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RT @newrepublic: A rambling convention speech underlined the root of the president’s re-election campaign: He needs violence and destructio…
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@docbaty @dszuc @Amy_Siskind That’s the point: To demonstrate power – most especially the power to use any and all aspects of public office / government to communicate their power. This is grade-A fascism in the raw.
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RT @michikokakutani: Hannah Arendt: the totalitarian elite “never stops to think about the world as it really is and never compares the lie…
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RT @umairh: Here you see the blueprint for an authoritarian-fascist society. Getting rid of all the “radical left” intellectuals, politicia…
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RT @umairh: When an authoritarian leader announces his desire to build a totalitarian society this openly, you are living through a social…
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@steveportigal As a History major with a focus on modern Europe, I read plenty of official propaganda from the fascist and totalitarian states: this whole program is straight out of that playbook. One of the definitions of Fascism is *government by spectacle*.
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That’s exactly the point. The leader speaks *just to be seen and heard in the act of speaking to the drones*. Coherence is not only unnecessary for the leader – it’s *a weakness*. This moment is meant to reinforce the spectacle of unquestioning loyalty as a defining trait. twitter.com/NYMag/status/1…
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RT @umairh: Boredom and terror alternate just like this at least for sane people in authoritarian societies. For the 30% or so of committed…
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RT @umairh: Note how the fascists keep calling the Dems socialists but the Dems still never call them fascists, nor do the pundits and inte…
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RT @jaketapper: From the beginning of the GOP convention on Monday until 5 pm ET today, 3,688 people in the U.S. died from coronavirus. Mor…