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2023-05-14 13:16 UTC

It’s really hard to overstate how acutely dangerous this is: All strands of the Right - leading Republicans, the media machine, the reactionary intellectual sphere, the conservative base - are openly and aggressively embracing rightwing vigilante violence.

Replies (19)

  • Not that more evidence was really needed, but the mask has fully slipped in the reactions to the killing of Jordan Neely. Look at this, for instance, from a rightwing “thinker”: Very difficult to construct a plausible version of who “these people” are supposed to be that’s not brutally racist.

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  • @etd@mas.to 2023-05-14 13:25

    @tzimmer_history@mastodon.social yet another Rittenhouse

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  • @ronanmcd@mastodon.green 2023-05-14 13:25

    @tzimmer_history@mastodon.social I could be wrong but surely it's De Santis' party that keeps getting caught doing criminal acts. And I'm fairly certain the moral of the good Samaritan story is not that racist extra-judicial killings are lauded

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  • @sinabhfuil@mastodon.ie 2023-05-14 13:36

    @tzimmer_history@mastodon.social Went to look him up; thought I read a headline saying "defends NYC subway cuckold" but alas it was "chokehold" when I looked a second time

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  • @Sameagle@federated.press 2023-05-14 13:44

    @tzimmer_history@mastodon.social DeSantis is dangerous. The fact that he can operate with impunity in Florida is a statement in just how flawed our system of government is. We in the U.S. rely solely on the electorate to enforce standards of behavior among government officials, and when society is fractured into normal and aberrant segments, the aberrant thrives because it's member don't follow the rules.

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  • @Pollik@mastodon.social 2023-05-14 14:00

    @tzimmer_history@mastodon.social This kind of rhetoric is terrifying. And the US doesn't seem very far (praps measured in decades) from becoming a fascist regime

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  • @10tothe22@mastodon.social 2023-05-14 14:24

    @tzimmer_history@mastodon.social The worst part is that he’s shilling for money / political power.

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  • @tzimmer_history@mastodon.social Same with the #UK - It's their 1 and only mantra to rile their voting base with the aid of right wing gutter #press.

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  • @Mxhrad@mastodon.social 2023-05-14 14:51

    @tzimmer_history@mastodon.social Conservatives in America are taking a playbook from the Nazi's brown shirts in the 1930's. Nazi's wouldn't have been able to take power if armed vigilantes didn't terrorize the public. They know what they're doing. This isn't just trying appeal to a base. They want violence. #GOP #GOPterrorists #GOPbetrayedAmerica

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  • @south_lib@mastodon.social 2023-05-14 14:53

    @tzimmer_history@mastodon.social The road to fascism is paved by claims of hyperbole. Don't think this is just mudslinging, because it is not; it is the truth.

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  • @mrbruno@mstdn.social 2023-05-14 15:05

    @tzimmer_history@mastodon.social Ronny DeathSantis: "Sure, Danny... I can help you out... But I need a little sumthin sumthin from the cash and you need to stump for me for POTUS. Deal?"

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  • @Malaclypse@better.boston 2023-05-14 16:04

    @tzimmer_history@mastodon.social They are building an American Sturmabteilung, and they are building it openly.

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  • @LawrenceShop@sfba.social 2023-05-14 16:15

    @tzimmer_history@mastodon.social Fight Back With All Might Available

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  • @tzimmer_history@mastodon.social Maybe I've read a poor translation of the New Testament, but I don't remember the Good Samaritan doing any choke-holding. Even the priest just walked by…

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  • @bigheadtales@mstdn.party 2023-05-14 16:50

    @tzimmer_history@mastodon.social The American fascist forces believe they need to embolden their #Republican terrorist Brownshirt squads in advance of the 2024 election if they are to end US democracy and raise their #FourthReich dictatorship.

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  • @bigheadtales@mstdn.party 2023-05-14 16:57

    @tzimmer_history@mastodon.social The American fascist forces believe they need to embolden their #Republican terrorist Brownshirt squads in advance of the 2024 election if they are to end US democracy and raise their #FourthReich dictatorship.

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  • @shyduroff@mastodon.mit.edu 2023-05-14 16:59

    @tzimmer_history@mastodon.social… +++ …

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  • @tzimmer_history@mastodon.social Huey Newton and the #BlackPanthers understood the assignment. The Dems and neo-liberals have built a dichotomy where one side has the monopoly on use or force. This is a historically bad decision for those on the side with no ability to use forceful self-defense. The cops won't save us. The politicians won't save us. WE must save us. #FourBoxes

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  • @cia_romano@mastodon.social 2023-05-14 17:13

    @tzimmer_history@mastodon.social note the approval of far right demonstrations by the French courts. What is driving this global veer to the right?

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