Notices by A.R. Moxon, Verified Duck ? (juliusgoat@mastodon.social), page 11

I think if the Supreme Court is going to give Joe Biden the power to murder the Supreme Court that also means that Joe Biden has the power to ignore the Supreme Court.

The bribed Supreme Court is ruling on whether or not, for example, Joe Biden, is allowed to order the military to take, for instance, the Supreme Court, and to have them, for example, murdered.

You’d think this would be an easy one but actually it looks like it’s gonna be kind of close.

Permit me a moment of skepticism for the notion that the same people who use free speech as a pretext to suppress students protesting bigotry and now use anti-bigotry as a pretext for suppressing students protesting genocide care about either free speech or fighting bigotry.

"When voters on the right hold their vote contingent, I'm told it means they obviously must be pursued, as a simple function of bloodless math. When voters on the left do so, I'm told it means they obviously must be abandoned, for the exact same reason."

https://www.the-reframe.com/the-bloody-math/

Thinking you don't have much of a future in the world can make you stop caring so much about either the future or any world that has been configured for indifference about your future existence—especially if there are people telling you that you don't have a future, and you have few defenders.

They accidentally bombed the humanitarian food aid workers. They accidentally bombed the humanitarian food aid workers three times.

Covid's great lesson was demonstrating that "patriots" who favor government with unshakeable support as long as it is harming people will also deploy impenetrable skepticism and violent opposition as soon as that government seems it might ask them to engage in even tiny acts of harm reduction.

There’s no bases in cryball.

There is also a reflexive instinct when Biden is justly criticized to immediately and reflexively shout that Trump is worse, which is 1) true, and also 2) changing the subject in a way that seems designed to deflect to avoid engaging with a real problem that needs addressing.

I am skeptical about the perspective that seems to believe that opposing Biden’s disastrous and murderous Gaza policies requires immediately and reflexively obviating any warning about the coming permanent fascist theocracy Trump and his gang have promised to enact.

Any attempt to talk about ways in which Republicans are a uniquely dangerous strain of eliminationist fascism draws people rushing to tell me Dems are bad too, and 1) yes they are; 2) often this feels less like anti-fascism and more like deflection in defense of Republicans.

Do you know the difference between a Nazi party and a party full of Nazis? Because I don't. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nazis-mingle-openly-cpac-spreading-antisemitic-conspiracy-theories-fin-rcna140335

The people stringing up razor wire and drowning kids in rivers would like you to know that they’re only defending themselves, and they’re eager to wage war against their own country if they imagine anyone might suggest preventing them from the killing that makes them feel safe.

As I mentioned yesterday, my newsletter, The Reframe, is departing Substack. I want to say more about why.

It's in part over the most recent Nazi flap, but for me (and I suspect many creators) it's more about how we have learned to think about platforms.

https://www.the-reframe.com/hello-i-must-be-going/

Now it so happens that Twitter's new owner, old what's-his-name, acquired Twitter in order to put his finger on the scales for neo Nazis and other supremacists and bullies, in the name of "free speech." Whether or not intentional, this destroyed much of the site's value.

It happened like this: The Reframe had been hosted on Revue, which was a newsletter platform Twitter acquired.

When Twitter's new owner (whose name I can’t quite remember right now) demolished Revue as part of a larger effort to demolish Twitter, I shifted over to Substack.

And what I noticed about that year of demolition is that old what's-his-name (you know him, he looks like a boiled dumpling that was dropped on a barbershop floor) seemed to think that the value of the site wasn't us, who wrote on it.

No. He thought the value was HIM.

Anyway, after what's-his-name demolished Revue, I moved my newsletter to Substack.

Even then, Substack's leadership had begun heavily promoting and mainstreaming a whole raft of bad-faith pro-bigotry writers, which helped those writers grow their audiences and pose as mainstream voices.

THEN Substack founder Hamish McKenzie decided to defend Substack's platforming and monetization of Nazis by positioning it as a principled stand to actually help *fight* Nazi ideology and practice—which is, as I point out here, laughable nonsense.

https://www.the-reframe.com/questions-for-substack/

Then it came out in The Atlantic courtesy of the reporting of fellow Substacker @katzonearth that Nazis were monetizing/organizing on Substack.

The Atlantic also platforms many of the bigots Substack promotes, by the way. That's how it goes these days.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/substack-extremism-nazi-white-supremacy-newsletters/676156/