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Man, I hate Illinois Nazis

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It makes me uncomfortable that this is the same logic used by the Christian Nationalists. I don't know what to do with that, or how I feel about it. Maybe I'm mad they're forcing a crisis on us, that this would be necessary at all.

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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat's avatar Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social
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That’s because you’re an institutionalist…and I don’t say that as an insult. Ideally, we’re all institutionalists! Your discomfort is arising from the fact that the institution is breaking down, and that necessitates the discomfort of justifying WHY the institution is valuable, and (ctd)

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Paul Crider's avatar Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com
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It's a paradox that serves the reactionaries. MAGAists view society as friends to be supported & enemies to be crushed. Liberals do not. We believe in pluralism. But the MAGA anti-institutional, friend-enemy move induces a response in us. We have to see them as the enemies they've made themselves.

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