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#EDUUSUniversityVirginiaTechMattGabriele[skeet] "Those claims by the Right, however, seem at first glance to not make sense. They state that they represent the will of the people and want to terrorize those they consider 'tyrants.' And yet, they themselves have tried to overturn a legitimate election and more recently enacted sweeping voter suppression laws across several states in order to cement their own hold on power. In addition, the Right and their enablers rush to stake out absolutist positions related to 'religious liberty' or 'freedom of speech' but then cheer on (or directly use) state power to limit just those liberties and freedoms they purport to support. For example, they assert 'liberty' to discriminate against the LGBTQ+ community, and assert 'freedom' to legislate against mask-wearing during a global pandemic or to ban the teaching of history they don't agree with. ...
Over the course of 1792-94, the avatars of the 'will of the people' continued to narrow. It was no longer the legislature as a whole, composed of hundreds of delegates that embodied the 'will of the people,' but it specifically became the Committee of Public Safety led by Robespierre. He vocalized the public will and embodied the public good so that those who disagreed became existential enemies of France herself who needed to be eliminated. Hence, we wind up with the Terror -- denunciations and mass executions of perceived enemies both at home and abroad. The Terror, Furet argued, was only ended when Robespierre lost control of the discourse and no longer embodied the public will, so he himself became a threat and was executed.
Contemporary America hasn't, of course, reached its own Terror. But the parallels between the modes of discourse in the late eighteenth- and early twenty-first centuries are striking. The Right has adopted an authoritarian mode of discourse because they think they embody the will of the people, the nation itself, and so are the only legitimate political actors." https://prof-gabriele.medium.com/on-guillotines-and-the-american-right-de0343b72341[Wikipedia]
#WebsiteFiveThirtyEightNateSilver "'But I have a theory about how they missed the Trump train,' he continued. 'They don't hang out with regular folks like us who like to hunt and fish and pray and actually work for a living. Heck, I don't even know that they know how to talk to people from middle America.'
#ConspiracyTheory_StolenElectionBigLie
#EventRepublicanNationalCommitteeRNC[Wikipedia]
#IRLPersonalityTelevisionWillieRobertsonhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gg2dTFu2sc&t=105s
#CatchcryTrumpTrain
#OtheringElitesLiberalMedia
There's been a lot of this talk at the RNC, about 'real' Americans and 'regular' Americans and how they're the ones who make America great. ...
These politicians, implicitly and often explicitly, usually have certain people in mind when they refer to 'real Americans.' They often mean white people without college degrees -- the so-called 'white working class.' They usually mean practicing Christians. Their examples usually refer to people in the South or the Midwest -- not East Coast elites or West Coast hippies." https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/only-20-percent-of-voters-are-real-americans/
#OtheringLegitimacyRealAmericans
#EpistemologyAgnotologyBased
#IdentityClassBlueCollarWhite
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@RosemaryGrahovac [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : @AmyLynnStL Having murderer Kyle Rittenhouse as a guest was not the beginning. Nor the end. The @GOP is only the party of "family values" if you believe what they believe & do what they say to do. #MoralityPolice are next. DeSantis already started #WOKE laws. [URL redacted]
"This is a cat 994h. It burns 1800 gallons of fuel in a 12 hour shift. This machine is required to move 500,000 pounds of earth in order to get the minerals needed for one single telsa car battery. In whose world does this type of math and green new deal make sense?" [fact-checked][fact-checked]
#BrandCaterpillar[Wikipedia].
#PhenomnEnergyFuelFossilDiesel
#PolicyGreenNewDealGND
#BrandTesla
#TheoryDragonsOfInactionPerceivedRiskFinancialContext "Have you seen the one about the big trucks that burn 1800 gallons of diesel to make just 1 electric car? Yeah - that one's a lie. ... that post up there has already been debunked by an entire cottage industry of fact-checkers who will point out that the diesel calculations for the big mining trucks is wrong, the amount of dirt moved is wrong, and speak to the fact that those minerals, once pulled from the ground to be used in batteries, can be indefinitely recycled, meaning that initial carbon expense is only paid once, whereas a fossil fuel has a carbon cost to get from the ground, a carbon cost to refine, a carbon cost to transport, and a carbon cost to burn ... and, of course, once it's burned, you can't reuse it. You have to go get more." https://electrifynews.com/featured/busting-the-lies-about-big-trucks/Addendum how reassuring knowing that we can simply continue as we were, burning
#PhenomnEnergyFuelFossil and relaxing in the knowledge that doing so is helping the planet...
#PloyManufacturingDoubtClimateInactivism
#TauntBigOil ?
#IRLModelMelaniaTrumpContext "Melania Trump, observes flight operation with U.S. Navy Capt. Chris Hill, right, aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush during a visit to the bridge December 12, 2018 in Hampton, Virginia." [stock image]
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#BrandTheDailyWirePolemicistBenShapiro "The Texas shooter violated a multiplicity of gun laws. The suggestion that more gun laws would have prevented this act of unspeakable evil is unsupported, and the implication that those who oppose such laws are somehow in favor of mass shootings is morally reprehensible."
#MassShooting2022RobbElementarySchool
#CatchcryGunsDontKillPeoplePeopleKillPeople ?
Addendum easy to make such statements - more difficult to substantiate them. I wonder then, what are the supposed 'violated gun laws' (listing them off)? And what impact did the existing laws actually have i.e. how did they hindered/fail to hinder the shooter? And rather than fatalistically dismissing the whole idea of regulating gun ownership - what laws would actually work i.e. what is a constructive way forward?
@MikaylaDennis [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [03]: @MrMichaelBurkes Choo Choo Good on you! 👏 GREAT JOB! I KNOW it's hard to stand up to your family and take a stand by your killin it! You are a #Sheeple NO MORE! You are a FREE THINKER & so are they! They are #Woke! Congratulations!
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#MAGA
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