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johnturing.bsky.social @johnturing.bsky.social · 13h

Different one. I believe that one went with the more minstrel show blackface... and then a Hitler moustache.

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johnturing.bsky.social @johnturing.bsky.social · 14h

Stares in Navy...

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johnturing.bsky.social @johnturing.bsky.social · 15h

The white Christian nationalists have really been pushing a eugenic interpretation of Paul to counter any "feed the poor" interpretation of Christ.

Good times.

johnturing.bsky.social @johnturing.bsky.social · 17h

At this point I usually only stop by to verify the authenticity of a post... which has only seemed to make the algorithm make it almost all far-right propaganda and mass hysteria.

Most of my feed were angry mobs trying to destroy a group of math teachers over misunderstanding Halloween outfits.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 21h

The people on the right getting mad at Tucker Carlson for hosting Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes on his podcast don’t seem to have gotten mad at all at Donald Trump for hosting Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes at his home for dinner. Funny that.

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johnturing.bsky.social @johnturing.bsky.social · 18h

One of the more disturbing parts of my archival research was with our university's Security Office... and the vicious ex-FBI guys maintaining the veneer of "comity and order."

Some of the worst parts of the interwar period extremism now institutionalized as a sort of Hooverism.

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johnturing.bsky.social @johnturing.bsky.social · 18h

I was thinking more of the brutal repression and violence within white spaces on their side of segregation and the color line in the 1950s.

People seem to think "Andy Griffith" and good ol' days... not why LGBT folks were in hiding, firebombings over neighborhood purity, and witch hunts for reds.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 20h

In hindsight, it was probably a bad idea for voters to put the full force of the US state apparatus and military in the hands of a guy who bragged that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose any support, and who was also granted immunity by the Supreme Court before taking office.

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johnturing.bsky.social @johnturing.bsky.social · 1d

Or anyone honest about the American 1950s.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

This might be a shock to some, but racially and religiously uniform places don’t have a utopian record full of comity and order. When it looks like they do, it’s usually because they’ve forcefully repressed disagreement and difference.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

genuinely crazy-making how much the national press is indifferent to the verifiable fact that jd vance is buddy buddy with internet nazis, and the degree to which this is almost certainly a form of solidarity among people with a similar institution pedigree

Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 1d

mainstream media report on jd vance’s twitter mutuals, challenge level: impossible

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

He has already chosen, what the fuck are we doing here
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s what they actually thought: they’ll just go after the left wing Bad Jews (who aren’t really Jews so it’s ok) but we’re the Good Jews so it will be fine. joelhs.bsky.social/post/3m4gzansohs2a

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 2d

The Jewish right discovering in real time that the Trumpist right, and the open bigotries it has unleashed upon the US body politic, is not in fact going to spare Jews, is quite a trip.

Tweet from John Podhoretz reading: "My mother was a Heritage board member for 40 years. You have befouled her, you rancid wretch of an amoeba."
quoting Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, tweeting: "There has been speculation that
@Heritage
is distancing itself from
@TuckerCarlson
over the past 24 hours.

I want to put that to rest right now—here are my thoughts:"

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

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The Onion: ICE Agent, 7-Year-Old Both Wearing Same ‘Military Commando’ Halloween Costume

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johnturing.bsky.social @johnturing.bsky.social · 2d

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johnturing.bsky.social @johnturing.bsky.social · 2d

They're really embracing the fascist aesthetic and imagery to promote themselves.

It seems like the folks opposing this fascist nonsense would think they'd try to avoid these police state optics, but MAGA is becoming more and more openly fascist and embracing the optics of fascism.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2d

It turns out the political movement of “Jews shall not replace us,” sieg heils, and “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirts, with leaders who openly associate with blatant antisemites, hire blatant antisemites, and advocate White Christian Nationalism is not actually good for the Jews.

Who could’ve guessed?

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 2d

The Jewish right discovering in real time that the Trumpist right, and the open bigotries it has unleashed upon the US body politic, is not in fact going to spare Jews, is quite a trip.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2d

Pundit: Now, I’m not personally supportive of politicians pulling down their pants and pissing on people’s legs, but in fairness to Mr. Trump, precipitation is a real issue to address. A country that’s always in a drought would not be good.

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johnturing.bsky.social @johnturing.bsky.social · 2d

Like most fascism in the post-war, the more mainstream proponents existed in the same bubbles of hysterical anti-communism that fascism thrived in before and during the war.

Their archived private papers and correspondence revealed fascist beliefs, holocaust denial, and antisemitic conspiracies.

johnturing.bsky.social @johnturing.bsky.social · 3d

I'm not sure if it's even accurate to say that we "essentially eradicated Nazism" as much as Germany was able to stamp it out of public spaces.

Meanwhile it festered and grew behind the scenes, especially in America's far-right media in the 1950s and 60s... outpacing the National Review readership.

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johnturing.bsky.social @johnturing.bsky.social · 3d

And even in that devastating total loss, the sympathies for the regimes ran high after the war. The vast majority of surviving Nazis and their supporters went back to careers and lived out their lives... often whitewashing their roles and the role of the "Good Germans" and "honorable Wehrmacht."

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johnturing.bsky.social @johnturing.bsky.social · 3d

And even that's uncertain depending on who they "feel" is responsible in post-truth information spaces... where nobody knows what to believe or believes or only believes the misinformation that fits the "truth" they prefer.

Even if reality hits them, will they knew who threw the punch in the chaos?

johnturing.bsky.social @johnturing.bsky.social · 3d

From the "Unitary Executive" down to every one of his cultists in the local news comments sections: they can't contain their glee at causing this suffering.

They embrace the contradiction of celebrating cutting programs they oppose for people they despise... while still trying to "blame" Democrats.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3d

The logic Democrats must adamantly reject is that Trump and the Republicans are abusing their governmental power and breaking laws to hurt a lot of people in America and it’s the Democratic minority’s responsibility to help those people by giving validation to Trump and the Republicans’ lawbreaking.

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johnturing.bsky.social @johnturing.bsky.social · 3d

"So, Mister Mayor, you're saying Midwesterners aren't made up entirely of corn?"

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4d

All titled “I Was Secretly Working Against Him, Honest!”

Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 4d

When he's finally gone, there is going to be this flood of books and tell all interviews from Republicans about how hard it was to be a Republican in Washington during this time and I am going to be galatically furious about it.

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