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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 45m

a classic fascist archetype is the failed and resentful artist, intellectual, professional, or entrepreneur, because the movement gives once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for these mediocrities and nobodies to rise through party ranks and mass larp their grand delusions of a successful career

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 12h

The federal government is basically being run now by the algorithmically amplified, right wing grifter industrial complex, as exemplified by this weirdo from Washington state who was flown in for Trump’s Antifa round table.

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Anonymous Spooky Bureaucrat 💀 @charlesdeguava.bsky.social · 21h

The timeline where something “positive“ comes out of this shitshow is one where we probably super charge globalization and embrace total free trade, zero tariffs, all consumer mindset, and tell industrial unions to pound sand

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 22h

Basically this was the entire logic fo neoliberalism and globalization - yes lots of job destruction, but prices falling on all kinds of goods and new jobs in new areas. It was taken as gospel that all of it was a net benefit, but that's a bit harder argument to make these days.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 14h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 12h

Every single boot licking propagandist who spoke at that event was either someone who was fired for being a bad journalist, or is someone who never actually held a job with a non-propagandist media outlet.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 12h

The federal government is basically being run now by the algorithmically amplified, right wing grifter industrial complex, as exemplified by this weirdo from Washington state who was flown in for Trump’s Antifa round table.

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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 15h

most notable about posobiec is not pizzagate but that he started out as a dimestore gamergate-style antisemitic troll "GoTfan"

he exemplifies how fascism elevates total nobodies, gives once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for pathetic losers to rise through party ranks to become movers of history

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 17h

Jack Posobiec explicitly says that "Antifa" dates back to the Weimar Republic, explicitly acknowledging that this administration is opposed to those who resisted the arrival of Adolf Hitler in Power.

A screenshot of C-Span showing Jack Posobiec speaking during a panel on "Antifa."

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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 13h

"i decide who is criminal"--the state

David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 13h

Watching the way the Trump administration is using criminalization as a weapon ought to make clear how criminalization works even in normal times.

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 13h

Watching the way the Trump administration is using criminalization as a weapon ought to make clear how criminalization works even in normal times.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 14h

Here’s an angle for a journalist looking for a fresh take on the White House “Antifa” roundtable — most of the people who participated are employed by or have a direct financial connection to Turning Point USA. I think that’s pretty telling, no?

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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 14h

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 22h

Literally all they've got any more is KKK-style nativism, directed specifically at Latinos. Every single GOP message collapses back to this. They've become the Klan

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 20h

Also, it’s such a sick joke that ICE is here to keep us safe. This was a video of a perfectly safe day in the city - couldn’t feel safer - until a bunch of armed thugs run out of nowhere to start a fight and kidnap random pedestrians, which is one of the most terrifying things I can imagine

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 21h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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J. Cardella @cardellaj.bsky.social · 15h

Not to minimize what’s already happened, but one of my core beliefs for Trump II is that Stephen Miller has genocidal intent. He’s going to push in that direction with whatever power he has. That’s his end goal.

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 15h

Stephen Miller’s entire life has been building to the ecstatic moment where he gets to press a button and have some political dissident murdered. The ultimate power fantasy. He cannot be dissuaded from it, because he will always find his way back to it; it has the same magnetism as any other fetish.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 18h

Propaganda in service of the powerful is so lucrative that everyone from social media influencers to the legacy media to the large tech companies want a piece of the action. All the nation’s leaders have either been hired from or converted into propagandists as the first-order way of doing politics

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17h

The literal reading of this statement is Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 18h

In the age of algorithmic culture, big data surveillance, and memetic influence, it is critically important to not get trapped in a particular memetic frame and make it your entire personality. Tactical confusion of stereotypes.

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 18h

The people showing up to protest in inflatable animal costumes are doing way way better resistance counter-propaganda than any of the left-wing militia defense types who show up to civil defense actions in their cosplay operator gear.

Gonna start calling these guys the inflada.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 23h

And now for a report from the hellish, war-zone that is Portland

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 17h

It's tempting to treat "the American right is a death cult" as rhetorical hyperbole, but when you look at e.g. their enthusiasm for executing people who are *clearly* innocent, no actually these people really do just worship and revel in death and murder

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Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 22h

when the people who shuttered USAID learn of a diabetic single mother and her disabled son starving to death 9,000 miles away because of aid cuts, they don't see failure or dereliction or tragedy, but rather success: the people they view as unworthy of life are dying

She has no real way of explaining the danger of their situation to her son, who is 17 years old but cognitively closer to a toddler. And as a single mother too weak to forage, she has no real way of ensuring their survival. She also is too old to benefit from a recent policy change the Thai government made in a bid to prevent mass starvation, granting work rights to some of the 107,000 Myanmar refugees who, like her, live in Thailand’s border camps.

Her son never learned to speak, and needs her help with everything from getting dressed to using the toilet. Since the funding cuts, their survival has hinged on the charity of her Christian church, whose members occasionally give her handfuls of their rice.

She suffers from diabetes and high blood pressure, and begins to sweat and grow dizzy when her hunger is at its fiercest. Some days, she eats nothing.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 17h

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h

As a reminder, when Jack Posobiec was in the US Navy, they assessed his full capabilities and concluded that he was best suited to collecting samples for urinalysis

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 17h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 15h

turns out right-wingers just really like fantasizing about drowning weaker beings in a bathtub

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 1d

as a kid growing up right-wing i regularly heard people express their desire for "a government so small I can drown it in the bathtub". imagine my surprise growing up to realize i was the only one who actually believed that.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 17h

this is an explicitely nazi administration and anyone who still supports them should be viewed as such

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 17h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 17h

Posobiec isn't a nazi in some generic rhetorical sense of having fascistic impulses or simply being far-right. He is a full-blown Hitler-loving Jew-hating mask-off literal capital-N Nazi, with a longstanding public record to match.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 17h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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