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Jo
@hoojo.bsky.social

I couldn"t read the whole article because of its paywall, so i don't know if it mentions ubermensch & untermensch, as tropes, but this Trump regime certainly echoes these vibes.

Goth or Ostro-goth
@edwardericsonjr.bsky.social

This is good but a bit precious. The GOP has been defining immigrants as "invaders" forever. It was baked into the ideology long before the present memelords started posting "glitchy" edits of whatever the fuck they're doing.

Marc Ratkovic
@marcratkovic.bsky.social

Thank you for sharing! We need to listen to, and acknoweldge, how correct the shrill were, the premature antifascists were, a decade ago. When the Atlantic was wrong. And seek them out and listen to them more--and employ them in journals/magazines/media/newspapers.

Eliot Sumner
@eliotsumner.bsky.social

Wrote about this last fall bsky.app/profile/elio...

Eliot Sumner@eliotsumner.bsky.social

3/3 Reaffirming the ideology shifts this from plausible to implausible deniability. The "denial" (and attacking the journalist) isn't meant to be believed; it's an assertion of power & contempt for accountability. My essay decodes the playbook. It's strategy, not just memes write.as/eliot-sumner...

write.asThe Official Digital Authoritarian Aesthetic: Traditionalist Ideals in a Futurist CodeWhen Vice President JD Vance recently defended racist texts from a Republican group chat, he didn't engage with the content. Instead, he ...