Aaron Daniel
@aarondanieldean.bsky.social
Liberal progressive Gen X here for the news & politics/ pro-science/ 🚫social hierarchy/ agnostic atheist/ I believe the USA can be the exceptional egalitarian, multiracial, pluralist democracy alluded to in our founding, but, not yet fully realized.
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The dangerousness of the right doesn't come from the power of their ideas, but the ownership of the means of distributing ideas.
You can't fight against Musk's fascist project by using his product. You fight against Musk's fascist project by boycotting his products: that requires discipline.
You can't fight against Musk's fascist project by using his product. You fight against Musk's fascist project by boycotting his products: that requires discipline.
I really disagree with this and think nihilism is often used as an excuse for undisciplined behavior.
counterpoint: nothing you post on any social media platform will in any way combat the dangerousness of the right
December 15, 2025 at 7:08 PM
The dangerousness of the right doesn't come from the power of their ideas, but the ownership of the means of distributing ideas.
You can't fight against Musk's fascist project by using his product. You fight against Musk's fascist project by boycotting his products: that requires discipline.
You can't fight against Musk's fascist project by using his product. You fight against Musk's fascist project by boycotting his products: that requires discipline.
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Mark Zuckerberg is building a data center in Louisiana that will use 3x more electricity than all of New Orleans.
Oligarchs want YOU to pay for these data centers with higher water & electric bills.
Americans must fight back against billionaires who put profits over people.
Oligarchs want YOU to pay for these data centers with higher water & electric bills.
Americans must fight back against billionaires who put profits over people.
December 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Mark Zuckerberg is building a data center in Louisiana that will use 3x more electricity than all of New Orleans.
Oligarchs want YOU to pay for these data centers with higher water & electric bills.
Americans must fight back against billionaires who put profits over people.
Oligarchs want YOU to pay for these data centers with higher water & electric bills.
Americans must fight back against billionaires who put profits over people.
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Thinking back to how people were "hysterical" for calling trump white supremacist and now he's doing nordic theory on the campaign trail
December 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Thinking back to how people were "hysterical" for calling trump white supremacist and now he's doing nordic theory on the campaign trail
All of the High School jocks and wannabe jocks and the pick me girls are in charge now.
Our government is full of con men in tacky suits from 1911 arriving in town to sell all the local morons their youth serum. Just a whole government full of Adolfo Pirellis and that guy in Pete’s Dragon who wants to carve up the dragon for parts
Saladino: "The goal here is not for people to get sweaty in airports. Nobody wants to be sitting next to somebody smelling on an airplane. But ... "
December 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
All of the High School jocks and wannabe jocks and the pick me girls are in charge now.
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This post by the world’s richest and most divorced man on the site he bought to promote his far right extremism is ripped straight from the Klan messaging of the 1870s or the 1915 film Birth of a Nation that inspired the Klan’s rebirth as a PR stunt/Ponzi scheme/terrorist organization in the 1920s.
December 10, 2025 at 1:11 PM
This post by the world’s richest and most divorced man on the site he bought to promote his far right extremism is ripped straight from the Klan messaging of the 1870s or the 1915 film Birth of a Nation that inspired the Klan’s rebirth as a PR stunt/Ponzi scheme/terrorist organization in the 1920s.
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"Individual liberty" is when conservatives decide everything. Their concept of liberty is just domination, not freedom to do what they want, but freedom to force everyone else to do what they want. bsky.app/profile/donm...
The only way to assure individual liberty is to hand unprecedented governmental power to the guy engaged in blatant democratic backsliding
Kavanaugh: Broad delegations to unaccountable agencies are dangerous for individual liberty! We have used the major questions doctrine to prevent agencies from overreaching.
Sauer: MQD not a substitute for the removal power for the president
Sauer: MQD not a substitute for the removal power for the president
December 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
"Individual liberty" is when conservatives decide everything. Their concept of liberty is just domination, not freedom to do what they want, but freedom to force everyone else to do what they want. bsky.app/profile/donm...
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This is so racist it needs a new category of racism to describe it but it's also stupid and pointless. You simply cannot purge the celebration of Black people and their accomplishments from this country in favor of celebrations of a dying pedophile. It's literally not a thing he's capable of doing.
Donald Trump just removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of free entry days at national parks.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
December 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
This is so racist it needs a new category of racism to describe it but it's also stupid and pointless. You simply cannot purge the celebration of Black people and their accomplishments from this country in favor of celebrations of a dying pedophile. It's literally not a thing he's capable of doing.
Making America white again is really the goal. You don't even have to read between the lines.
The US govt is screaming—in words, actions, and now a strategic document—that America has switched sides in the world, preferring authoritarians and a transnational white nationalism over liberal democracy.
Like Russia, a US foreign policy goal is to undermine the EU.
Will Europe finally listen?
Like Russia, a US foreign policy goal is to undermine the EU.
Will Europe finally listen?
‘Civilisational erasure’: US strategy document appears to echo far-right conspiracy theories about Europe
Official text, signed by Donald Trump, outlines plan to ‘cultivate resistance’ in EU nations to their ‘current trajectory’
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Making America white again is really the goal. You don't even have to read between the lines.
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What kind of president would say something so disgusting? It’s downright unAmeric—
Oh wait… I forgot that Abraham Lincoln & Thomas Jefferson said the same thing.
Never mind
Oh wait… I forgot that Abraham Lincoln & Thomas Jefferson said the same thing.
Never mind
December 3, 2025 at 12:22 AM
What kind of president would say something so disgusting? It’s downright unAmeric—
Oh wait… I forgot that Abraham Lincoln & Thomas Jefferson said the same thing.
Never mind
Oh wait… I forgot that Abraham Lincoln & Thomas Jefferson said the same thing.
Never mind
If you still say Trump is your guy- but, you're not racist... I'm no longer willing to give you the benefit of the doubt. We're well past that garbage. You're in, or, you're out.
The official policy of the Trump Administration is ignorant bigotry. We’re asked, under principles including charity, to assume that people support the administration despite that policy, not specifically because of it. I am increasingly unwilling to extend that charity.
December 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
If you still say Trump is your guy- but, you're not racist... I'm no longer willing to give you the benefit of the doubt. We're well past that garbage. You're in, or, you're out.
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I'm not an expert on much except crime and murderers and these people are some of the most deranged, cruel, violent people I've ever heard. These are "normal" people, educated and wealthy, thinking more about killing people than my clients with significant mitigation ever did.
Megyn Kelly on alleged war crimes: "I really do kind of not only wanna see them killed in the water, whether they're on the boat or in the water, but I'd really like to see them suffer. I would like Trump and Hegseth to make it last a long time so they lose a limb and bleed out."
December 2, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I'm not an expert on much except crime and murderers and these people are some of the most deranged, cruel, violent people I've ever heard. These are "normal" people, educated and wealthy, thinking more about killing people than my clients with significant mitigation ever did.
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They're not hiding it, folks—straight up neo-Nazi advertising, from the font to the language to the 11 stars for the Confederacy. Then you have the DHS openly using white nationalist language of "remigrate", which means ethnic cleansing.
This is who MAGA is now.
This is who MAGA is now.
November 30, 2025 at 6:43 AM
They're not hiding it, folks—straight up neo-Nazi advertising, from the font to the language to the 11 stars for the Confederacy. Then you have the DHS openly using white nationalist language of "remigrate", which means ethnic cleansing.
This is who MAGA is now.
This is who MAGA is now.
This thread right here! They hate identity politics until they can use it to villainize a non-white identity.
Why POC collectively hold our breath when there’s a mass shooting or high profile crime before the suspect is even identified:
• Afghan man shoots a National Guard member:
With zero knowledge of the background or motive, the right screams that Muslims are terrorists and must be deported.
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• Afghan man shoots a National Guard member:
With zero knowledge of the background or motive, the right screams that Muslims are terrorists and must be deported.
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November 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
This thread right here! They hate identity politics until they can use it to villainize a non-white identity.
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Among other travesties in this statement, National Guard soldiers are not "law enforcement"
REPORTER: There are people upset with the president, believing the National Guard members shouldn't have been there
PIRRO: I don't even wanna talk about whether they should've been there. We ought to kiss the ground and thank God that the president said it's time to bring in more law enforcement
PIRRO: I don't even wanna talk about whether they should've been there. We ought to kiss the ground and thank God that the president said it's time to bring in more law enforcement
November 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Among other travesties in this statement, National Guard soldiers are not "law enforcement"
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P.S.: Competitive depravity is also why Trump's followers--from MTG & Lauren Boebert in Congress, to the average red hat in the street--seem hell-bent on violating every social norms at every opportunity. They can't get away with as much as their leader, but they imitate & aspire to be like him.
November 27, 2025 at 10:53 AM
P.S.: Competitive depravity is also why Trump's followers--from MTG & Lauren Boebert in Congress, to the average red hat in the street--seem hell-bent on violating every social norms at every opportunity. They can't get away with as much as their leader, but they imitate & aspire to be like him.
It's well past time to quit X.
This is the correct take. Stewing in white supremacist propaganda is bad for your thinking. And if think you are so savvy that it won’t impact you, you are the exact kind of mark they are slowly converting (I’m looking at you, centrist pundits).
It’s really funny how a generation will roll its eyes at parents who watch Fox News but doesn’t see why being immersed in Twitter is having the same effect. Lots of serious people show up on Fox News too but that shouldn’t be your primary source on the news.
November 27, 2025 at 10:43 AM
It's well past time to quit X.
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Oh my.
James Talarico is incredibly skilled in dismantling Christian Nationalists.
Get this man in the Senate.
James Talarico is incredibly skilled in dismantling Christian Nationalists.
Get this man in the Senate.
November 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Oh my.
James Talarico is incredibly skilled in dismantling Christian Nationalists.
Get this man in the Senate.
James Talarico is incredibly skilled in dismantling Christian Nationalists.
Get this man in the Senate.
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Historian Quinn Slobodian in the Financial Times today describing how eugenics is now firmly back on the political agenda
www.ft.com/content/23e9...
www.ft.com/content/23e9...
November 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Historian Quinn Slobodian in the Financial Times today describing how eugenics is now firmly back on the political agenda
www.ft.com/content/23e9...
www.ft.com/content/23e9...
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So much of what we're seeing in US and European politics right now is driven by status anxiety. And so much of that perceived loss of status is based on the West's distorted view of itself and the rest of the world, and of how global inequality became the "normal" field on which history plays out.
November 14, 2025 at 7:38 PM
So much of what we're seeing in US and European politics right now is driven by status anxiety. And so much of that perceived loss of status is based on the West's distorted view of itself and the rest of the world, and of how global inequality became the "normal" field on which history plays out.
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"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.
November 13, 2025 at 5:58 AM
"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.
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The goal of the republicans plan is to create a socially Darwinian society that allows the most at risk to die without being seen or heard.
It’s all social murder at scale and eugenics all the way down.
The republicans are building the tools of mass death and painting them as public health.
It’s all social murder at scale and eugenics all the way down.
The republicans are building the tools of mass death and painting them as public health.
This is far worse than anyone expected.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.
Trump Administration to Drastically Cut Housing Grants
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The goal of the republicans plan is to create a socially Darwinian society that allows the most at risk to die without being seen or heard.
It’s all social murder at scale and eugenics all the way down.
The republicans are building the tools of mass death and painting them as public health.
It’s all social murder at scale and eugenics all the way down.
The republicans are building the tools of mass death and painting them as public health.
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This is a shocking corruption that is part of the budget bill. Really, read how crazy this is.
November 12, 2025 at 8:29 AM
This is a shocking corruption that is part of the budget bill. Really, read how crazy this is.
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man we need a way to say "the moral rot and depravity of this country's elite must be burned out of it with cleansing fire" that isn't wildly reactionary-coded
November 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
man we need a way to say "the moral rot and depravity of this country's elite must be burned out of it with cleansing fire" that isn't wildly reactionary-coded