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Anonymous Bureaucrat @bureaucratanon.bsky.social · 14m

A note of optimism to be found is all of these governments are inheriting very real problems and powder kegs set to implode on them and they are uniquely unequipped at doing anything but making them worse

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14h

Hypocrisy is a virtue to fascists.

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.plus · 28m

the international right wing and US capital have an iron monopoly on the entire planet's information technology & data flow, and are directly using this everywhere for their purposes, and neither leftists nor liberals have an answer to this because they are wedded to cellular localism.

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 35m

This is *the* main continuity between neo-fascism and the 20th Century variety. Erich Fromm argued exactly this in "Escape From Freedom," saying that modernity left many alienated and socially dislocated--and fascist strongmen promised to restore meaning and purpose to their lives.

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Kerr Avon ♨️ @kerravon.bsky.social · 1h

I am now calling a moratorium on takes declaring: 1.) "quick prosecutions" solve fascism (Flavio's dad was prosecuted and barred from office for Brazil's J6 incident) 2.) left-wing populism solves fascism (Lula is the Bernie of Brazil)

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 1h

I do think this should put some of the hand-wringing over the uniquely sinful American electorate, uniquely feckless institutions, etc in perspective. The truth is that there is a large trans-national constituency of people who actively want this. They aren’t deceived. They want this.

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My Password is Louvre @bmceuen.bsky.social · 58m

I’ve been on this train for a minute now but I truly think the only way to prevent another Trump from happening is to destroy the right wing information ecosystem. They have built a monster from the ground up through talk radio, Fox News, and now X and far-right influencers. It needs to burn

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Vasabjit Banerjee @vasabjit.bsky.social · 52m

If Bolsonaro Jr. wins, Brazil will be part of a Latin American wave of rightwing presidents. He won't be an outlier. The left wing's economic policies aren't (sufficiently) popular and people want the hard mano dura law and order. The army's reentry into politics in the region affects this too.

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kilometres d’avis @wwwwww.website · 1h

the lesson of the Civil War is that aesthetic warrior-cult societies get their shit rocked by schoolteachers and store clerks who'd much rather be doing anything else

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 1h

Can you imagine being a Northerner at the start of the civil war. All the fancy lad West Point military guys are Southerners. Your president is a backwoods yokel one term congressman and your generals are some guys we found at a 7-Eleven. It's over for our ass...unless all those guys are geniuses

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Werner Herzog's Bear @jasontebbe.bsky.social · 59m

A big moment for me was seeing people (mostly educated!) who didn't know who Amber Heard was suddenly villainizing her in the group chat. Propaganda works and our online infrastructure is set up to elevate grievance and hate.

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Werner Herzog's Bear @jasontebbe.bsky.social · 1h

A broken public sphere where people get their news and worldviews from the online world is a permanent advantage for the far right. We can see this globally.

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.plus · 15/05/2026

the biggest political legacy of the 20th century wasn't "atlanticist liberalism". it wasn't "eastern bloc socialism". it wasn't "postcolonial national developmentalism". all three eventually died and from their corpses rose one thing: italian fascism

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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 2h

"sketchy video masquerading as evidence" was originally a staple tactic and pastime of fringe conspiracy theorists larping as forensic investigators, from ufologists and cryptozoologists to 9/11 truthers now instead of bigfoot or building 7 demolition its blood libel

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 1h

I think it's pretty clear by now that there is nowhere near a majority of voters, anywhere, who inherently see far-right authoritarianism as extrinsic to the success or survival of democratic systems.

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Amber @risettemd.bsky.social · 1h

The thing about fascism is that it's easy. It's easy to cause fear and hate. It's easy to blame complex problems on minorities because the solution is too hard to understand. It's the lazy, sociopathic person's political stance. Anything that requires actual discourse requires effort.

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DHinrio @dhinrio.bsky.social · 1h

Fascism in the '20s and '30s arose from military defeat, national trauma and extreme economic instability. Present-day fascism seems to arise from boredom, impatience and chronic public amnesia.

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Jonah Maple @jo-maple.bsky.social · 3h

The majority of people “cancelled” are rich men who actually did something wrong so maybe they lost out on a couple paychecks. They are nothing like the actual victims of the Salem Witch Trials, who were innocent women and girls EXECUTED out of societal bloodlust and paranoia.

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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 1h

Knuckle-dragging barbarians.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1h

seeing conservative men debate how to dress online is very funny. can't dress up or wear interesting casualwear bc you've made any visible interest in dress to be a sign of homosexuality. but you feel the need to dress better bc you've linked dress to respectability. a prison of your own making.

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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 1h

major democracies electing far-right populist governments

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Mr. Buick @mrbuick.bsky.social · 1h

“moot is responsible for the downfall of the postwar international order” will be in future textbooks and I hate it

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🏳️‍⚧️ valissa, elvira’s sister @valisdheart.bsky.social · 1h

they 4channed the world

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paul johnson @rhetoricpj.bsky.social · 2h

Also a good reminder that the talk about colonial influence on liberalisms trajectory, industrial fossil capitals role isn't just something people pop off about to sound left wing.. the call is somewhat from inside the house

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3h

Yeah but it’s … bad the threshold for public concern is whether or not the person killed by state violence is white.

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A few years ago the UN interviewed a selection of Ukrainian POWs who had been released and an absolute majority had been sexually abused in captivity. I don’t know if that’s the case more broadly but it’s definitely not isolated

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Vasabjit Banerjee @vasabjit.bsky.social · 2h

I am tired of saying this, but most current analysis of Latin American politics is not valid if it doesn't account for civil-military relations. Not even Colombia, Argentina, and Guyana. There could be outliers like the Dominican Republic and Costa Rica, but they are few.

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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 2h

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Anonymous Bureaucrat @bureaucratanon.bsky.social · 2h

Something to keep in mind is Lula actually did do some of the things people on here are very confident in like prosecuting Jair Bolsonaro and restricting social media to try and staunch the far-right propaganda. It appears to have mattered little

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 2h

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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 4h

"seen a video circulated purporting to show jews baking the blood of christian children into matzah" just to be clear about what that filthy degenerate rufo and his maga lemmings did here

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 2h

A rapist pedophile is bombing starving or funding genocide in eight different countries right now while trans people are undergoing the largest gender based migration in US history. In Canada they're selling t-shirts based off the rape and murder of Indigenous children Woke anything sounds awesome

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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 5h

🧵 of receipts on what a diseased, autofellating sewer rat christopher rufo is ive said this before as catharsis--if you could every justifiably call another human being a cockroach it would be him

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 3h

the emblem of this for me was a Roman-handled anon twitter account whose identity I happened to learn by accident, and who in real life has no children and exudes incel vibes, tweeting about how “they’re coming for our kids”

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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 3h

interwar period reactionary centrists writing sympathetically about the legitimate concerns around international finance

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Matthew Doyle @mattdoyle.bsky.social · 3h

I'm feeling very cynical, so here are my takes on what electorates have learned/are/want: 1. Electorates hate incumbents. 2. Electorates see politics as a mix of sports & reality TV. 3. Electorates mostly like fascism if it's done with a light-ish touch.

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Jeremy C-howl @jmchao.bsky.social · 3h

“Why didn’t the normies fix everything in one term? I guess the only thing to do is let the arsonists have control again.”

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Micah @rincewind.run · 3h

every election everywhere after one (1) cycle with the fascists out of power: FASCISM NEPOBABY: 50.1% NORMAL POLITICIAN: 49.9%

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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 3h

repressed white guilt returning as visions of chickens coming home to roost by their own retributive logic black people would not be in the wrong

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 4h

* There are only whores and wives, "women" do not exist * You must genuflect to my drug-induced ramblings about metaphysics and religion * The King can spend his money as he damn well pleases * Constant warfare is good for Man's soul * Success requires men of lordly character * Moar opium plz

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 4h

unsurprisingly the "truth" one discovers from this Sigma Male Mindset is that of the opium-addicted aristocrat degenerate: * I should be allowed to rape my servants * Human life has a naturally enforced hierarchy * The people cannot decide their fate * I shouldn't be bound by even capitalism ..

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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 4h

i think the median voter needs to have their face violently rubbed in the shit. it doesn't work on dogs but i do think we should act like even these subhumans are capable of the extended reasoning involved that would make them feel some culpability for their actions, even if it's not true

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 8h

We would all have better conversations about Zionism if we viewed it as a nationalism like all others, akin to diaspora Serbian nationalism from Canadian Serbs. Not a civil rights or social justice cause, but also not a way Jewish people are abnormal or ontologically evil.

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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 4h

conservatism has lost in the marketplace of ideas and so embraces a postmodernist epistemology: there is no objective reality independent of discourse only competing narratives and one cannot in principle adjudicate between them; free and open debate then becomes an endless relativist churn

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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 4h

I have a real-life example of this shit. One time an old uni donor audited my Civil War course and harassed me all semester b/c he didn't like scholarly teaching. Instead, he told me, and administrators, that I should give old racist perspectives equal due because he and "people believe it."

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 4h

The pundit view of the world is skewed by many things, one of which is a refusal/inability to understand geographic spaces that exist outside their own neighborhoods. It's all based on stereotypes and conjecture—even when they go to other places, and their columns are essentially bad travel writing.

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Sarah Clarke - Not your doll @damselindystopia.northsky.social · 12h

Most of the talk about forgiveness and restoration is really about convenience. You don't want the hassle of kicking the sex pest out of your spaces, you don't want the Inconvenience of having to find a new video games youtuber to watch, so the onus is placed on people who have been hurt to forgive.

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 8h

Why is reducing ideological bias a goal? To what end? Politics is almost always a fight over values, not facts. I don’t care if I am “biased” towards social justice, whatever that means.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 5h

Part of the subtext here is the elite conviction that African-Americans, in particular, are lazy frauds using affirmative action to steal space in prestigious institutions from their children and colleagues, which doesn't necessarily translate to anti-immigration sentiment more broadly.

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