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Lars Maischak

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Teaching American History at Fresno State, and fighting fascism since before it became cool.

Lectures and Interviews: www.youtube.com/@DrMaischak
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Thing is, you want wispy harp music and rejoicing angels, you gotta pay for a room at the Hilton. It's a segmented travel market, these days.

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So true!

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Now, the moans of eternally suffering souls, you get that in the Days Inn, too. That's just standard motel stuff. But, yeah.

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What with the smell of sulfur, and the never-ending stairwells leading down into the deep.

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Isn't Motel 6 already short for Motel 666?

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In case you missed it, here is my interview with @sethcotlar.bsky.social on KFCF 88.1FM that aired on June 28th.

Much context and background about the current fascist turn of the Republican Party, in Oregon and nationally, with roots to the 1970s and even the 1930s.

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Me, German citizen entering the US with my children after a long flight, also with my children: *;* [hands over passports] Border agent: "Where's mom?" Me: "Germany! Uh, wait, did you mean *your* mom?"

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The new circuit, for members of the legal profession with ties to the Federalist Society:

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Frederick Edwin Church hat das schon 1861 gesagt.

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It’s a very well-known / oft-repeated phenomenon. I’d love to see if there’s data out there.

I know of this parody research paper, at least 😂

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...

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They're not at the level of that one guy you absolutely shouldn't hand it to. What I would hand to Cromwell, for instance, is a sword, if he found himself face-to-face with a king and had forgotten to bring one.

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And I won't pretend killing one king makes up for that. But he did kill a king! With Cromwell, Napoleon, Stalin I distrust their haters for similar reasons. Some cry "mass murder", but really care more about the dead monarchs, on principle.

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This photo is pure 2024.

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I wouldn't be surprised if Stahmer governs like Hollande: sacrificing democracy and the working class to neoliberalism. European Social Democrats make lemmings look rational.

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Yep. And it's a tired old trick, too. The Constitution already was the result of a major backlash against democracy.

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leftists: here is exactly what will happen libs: that's not true. you leftists are delusional [exactly what happens] libs: you leftists have ruined everything again

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This is what I don’t understand about American politics. It feels like Democrats fight like hell over a very small sliver of the voter demographics who mostly don’t like them anyways, and completely ignore a much larger pool of voters who would be an easier sell.

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R A T B EE F

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"Their rhetoric can sound expansive to the point of opacity. 'As the great men of the West bequeathed their deeds to us, so must we leave a legacy for our children,' the group’s website proclaims." Yeah, um... ...that's only opaque if you don't know what the Fourteen Words are

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Wow, real banana republic stuff. I'm glad our presidents can launder money and associate criminally without worrying about this kind of thing.

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Over at the Bad Place, I made a tradition of posting Douglass' "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth of July," and I intend to carry on that tradition here. Since most versions you read in classes or in textbooks have parts omitted, the link below has the full text of the speech.

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Carl Schmitt is jumping with joy in his grave.

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Both parties make or interpret rules as needed, to suit their interest in the moment. Of course I would prefer the rule of law, but that has been a fiction without normative power for a while now, in this country.

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News junkie. Knowledge conneuisseur. Wisdom curator.

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History will recall that the New York Times, that bastion of "the liberal media," on July 4, 2024 chose to give prime space on their op-ed page to a theocratic absolutist who argued that people shouldn't vote, even though he himself has voted in the last 2 elections (but nowhere is that mentioned).

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Liberals learned nothing. Except how to be willing collaborators.

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Jesus rode his dinosaur into battle at Bunker Hill to defeat the Roman, Papist, and British armies on July 4th. He will return to repeat this miracle in Jerusalem to ring in the End of Days. Thus it is writ.

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Oh, it's effed up alright. Monarchy was probably less arbitrary and lawless than what we currently have. I was questioning the comparison for that reason.

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Counter to popular imagination, a monarch is bound by the law. Even an absolute monarch is free only from observing divine law, not his own laws. That's different from modern dictators, who know no law except the immediate will of the people (as known only to the dictator).

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He'll get to keep his pants, so he shouldn't complain.

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I heard "Ruth Bader Biden" for the first time yesterday and I think that one has legs.

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"Which will remain bloodless if the *left* allows it to be" Emphasis mine. The media can hand wave this away all they want, but when someone intimates they're prepared to kill you, you should probably fucking believe them. If only that same media realizes they'd be first.

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May the liberal collaborators pay dearly for their cowardice and complicity.

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It’s been consistently true over the last fifteen years that people, relatively calmly, sounding the alarm about an incoming political or social catastrophe have been quite rudely dismissed by what you could call the Sensible Liberal Class and then immediately proven right. Few learn a lesson.

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"I will decide your future" sounds more true.

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At the ground level, all I see Democrats do is accommodation and collaboration, because everything else would upset the Chamber of Commerce. Without popular mobilization (cf. Bolivia), a Newsom or Whitmer is instant toast.

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Fascists are precisely not a different category of humans from you. They are dangerous for how normal they are. Average. Familiar. The difference is in their ideology. The commitment to inequality as foundation of a natural order. Strength as virtue. Disdain for weakness. Natural selection.

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The conclusion makes sense - you don't have to debate them, you must defeat them. But in order to do that, you need to be able to define the threat clearly, and this ultimately moralistic approach fails to do that.

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THE sentence of the day: A Macronist incumbent in the Marseille region came in 3rd in her seat. She just dropped out to support the left. She said, about why she's maneuvering to block the far-right: "Defeats happen, but you can never recover from dishonor."

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March 23 1933, the Enabling Act becomes law in Germany, giving the chief executive power enforce his own laws without checks and balances. The passing of the Act marked the formal transition from democratic republic to totalitarian dictatorship. 6 months later, it was a 1 party state.

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I love centrists man, they believe both that they are the only people smart enough to make important decisions and that anything that happens as a result of those decisions is someone else's fault

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Yes, and that matches the development in Germany leading up to 1933. In this graph, the black, blue, and yellow shows liberal, centrist, and conservative parties. Brown in the Nazis. Red, orange, and dark red is Social Democrats and Communists.

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In short, just like in the US and Germany, it is centrists who think that the (remote) threat of socialism in case of a left-wing candidate's victory is much worse than the certainty of fascism.

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