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Jared Yates Sexton

@jysexton.bsky.social

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Hoosier, Political Analyst, The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis, Co-Host Muckrake Podcast, newsletter Dispatches From A Collapsing State, Political Adviser: The Change Campaign

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Jared Yates Sexton is an American author and political commentator from Linton, Indiana. He was an associate professor in the Department of Writing and Linguistics at Georgia Southern University. .. more

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · Dec 17

The wealthy have intentionally destroyed class consciousness so that they can exploit the vast majority of people.

If we’re going to fight back and ultimately win this class war, it’s time we got familiar with how our politics actually work.

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A Thoroughly Confused Country: An Introduction to Class Politics and a Way Forward

Americans suffer from a lack of class consciousness, which makes them easy prey for manipulation

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 5h

You cannot reason with a fascist. You can’t endear yourself to a fascist. They will turn on everyone, including their own family, their allies, their sycophants and collaborators.

Fascists hate themselves and they hate the world. This doesn’t stop unless it is stopped.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 5h

Framing it as Trump simply going after his political enemies is misleading because to a fascist every other living person is their political enemy.

You’re his political enemy. You just haven’t been identified yet.

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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 6h

New #StartMeUp 👅 podcast with @jysexton.bsky.social.

Every time I talk with Jared, I'm wiser. We discussed how acts of kindness & helping others in your community can be powerful tools against fascism. And he highlights the resilience of the human spirit.💙

Listen: www.patreon.com/posts/140831...

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 10h

Well, yes, of course. Absolutely.

Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 11h

The brutal and repulsive content being out by the fascist regime isn’t just propaganda, it’s creating ready-made and easily-shareable materials for intimidation and stochastic terrorism.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re talking about the Midterms or the 2028 Presidential Election you’ve lost the plot at this point.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 1d

I hate AI with a fiery passion and I resent all these companies attempting to push it down our throats. But you have to admire on some level their ability to create products that literally no one wants. It’s an incredible commitment to failure.

Brian @sirfahrenheit.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t

Email I got from Carvana that says “Shaq’s AI twin wants to talk cars with you!” There’s a picture of Shaq smiling in front of his computer with text that says “Chat with Shaq’s A.I. Twin.”

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Brian @sirfahrenheit.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 2d

*Takes a look at 1929 through 1945, then another look at a series of booms and busts and past authoritarian movements. Takes a sip. Moves on*

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 2d

It was like watching the Harlem Globetrotters pull off stunt after stunt while the defense just stood there.

Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 3d

It’s really something, the history of politicians who hurt the country by staying too long out of hubris. Brutal, brutal shit. History will not be kind to Schumer and every day that he holds on it will only get worse.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 3d

For the love of all that is holy, Chuck Schumer, retire.

Go spend time with your family. Let people who understand what’s going on, who have even a modicum of fight in them, do what needs to be done.

Every time you speak you make it clearer that you cannot do this.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3d

Schumer: I want to say to Donald Trump, to Johnson, and to Thune: come to the Capitol, sit down in public, and debate us on the health care crisis that’s afflicting Americans.

The public needs to see this.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3d

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 3d

Yes. Exactly.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 3d

Fascism in America will not stop unless we stop it and that means coming together in collective action to shift the paradigm and begin answering the material conditions that created this crisis.

Seeing how this system works make it obvious. It will continue until we stop it.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 3d

Again, Trump is a symptom of a larger disease.

Whether it's him or someone else, conditions right now necessitate the wealth class embracing a fascist project. You have to look beyond him and see it's not an aberration but an evolution that we must stop.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 3d

And yes, some of the media conglomerations are capitulating, but what is being revealed, day by day, is that the wealth class isn't just afraid of Trump, they're on board with the ongoing fascist escalation that we've been watching for decades. It helps to see this clearly and not living in denial.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 3d

Weiss's ascendance represents the need for the wealth class to continue moving rightward as capitalism requires fascism. Individuals like Klein are there to help moderate white liberals begin to accept that "necessity." That's how this whole thing works and has always worked.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 3d

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 3d

Just a reminder that authoritarians use the vulnerabilities of liberal democracy against itself, including concepts of "free speech" and the "healthy exchange of ideas."

They do not value these things. They are not sincerely held principles. They're cudgels and they will erase them once in power.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 4d

All of this could be over if we got past our own shit, joined together, and presented a brave collective front.

We could have a new day. We could have a better world. It's that simple.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 4d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 4d

If you’re running for office and you cannot say that these criminals should be held responsible for their crimes and abuses then you are not worthy of being trusted with power.

Period. End of story. This is the absolute baseline for everyone who wants to be a leader right now.

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 4d

I said what I said: Kristi Noem should be tried at The Hague for crimes against humanity.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 4d

I said what I said: Kristi Noem should be tried at The Hague for crimes against humanity.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 4d

To not see what’s happening and that white moderates and corporate media are mainstreaming and enabling fascism is a choice at this point.

Denial is one of the main components of fascism succeeding. It’s all rather obvious and choosing to not see it is choosing to help the fascists.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 4d

With things worsening, we can’t afford to keep living in denial of what’s happening. You’ve got enough information. They’re not even really trying to hide it anymore.

There’s the fascists and their wealth class enablers and then there’s the rest of us. From there, you can change things.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 4d

It’s become clear to many what’s going on, but for those who are still asking Democrats why they’re not doing more or wondering why corporate media keeps normalizing Trump and demonizing vulnerable people, it’s time to see what’s happening.

They’re not on your side.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 4d

I’ll say it as clearly as possible: when capitalism requires fascism, moderates and wealth class adjacent figures and groups and media side with the fascists over leftists calling for reform.

That’s where we are and as leftist sentiments grow the violence and collaboration will grow in response.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 4d

This is, and has always been, a class war. There’s a veneer over top of it that presents parties and leaders and media as faux representative, but when the rubber meets the road and capitalism requires fascism, they turn to capitulation and collaboration.

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