Consolidating defiance has a practical component, and is also a show of force, a flex against fascism. As inspiring as it is watching individual efforts, it would be exponentially so when done as a collective.
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Stale are playmates who play to stalemate.
Made noisy political punk once, may again (theultrasecret.bandcamp.com)
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Get fired, make them move you, and it’s an injustice, one that might resonate, one that might spark something. Step aside, and…you just step aside.
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Bad faith, malignant intent, and poisonous ignorance, unrecognized by our political and media class, and often heralded as part of one’s maverick brand. One gigantic piece to the “how did we end up in this fascist moment” puzzle.
this is how his ideas about vaccine safety and infectious disease prevention should be received but he’s a Kennedy so the New Yorker ran a piece saying that he was “enchanted by science” and the times recast his quackery as “skepticism”
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Questioning which humans have rights is inherently authoritarian; that this poisonous attitude persists in the Dem party leaves little room to wonder why they haven’t been able to beat back American fascism.
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Our political and media class have worked diligently over time to sever the ideological ties between Conservatives and Confederates, and in typical self-congratulatory fashion, concluded that the problem of racism had been solved. Less a blind spot than a foundation, our fascism needs finishing off.
It has been clear for years now that the GOP is a fascist political party engaged in an eliminationist crusade against any & all who oppose them. They have, for years, taken over systems & overturned established laws & norms. This is simply the culmination of that ideological project.
Why I Use The F Word (And You Should Too)
We have a fascism problem. Solving it requires that we correctly identify this problem and the dangers it creates.
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There may indeed be a journey to an AI-human co-existence/collaboration, but it should be a slow, evolutionary one, and best not rushed through and peddled to us by rapacious tech hustlers. If it feels “cheap and easy,” it’s because this is an illusion they are pushing.
I have seen people in academia in comp sci and elsewhere also suggest that gAI be used for all manner of other services for disabled students, because its "so cheap and easy"
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The rich are rarely generous, usually conniving. Their "generosity" is an inoculation against criticism and consequence.
When institutions depend on wealthy people for status and resources, they have an incentive to let those wealthy people get away with breaking the rules.
I've seen this in my research on schooling, and I'm grateful for @dawsonvosburg.bsky.social's work showing similar patterns in churches.
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“Who’s this asshole?” is something we’re often thinking.
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Questioning which humans have rights is inherently authoritarian; that this poisonous attitude persists in the Dem party leaves little room to wonder why they haven’t been able to beat back American fascism.
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The lack of a strong moral core fails the Dem party again and again. The leadership thinks that they can carve out certain issues (trans rights, the genocide in Gaza) from their platform, but the base thinks more holistically. You can’t countenance certain horrors, and still expect robust support.
To this day "The Bulwark" and other handmaidens to fascism blame Harris's catastrophic loss on the very base that had been BEGGING the campaign to change course to defeat Trump.
