i've been losing my mind over this ever since chris rufo started just openly tweeting out his game plans. and it just didn't matter! people were still somehow falling for it! AAAaaAAaaAaAaAA
It’s like on “Pinky and the Brain” when someone sees Brain and asks him what he’s doing and says something like “Actually I’m a lab mouse bent on world domination,” and they just let him go.
It’s called “refuge in audacity,” and fascists love it.
There’s this weird rationalization that if people are saying awful things publicly that means they don’t really mean them and it’s just performative
Instead of the truth, which is that they say these things because they’re proud of their beliefs and see few risks in telling other people about them
They're a cancer in the most literal sense.
They do not trigger the political immune system because they believe that the same people who have always benefited from the status quo should continue to do so.
They only have a problem with anyone who has made gains in the last 200 years.
We’re sleep walking into fascism. I wonder if that’s how it’s always worked or if our weird balkanized new media islands have made it possible for people to just choose their own reality.
