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Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social |
Great local reporting here. Because this is America, fascism will be a largely decentralized phenomenon, rooted in towns and counties. But also tied together through national media, and rooted in one of our two national political parties. www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/4...
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Owen
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I SOOO wish that Biden and Dems had plowed voting legislation through in that first year. Make national voting: 1) a paid national holiday 2) ranked choice 3) mandatory Such a lost opportunity to combat these insane times.
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cₑₐₛₑfᵢᵣₑ ₙₒw
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it's weird they don't mention that mizrahi was arrested for bringing a loaded weapon to that boston nazi free speech rally in 2017
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AuthorSSD
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Yeah, it's said that the farther up in New York you go, the more it becomes the south. Definitely scares me, since part of me knows I can't afford the city forever and need a backup plan, but moving upstate is a huge risk in so many ways... the potential for fascism also doesn't help.
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Ellin Stein
@ellinst.bsky.social
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Also, as Sinclair Lewis said, wrapped in the flag and carrying a Cross.
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Lukasz
@pixelexplodes.bsky.social
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These are the guys that make you say the names of some cereals while they beat on you as initiation, right?
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Kate Tuttle
@katekilla.bsky.social
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I love how this article just states known facts instead of carefully couching them in quotes or “people say”-type distancing. The NYT could learn a lesson from this type of plainspoken news writing.
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@deborah78.bsky.social
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Ohio's pretty bad as well.
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Eric
@verdanglade.bsky.social
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You see it here in California too. Granted, far less frequently than I saw it in Florida, but it's more than you would think. The division has no borders. It's just everywhere.
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Cam in Vegas
@toyourleft.bsky.social
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Correction: Both political parties. Dems aren't doing shit to get literal J6 fascists out of government.
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James
@0xb04t.bsky.social
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A little context given the "rural" in the headline. The first few towns noted in the article are all suburbs of the state capital or industrial towns. Not remote farming communities, but decent sized towns in well-populated areas trending towards suburban sprawl.
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Chair of the Sewer Maintenance Board
@sidewalkslam.bsky.social
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Deep feelings on this. While the NYT is constantly scolding me for not understanding trump supporters, I know so many people who sound like the shop owner in this story, who work ten times harder than their parents, and are genuinely afraid of the violence those trump supporters openly embrace.
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Dr. Curtis Shooty Hoops, PhD
@curtismharris.bsky.social
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Over the last decade, I've seen more Confederate flags in Pennsylvania and New York than I have in Texas.
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⚰️ 𝕾𝖙𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖔𝖎 ⚰️
@strigoi.bsky.social
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Do not make peace with evil. Destroy it.
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Eightman
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I noticed WNY Watchmen (apparently defunct now) was mentioned. Worth noting that those discount-bin fascists attacked a vigil for Covid victims back in 2020, led by an armed Stefan Mychaljiw. They weren't masked back then.
www.wkbw.com/news/local-n...
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Eightman
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Ho boy, do we locals have stories...
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proud rebel scum ⚛️
@proudrebelscum.bsky.social
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law and order - faces covered.
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Big Burt
@bigassburt.bsky.social
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America is already fascist. Has been for decades.
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Buckscience
@buckscience.bsky.social
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Damn.
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Kim
@kimoco.bsky.social
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This is scary. Thanks for sharing though, we need to know what is going on across our nation.
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Jessica Pishko
@jesspish.bsky.social
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It's a great series.
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Mo
@moinqueens.bsky.social
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it's not decentralized, it is mainstream
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sandra_*_peters
@meemsu.bsky.social
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When does media begin calling this far right terrorism and not extremism? Are legal/libel concerns part of why the undeniable terror of movement conservativism attempts to 'govern' are downplayed?
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Fat Al NYC
@fatalnyc.bsky.social
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Really striking to see names like Mizrahi and Carpinelli among the hate group members/supporters. Look within, gentlemen.
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Dez
@dezdezdez.bsky.social
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Worst timeline. Bees disappearing while Proud Boy bumblefucks spread all over the place.
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Alexi Wolfe
@alexiwolfe.bsky.social
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Ya know what that truck needs? A new paint job. That sucker needs a big gay rainbow right down the middle. Like a racing stripe.
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Sarah Swedberg
@sweddy65.bsky.social
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And decentralized phenomenon are hard to counter, but we'll try and try and try.
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Red Lori Bright Eyes
@redloribrighteyes.bsky.social
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that law and order truck is breaking many laws just in this one photo
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@mherringe.bsky.social
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Texas - & the Texas GOP - is rotten with Nazis. Already had one mass shooting by a neo-Nazi. Texas’s far right W Texas oligarchs & its lack of gun laws draw them here if they aren’t home grown.
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Ghost of Twitter Past
@tweetghost.bsky.social
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Trump made it "Amurican" to be a fascist racist rapist criminal .He enlisted the help of all the fringe lunatics and hoodwinked the conservative middle Americans with BS rallies and polarisering media outlets "woof woof woof woof whoo let the turds out" . "MAGATICS"
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Gregory Pijanowski
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I'm from WNY and yeah, you'll see this stuff there...and when I drove from NYC to LA last summer I saw it pretty much in every rural area.
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ElizabethR
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Looking forward to the read, thanks. Putnam County NY is certainly unashamedly content to support the growth of fascism. There are constructive movements but all real power, elected and connected, is 2A, christofascist, sex-phobic, etc.
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Rea
@papadontpreach.bsky.social
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Looks like Biden’s plan to expand broadband to rural America will be put to a good use.
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Marisa Kabas
@marisakabas.bsky.social
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my husband is from the north country. the flags and signs we see up there are alarming.
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Dr. Earhart Sampson, PhD🌎
@earhart.bsky.social
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Tg for the Peacemakers of Schoharie County, Gov Hochul, and Matt Castelli!
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Babsbeaty
@babsbeaty.bsky.social
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I’ve been thinking about the Bundy takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon a lot lately. I thought at the time it was a trial run. Then in the craziness of 2016 I forgot about it. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupat...
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J. C. Rallo
@nosajlaroc.bsky.social
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Feds really should have hit the Bundys much harder than they did.
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TNaj
@tarikn.bsky.social
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We're all going to need to understand Stochastic Terrorism, and how a decentralized network of gamergaters are Swatting their way to fascism. Just like the brown shirts generations ago, young disgruntled men are the exact tool needed.
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@crazylikeaseaslug.bsky.social
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Recently I've been referring to them (and the Brexit loons in the UK) as the Hillbilly Master Race.
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ΛTLΛS
@atlasbun.bsky.social
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Part of fighting them is unmasking them. They wear the masks because they know what they are doing is wrong. Children need repercussions to learn.
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WWR
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Thank you, Seth!
@craigcalcaterra.bsky.social &
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
In case this has not crossed your radars. FANTASTIC article.
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Gerda 🍀
@bluemini.bsky.social
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Disgusting and dangerous. Unfortunately more and more common throughout the world.
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@gdnr.bsky.social
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I notice they’re masked.
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VB Bear 📚
@vbbear.bsky.social
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Nice glad this article is getting lots of traction. Just posted a long thread of addtl context.
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Andrew Rothstein
@asrothstein.bsky.social
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Mark
@marksimploding.bsky.social
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Upstate NY bruh!
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TheSporkMaster
@thesporkmaster.bsky.social
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Make nazis scared again.
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PolRepFemboy
@polrepfemboy.bsky.social
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There was a guy in my hometown with a 30'×10' banner of trump as Rambo shooting M60s off an aircraft carrier. In Western NY.
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@AnnWilliams
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JUST. VOTE. BLUE
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HenryHill1
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It's just blatantly hilarious that the guys who run around claiming "law and order" always wear masks so they can't b e identified as the guys who do illegal shit on a regular basis. "We're hooligans and bandits" is truth in advertising.
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Alon (they/them)
@alonlevy.bsky.social
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Fascism in Europe is fairly decentralized as well - it's incredibly hostile to the regime here, which is democratic and eurocratic, and therefore rooted in localism and in local notables. As in the US, national and international forces (like Putin) exert persuasive power, not direct organization.
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