Patrick Farnsworth
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![What's happening now is the most concerted assault on speech that I have ever seen, at least in the United States in this kind of public thing. We're talking about hundreds of teachers, healthcare workers, and pilots being put on leave or openly fired—people talking about opening hate crime investigations on them, threatening to pull business permits and driver's licenses. People are being asked at immigration status [hearings] about whether or not they're posting on Charlie Kirk.
We're talking about a full-scale assault on free speech, even the concept of it. And yet we're still talking about this as though Charlie Kirk was the victim of this anti-free speech mentality, which just simply is not true.
- Shane Burley](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5ra25rvusplrvzdkyyj7ts32/bafkreie3lg6qhymm63lhbxu3xqxn6mroj4mbtkcejb4vocivxpdfepznj4@jpeg)
![I think that [the elites have] sort of given up, especially on the right side of the political spectrum, on any notion of what a better future would look like. Because they are aware of how bad it's getting, again, on the climate front, on the ecological front, and on the social, political, and economic front. And so I sense this real nihilism, this kind of hunkering down to protect the assets that they have, to protect the investments they have, to protect their own families in fortified buildings that are safe in a climate changing world. And that's very different, even if the words are denial—the actual actions show you something different, which is “we're going to grab what we can, we're going to protect what we can of our financial interests, and our immediate social or family interests, and we don't have a vision for the future beyond that.”
That's very scary in a way, to think that elites have kind of just given up on the notion that there's going to be some better future around the corner. But also, like I've said elsewhere in this podcast, it invites us to kind of fill that gap—us progressives, leftists, social movement organizers, intellectuals, however we identify—to say, Well, what could a future look like? What future are we fighting for? Because it doesn't seem like elites are taking us anywhere good right now. And I think there's a lot of interesting visioning and organizing and policy work that can happen in the vacuum of real governance.
- Thea Riofrancos](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5ra25rvusplrvzdkyyj7ts32/bafkreifl5ged3ufbybkgznoizcyvreclrd6xcc5kiialbjnrjupuxziyvy@jpeg)
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