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Diane Airbus
@cheatlines.co

It is really weird having grown up and formed the foundations of my political worldview under neocons who were really wily and deep statey only to have the political right switch to "We're doing Fascism, like from the Wikipedia article 'Fascism'"

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Diane Airbus
@cheatlines.co

I feel like I was fighting a super scary shadowy elden ring boss and then the boss got way bigger and became like.... a ferris wheel of swastikas lumbering around

Diane Airbus
@cheatlines.co

I think the part I couldn't imagine was the right dropping carefully rehearsed Bible banging for an extremely shoddy and transparent revenge based state religion that's pointless to even address

B Dog
@brandonjitsu.bsky.social

Yep yep yep. This is why I blank out now if people claim this is because of economic conditions. Clearly it's not a problem for their elite! And economic conditions have literally no effect on the supporters devotion!

David
@yonderdavid.bsky.social

I still feel surprise that a significant category of person in my life made this shift. They used to have values I could at least hope to appeal to but have turned implacable. The sort of person who used to quote Bonhoeffer now quotes Schmitt.

Walter MOONdale
@dabenner.bsky.social

I have the hardest time with the fact it worked. My in laws’ neighbors (except for former Detroit Tiger Chet Lemon, who is cool) worship the guy and engage in outward displays of supplication to the Cheeto god.

kit spooks 👻
@kitsparks.bsky.social

my friend’s reply was like “yeah we’re not going to be around for what comes after America, the death throes of the Roman Empire lasted like 65 years at the short end of the estimate” which is fair but not comforting

Kim D.
@kimbearablykute.bsky.social

I have Christian in laws who marched at tea party rallies because they loved the Constitution telling me that I don't know how to do research anytime I show them research about how Trump et al are directly harmful to their grandchildren.