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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 1h

I wrote about how MAGA is being shaped by a politics of immortality, how Charlie Kirk’s martyrdom reflects this, and what it could mean for the future of Trumpism. Read at @liberalcurrents.com

www.liberalcurrents.com/the-last-ene...

The Last Enemy Is Death: Prophetic Visions, AI Slop, and How the Politics of Immortality Could Shape Our Future

How mystics and transhumanists force the dead to speak on behalf of their politics.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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crispychickn.bsky.social @crispychickn.bsky.social · 21m

These people don’t get that those so called moderates that find both sides crazy are lying to them.

crispychickn.bsky.social @crispychickn.bsky.social · 38m

It’s funny how unsubtle the Bible is.

crispychickn.bsky.social @crispychickn.bsky.social · 10h

We focus too much on Germany and not on places like Hungary or South Korea or Brazil. Authoritarian backsliding is not a novel thing. The United States is not an exception to this.

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crispychickn.bsky.social @crispychickn.bsky.social · 10h

It would clearly drive these people into a rage.

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crispychickn.bsky.social @crispychickn.bsky.social · 10h

Gay men should just start making out in public for the bit ATP

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crispychickn.bsky.social @crispychickn.bsky.social · 10h

Maybe people wouldn’t make poor donation choices if the party had any sort of leadership.

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crispychickn.bsky.social @crispychickn.bsky.social · 14h

Dixiecrats have always been this way, Republicans have not. As they absorbed Dixiecrats they became this way.

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crispychickn.bsky.social @crispychickn.bsky.social · 14h

It bothers me that I am so deeply familiar with this type of person who somehow remains an enigma to political strategists on the coasts.

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crispychickn.bsky.social @crispychickn.bsky.social · 14h

Truly, do you believe that Vance would have a strong enough hold to keep all of this together?

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crispychickn.bsky.social @crispychickn.bsky.social · 14h

It dies when he dies. It is held together by Trump.

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crispychickn.bsky.social @crispychickn.bsky.social · 15h

Well definitely not with your help.

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crispychickn.bsky.social @crispychickn.bsky.social · 15h

I’ll agree that our weak ass congressional leaders won’t take up arms, but that’s no really under their control.

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crispychickn.bsky.social @crispychickn.bsky.social · 15h

You’d be surprised.

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crispychickn.bsky.social @crispychickn.bsky.social · 15h

Peronism is pretty Christian.

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crispychickn.bsky.social @crispychickn.bsky.social · 16h

For my mental sanity, I need Spanberger to get a blowout. I don’t think it’s likely, but I’d love a surprise.

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crispychickn.bsky.social @crispychickn.bsky.social · 16h

People are too attached to the idea that the klan all died in 1965.

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crispychickn.bsky.social @crispychickn.bsky.social · 17h

Is Dallas a bigger Kansas City?

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crispychickn.bsky.social @crispychickn.bsky.social · 17h

These people will always exist. You just have to do what your ancestors did and what your descendants will have to do.

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crispychickn.bsky.social @crispychickn.bsky.social · 18h

Didn’t she have less black clerks than Scalia?

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crispychickn.bsky.social @crispychickn.bsky.social · 18h

Most American cities are Dallases

Phoenix is Arid Dallas
Kansas City, Indianapolis and Columbus are Midwestern Dallases
Atlanta is a Blacker Dallas

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crispychickn.bsky.social @crispychickn.bsky.social · 18h

New York
DC
Los Angeles
Philadelphia
San Francisco
Savannah
New Orleans*
St Louis*
Orlando
Dallas

St Louis and New Orleans could be the Same City. I’d also add Portland, OR.

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crispychickn.bsky.social @crispychickn.bsky.social · 19h

Why can’t we just destroy them already?

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crispychickn.bsky.social @crispychickn.bsky.social · 19h

Does anybody else notice how during Trump II and Trump I both culturally reverted back to the 80s?

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crispychickn.bsky.social @crispychickn.bsky.social · 19h

Those men usually don’t interact with us on a non-superficial level.

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