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Kaitlin Has Had Enough@gothamgirlblue.com |
Again, Black people are an exception here, as basically anyone who stayed in the Jim Crow South has a living memory of living under what amounted to fascism, including the “always walking on eggshells/lack of social trust/long periods of boring endurance/randomized terrifying violence”
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Cait
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In the spirit of “yes, and”: I wouldn’t have called it fascism, but the list at the end of your post also describes the experience of some gay communities in the period where people were out but not widely accepted. There’s some living memory of that.
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@mitokandria.bsky.social
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Basically any minority whose existence has in the past been considered illegal, immoral, or equivalant to an animal.
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Kaitlin Has Had Enough
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The United States has always been a democracy for some and a brutal authoritarian regime for others, and the effort to expand it to democracy for all has led to a 70+ year backlash culminating in SCOTUS claiming that kings are totes cool and also judges are the ones to coronate them
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@stevenlatus.bsky.social
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"The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not." —Christopher Hitchens
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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Yep, absolutely true.
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The Next Day
@incompetusrex.bsky.social
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My MAGA aunt complained to me about race relations these days and told me there were no problems getting along with Black people when she lived in Alabama in the early 70s.
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Greg ”Shalashaska” Kinnear 🏳️🌈
@tedcruzinusa.bsky.social
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It feels like folks view American history through the lens of some prestige Oscar bait drama. All the progress and struggle, condensed into a tidy 3 acts. 100 fuckin years between the end of the civil war and the civil rights act. The ebbing and flowing and grinding reality isn’t Hollywood enough
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JCJB
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I’m sick of “American” just being a stand in for white for folks like this. Someone mentioned “Americans” were going to be lynched en masse today because “we” didn’t understand the oncoming danger… like Jesus Christ. Surely that’s never happened before or continues to here!
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Sharmake Farah
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The trouble is that the Republican party has somehow radicalized from supporting a new Jim Crow to outright supporting Nazism, and we will be lucky if Trump wins and the US doesn't turn into a hybrid of Nazi Germany and present day Russia.
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Black Knight
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Lotta people missed the chapter that showed how Nazi Germany was directly inspired by the United States.
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Intellectual Explorer
@driftingthrough.bsky.social
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One of us in chains? None of us are free.
youtu.be/eFkmRp_G2uo
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Chris D. (he, him, his)
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So many people insisting on learning the lesson the hard way.
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🚲5🇵🇸
@anyfishanytime.bsky.social
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Black as well as Indigenous folks really do know how that cookie crumples
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Sydnee
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Sometimes I think I'm utterly divorced from this history as a Midwesterner, and then I remember that my great-great grandmother (who lived long enough for me to meet her) fled here after her father was lynched
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Ordo Templi Ultra
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With the advent of an accelerated/deregulated tech industry (for capitalism!) and the “post-truth” of conspiracy theory/authoritarian fanboy talking heads like Ben Shapiro and Candace Owens, even the poorest are rooting for their own subjugation. Thinking it won’t apply to them if they support it.
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