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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social [ View ] May 28, 2024 at 00:39 UTC

when Trump sends his forces around to deport millions of people, they will not legally be allowed to deport US citizens, and *that won't matter*. when the armed man says you have to get in a truck, you're going in the truck. and the law won't help you fast enough if it helps at all.

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@fashfreenw.bsky.social [ View ] May 28, 2024 at 03:53 UTC

Stephen Miller and agenda 47 are absolutely fascist and anyone who tries to argue semantics simply isn’t engaging honestly. The ‘it’s not fascist because (enter obscure economic theory)’ is an argument the fash and mainstream liberal press both use

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@fashfreenw.bsky.social [ View ] May 28, 2024 at 02:51 UTC

I love the intellectual academic community but for the love of god some of those folks need to get out in the real world

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@fashfreenw.bsky.social [ View ] May 28, 2024 at 02:47 UTC

It’s an eye opening experience for sure.

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@fashfreenw.bsky.social [ View ] May 28, 2024 at 01:35 UTC

1000%

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@fashfreenw.bsky.social [ View ] May 28, 2024 at 01:35 UTC

In the decades I’ve been studying neofascist movements I’ve learned to always take what they say at face value. But this is also why I think grad students in these fields need to be required to do in the field, otg immersion. Want to study it, join them under an alt and really see what’s up

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@fashfreenw.bsky.social [ View ] May 28, 2024 at 01:30 UTC

But, lastly, the idea than Jan 6th wasn’t a coup just because they were bad at insurrection is absurd. I’ve talked with not only many rank and file Jan 6th participants, but know and have meet several of the leaders (now serving prison terms), and they absolutely believed they were attempting a coup

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@fashfreenw.bsky.social [ View ] May 28, 2024 at 01:28 UTC

I rarely check in anymore on the western intellectual left cause it’s exhausting (and I’m always reminded why I walked away from that community). But always good on occasion to see what silly things they’re up to

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@fashfreenw.bsky.social [ View ] May 28, 2024 at 01:23 UTC

20th century imperial America in souther hemisphere for instance.

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@fashfreenw.bsky.social [ View ] May 28, 2024 at 01:21 UTC

Fair. I suppose folks hold similar views with people like Mao. But I was thinking specifically about business leaders rhetoric that’s parroted by western diplomats that favors authoritarian gov because of a miss guided view that fascist leaders are more competent/get things done.

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@fashfreenw.bsky.social [ View ] May 28, 2024 at 01:16 UTC

When in fact fascists are extremely incompetent. But that old mindset of the business class, even colonial class, of ‘their ideology is terrible but they get things done’ continues to hold an insidious influence in the “intellectual” world. All these dorks need to get themselves out into the streets

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@fashfreenw.bsky.social [ View ] May 28, 2024 at 01:10 UTC

There’s been a strange tendency for some to claim that because they’re incompetent it means they aren’t fascist, an idea rooted way back in the capitalist mindset that authoritarians are somehow inherently competent (the Mussolini united Italy, Hitler brought Germany out of depression)

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