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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jun-2025 00:01:19 JST Paul Cantrell

   • okanogen VerminEnemyFromWithin

   This from @Okanogen is spot on and incredibly important. And we need to recognize it as a crucial fracture point in the right-wing coalition.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jun-2025 00:02:55 JST Paul Cantrell

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     On the right, there is an “economic exploitation” faction whose goal is to get as close to slave labor as they can, and a racist faction whose goal is to be as cruel as possible to immigrants.

     Those factions overlap, they align, some people gravitate to both — but they are not identical. They align •only• if the cruelty creates terrible labor conditions — but not if the cruelty removes the labor entirely.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jun-2025 00:04:31 JST Paul Cantrell

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     There is a fracture point here: the Stephen Miller types who want to make the US entirely white are at odds with the exploitative employers who want •more• undocumented immigrants in the US, not fewer.

     Pit them against each other.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jun-2025 00:08:03 JST Paul Cantrell

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     As @pluralistic writes here, “the American right is a brittle coalition:”

     https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/14/fracture-lines/

     We imagine the right as monolithic at our peril. Reply guys love, love, love to lecture me about how These People are all the same. Here’s the thing: they are not, and imagining they are is self-defeating. The right has been •incredibly• effective at finding fracture points on the left and jamming a crowbar into them. It’s time we did the same.

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     Jeff Miller (orange hatband) (jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jun-2025 00:12:07 JST Jeff Miller (orange hatband)

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     • Sarah Taber

     @inthehands Original from @sarahtaber https://mastodon.online/@sarahtaber/114699899186653035

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jun-2025 00:21:22 JST Paul Cantrell

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     What does jamming a crowbar into the fracture point look like?

     When the Trump admin says they’re backing off deporting agricultural workers, remind the racists that Trump screwed them over to appease its ultawealthy corporate ag owners.

     When the Trump admin keeps deporting undocumented people with jobs and drains the abusable labor pool, remind the rich corps who employ those people that Trump screwed them over to appease the racist chucklefucks who really control it.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jun-2025 00:24:38 JST Paul Cantrell

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     In both cases, the message is clear:

     “Trump is really with •those other people•. Trump never cared about •you•. Trump never really wanted what •you• want. He just wants your money and your vote. He thinks you owe him your vote. Well you don’t.”

     You know the playbook. If you’re having trouble coming up with it, just conjure up what the trolls did in your replies about Biden, turn that into a Mad Lib, and fill in the blanks for Trump supporters.

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     Jenniferplusplus (jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jun-2025 02:24:16 JST Jenniferplusplus

     • Matthew Lyon

     @mattly @inthehands That, and a lot of centrists fundamentally do not understand the nature of the fight. They engage with politics as though it's professional model UN. Meanwhile, their opponents approach it as the exercise of raw power, including state sanctioned violence when they can get away with it.

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     Jenniferplusplus (jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jun-2025 03:03:38 JST Jenniferplusplus

     • Matthew Lyon

     @mattly @inthehands True, I guess we're saying essentially the same thing. There's a bunch of people with power and privilege who don't like what's happening in the country right now. But, they're responding to it by looking around in confusion for the referee they think should be here to call fouls and keep score.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jun-2025 03:21:46 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Greg Bell

     @ferrix
     Oh for sure. These two camps •can• align. My point is they can also be driven apart — and we must work to make that happen.

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     Greg Bell (ferrix@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jun-2025 03:21:47 JST Greg Bell

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     @inthehands super agree, but there's still an overlapping solution they would both buy into: criminalization to prison labor pipeline. Proof of concept: already doing it to black Americans