it. The whole ballgame. And the framing everyone accepts is disastrous.
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Oct 5
The episode of The Midnight Kingdom is out and explores our present crisis, including the rise of authoritarianism, attacks on democracy by the wealth class, and what we must do to get out of this mess.

The five part series is now complete. Please share.

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The series tracks modern history, explaining how the powerful have used racism, religious mythologies, and weaponized conspiracy theories to control us and expand their power.

It's a reconsideration of where we came from and where we are.

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Episode 1 starts with the merging of Christianity with Roman power and dissects how religion was used to create "Western Civilization" and a feudal empire where control was almost total, which is where many Right Wing ideologues want to return to.

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Oct 2
Last night JD Vance was allowed to lie and present himself and Trump as moderates.

It was repulsive and dangerous. Winning this election, and defeating MAGA as an authoritarian movement, means breaking this facade and communicating how extreme they are.

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It is disgusting how Vance, who has hundreds of hours of available podcasts and videotaped interviews, wasn’t confronted by his antidemocratic, misogynistic, and wildly authoritarian and extreme positions.

Instead, he was allowed to say time and again that he and Walz agreed.
It’s bad enough that CBS dropped the ball in one of the most embarrassing debates we’ve seen in awhile, but Tim Walz had two jobs: communicate how dangerous MAGA is and provide an alternative.

He didn’t do that. And that should serve as a wake up call for the campaign.
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Sep 29
There’s a real Roman-Empire-Telling-Britain-They’re-On-Their-Own vibe to everything right now.
Only it’s now this weird, hard for some people to explain caveat of capitalism having fully possessed the US and overtaken its process for the purposes of system operation that just makes everything worse and very difficult to grasp for people who haven’t been taught about it.
Watching what’s happening in Gaza and Lebanon with the backdrop of worsening climate change, infrastructure collapse, austerity, and intentional inequality, leaving people drowning and suffering and roads and bridges and dams collapse is just…awful.
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Sep 26
Eric Adams selling out constituents for foreign bribes is just another example of a culture of corruption we have to take seriously.

Like Trump, Adams and others are signs of an authoritarian trajectory that depends on corruption to come into being.

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We do ourselves a disservice when we continue to focus on politicians as the drivers of politics versus a larger economic trajectory.

Instead, we need to recognize this environment rewards corruptible and corrupted individuals to carry out the business of other forces.
Trump is the perfect avatar of this moment. A man without principle who has shown a willingness, time and again, to sell out anything and everyone for personal profit.

These are the types of individuals who make ideal servants of authoritarian energies.
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