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As the coup last week demonstrates, more people need hobbies.
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As the coup last week demonstrates, more people need hobbies.
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- Aaron’s Purchases
- Aaron’s going hammertone army green
- Exercising my ass
- Are we exercising?
- The QAnon Putsch
- Should we feel bad for this people? Do we need to include them in our big tent?
- First we have to agree on who these people were.
- It seems like they’re mostly pretty rich; after all, they could afford to fly out to DC.
- Reactions
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Brands Expressing Concern
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Surreal
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Furious Backtracking
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False Flagging
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Donald Trump Notice Me Senpai
https://twitter.com/RationalDis/status/1346992889243578375
https://twitter.com/LibertyHangout/status/1346886192990744580
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You, Specifically, Do Not Get To Quote MLK
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- Takeaways
- The Ascendent America theory proved false
- Look at the number of black and brown and non-republican allegiant reactionaries at this demonstration yesterday.
- Hope in the inevitable victory of democrats via demographic shifts is naive and dangerous
- Checking in on the clinton dems I know that are now MAGA confirms that Trumpism has absorbed a lot of democrats
- If we’re going to curb this fascism, we have to materially improve peoples’ lives
- Looking at the videos and posts of the people involved in this riot, you find a thread of common outlook: the state of our cities and states is in shambles.
- They talk about all the homelessness, the drug epidemics, the suicides, the joblessness, the hopelessness—- these are working class concerns
- If the prospects for your life and the life of your children only looks to be getting perpetually worse, it’s extremely unlikely you’ll be persuaded by decency or morals or ethics.
- We have to improve peoples’ material lives and make a better world.
- Biden admin shows no signs of doing this because you have to change underpinning systems
- Looking at the videos and posts of the people involved in this riot, you find a thread of common outlook: the state of our cities and states is in shambles.
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A return to civility will not begin to quell the threat of fascism in the US
Fascism does not arrive on the scene with full uniform and programme. The Jewish socialist Arthur Rosenberg traced the origins of fascism as a mass movement to the period before the first world war, when millions were already infected by volkisch, racial-nationalist ideology, and by contempt for democratic government. It consolidates through experimentation, learning the ropes through episodes that, at first, appear amateurish and thuggish, from the beer hall (Munich) putsch to the demolition of the Babri Masjid. First as farce, then as tragedy.
- The absurdity and chaos is a feature, not a bug
Trumpism is not an aberration, but a mass phenomenon. Trump greatly expanded his base between 2016 and 2020, adding more than 10 million votes to its total. He expanded into places and demographic constituencies thought to be closed to him. No other Republican presidential candidate could have done this. And it was achieved precisely through the same means that led to the spectacle in the Capitol. To hope that Joe Biden can defuse this by restoring civility and bipartisanship to Washington would be unforgivably complacent.
- This is the final result of “Make America Great Again”
- The Ascendent America theory proved false
- Should we feel bad for this people? Do we need to include them in our big tent?
- Trump Was Banned For This Post
- lol
- Reactions
- Conservative
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Please Notice Megan McCain
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Please read another book
https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1347697226466828288
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MUH FIRST AMENDMENT
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NATIONALIZE FACEBOOK
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Oh, just now?
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- Liberal
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What if they do this to us?????
https://twitter.com/ramsincanon/status/1347780821260898304
https://twitter.com/igorbobic/status/1347732737369772032?s=12
- Bruh, they DO do this to us. Just ask listener Dylan whose account is suspended more often than its up. They are a victim of censorship.
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Thought Experiment 🤔
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- Conservative
- AD: Sean Hannity for Olive Garden
- Recontextualize, or Please sir, may I have some context
- So much bad discourse happens simply because somebody pops off without any context.
- Modern social media makes this even more difficult. It tries to decontextualize everything.
- Conclusion: More People Need Hobbies
- Pick up a football
- Burger King Rebrand
- The Whole Foods Guy’s Whole Thing
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