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b-boy bouiebaisse@jbouie.bsky.social |
one thing don gestures toward — and which is an important part of understanding the psychology of the conservative movement at this moment — is that they explicitly see themselves as involved in revolutionary action that justifies anything under the sun.
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@regalpastry.bsky.social
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That is the worst. It builds upon the role playing hobbies of weekend warrriors. Combines the survivalist preppers' stockpiles. Add that 9/11 primed, Tea Party incensed, talk radio stoked urge to "be patriotic and fight for it". Add it all up, you get Jan. 6 and who knows what else yet to come.
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Andy Karl-Son of Dracula
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Appeal to Heaven! 🌲
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Zach Rabiroff
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A fundamental shift from the psychology of the Nixon movement, in which anything under the sun was justified on the grounds that it was the other guys plotting a revolution against you.
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Raoul Meyer
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So many seminal texts for the right seem based on fundamental premises that were dumb at the time they were written and are still dumb. Hayek equated Nazis and Communists, Lewis Powell said that the free enterprise system was under attack. Total horseshit.
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Raoul Meyer
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But what are they trying to overthrow? Who can honestly believe that some undergrad reading Marceuse is going to bring down capitalism or convince well-off white people that more police don't make them safer?
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@rsoyka55.bsky.social
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And this also explains why they must ALWAYS be the victim. Nobody blames the victim, so anything the victim does in defence/retaliation is ispo facto justified.
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Polite Society
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We can keep pretending that this isn’t happening.
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Ken Lowery
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I have a theory that the revenge narrative is the primary one in most of mainstream pop culture, and it's the one America is tied up in specifically. The short version is what you say: any grievance, real or imagined, current or future, grants total moral clearance for any and all barbarity.
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delfin
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I recall my CHUD mother ranting about how the Constitution was the most important thing in the universe and how Trump must be elected because he would always uphold the Constitution. Cut to today, when people she retweets claim we're living in a post-Constitutional society now and any tactic is OK.
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Jean Hackman, daughter of Gene
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I have nothing other than an idea for a site that doxxes all these people making threats. I'd pay some a visit in my geographic area, you know just to say 'hi' and remind them how to behave in a civil society.
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Ardison-Gardner
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The problem is pretty clear, but I don't know what I should do. Where do I start? What should I be saying to friends and family? I am involved in my local elections and party, but what more can I be doing?
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Amanda Marcotte
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Their fixation on groups like Al Qaeda always had an undercurrent of envy.
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Nathaniel C. Green
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Thinking about writing up something about how difficult it is to raise two young boys to be decent human beings when we continually refuse to hold powerful, racist, misogynistic bullies accountable for the terrible things they do.
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Libby
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It's been part of the evangelical anti-abortion movement for decades. Once you've redefined fetuses as actual babies, then *any* action to save them from "murder" (killing doctors, burning clinics, stealing elections) is a moral imperative. That holy war mindset is the whole movement now.
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Banjo the Riot Elephant
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And they also see themselves as righteous agents of God's will fighting against the forces of evil.
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Rosa
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Somehow they're both the "real Americans" upholding the Constitution - heirs to the Citizens Councils and KKK - and also the endangered revolutionaries and also the Confederates (but not losers, still winners. Oppressed, valiant, aggrieved, winners)
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Alastair Somerville
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Conservative narrative time travel - they’re justified in breaking laws and using violence now to prevent a terrible liberal future which they speak of as if it has already happened.
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