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The discursive project of fascism is to convince you that that power dynamics are upside-down. Dominant groups and people are ‘oppressed.’ Marginalized people are in fact dominant ‘oppressors.’

The beneficiaries are the elite of the capitalist class.
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The fascist project (MAGA) is seductive because it diagnoses real problems. People are suffering from unaffordable housing, inaccessible health care, rising cost of living but stagnant or declining wages. Fascism correctly acknowledges this privation and immiseration.
07:35 AM - Jun 21, 2023
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Even Covid is an example: the pharmaceutical companies *are* depraved. Again, the fascist turn to anti-vaxxing is in a sense right to mistrust that industry. But, the actual problem is global vaccine apartheid, not ‘fake’ vaccines or a ‘fake’ virus.
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The insidious and contemptible genius of fascism (MAGA) is that it blames the ‘woke’ for all of society’s very real ills instead of capitalism, thus insulating and even framing as ‘victims’ the very perpetrators of those ills: capitalists and their political compradors.
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The fascist strategy to blame the ‘woke’ (actually marginalized people and their advocates) for the depravities of capitalism is most effective on social media where some marginalized people do have some non-economic forms of social and cultural capital (clout).
07:36 AM - Jun 21, 2023
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With all of this in mind, you can see why Elon would consider it worth his absurd outlay to transform a platform that had been weaponized against the fascist project into one that explicitly serves it.
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Anyway, this is all playing out at the very local level as well, including the sleepy province of New Brunswick.

https://nbmediacoop.org/20...
07:36 AM - Jun 21, 2023
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The moral of this story is to fight like hell for trans and non-binary people and to double down on ‘cis’ and ‘TERF’ and any other term that correctly identifies the structure of power relations. And to never waver from anti-capitalism.
07:37 AM - Jun 21, 2023
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(Here’s my conversation with New Brunswick Liberal leader Susan Holt from yesterday in which she says the province is “more than teetering” on the edge of fascism under Premier Blaine Higgs.)

https://theendofsport.podb...
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