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Ed Overbeek
@EdOverbeek
The ignorant white supremacist conman got elected for a lot of reasons but they all boil down to: this is a country where that's possible
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Sep 8 • 18 tweets • 5 min read
Another thing that gets underreported is how much Trump relishes and encourages the violent crimes of his supporters. It’s one of his most consistently held policies and should be covered accordingly. Authoritarianism is political. /1 The biggest example of this is J6, where he exhorted his supporters to get wild and march on the Capitol Building, said 'I don't effing care that they have weapons. They're not here to hurt me’, and talks about pardoning all convicted insurrectionists. /2
businessinsider.com/trump-weapons-…
Jan 9, 2021 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
The “tradeoff” between national unity and holding Trump and his goons accountable is a false dichotomy rooted in abuse culture… Letting an abuser avoid the law “for the sake of the marriage” only helps the abuser.
Jan 8, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
I’m thinking one way white people could show our gratitude is, we could all stop being the reason we came so close to (at least) four more years of total fascism. No knock on giving credit where it’s due. I just need to hear the logic expressed in the other direction too. Vote like black women, yeah, but also, don’t vote like white guys because that demographic has an affinity for fascist con artists.
Oct 16, 2020 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
Seems like it should be a bigger story that the current occupant of the White House has been illegally running a covert propaganda effort against the American public and is now doing so to help his campaign. @AshaRangappa_ on “black propaganda”, why it’s illegal, and why Trump’s various anti-Biden schemes in Ukraine qualify.
asharangappa.com/covertpropagan…
Oct 13, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Republicans keep being massive hypocrites, and the press keeps letting them get away with it, because neither wants to admit the GOP’s real motivation is to maintain rich, straight, white Christian male supremacy. If they actually cared about religious freedom, law and order, small government, or the Merrick Garland “rule”, they wouldn’t support the Muslim Ban, a serially criminal president*, concentration camps or ACB.

But they can’t openly say what they really want is a rigged system.
Jul 10, 2020 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
If you're going to complain about "cancel culture", how do you define it?

Does it apply to online criticism? Losing a gig after a racist rant or ten? Getting ostracized for sexual harassment? Getting arrested for rape?

Does it distinguish between punching up and punching down? Looking at these discussions through the lens of punching up vs punching down is clarifying. Most arguments against "political correctness", "incivility" and "cancel culture" are just attempts to stop punching up and defend punching down. Defending abuse from a high horse.
Jun 28, 2020 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
I'm sure people will accuse Princeton of "erasing history". That's backwards. Keeping Wilson's name meant ignoring the facts that disqualified him from the honor. Acknowledging history is the opposite of erasing it. What they call erasing history is always really just people removing the whitewash. And it's striking how many public monuments and history books this applies to. Wilson, Columbus, Confederate generals, Jefferson, Washington...
Jun 4, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
They wouldn’t have to hurt us if we didn’t try to stop them. This is the mentality that drives cops to respond to police brutality protests with more brutality. *They* get to decide if we’re safe from them, not us. It’s the abuser logic behind everything in this country that serves white supremacy.
May 31, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
White supremacy is an occupying force. Scenes from an occupation that started centuries ago and won’t end when the national guard leaves.
May 29, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The White Christian Male Supremacist Constitution

Free speech, unless you criticize us
Freedom of religion, unless you have the wrong one
The right to vote, unless you're black or Hispanic
Justice, if you're a white male
Democracy, but only for us That isn't democracy, it's minority rule. It's authoritarianism. And if you believe in it, everything Trump does to torch the real Constitution is justified.
dailykos.com/stories/2017/8…
Mar 19, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
But I was told he’s outflanking Dems on the left Look, I wish the Democratic Party was on whole farther left. Moving it there is an important goal. But we won’t get there by pretending the modern GOP isn’t a racist, kleptocratic, theocratic, fascist dumpster fire. False equivalence is part of the problem, not a solution.
Mar 18, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
This cynical bullshit is exhausting. If (really when) Biden is the nominee, it will be because he got more votes. But people like Cenk don’t want to call voters untrustworthy idiots. So they pretend nominees are chosen like popes. Ffs. I guess it’s more fun to pretend there’s a conspiracy against you than admit your candidate just didn’t get enough votes. Especially if you’d rather feel self-righteous and pure than get results.
Mar 12, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Did anyone honestly think this sociopath would stop at treason to win in November? Reporting by @ddiamond: "more testing might have led to more cases being discovered of coronavirus outbreak, and the president had made clear the lower the numbers on coronavirus, the better for the president, the better for his potential reelection this fall."
Mar 11, 2020 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
So tired of white people saying it was rigged when their candidate doesn’t get enough votes from black people to win. It’s a white supremacist mentality. Stop blaming voter fraud or the DNC when the biggest targets of voter suppression simply outvoted you. The most obviously racist form of this mentality is thinking black people don’t deserve to participate in democracy. Then there’s the attitude that it’s ok as long as they agree with you. But it’s also white supremacist to just ignore black voters’ power and valid motivations.
Mar 6, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
I still don’t get how being mean to other people online is going to give us medicare for all. “you’re just using civility to protect the powerful”

Look, throw all the milkshakes you want at Stephen Miller.

Throwing milkshakes at random people with different ideas on how best to achieve universal healthcare just makes you an asshole.
Mar 5, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
It’s a white, Christian, male supremacist country. The Republican Party is the white, Christian, male supremacist party. The double standard is the point.
Mar 4, 2020 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Shirley Chisholm would like a word. This quote from Bernie reinforces how he’s running a third-party campaign. Most if not all third party candidates run against “the entire political establishment”. But Bernie’s the first in my lifetime to do it from within a major party.
Mar 2, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Just wondering what kind of revolution says the system is rigged against them when too many black people vote for someone else. (It’s the kind of revolution that blames Democrats for the success of the Southern Strategy, and would stop pushing so much for civil rights if it helped them win back some white men.)
Mar 1, 2020 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
They’re talking about white people who believe in white male minority rule. To the extent it’s associated with Midwesterners, rural diners or the working class, that’s only to whitewash bigotry with “salt of the earth” nobility. /1 We’re a minority rule country that tells itself it’s a democracy. The phrase “Real Americans” helps resolve and hide the resulting cognitive dissonance. It’s ok to reserve democracy for Real Americans. /2
Feb 24, 2020 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
There are a lot of ways to criticize Obama without using a phrase with the word ‘boy’ in it.

There are a lot of people you can get endorsements from that aren’t anti-vax ableist grifters.

That should matter. It’s a problem that it doesn’t. There’s a brand of the left that demands relative purity on some economic and environmental issues, but not on civil rights and equality. It’s a consistent pattern that’s often buried within the usage of “the left” and “progressive”.
Feb 20, 2020 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
“Trump fears Democrats will exploit Russia’s support” is a RIDICULOUSLY generous way of saying he doesn’t want anyone to get in Russia’s way. This Times article repeatedly frames Russian attacks on our democracy as a partisan issue - and then uses that framing to let Trump and other Republicans off the hook for supporting the attacks.

Politics as football turning a damning partisan divide into an exculpatory one.