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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 9h
Tron Legacy had great visuals and sound, but wasn’t exactly a good movie. Speed Racer I’d defend as a legitimately good, if flawed film.
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 9h
It’s one of the all time greats. I love the bit that starts as a Philip Glass homage that transitions into a Danny Elfman homage before veering straight into lords of synth stuff all while feeling like one natural, continuous piece of music.
EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 18h
It's odd to pick France in particular since its neo-fascist movement has been gaining steam for a generation or so and is now the single most popular political faction within the country, at least for the time being.
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 18h
It is not true, though, that France has such a robust culture of pro-democracy civic virtue that the people wouldn't let it happen, nor is it true that the French government by design would not permit such a thing.
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 18h
If you're going to keep retreating your claim to the point that you've special pled your way into arguing that France specifically won't fall to the far right (again) because it hasn't yet, then you're engaging in a type of reasoning that would have worked for USA up to Oct. 2024.
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 18h
I thought you were talking about Eurozone countries. I agree that Presidentialism is more prone to democratic collapse than parliamentary systems, but it false to believe that parliamentary systems are resistant or even immune by design.
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 19h
What position does Orban have again?
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 20h
I think you are being naive to what Euro far right parties will do if and when they gain a critical mass of support. Hungary isn’t the only nation that can go the way of Hungary.
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 21h
Far right parties hostile to liberal democracy are leading in polling in several EU countries as well as Great Britain right now. The US election was decided by a very narrow margin based on anti-incumbent retrospective voting. The difference here is both contingent on luck and fickle.
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 22h
Yeah, unfortunately the ambition and aggressiveness often present in those who take leadership positions also comes with major downsides. Leaders who aren’t moral black holes or up in the night are a precious resource.
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 22h
I think it does, because insofar as a major political party wants to assault democracy, you will get people who support that due to partisan effects. Also, the Euro far right is similarly fascism-esque.
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 22h
Mostly what it proves is that Americans, like citizens of democracies around the world, are highly partisan and take cues about what to support from the political parties they identity with.
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 2d
The MLK one comes from a specific viral misreading of a passage from his Letter from Birmingham Jail that could be cleared up immediately if you just read the document that is only a few pages. But why do that when you've read some tweets of people you trust to know what they're talking about?
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 2d
This is why it seems like almost every single jargony concept from academia to break containment into popular social media use has a rapid lifecycle of being distorted into something else entirely while retaining the condescending, "learn a book, idiot" posturing.
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 2d
I think the synthesis here it is it is very common for people to learn a new thing on social media poorly, and the specific versions of those misunderstandings that are most likely to drive engagement get shared and spread from there.
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 2d
(Presumably you read my simple comment to mean that no one should do anything rather than its intended meaning that the ultimate success of Trump-world's attempts is hard to predict because it is contingent on hard to forecast factors.)
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 2d
When you finish your quest to find the arcane amulet that will allow you to know in advance the effects of right-wing consolidation of major media sources like CBS, TikTok, WaPo, etc. let me know. I'll have to wait and see how that goes.
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 2d
Optimism is nice for rallying resolve, but as their control of media institutions deepens, we will have to wait and see what that does to public opinion.
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 3d
I think it's worse, because taking away a financial credit that others are entitled to discourage a behavior is functionally a form of punishment. Taxing the childless more is effectively a fine on being childless. This is "negative = bad," "positive = good" thinking at its most obtuse.
EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 4d
Yeah, that's a plausible way it would happen. Not allowing states to disqualify Trump under the 14th amendment already provided a roadmap to making the 22nd amendment a dead letter. But you don't get to that point and also have a scenario in which Trump is losing an election.
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 4d
The only question you should have for that scenario is if they make it seem like the election was a close dispute or if the official story is that Trump put up Castro-like numbers in the "election."
EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 4d
The GOP doesn't have the votes to lawfully overturn the 22nd amendment, so what you're really describing is flagrantly violating the Constitution to keep Trump in power indefinitely in a dictatorship. They wouldn't go through the trouble of setting up a dictatorship just to lose an election.
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 4d
The argument in question is that if a politician actively works to appeal to racists in a political coalition and supports racially discriminatory policy, that means they're a fascist. I am saying this describes FDR and FDR was not a fascist. I picked FDR because he was an archenemy of fascists.
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 4d
Liberals tend to dislike Citizen's United and it overturned a piece of legislation liberals widely supported. Strong civil libertarians, which sometimes overlap with liberals, but also leftists, supported it on the argument that the law in question allowed the gov to censor core political speech.
EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 4d
I am not Will's alt, and the conspiratorial motive you've assigned to me is just bizarre. Unfortunately, you are not a very bright person generally and tend to trust poor sources, which in this case leads you to a bad conclusion.
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