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Double Good Think @onedayinjune.bsky.social · 5m

I have said this before, but the late 19th century-early 20th century was Peak Racism in the intellectual world. Racial thinking permeated so much of the thought-world at the time that even people who were not conscious bigots will reflect it in their output.

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Double Good Think @onedayinjune.bsky.social · 11m

The likes of a Stephen Miller or a JD Vance salivating over ethnic cleansing is a way harder sell

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Double Good Think @onedayinjune.bsky.social · 12m

Yeah outside Trump they have tended to fail (see 2022 midterms when his picked candidates failed). Part of the thing Trump has is the appeal of the buffoon/jester which allows people to rationalise away the ugly stuff he says.

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Double Good Think @onedayinjune.bsky.social · 18m

I don't think this is a solely American thing tbh, applies generally to voters in most OECD countries.

Double Good Think @onedayinjune.bsky.social · 41m

Having strongly held beliefs =/ expressing them in the most abrasive and alienating way possible

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Double Good Think @onedayinjune.bsky.social · 3h

It's hard to overstate how much late 19th-early 20th century thought was *saturated* in racist assumptions, it really was Peak Racism intellectually speaking. And not even solely a European/American thing either, many Asian thinkers also accepted the premises of racial hierarchy from Euro thought

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Double Good Think @onedayinjune.bsky.social · 3h

It's quite unclear at this point who the boss in this relationship actually is.

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Double Good Think @onedayinjune.bsky.social · 4h

I mean objectively this is true, just like NKVD executioners were extremely hard working. It's just that it doesn't mean anything lol

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Double Good Think @onedayinjune.bsky.social · 5h

This can only end in the complete annihilation of the Republican Party and the Christian nationalist project. The questions are 1)How long will it take? 2) Will they burn down the whole United States with them as they go?

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Double Good Think @onedayinjune.bsky.social · 5h

-3 is still something, suggests a bare majority aren't too far gone.

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Double Good Think @onedayinjune.bsky.social · 8h

They'll be called 'commissars' instead of ministers, also no police, just a people's militia.

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Double Good Think @onedayinjune.bsky.social · 8h

Reminded of the FBI informer at a CPUSA meeting who saw a guy get up and yell about 'overthrowing the state!' and promptly reported it to his handlers, only to be told that guy was also a plant.

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Double Good Think @onedayinjune.bsky.social · 8h

Given how the American Civil War was framed at the time, there's an argument that *all* of American history can be seen as an ongoing beef between Cavaliers and Roundheads

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Double Good Think @onedayinjune.bsky.social · 8h

What are the odds Trump was at a Diddy party at some time or other?

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Double Good Think @onedayinjune.bsky.social · 8h

The whole 'tourists are kicking deer' was a meme started by this comedian:
youtu.be/uQ5u16NUKMU?...

Professionally Annoying Man Tries To Kick All Tourists From Japan

YouTube video by Japanalysis

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Double Good Think @onedayinjune.bsky.social · 9h

It's kinda funny to me how so many people don't get something as simple as 'geographic proximity usually means greater cultural similarities in terms of food, music etc'

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Double Good Think @onedayinjune.bsky.social · 9h

(There was an underlying assumption that the Turks somehow 'Asiaticized' true pure Western Greek culture, when in reality those features were taken by the Ottomans *from* Byzantium and before that Ancient Greece!)

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Double Good Think @onedayinjune.bsky.social · 9h

Yeah there's also a whole thing about the 'Eastern' features of Greek culture which were impugned by both Western Hellenophiles and 20th century Greek nationalists, despite the fact they were present in the Hellenic world from the beginning.

Double Good Think @onedayinjune.bsky.social · 9h

(Also especially for ostensibly 'progressive' Americans their perceived 'whiteness' means you have carte blanche to say whatever you like about them in a way that would raise eyebrows in their circles if the people were a shade or two darker)

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Double Good Think @onedayinjune.bsky.social · 9h

The Balkans and Eastern Europe are interesting because Anglosphere people seem to feel comfortable talking about them in the same orientalist terms normally applied further East.

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Double Good Think @onedayinjune.bsky.social · 9h

Yeah by no means am I accusing them of being crypto-fascists or anything like that. I think it's largely that they saw liberal capitalist society as the main thing that had to be opposed, and hence were blind to the fact their arguments could be repurposed for more nefarious ends.

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Double Good Think @onedayinjune.bsky.social · 9h

Part of the issue though is because of people's online paper trails, unlike postwar France, it'll be all too easy to verify where people stood at any given time. This incentivises doubling down.

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Double Good Think @onedayinjune.bsky.social · 10h

The pomo rejection of universalism opened the door for outright reactionary thought to come back, and it has no way of fighting it besides saying 'we are good and this is bad'.

Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 10h

"Particularism means that universal principles and ethics don't apply to you" is unfortunately one of the places where fascism and postmodern leftism cross over

Daniel Weissmann @danweiss.bsky.social · 13h

This is always linked to a fictional 'right to exist' and builds one of the core shibboleths of this entire discourse: uniqueness justifies supremacy and subsequently international law does not apply.

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Double Good Think @onedayinjune.bsky.social · 23h

Vance, maybe Tzeentch? But could be Slaanesh as well given the whole couch thing :D

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Double Good Think @onedayinjune.bsky.social · 23h

Been trying to work out which Chaos Gods are represented in Trump II. RFK is for sure a Nurgleite, I think Hegseth is a wannabe Khorne follower, but the Blood God views him in contempt for his lack of honour

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