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   William Gillis 🏴 (rechelon@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2024 08:25:21 JST William Gillis 🏴

   Love the inane "trump voters are just a product of material conditions" re-tread of 2016's "it's just economic anxiety." Same sort of reactionaries saying it, but they've swapped from identifying as libs to marxists. 🧵

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     William Gillis 🏴 (rechelon@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2024 08:25:18 JST William Gillis 🏴

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     The pull of simplistic arguments that ask nothing of you is also how the left is in increasingly worse shape, rotted out with nationalism, tankies, and the shallowest nonprofit idpol, while enthusiastically echoing obvious absurdities from grifters collecting paychecks for it.

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     William Gillis 🏴 (rechelon@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2024 08:25:18 JST William Gillis 🏴

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     We have to catalyze large social spaces both offline and on that are not overrun by lowest common denominator, so that anarchist-influenced social norms can gel and activist tacit knowledge can compound without wasting time constantly fighting 101 level discourse brushfires.

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     William Gillis 🏴 (rechelon@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2024 08:25:18 JST William Gillis 🏴

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     Yes, we need to continue outreach, even to the privileged, streamlining our argumentation and resources for middle schoolers, gamers, boomers, etc who might get sniped by the 101 level arguments that leverage their ignorance and selfishness.

     alcinnz repeated this.
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     William Gillis 🏴 (rechelon@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2024 08:25:18 JST William Gillis 🏴

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     We need to build science-from-the-bottom participatory structures to spread common contact with objective reality rather than relying on academia or institutions (cf those built by Dalits in India).

     We need to focus on normalizing better epistemic obligations and tools.

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     William Gillis 🏴 (rechelon@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2024 08:25:19 JST William Gillis 🏴

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     Harris lost piles of votes because of how rabidly complicit the Biden administration is in the genocide in Gaza and how utterly callous she is. But if she had said "a Palestinian child is worth even a thousandth of an Israeli life" she probably would have lost MORE zionist votes.

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     William Gillis 🏴 (rechelon@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2024 08:25:19 JST William Gillis 🏴

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     The notion that there's some vast base that could have tapped had the libs not been so fashy is itself liberal delusion; it allows folks to think the electoral system can be saved and to fantasize about the Dems "learning a lesson" and respecting some leftist (non)voting bloc.

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     William Gillis 🏴 (rechelon@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2024 08:25:19 JST William Gillis 🏴

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     The fash have been crowing for a long time about getting gen-z men, and they're not wrong. Simple reactionary arguments win out over more complicated true arguments with kids, locking them into fashy media ecosystems, and shallow leveraging of selfish entitlement works.

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     William Gillis 🏴 (rechelon@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2024 08:25:19 JST William Gillis 🏴

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     We're dealing with a huge number of hardened fash who are not going to see the light. They will likewise exploit any vulnerability they can find. If they think we haven't prepared to make civil war or genocide sufficiently painful for them, they will embrace such.

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     William Gillis 🏴 (rechelon@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2024 08:25:20 JST William Gillis 🏴

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     4) transphobia is intense and rabidly popular rn as a blowback to progress, 5) mild personal inconveniences and changes to every day life during COVID radicalized people for life, 6) the left keeps pratfalling with horrifically bad analysis, and yes 7) inflation sucks.

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     William Gillis 🏴 (rechelon@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2024 08:25:20 JST William Gillis 🏴

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     How we got here was libs and leftists incessantly downplaying the existence of fascists as a marginal fringe that could never matter. But the "Right Wing Death Squads" and "the natural order is warlords raping young men and eating them" folks really do constitute millions now.

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     William Gillis 🏴 (rechelon@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2024 08:25:20 JST William Gillis 🏴

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     There is no grand leftist coalition in the wings waiting to be discovered. The election could have easily gone the other way from happenstance, but there is no vast mobilization of class consciousness and the working class that will ever happen. That's an 1800s era map of power.

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     William Gillis 🏴 (rechelon@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2024 08:25:21 JST William Gillis 🏴

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     People love Trump because 1) our epistemic ecosystems are toxic sludge, 2) many people have intense investments in the (often non-material) benefits of patriarchy and racism, 3) fear of ratcheting cancelation has scared every type of amoral bastard into mobilizing together...