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Philip Cardella

@Npars01 @Catvalente add in replacing political discourse with violence and a lust to expand and you've got textbook fascism.*

Good thing the GOP isn't about violence in place of political debate and hasn't talked about invading Mexico and Canada.

Oh wait.

*If there was such a thing as a textbook definition of fascism. Most scholars agree there isn't. It's too amorphous.

23 March at 23:39 | Wall-to-wall | Open on historians.social
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unusual zone of infecundity
@philip_cardella @Npars01 @Catvalente it all makes so much sense when you look at the history and frame it in terms of a society that's fed itself by maintaining one of the most brutal and massive slave-holding institutions the world had ever seen, and has had its laws and culture and understanding of right and wrong shaped by being in that position for multiple centuries, suddenly losing the *de jure* element of that structure and spending the next 150+ years scrambling with everything they've got, by any deception or stochastic violence or blasphemous heresy necessary, to put the *substance* of everything back into the only social, economic and moral order that they can conceive of for organizing a society
@philip_cardella @Npars01 @Catvalente it all makes so much sense when you look at the history and frame it in terms of a society that's fed itself by maintaining one of the most brutal and massive slave-holding institutions the world had ever seen, and has had its laws and culture and understanding of right and wrong shaped by being in that position for multiple centuries, suddenly losing the *de jure* element of that structure and spending the next 150+ years scrambling with everything they've got,...
24 March at 1:19 | Open on brain.worm.pink
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