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   AnarchoNinaWrites (anarchoninawrites@jorts.horse)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Apr-2025 12:41:05 JST AnarchoNinaWrites

   Look, I'm not mad, but I dunno what you folks want me to say. If I simply acknowledge what I know, that America has always been fascist, my writing is off putting and not taken seriously by normal ppl who wouldn't know what fascism is if it bit them on the ass. If however I make allowances for a broader audience reading my work, lefties get mad at me for not knowing what *I* taught many of them a decade ago - we've been fascist forever; while simultaneously minimizing that things ARE changing.

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     AnarchoNinaWrites (anarchoninawrites@jorts.horse)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Apr-2025 12:41:04 JST AnarchoNinaWrites

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     There is honestly no good way to square that circle that doesn't involve throwing the Anatomy of Fascism at them with a bookmark on the chapter about the Slave Power US South and screaming "READ MUTHERFUCKER" - which they will not do and we both know it.

     I've been trying to find a way to explain this so EVERYONE stops yelling at me about shit I already know, for a decade, and it hasn't happened.

     Rich Felker repeated this.
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     AnarchoNinaWrites (anarchoninawrites@jorts.horse)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Apr-2025 12:41:04 JST AnarchoNinaWrites

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     America has always been fascist and also what's happening now IS worse than it has been post-Emancipation.

     Typically I describe this as the "descent into overt fascism, as opposed to covert fascism" but that doesn't always get the point across and is honestly not all that precise.

     So if you folks who DO have a good background in theory could understand that by "descent" I actually mean "getting way fucking worse all the time" so I can talk to ppl who don't know fascism, I'd appreciate it.