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   AnarchoNinaWrites (anarchoninawrites@jorts.horse)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 03:16:19 JST AnarchoNinaWrites

   *sigh*

   I'm going to have to write some class-based analysis to explain why Thiel's creature is on your TV screen because precisely nobody else will; aren't I?

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     AnarchoNinaWrites (anarchoninawrites@jorts.horse)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 03:16:15 JST AnarchoNinaWrites

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     (Look, I'm not trying to give you a hard time if you shared that essay; it's quite good if what you're examining is the liberal obsession with finding a "responsible conservative" so they don't have to admit that conservatism is just fascism in a state of having to hide its intentions. It's a GOOD essay about that. But it's not why liberals in the ruling classes bent over backwards to make JD Vance a thing, nor is it why fascist TechBros adopted him. He's a class traitor, is why.)

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     AnarchoNinaWrites (anarchoninawrites@jorts.horse)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 03:16:16 JST AnarchoNinaWrites

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     Literally, exposing these facts about Vance would absolutely shatter his "avenging angel for the working class" schtick; it would expose him for the bootlicking housepet he actually is. It would utterly defang him in the eyes of the labor class and render him less than irrelevant in the discourse.

     But nobody is gonna say it, because to do so you'd have to admit that class war exists and poverty isn't about LABOR class choices but rather a byproduct of functioning capitalism.

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     AnarchoNinaWrites (anarchoninawrites@jorts.horse)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 03:16:17 JST AnarchoNinaWrites

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     It's Vance because Vance is one of us, as odious as he is, selling a story for all of them.

     He's a poor, who told rich people, that the problem really is the poors. That poverty in Appalachia really is all the poors' fault. That the American dream works fine, it's just that you're lazy and drink too much and accrue too much debt and blame someone else for all your problems. It's your fault you're poor, it's not capitalism, in fact capitalism saved him.

     And that sells well in affluent circles.

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     AnarchoNinaWrites (anarchoninawrites@jorts.horse)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 03:16:17 JST AnarchoNinaWrites

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     The fact that he's an Ivy League graduate, and a techbro minion, and worked a half-assed critique of Trumpism into it was just like sprinkling catnip on top of the Fancy Feast.

     They loved him, and elevated him, BECAUSE he's a class traitor, willing to affirm the idea that poverty is really the fault of the poor and capitalism works fine.

     Period.

     And the fact that not one person has bothered to say that, says a lot about the purposeful attempts to strangle class consciousness in American life

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     AnarchoNinaWrites (anarchoninawrites@jorts.horse)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 03:16:18 JST AnarchoNinaWrites

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     Reading an extremely long essay about the liberal infatuation with "responsible conservativism" as if they couldn't, and wouldn't have picked someone else from their own class structures to elevate as their example and haven't been dry humping ghouls like Liz Cheney every waking moment for the past eight years for that precise reason.

     You either don't understand why it's Vance, or you won't say. But I know.

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     eight of cups allie (brokendragon@chaosfem.tw)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 03:17:46 JST eight of cups allie

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     @AnarchoNinaWrites JD? I thought it was a great move, intended to bring over liberals who vaguely remember him from 2016 or thereabouts who were wavering on Biden. Or is this someone else?

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     Alex P. 👹 (saddestrobots@jorts.horse)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 03:17:47 JST Alex P. 👹

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     @AnarchoNinaWrites
     how many fucking republicans have recent democratic administrations appointed to "cop boss" / "spy boss" jobs in the past few decades? i've lost count by now

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     JustChapman (justchapman@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 03:17:52 JST JustChapman

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     @AnarchoNinaWrites man that’s so dead-on correct. I’m originally from West Virginia and they were told the elites don’t want coal anymore. It’s their fault for not meeting their standards. Then the coal companies did all they could to destroy union jobs and tell the workers, just BE GLAD you have a job, we’re here for YOU. The state did nothing to prepare or transition, just gave tax breaks to coal companies, who used it as leverage to subjugate workers even more. Now they’re leaving.