Notices by A.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆 (juliusgoat@mastodon.social)

“The reason we can say that the Republican Party is a hate group is that we’ve seen politically empowered and popular hate groups before, and they look like the Republican Party. More importantly, they act like the Republican Party.”

https://www.the-reframe.com/the-elephant-in-the-room/

If you've been trying to put words to why all the "big tent" talk about "winning the middle" to defeat fascism that's coming from allegedly moderate alleged pragmatists seems like such wrong-minded nonsense, well I wrote all about that.

https://www.the-reframe.com/winning-the-middle/

If I could change one thing about US culture, it would be this unshakeable and absolutely backward belief that life must be earned, and generating profit is how you earn it.

Life is a human right. Profit must be earned, and those who want to earn it must respect human rights in order to do so.

Pretty wild to be living in a time when humans are being forced to work in order to even be considered deserving of life or even to be considered human at all, while simultaneously human labor is being systematically eliminated from the concept of work.

If you don't want to be compared to the Gestapo, one neat trick is to not engage in a campaign of terror around the country wherein you kidnap people off the streets to slave dungeons in accommodation of an autocratic fascist and his nationalist movement's desire for racial purity.

The ethos of MAGA is demolishing livable society for themselves because they are so captured by bigotry that the thought of sharing a livable society with others causes them psychological trauma. They've sold their inheritance for a bowl of poison, and they lick their fingers as they gobble it down.

I for one am amazed that allowing the world's stupidest man to bellow like an idiot while swinging a sledgehammer into every surface encountered has not fixed all of our problems but has instead made all problems worse and caused new ones. It makes no sense; he had the longest tie, the goldest hair.

I used the 1-year anniversary of moving my newsletter off of Substack (they monetize Nazis among other things it turns out) to write a few thoughts on the lessons I've learned from the experience.

https://www.the-reframe.com/1-year-after-substack

I'm no epidemiologist, but what if for public health we got rid of all the scientists and their centuries of human knowledge clawed from the vast sea of human ignorance with rigor and testing, and turn it all over to people who were educated by vape-pen bro podcasts and their own magical thinking.

I’m not an efficiency expert but for our space program I think the best thing would be to shut down the federal agency that successfully implemented history’s first moon landing and turn it all over to a white supremacist con man who glues his trucks together.

Hello, I’m a disruptor, very smart, here to create efficiency. I’m just going to drill holes in the bottom of this boat to see which parts of the hull are mission-critical.

Democrats giving up on trans rights because they poll badly is like a sports team deciding to score on their own goal instead of the opponent’s because that’s what’s been getting the loudest cheers lately.

Not uniquely evil for the U.S. to stand in solidarity with a despot aggressor and in opposition to a democracy when that democracy is inconvenient and the despot is convenient, but the Zelenskyy shakedown strikes me as uniquely unprofessional. Trump/Vance are sloppy mob henchmen, real Fredo shit.

This GOP Nazi salute business isn't new.

"What interests me is the fact of the gesture, and people’s response to it which is to deliberately not know what it is. A lot of people really don’t want to know that it was what it is, and they have plenty of help."

https://www.the-reframe.com/sabotage-part-4-foundational-lies

I have learned in recent years there are 10s of millions of Americans not only willing but eager to go watch a lynching from the comfort of a picnic blanket and the only thing that was holding them back was the social penalty; really makes you think about those who warn against social penalties.

In 2023 I wrote about my bully, margins of permission, and the popular misguided idea that the way to stop fascists is by persuading them them to not be cruel, rather than persuading them that if they are cruel we will fight them—because a bully hates a fight.

https://www.the-reframe.com/youve-persuaded-us-already/

This "Gulf of America" is just another fascist loyalty test. It's a way of checking who is going to abrogate reality for no reason other than a cowardly refusal to stand up to the bully or an opportunistic willingness to toady up to one. Anyone who will call it that will help you round people up into camps or look the other way while you do it. Anyone who won't puts themselves on the round-up list.

If the president can ignore court orders and illegally circumvent Congress, there is no Constitution. It’s gone. There’s no enumerated right that the president can’t take from you, no law Congress can pass that is binding, and no court that can protect you from any of it. It’s the whole ballgame.

I wrote about the clarifying power of simple declarations of basic truths and decency; how they show us what we stand for, and how they expose what indecent liars stand for.

Five thoughts on finding our direction in the Republican Party's Nazi America.

https://www.the-reframe.com/the-bishop-and-the-billionaire/

"If one team playing the game stops following the rules, and nothing exists to stop them ... then you aren’t playing that game anymore. You’re playing a different game, defined by the people allowed to go on breaking the rules."

www.the-reframe.com/the-rules/