“The second American revolution”
July 12, 2024 8:20 AM Subscribe
Onward, Christian soldiers--to war! (At the National Conservative Conference, with labor writer Hamilton Nolan for In These Times)
This is so grim
posted by suelac at 10:17 AM on July 12 [2 favorites]
posted by suelac at 10:17 AM on July 12 [2 favorites]
"We don’t negotiate with un-humans." One of the most openly fascist public quotes I've seen. They certainly seem assured of their rise to power.
posted by CheeseDigestsAll at 10:34 AM on July 12 [15 favorites]
posted by CheeseDigestsAll at 10:34 AM on July 12 [15 favorites]
The infiltration of the Heritage* Foundation by a group of furry hackers has been amusing to watch. Curious where that data goes next.
(* I'm not sure how the word 'heritage' became to be used by every right-wing christo-fascist group out there in America but I'm glad the signal exists.)
posted by JoeZydeco at 11:15 AM on July 12 [9 favorites]
(* I'm not sure how the word 'heritage' became to be used by every right-wing christo-fascist group out there in America but I'm glad the signal exists.)
posted by JoeZydeco at 11:15 AM on July 12 [9 favorites]
Also “Crusader,” which was the name all our sports teams used when I was a fundie kid going to a private religious school that was in the same building as the church. Ironic they embrace that label so heavily when they’d gladly skin a Catholic alive, but it’s an inevitable byproduct of all the chest-thumping militancy cosplay.
posted by Ryvar at 12:07 PM on July 12 [8 favorites]
posted by Ryvar at 12:07 PM on July 12 [8 favorites]
To the Democrat party I say: I have nothing to discuss with you when you are letting criminal migrants rape and murder American citizens!
this is positively RICH from a member of the orange-utan's cabal.
posted by supermedusa at 12:27 PM on July 12 [3 favorites]
this is positively RICH from a member of the orange-utan's cabal.
posted by supermedusa at 12:27 PM on July 12 [3 favorites]
I know this is petty of me but I really liked this line: "Vance is the ideal national conservative specimen, a man who preaches heartland values but wears a nice suit and looks like he sleeps in a vat of lotion."
posted by gamera at 12:36 PM on July 12 [7 favorites]
posted by gamera at 12:36 PM on July 12 [7 favorites]
The Left, he warned, is “totalitarian in its mission” and “practically jihadist in its theocratic fanaticism
this is just so over the top. how can I even take sure an utter self-own seriously. don't get me wrong, I do. these people are terrifying but wtaf?????
posted by supermedusa at 12:37 PM on July 12 [7 favorites]
this is just so over the top. how can I even take sure an utter self-own seriously. don't get me wrong, I do. these people are terrifying but wtaf?????
posted by supermedusa at 12:37 PM on July 12 [7 favorites]
They have to use new, more hyperbolic language because people's anger/fear/anxiety develops a resistance to the old language.
posted by Slackermagee at 1:56 PM on July 12 [11 favorites]
posted by Slackermagee at 1:56 PM on July 12 [11 favorites]
In a lot of ways they've just moved the old conservative Christian language over from atheist Soviet Russia and Communist China to American liberals.
posted by soundguy99 at 2:16 PM on July 12 [6 favorites]
posted by soundguy99 at 2:16 PM on July 12 [6 favorites]
> The Left, he warned, is “totalitarian in its mission” and “practically jihadist in its theocratic fanaticism"
ugh i wish
posted by bombastic lowercase pronouncements at 2:18 PM on July 12 [8 favorites]
ugh i wish
posted by bombastic lowercase pronouncements at 2:18 PM on July 12 [8 favorites]
how can I even take sure an utter self-own seriously.
These people do the "every accusation a confession" thing so hard and so often, I won't be surprised if, when civil war breaks out, their battle cry is "KILLING US WON'T SOLVE YOUR DADDY ISSUES OR MAKE YOU STOP THINKING ABOUT GAY STUFF!"
posted by Ursula Hitler at 2:21 PM on July 12 [17 favorites]
These people do the "every accusation a confession" thing so hard and so often, I won't be surprised if, when civil war breaks out, their battle cry is "KILLING US WON'T SOLVE YOUR DADDY ISSUES OR MAKE YOU STOP THINKING ABOUT GAY STUFF!"
posted by Ursula Hitler at 2:21 PM on July 12 [17 favorites]
> The Left Right, he warned, is “totalitarian in its mission” and “practically jihadist in its theocratic fanaticism"
FTFThem
These folks seem disturbingly clueless about how detached they are from reality. From the premise that it’s always projection, though, wow they sure reveal a lot about their private selves.
posted by sillyman at 4:40 PM on July 12 [6 favorites]
FTFThem
These folks seem disturbingly clueless about how detached they are from reality. From the premise that it’s always projection, though, wow they sure reveal a lot about their private selves.
posted by sillyman at 4:40 PM on July 12 [6 favorites]
They're mistaken. The second one started in 1861. America won that one too.
posted by Brachinus at 7:13 AM on July 13 [2 favorites]
posted by Brachinus at 7:13 AM on July 13 [2 favorites]
america won the pitched battle phase that finished in 1865, but after that there was a guerilla phase that lasted until the confederacy's victory in 1877.
posted by bombastic lowercase pronouncements at 12:10 PM on July 13 [3 favorites]
posted by bombastic lowercase pronouncements at 12:10 PM on July 13 [3 favorites]
The Left, he warned, is “totalitarian in its mission” and “practically jihadist in its theocratic fanaticism"
There's no mystery about the language when you remember that there's a "...and that is why we must..." to follow, (whether actual or implied), and reality of the accusation be damned.
posted by quinndexter at 1:16 AM on July 14
There's no mystery about the language when you remember that there's a "...and that is why we must..." to follow, (whether actual or implied), and reality of the accusation be damned.
posted by quinndexter at 1:16 AM on July 14
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