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Learning David Lynch was once distressed by the sight of a tenement-dweller cooking an egg on an iron is one thing; learning it was a tenement his grandfather owned, in which none of the rooms for rent had kitchens, is quite another.

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<creepy little girl voice>

They're HEeeeere....

(#7 ran off when I opened the door...)

edit: it works better when you attach the photo...

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History may not repeat, but it rhymes.

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Statutory toilet

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like maybe #lemmy & #mbin have similarly good comment threading, but I think of those as pretty different platforms than this.

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#akkoma still has the best comment threading I’ve encountered on the micro-blogging part of the #fediverse

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the US’ social immune system against fascism is currently in terminal decline.

that doesn’t mean pockets of genuine resistance (not liberal bullshit) don’t remain vital, but they can’t rely on mobilizing broadly generalized social revulsion against outright nazism, fascism, & kkk stuff. the GOP has absorbed that stuff.

none of this means “just give up” on any front. but be clear eyed.

#uspol #fascism #maga #nazis #pdx

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there are a lot of intermediary steps / forms, but think of the progression from Unite The Right to January 6th.

after UTR, they were in total disarray. enough of the GOP mainstream felt too repulsed to double down and defend the nazis.

gradually, though, with repetition of violent MAGA nazi rallies, and with the mainstreaming of alt right propagandists like Andy Ngo & ghoulish GOP functionaries like Harmeet Dhillon (plus whole lot of dark money from a cadre of fascist billionaires) – their revulsion toward outright nazism waned. after J6 it only took a couple of weeks for the mainstream GOP to consolidate around a cluster of apologist and denialist positions. And their well-funded (possibly some of the most funded media in history) propaganda organs went into overdrive.

when the next UTR style fascist atrocities happen (& they will be bigger and worse), they will not hesitate to circle the wagons.

#uspol #fascism #maga #nazis #pdx

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what I see happening is that the Trump Machine will initially waffle on the most violent aspects of their promises; some lower level MAGA fanatics, though, will step into the breach and do some pogrom style violence & murders. There will be a brief moment of bewilderment before leadership decides to own it, and then it will kick off on a much more massive scale.

#fascism #maga #nazis #uspol #PDX

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The pseudo-insurrection in Washington, DC, on 6 January 2021, intended to stop a supposed theft of the presidential election and restore Trump to power, was fantasy putschism minted by online disinfotainment: Caesarism for the QAnon generation.

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@kiplet one of my favorite things about The Lathe of Heaven
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it seems like @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy doesn’t really work on #akkoma at this point — I can see the account present on #bsky but no posts make it through
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Hell yes let’s get this elite sex trafficking deep state up and running

RE: https://mstdn.social/@OregonLive/113478287701219183

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beep beep

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Its the Bee’s knees

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Hell yes let’s get this elite sex trafficking deep state up and running

RE: https://mstdn.social/@OregonLive/113478287701219183

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