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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 3h

I dunno if Anna Applebaum is the person I would look to for peace information.

FOREIGNERS
Kill the Messenger
Why Palestine radio and TV studios are fair targets in the
Palestine/ Israeli war.
BY ANNE APPLEBAUM
JAN

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woketoberpus @woketopus.bsky.social · 9h

welcome new users. posts on bluesky are called tweets. it's fine no one cares

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lewys @generalquixote.bsky.social · 12h

the system is not going to save us from the problem it helped create

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 19h

There are only so many websites left and rich Nazis are trying to buy all of them. That's just the fact of the matter. You can't blame people just trying to keep their community, but you can help them at least temporarily find haven (hopefully here for a while)

Seth Jaycat @sethjaycat.bsky.social · 19h

I get why people are hesitant to leave the communities they built over years when there aren’t many alternatives and all of them seem to have similar problems and are heading in the same direction. You can’t outrun the problem when fascism is spreading and spaces are consolidating.

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Seth Jaycat @sethjaycat.bsky.social · 19h

I get why people are hesitant to leave the communities they built over years when there aren’t many alternatives and all of them seem to have similar problems and are heading in the same direction. You can’t outrun the problem when fascism is spreading and spaces are consolidating.

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largest rodent @capybaroness.bsky.social · 17h

for those asking why people are suddenly leaving twitter and moving over here, here's the tl;dr

will smith slapped chris rock at the oscars

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lewys @generalquixote.bsky.social · 13h

feel like I'm going crazy whenever people mention impeachment. didn't they try that already.

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thicc husband and father @lukeisamazing.bsky.social · 13h

probably time to dream a bit bigger than impeachment

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 17h

overwhelmingly, the thing that motivates a young person to become a movement conservative is racism, specifically anti black racism. the conservative movement does care about other things, but racial animus has been the primary motivating factor for entry into the movement for decades.

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lewys @generalquixote.bsky.social · 13h

"They're my friends and colleagues they can't possibly be Nazi". I'm afraid being your friend and colleague doesn't preclude them from being Nazis. If it says Nazi things, if it believes Nazi things, if it uses it's money to make Nazi things happen, then it's a Nazi. You may need to face up to that.

lewys @generalquixote.bsky.social · 13h

The only difference between that Republican old guard and your modern groyper or "anime Nazi" or whatever is that the latter don't make polite conversation about it, but the liberals palling about with the former might have to come to terms with the fact saying it nicely doesn't make it any better

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lewys @generalquixote.bsky.social · 13h

The social circles these people move in are full of people who think the same as a groyper, they just make polite conversation about it at dinner parties instead and it's considered "polite disagreement" as they discuss who they don't think deserves rights and who they don't think deserves to live

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lewys @generalquixote.bsky.social · 13h

the latter also carries a gun

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lewys @generalquixote.bsky.social · 13h

The people saying the Republicans used to be better are mostly wealthy lawyers, journalists, etc. They're friends and colleagues with Republicans. They feel uncomfortable reckoning with the fact they're friends with Nazis and "they can't have been Klansmen because they were nice to me personally".

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Karen Geier @karengeier.com · 1d

If I have to see another post on here claiming there used to be good republicans and they got replaced by the baddies I’m going to fucking scream. The Southern Strategy was in the 1960s. Lee Atwater was giving speeches to these “nice people” where he just shouted the n word in the 70s

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lewys @generalquixote.bsky.social · 13h

The people saying they aren't are mostly middle class professionals, lawyers and journalists, and were palling about with those people, so they feel uncomfortable reckoning with the fact they were friends with Nazis and "they can't possible have been Klansmen because they were nice to me personally"

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lewys @generalquixote.bsky.social · 13h

The Iraq War and the Patriot Act *alone* were Nazi policies, if the staffers themselves were personally polite about it and disavowed being actual card-carrying Nazis that makes not one iota of difference to the people those policies targeted

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lewys @generalquixote.bsky.social · 13h

I've seen some people it's a meaningful difference and worse now that they openly feel comfortable being able to say they are Nazis, but in some ways it was worse before because it was more insidious, able to go undetected, but the result was the same and actively led to where we are now

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lewys @generalquixote.bsky.social · 13h

The policies of the Republican Party under, say, Bush, were racist Nazi policies, whether or not they felt comfortably or not openly saying "I am a Nazi" or not is irrelevant

lewys @generalquixote.bsky.social · 13h

The distinctions are not meaningful, and are mostly just superficial. They have always been like this, it just manifested slightly differently!

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 16h

there are through lines, but if you can’t see meaningful distinctions between Bush-era conservative kids and the modern young anime Nazis I’m not sure you’re the savvy one

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 14h

even if you want to believe that the nazi talk used to be stigmatized at the party level - which i think is revisionist at best and intentional hagiography at worst - what political expediency do you gain from saying it, instead of using actual facts to beat these fuckers for once? i'm going insane

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 14h

to say anything short of "this is the republican party, they are like this and they have always been like this" is self-defeating simp behavior and it's pathetic!

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 14h

i refuse to accept both as a factual matter and a political point that republican staffers were historically any less openly racist in private conversations. strom thurmond was some of their boss! pat buchanan was on msnbc! thinking their underlings were LESS comfortable talking like that is naive!

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 23h

Can confirm this is 100%, exactly how it has always been. I was there, a long time ago. But a lot of liberals are addicted to the fantasy that Trump made all of this happen instead of the reality that all of this made Trump happen.

grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 23h

They have 100% always been this way, though notably the transition from helicopter rides and referencing crushing minorities abroad humorlessly transitioned to nazi shit, but like that's basically a new layer of paint instead of a new perspective.

Amanda Marcotte
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For those tempted to say Young Republicans have always been this way, they really have not. When I worked on campus and did bipartisan college events after, they were very much not like this.
That's why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed -because Young Republicans weren't radical enough.

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grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 16h

I try not to lose my shit at people saying Republicans are more racist now because they've increased in antisemitism specifically while ignoring my anti-poc examples from the past, do people have any idea just how much that view is rooted in white supremacist ideology lol.

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thicc husband and father @lukeisamazing.bsky.social · 14h

what is the meaningful difference between starting two wars for oil and the military industrial complex and sponsoring a genocide to keep the MIC going? hell, they even did a coup back then too in Bush v Gore except that was actually successful but that’s different bc they liked institutions

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