A.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆

A.R. Moxon (he/him) is author of the novel THE REVISIONARIES and the upcoming essay book VERY FINE PEOPLE.

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2024-09-14 16:07:28

I wrote about the despicable violence-inciting Republican smear against Haitian immigrants, and the pressing need to oppress conservatives, within and without, with what they most fear: an open and free world that would care for everyone—even them.
https://www.the-reframe.com/its-time-to-oppress-conservatives-2/

2024-07-03 11:28:20

I think fascist bullies have realized that if Trump can be normalized, anything will be; that there is no limit to where the margins of permission can be pushed.
And expanding the margins of permission as regards violence is what bullies want to do.
https://www.the-reframe.com/youve-persuaded-us-already/

2024-07-03 10:31:19

Not the most terrifying thing but perhaps the most infuriating: every last thing we said about these fascist Republican fucks has proved true and each time the people who assured us that what is happening could never happen smoothly pivot to it's happening but it will be fine.

2024-06-30 12:50:43

It is astonishing and dispiriting how many people out there are gleefully eager to demolish society for no gain other than the coddling of ignorances and satisfaction of bigotries that are their sole comforts from a world full of horrendous problems they've created.

2024-06-29 14:12:21

I know these are polarizing times, but if you take the time to talk to American conservatives and center-right types and really listen to what they believe is right and just and good, they sure do sound like the worst people on the planet .

2024-06-27 13:52:03

One thing that anti-woke “comedy” is good for is exposing differentiators between normal decent people, for whom freedom is simply the right to exist without being dehumanized and bullied, and conservatives, for whom freedom is mostly the right to dehumanize and bully others.

2024-06-25 11:22:39

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Anyway, I'd like to thank Snopes for their supremacist-exonerative bullshit, which so brilliantly illustrates my premise, right on cue. VERY FINE PEOPLE is out today, available wherever books are sold.
It's about the exonerative lies we tell ourselves.
We? Me.
https://www.the-reframe.com/vfp-e-book-now-available/

2024-06-25 11:22:23

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Who are the supremacists in a land with a supremacist dominant cultural narrative? How often do we, too, assure ourselves that we are very fine people?
The answer isn't comfortable to many of us, if we have listened to comfortable lies.
Us? Me.
The answer isn't comfortable to me.

2024-06-25 11:22:16

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And the reason many of us want to hear the lie of the very fine people is that, in ways that we have never really faced, we too rely upon supremacy for fortune and identity. For those of us who want to hear exonerative lies about supremacy, there are those who will provide them.

2024-06-25 11:22:08

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The answer isn't so comforting I'm afraid. The truth of the matter is that for many of us the idea that very fine qualities don't exonerate us from supremacy is a distressing one. A lot of us, even if we don't march with Nazis, still want to hear the lie of the very fine people.

2024-06-25 11:22:01

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So of course supremacists need to hear a story of exoneration, particularly when they've done something so overtly supremacist as align with Nazis who invaded a city and murdered a counter protester.
My question today is: why do so many of us want to hear that story, too?

2024-06-25 11:21:46

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An ideology that believes itself supreme believes itself perfected. Exceptional.
Which means that cannot countenance improvement. Which means that it it sees improvement itself as an enemy.
Even knowing true things about itself. Especially that.

2024-06-25 11:21:12

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Accommodating exoneration is what supremacy needs.
Supremacy believes itself to not only be good but uniquely good—the best ever. Selected by God for a manifest destiny. A city on a hill. The greatest country ever. Those who practice it INSIST on being told that they are very fine.

2024-06-25 11:20:40

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Supremacist belief is hateful. It's ugly. But it's the instinctive accommodation of that belief that makes us a supremacist culture.
Accommodators can be very respectable and nice. Very fine people. They can run fact-check websites for example. Or read them.
All that's needed is to follow the urge to ignore harder less comfortable questions, in favor of easier more comforting ones.

2024-06-25 11:19:57

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And who accommodates it? Who listens to the rationales and excuses and deniability word salad of supremacy and accommodates it?
Well, Snopes, for one. But I think it's many of us, who haven't ever faced the ways we depend on supremacy for fortune and identity.
We are "very fine" people, too.

2024-06-25 11:19:50

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Supremacism is the belief that some people matter and others don't, and those who matter can do whatever they want to those who don't, because those who matter deserve to dominate & those who don't deserve domination.
It's our dominant cultural belief—because it is accommodated.

2024-06-25 11:19:42

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Trump, like all cheap hucksters, knew which lies people would believe, knew what lies people wanted to hear, and knew well the lies they depend on for fortune and identity.
So he told the lie of the very fine people.
It’s a popular lie. It’s a traditional lie.
That's the truth buried deepest.

2024-06-25 11:19:34

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On one side were those who marched to defend their heritage: a celebration of traitors who murdered their fellow citizens in order to preserve the institution of chattel slavery.
Trump asked: How dare we impugn them, just because of the apparently coincidental direct allyship of overt Nazis?

2024-06-25 11:19:25

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Nazis and Confederates and Christian nationalists and other supremacists only ever rise on the permissive shoulders of masses of very fine people willing to lend their moral authority to a monstrous cause—their energy, their normalcy and niceness and well-scrubbed politeness, too.

2024-06-25 11:19:17

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The now-buried truth is no group ever committed atrocities until it first convinced itself it was too good—uniquely good, even—to commit atrocities.
The now-buried truth is that it is precisely the lie of "very fine people" that allows supremacy to rise.

2024-06-25 11:19:10

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So that's the sleight of hand. Now the big lie.
The big lie is that nobody with "very fine" qualities can be a white supremacist or a Nazi; therefore nobody can ever be considered a Nazi as long as they present some good quality or another.
But the opposite is true.

2024-06-25 11:18:58

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The 2nd reason is the main one: Our dominant cultural spirit is supremacist, so our dominant cultural instinct is to exonerate supremacy.
The point isn't getting at the truth, but burying it.
People need a reason to dismiss unignorable instances of supremacy. It doesn't need to be a good reason.
Snopes gave them one.
Presto!

2024-06-25 11:18:30

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I'm reminded of the Thomas Pynchon quote "If you get them asking the wrong questions, you don't have to worry about the answers."
One way to get people asking the wrong questions is if you pose the question on their behalf and then answer it to your benefit.
Enter Snopes.

2024-06-25 11:18:21

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There are two reasons I think the actual question gets ignored in these cases.
The first reason Snopes decided to answer the wrong question instead of the actual complaint is simple: It's easier to answer, particularly if you want to take Trump's words at face value in order to create an exonerative story.

2024-06-25 11:17:41

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The other critique is that Trump, by saying there are "very fine people ON BOTH SIDES," draws moral equivalence between those who unite and demonstrate with Nazis, and those who demonstrate against them.
Those are the actual criticisms, which Snopes ignores. Which changes the subject.
Presto!

2024-06-25 11:17:33

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The actual complaint isn't that Trump directly called the Nazis "very fine people," but rather that there is a distinction to be found between Nazis and those aligned with Nazis, and that the distinction is meant to be meaningful specifically because these allies, unlike Nazis, are "very fine."

2024-06-25 11:17:25

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So yes, Trump didn't come out and say 'The Nazis are very fine people." But this isn't the actual problem with Trump's words, and it never was, and the first problem with the Snopes article is that it pretends that was the problem, and frames it as a fact check.

2024-06-25 11:17:13

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What Trump said is that there are "very fine people on both sides."
That would be the side counter protesting against the Nazis who organized a pro-Confederacy protest.
And then the side full of Nazis and those who found common cause with Nazis. That's the "both sides."

2024-06-25 11:17:05

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Trump, a malignant narcissist, knows the trick of using weasel phrasing and world salad to give himself deniability for anybody who wants to exonerate him, to pick and choose and take at face value whatever phrases will let him say what he means while holding himself innocent of saying it.

2024-06-25 11:16:56

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Let's do the sleight of hand, first. The article chooses to answer the question "Did Trump call Neo-Nazis and white supremacists 'very fine people'?
This answers the wrong question, which is what is done when the goal is avoiding the actual questions.

2024-06-25 11:16:41

I want to dig into this, since my book VERY FINE PEOPLE comes out today, and it's in large part about precisely this sort of polemic trickery in service of bullshit apologia of supremacy.
There's a sleight of hand at the start that catapults us into a massive lie.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/676/960/569/500/272/original/a400c860e09331cb.png

2024-06-22 14:43:57

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Then a bunch of self-professed fans of art—whose main contribution to the proud tradition of art appreciation seems to be expressing how much they hate the artists who make the art they claim to love for challenging their preconceived notions in some way—share it appreciatively.

2024-06-22 14:43:50

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The people who view humans as a problem to solve have whipped up machines that take the totality of actual human artistic expression and use it to create the most grotesque regurgitated schlock you've ever seen, and then they point to it, proud as a newly potty-trained toddler.

2024-06-22 14:43:42

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And it's unsustainable—because of course it is. An anti-human worldview is not going to see unsustainability as a problem to solve. Unsustainability solves the human problem it is trying to solve, by ridding the world of what it sees as one of its greatest costs—humans.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/cindygordon/2024/02/25/ai-is-accelerating-the-loss-of-our-scarcest-natural-resource-water/

2024-06-22 14:43:02

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Now we've got some tools that do the work that humans would do if they didn't have to work—which would be art. It's a sort of perversion, like creating a machine that will engage in loving your children, or will enjoy a pleasant day by the river, so you won't have to.

2024-06-22 14:42:50

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The people who view humans as a problem to solve have done with art what they usually do: they made a machine that performs some approximation of what humans do, but faster and more predictably, so that as machine owners they can profit from the elimination of the cost of humans.

2024-06-22 14:42:42

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It’s tougher being a creative person than it used to be, I think. Which means, I think, that it's tougher just being a person—for whom among us is not creative?
Humans are generative beings; we generate value simply by being. This is the reason why it is not only so inappropriate to view human beings as a cost to eliminate and a problem to solve, but impractical to the point of being unsustainable.

2024-06-22 14:42:28

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The problem they are trying to solve is humans—the existence of humans, I mean. They'd like to solve the human problem by removing humans entirely from the act of creating.
So increasingly, keeping humans in art takes all of us trusting each other. A curious and wonderful thing.

2024-06-22 14:42:17

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There's a very specific problem that these distributors are trying to solve.
The problem they are trying to solve is something you'd expect to find in a society whose dominant narrative treats human beings as a cost rather than a value, and seeks to eliminate all costs.

2024-06-22 14:42:10

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It strikes me that the grotesque picture generated from 12 Angry Men points toward a compelling reason to pay for a free newsletter, to wit: The distribution of human art is mainly controlled by people who create and enforce our unsustainable and cruel dominant cultural beliefs.

2024-06-22 14:42:03

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Some stop being able to afford paying and they stop paying, and yet go on enjoying my writing all the same—and I'm also grateful for that, too, because it means that I get to honor the trust that has been extended to me.
Another curious and wonderful thing.

2024-06-22 14:41:57

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And look: hundreds of people pay. Some pay a little bit every month. Some pay rather a lot every year. I'm very glad and grateful for all of it, because it means that the trust I extended has been honored.
A curious and wonderful thing.

2024-06-22 14:41:47

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So, I make sure The Reframe remains free, and in so doing I extend my trust to everybody. My faith is that if readers find enough value in my work to pay for it and can afford to pay, then they will, and if they do not find value, or cannot afford to pay, they will not.

2024-06-22 14:41:40

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It's also free because I believe that you change society by modeling your personal beliefs and hoping other people will join their similar personal beliefs with your personal beliefs to create a collective belief—which is when a belief can really get cooking, belief-wise.

2024-06-22 14:41:29

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The Reframe is a weekly newsletter. It's my weekly newsletter, to be specific.
People subscribe to it, even though they don't have to. It's totally free for everybody, because I don't want anybody who enjoys my writing but can't afford to pay for it to have to stop enjoying my writing.
https://www.the-reframe.com/

2024-06-22 14:40:53

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I suppose this might be expected in a country founded in human slavery, but it seems to me an inappropriate and unsustainable way to organize a society, and I write rather extensively about why in The Reframe.

2024-06-22 14:40:45

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Another core belief in our dominant societal narrative seems to involve treating human beings as a cost rather than a value, and still another seems to be that human costs should be eliminated, often at a social expense greater than the cost.

2024-06-22 14:40:35

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I'd invite you to recognize how often labor-saving devices actually remove from increasing numbers of human beings the ability to make a living from their labor, so that people with more than they can ever use can have even more more-than-they-can-ever-use.

2024-06-22 14:40:22

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But I think we all know that our society is organized around different beliefs, a core one being that the purpose of society is to benefit money rather than humans. If you doubt this, I'd invite you to observe all the ways that, for example, libraries are under attack these days.

2024-06-22 14:40:15

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This strikes me as an appropriate way to organize society, provided that we believe society is meant to benefit humans rather than money, and that humans—being inherent generators of value and of limitless potential value—deserve the fruits of society even if they can't pay.

2024-06-22 14:40:05

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It's my belief that things that provide positive value to humans are good, and that those who make good things should be compensated for it.
I also believe that people should have access to good things whether or not they can pay. It's the reason I love libraries, for example.

2024-06-22 14:39:53

THE HUMAN PROBLEM
Last week an image went viral online. It was generated by a computer from the classic movie 12 Angry Men. It added no value, and it was being used for no good reason.
It's a perfect encapsulation of where our dominant cultural narrative has brought us.
https://www.the-reframe.com/the-human-problem/

2024-06-17 10:34:04

The kid was returning a BB gun to a mall, which is not something that carries the death penalty last I checked.
The man—who was a danger—decided the child—who was in danger—was a danger.
He was encouraged to do this by our dominant cultural narrative.
https://www.the-reframe.com/cruel-luxuries/

2024-06-16 14:18:25

"The child wasn't following the man's orders, the story reported."
Cops, bombs, billionaires, gun maniacs, and other luxurious cruelties we've been sold. Things we never could afford that we should stop paying for.
https://www.the-reframe.com/cruel-luxuries

2024-06-12 20:38:30

lol the free speech absolutist owner of Twitter killed Likes visibility to protect himself and all his fash friends from public exposure; I guess instead of Likes they should be called Not-Sees.

2024-05-30 21:46:12

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/532/223/474/146/159/original/59afa9672a3b4043.png

2024-05-24 18:07:30

2016: FUCK YOUR FEELINGS
2017: YOU LOST GET OVER IT
2018: DRINKING UR LIBERAL TEARS
2019: FOUR MORE YEARS BITCHES
2020: STOP THE COUNT
2021: WATER THE TREE OF LIBERTY
2022: BURN GROOMER BOOKS!
2023: DEATH TO ALL LIB BABYKILLERS
2024: I, a victim, am being shunned for my conservative beliefs

2024-05-23 01:47:05

A lot of people who spent the last 10 years telling us that respect for the flag was the most important thing in the world suddenly don’t want us to care about who flies what flags how, I notice.

2024-05-21 11:22:32

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Even many opposed to the spiritual virus of MAGA aren’t interested in quarantining or vaccinating against it. Some remain opposed to radical transformations to our lifestyle. Some want only to remove the tumor of Trump, then return to the exact situation that allowed it to grow.

2024-05-21 11:22:26

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Yes, he’ll have to be removed completely, but afterward things are going to have to be different. If they aren’t, then we’ll find ourselves here again.
And we may well find ourselves here again.

2024-05-21 11:22:19

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We can see that Trump isn’t a disruption to business as usual, but rather a purified concentrate of that business. Even though he spread supremacy's virus, Trump isn’t a virus. He’s the first unignorable tumor—for those of us comfortable enough to have ignored previous symptoms.

2024-05-21 11:22:14

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He’s the result you can expect to see, in a society which believes that we have no shared society, that life must be earned, that profit is how you earn it, and that violence redeems.

2024-05-21 11:22:02

(Excerpted from VERY FINE PEOPLE, 1st published October 2020)
We now know that—even though Trump is a disruption to the status quo in some ways—he isn’t *only* a disruption to the status quo. In many ways, he is a part of that status quo’s inevitable progression.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/478/815/079/366/421/original/d279fc3910bec6f6.png

2024-05-19 14:11:20

I wrote about Harrison Butker, Sam Alito, the cult of fascists that intend to control our bodies and lives, and why we need to start treating people who have demolished all good faith as if they have demolished all good faith.
The case for lying to fascists:
https://www.the-reframe.com/lying-to-fascists/

2024-05-15 13:26:46

I saw the best minds of my generation,
Destroyed by artificial intelligence
A generation is a group of people born together,
Examples of generations are Millennials and Big Boomers,
Some famous Millennials are Rolling Stone drummer Robert Plant and U.S. President Xavier M. Nixon.

2024-05-08 15:15:50

Sometimes a story comes along that makes so much sense it feels as though you knew it all along.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/406/119/648/533/664/original/b9ba842a07c24a20.png

2024-05-03 00:53:52

Order is a good thing. Justice is a good thing. But there must be priority, even among good things, and a thing improperly prioritized will become corrupted.
Many put justice above order.
But corrupt power always prefers order to justice.
The difference matters a lot.

2024-05-01 15:35:10

Seems to me if the anti-student protest crowd had a good case to make they wouldn’t have to rely so heavily on a steady stream of threats, brutality, misrepresentations, and outright lies.

2024-05-01 12:12:26

Sometimes it's hard to know what to do about this pervasive spiritual sickness of supremacy we have in this country, a hunger for killing, a love of punishment for the weak, a hated of consequences for the strong, but we can witness. We must look at it; we mustn't look away.

2024-04-28 15:59:19

Seven lessons learned from a quarter century in a war-oriented society.
It's 2001—the year the movies promised we'd make contact with aliens—and the United States has rather recently been attacked by terrorists who flew passenger planes into buildings.
https://www.the-reframe.com/war-or-nothing/

2024-04-27 16:11:58

Isn't it interesting that every killing by every cop is just a single bad apple that should never be thought to spoil the bunch, while every protest by and on behalf of marginalized people must be flawlessly perfect, or all participants deserve the brutality the police exist to deliver to them?

2024-04-26 19:49:51

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I think if the Supreme Court is going to give Joe Biden the power to murder the Supreme Court that also means that Joe Biden has the power to ignore the Supreme Court.

2024-04-26 12:00:02

The bribed Supreme Court is ruling on whether or not, for example, Joe Biden, is allowed to order the military to take, for instance, the Supreme Court, and to have them, for example, murdered.
You’d think this would be an easy one but actually it looks like it’s gonna be kind of close.

2024-04-25 19:05:51

I didn’t appreciate it in 2001 when my opposition to retributive violence in response to terrorist violence was dishonestly equated to allyship with the terrorists, and I don’t appreciate it anymore more now than I did then.
Wrote this last year on the anniversary of 9/11 and I’m really feeling it.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/333/418/078/566/697/original/dbba19a4ad96f836.png

2024-04-22 12:04:27

Permit me a moment of skepticism for the notion that the same people who use free speech as a pretext to suppress students protesting bigotry and now use anti-bigotry as a pretext for suppressing students protesting genocide care about either free speech or fighting bigotry.

2024-04-21 11:13:09

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I would like to make it clear that that Tom Cotton, while perhaps distinguished by his enthusiasm and forthrightness, is in no way alone in his murderous desires.
U.S. citizens who want to kill U.S. citizens are everywhere, if we look.
Let's look.
Fully essay: https://www.the-reframe.com/americans-who-want-to-kill-americans/

2024-04-21 11:12:50

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And just so there could be no doubt Cotton specified that he thought they ought to be thrown off of bridges and have their skin torn off and so forth.
Cotton has what you might call a zest for the murder of US citizens. For example, he wrote an op-ed in our increasingly fascist-friendly paper of record, The New York Times, calling for summary public military execution of the thousands of protesters against police brutality.

2024-04-21 11:12:30

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In case that wasn't clear enough, he subsequently went onto TV and told his interviewer (along with any people who still watch TV) that he thought the protesters ought to be treated like political agitators for justice tend to get treated in the state of Arkansas.
In case you're not familiar with the history of the recent struggle for civil rights, political agitators for justice in the state of Arkansas tend to be brutalized and/or murdered.
So that's what Tom Cotton was suggesting.

2024-04-21 11:11:35

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Tom Cotton, who is a sitting U.S. Senator if I hadn't already mentioned it, told his social media audience that these protesters were terrorists and criminals, that anyone encountering them should "take matters into their own hands" to remove them from the roads.

2024-04-21 11:11:23

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And sure enough, Tom Cotton provided that setup last week. He took to the old social media place to talk about protestors who were blocking a road, as protesters tend to do when they are tired of murder and exploitation and corruption and would like less of it.

2024-04-21 11:10:52

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For example, let's talk about the white supremacist Senator from the state of Arkansas. The way I'd describe this guy is he's long and thin like an unpainted pencil, and is not so much pale as paleness; he looks like something that was extruded to be put inside a sausage casing.
This long and pallid chappie is actually named "Tom Cotton," which given who and what he is seems either a lazy placeholder for a hack writer or a punchline in search of a setup.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/308/900/597/630/570/original/552422748783efe5.png

2024-04-21 11:10:04

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These are laws designed to legalize any future murders of any future Heather Heyers for any Nazis who happen to be interested in murdering their fellow citizens, by which I mean all Nazis.
And, if you are a fan of nuance and distinctions, these laws are also popular with many non-Nazis that are not Nazis but want the exact same thing as Nazis and so make common cause with Nazis in the matter of running over protesters with cars, and many other matters, too.

2024-04-21 11:09:48

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It was murder. Not incidentally, it's a form of murder that many Americans want to make legal. Ask around. They'll tell you. You don't even have to ask them. They'll tell everyone, often while passing laws in Iowa and Florida and Oklahoma and proposing them in many other states.

2024-04-21 11:09:38

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Nor were the Nazis who invaded Charlottesville content to only honor the supremacist murderers of the past. They got in on the act. One of them, and may his name be forgotten forever, struck a bunch of peaceful protesters with an automobile, killing a woman named Heather Heyer.

2024-04-21 11:09:29

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It should be no surprise to find Nazis defending the practice of using those that can be used until their owners have no more use for them, or to kill them if their owners deem they have not earned life, or if they pose a threat, or for any other reason, or for no reason.

2024-04-21 11:09:20

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I suppose we ought not be surprised to find that Nazis would defend the public signs and signals of ongoing support and reverence for men who so recently in human history murdered so many in order to preserve whiteness and the right of whiteness to own and enslave others.

2024-04-21 11:09:09

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They did this in order to preserve and expand their practice of enriching themselves by enslaving Black people. The practice of enslaving Black people was one big reason people who wanted to consolidate power and wealth invented the idea of the white race, incidentally.

2024-04-21 11:09:00

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I'm reminded today that the Nazis were defending statues erected in public spaces to honor leaders of the Confederacy, a traitorous gang of insurrectionists who back in the 1860s waged a war against their own country, and murdered hundreds of thousands of their fellow citizens.

2024-04-21 11:08:50

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They also encourage their respective constituents and audience to defend themselves from this threat, and they make sure that massacre weapons are plentiful and easy to attain, so I guess the Nazis really did manage to Unite the Right after all.

2024-04-21 11:08:41

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Like Nazis, they frame this as self-defense, encouraging others to see the existence of certain types of mostly not white and mostly not Christian people as an existential threat of deliberate replacement by shadowy conspiratorial figures. (They don't usually say "Jews," though.)

2024-04-21 11:08:30

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These days, mainstream elected members of the white Christian party and mainstream figureheads within its vast and popular media disinformation and propaganda superstructure will talk about this Nazi theory of replacement as a given fact, and a rationale for murdering people.

2024-04-21 11:08:20

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I should mention: some will tell you that the white Christian president was only defending the non-Nazis who marched with the Nazis, with mostly the same objectives for doing so as the Nazis.
When those people tell you that, they will expect you to find it to be a meaningful distinction.
Moving on.

2024-04-21 11:07:56

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Anyway, after the Nazi invasion the white Christian president (by which I mean to say the president who exclusively represents the interests of white supremacists and Christian supremacists) defended those invading Nazis as "very fine people."

2024-04-21 11:07:43

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Perhaps it's that these non-Nazi Christians are just too polite to publicly disagree with the Nazis who claim to share their religion.
Perhaps it's that these non-Nazi Christian just agree with the Nazis too much to disagree.
Who can say? Inner lives are so unknowable.

2024-04-21 11:06:19

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... I can't help but notice that a frightening number of Christian practitioners don't do much to differentiate themselves from Nazis, at least not in the way they use their religion as a rationale for their bigotry and for the traditional form of violence known as supremacy.

2024-04-21 11:06:03

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Many Nazis consider themselves Christian, which means that the bigotry in their hearts and the violence that they intend is the thing they worship as their God, which whatever you might think about Christian tenets isn't a Christian tenet.
On the other hand ...

2024-04-21 11:05:44

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And they believed they were being replaced in a conspiracy orchestrated by Jewish people. It's a vile conspiratorial lie called "replacement theory," and Nazis believe it justifies their framing as self-defense the violence they enact and the violence they intend.

2024-04-21 11:05:30

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"The white race" is a pretend thing that certain people made up in order to consolidate social and political power and wealth by organizing the application of brutality and violence.
Anyway the Nazis believed they were white, and this was very important to them.

2024-04-21 11:05:24

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They also wore polo shirts and held tiki torches, and chanted Nazi chants; about blood and soil, and others predicated on the idea that the white race was being replaced by races that Nazis view as inferior.
Probably it is worth talking about what 'the white race" means.

2024-04-21 11:04:17

In 2017 American Nazis invaded Charlottesville, VA, which is a major U.S. city in case you didn't know. Maybe you remember this. They called themselves "Unite the Right." They wanted what Nazis want, and did what Nazis do, which was to kill.
https://www.the-reframe.com/americans-who-want-to-kill-americans/