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Irenē @irenecolth.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Part of this is this insistence, which gets taken as conventional wisdom, that "Nazi" is often and easily thrown around as a political epithet. In the post-Reaganite context I grew up in that wasn't true? If anything political discourse worked to soften the right.

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Irenē @irenecolth.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Not what we do here? There's literally a right-wing hack book called "Liberal Fascism."

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Irenē @irenecolth.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Why not call them feudalists, then?

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Irenē @irenecolth.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Americans don't actually believe in capitalism as much as the world thinks we do! Not the mutually competitive market for goods and services or land or labor, anyway.

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Irenē @irenecolth.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It would be great if nonfascist people on both sides of the Atlantic could see the far right as a common threat they should stand against together. But that would require American humility and a commitment to returning to the status of an ordinary country without foreign bases when this is over.

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Irenē @irenecolth.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"American AfD" is a good line, though

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Irenē @irenecolth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Empire this, empire that. Urbanize.

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Irenē @irenecolth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yes! The phrase "literacy crisis" gets thrown around a lot, but I'd wager it's something about child-centered learning meets fandom.

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Irenē @irenecolth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is very aunt energy, Anonymous. I approve.

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Irenē @irenecolth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"Silicon Klansmen" is a future book title (complimentary!)

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Kate Glenn @findingtangle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is what an opposition party on offense sounds like. This is how you will address future problems like JD Vance and Marco Rubio.

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Kate Glenn @findingtangle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I want Ossoff to convince every last elected Democrat to sound like him by the end of the year how do we do that

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Kevin @kevinrmatthews.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"There is no greater ally to Fascism than the rural voter." Pump this right into my veins. youtu.be/2hYorE3nvKA?...

youtu.be

The Rural Voter Is Fascism's Greatest Friend

YouTube video by Liberal Currents

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Irenē @irenecolth.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

White rural voters, yes. They're the ones propping up the white exurban/rural power structure, the key villain here.

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Irenē @irenecolth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There's just something about the internet, I think, that makes people want the information, resources, and services they get from it to be free. Students taking online lessons often think those should be very cheap or free. I had to get out of that industry because of that.

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Irenē @irenecolth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Frankly, the only news here is that supposedly there even *are* impeachment plans.

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Irenē @irenecolth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

IKR? Folks are also assuming they'd go to Federation space. You could get sent to Cardassia Prime.

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Irenē @irenecolth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Anti-cosmopolitanism is cosmopolitan.

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Irenē @irenecolth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And Flavio is still in the mix, too?

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Irenē @irenecolth.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Repealing the big federal tax cuts of Trump, GWBush, and Reagan has to be a priority, then?

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Irenē @irenecolth.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Add in unswitched number 2FA Catch-22s

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Irenē @irenecolth.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Should the effort have its own distinct name?

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Irenē @irenecolth.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And SWEs! Consultants! (And not just the political ones, although taxing *them* into oblivion should be a DSA candidate position.)

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Irenē @irenecolth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The point was and is, there are (always!) several particular reasons why politicians do what they do. She hasn't been publicly active in any real way since Nov. 2024.

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Irenē @irenecolth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Harris didn't want to step out of Biden's shadow, so.

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Alt text is not the same as a photo caption. Captions are typically written to support a photo, and usually depend on users being able to see the photo. But alt text is meant to be the stand-in for the photo. The alt text is what a screen reader user gets in place of the photo.

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Irenē @irenecolth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Pretty good anti-2A argument, right?

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Irenē @irenecolth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Can we get rid of the consultants on the other side of all this?

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Irenē @irenecolth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And insert whatever extreme-from-the-median ideology you want to in the thought experiment—the impaired ability to clearly signal anti-incumbent politics is the same. With at least one more party, people can express that more clearly.

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Irenē @irenecolth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So, we saw a big problem with the two-party system in the 2024 cycle. The key voters were anti-incumbent. They wanted to vote the incumbent out. But that meant voting for the other major party. The other major party is fascist. People thus thought the electorate wanted fascism.

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Irenē @irenecolth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That rather important one, and also the Confederacy

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Irenē @irenecolth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thank you. —a budding historical novelist

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Irenē @irenecolth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I just finished James Baldwin's *If Beale Street Could Talk*, and I'm now finishing *The Burning Heart of the World* by Nancy Kricorian. I've also started Louise Harnby's * Editing Fiction at Sentence Level*.

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Irenē @irenecolth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You're a really perceptive anti-fascist writer, though.

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