White Americans have long been able to safely assume that their whiteness would shield them from the most violent and arbitrary uses of state power. But history also shows us that white people who stand up for their fellow humans who aren't white can inspire murderous rage. bsky.app/profile/atru...

We have our own American vocabulary we can apply.

It's Quantrill, the Army of Northern Virginia enslaving free Americans during the Pennsylvania invasion, or a century of a mobilized Klan.

We create our own horrors.

We've also defeated them before.

Mourn and mobilize.

"Hey, you know how to build a rocket? Chemical weapons? How about spycraft? You know about spying on the Reds? Are you just familiar with weapons logistics? Congratulations, Fritz, have we got a job for *you*."

Worse yet, look at how many were almost immediately pardoned.

I don't even want to speculate, tbh.

The point was about Gaetz being so compromised that he would have no choice but to help in covering up the Epstein files, tho.

It's good, but not quite what I'm looking for. I'm trying to find something which addresses how it became a symbol for fascistic ultra-Americana groups going back to the 1930s, at least, with groups like the I AM Activity, down to its portrayal in the DHS & DoL social media accounts.

url?

I'm interested mostly for the folklore, so the legal drama doesn't interest me much, but it was fascinating to see him being nailed down essentially on whether it was fiction or not.

I lost track of whatever was going on with Goode's lawsuits after the shock waves from the deposition. Yeah, the videos kept getting taken down when they were first posted. I kept going to go back to them & having to find new postings of them.