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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 18-Apr-2025 00:50:30 JST Paul Cantrell

   Today’s edition of Paul Pontificates Off the Cuff on Grandiose Theories of Society:

   “The Big Sort” was published 21 years ago. It talked about people moving to be near like-minded people, forming information and belief bubbles.

   Popular understanding of that book quickly slid into fatuous centrist nonsense about how we should all emulate David Brooks and “both sides” everything — and definitely not whack fascists over the head for being fascists.

   It’s a shame the discussion went that way, because the original thought is crucial now.

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   Ben Todd (monkeyben@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 00:46:35 JST Ben Todd

   in reply to

   @persagen

   It is. It'll be weird if the song becomes an anthem for fascists.

   It's ironic that the band member that supports Trump is the one dressed as a cop.

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   Coffee Pinewood (coffeepine@beige.party)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 00:49:40 JST Coffee Pinewood

   in reply to

   @AnarchoNinaWrites What still gets me, is the condescending tone... 'but don't you know about Trump?'

   Yes, we do. Stop pretending we don't. We can actually see that democracy is on the line. We saw it YEARS AGO. And we also see that Joe is losing the fight, and actually does not want to fight fascists.

   It's all very shrill.

   Edit: And I cannot help that most of the 'But Trump' sentiment comes from a fear that fascism reaches them while the fascism that only reaches brown people and marginalized groups can be sneered at but ultimately ignored.

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   AnarchoNinaWrites (anarchoninawrites@jorts.horse)'s status on Sunday, 24-Sep-2023 03:54:07 JST AnarchoNinaWrites

   Naw, of course it literally does not matter if someone had a beer before a protest, but pointing out that this is just objectively false about Gigi in particular does matter because these are the same folks who've tried to say she's violent, she's dangerous, she's the real fascist; we're talking about a tiny Black woman who does legal observer work at counterprotests here. They will SAY anything, because they're liars and yes, fascists.

   It's no big deal if you have a beer; but they still lying.