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   Thomas Zimmer (tzimmer_history@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2025 16:31:04 JST Thomas Zimmer

   Turning the purely ratings-driven platforming of a spectacle that only helps the far-right demagogue who once before tried to abolish democracy and constitutional government as a necessary civic service to get Libs and Lefties to leave their echo chambers is utterly cynical and insulting. 1/

   https://twitter.com/acyn/status/1656813612491501568?s=46&t=1xecvNVImNo8TKt3oEvqnA

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2025 16:31:03 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     • Nicole Parsons

     @Npars01

     No, #bothsidesism, is the way to normalize #fascist, and maybe even ideas of #totalitarianism 4 mainstream thinking.
     In 1949-1966, the great #GermanAmerican #historian #HannahArendt wrote in her book, The Origins of Totalitarianism:

     “In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the #masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true.”

     #histodon
     @tzimmer_history

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     Nicole Parsons (npars01@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2025 16:31:04 JST Nicole Parsons

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     @tzimmer_history

     Anderson Cooper telling folks that they MUST listen to both sides is classic CNN bothsidism.

     By this twisted logic, we are mandated, by a false sense of "fairness", to listen to the manifestos of mass shooters, consider the "good parts" of slavery, and weigh the pros & cons of an anti-democracy movement.

     Hard pass.

     Life is short, don't waste it listening to the ravings of a conman funded by Republican billionaire donors.

     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 repeated this.