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Never Follow Suit. Minneapolis.

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Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 3w ago

In his 2004 book, The Anatomy of Fascism, historian Robert Paxton identified the passions that had animated fascistic political cultures over the previous 80 years. These may sound familiar.

eelings t hem "mobilizing passions": • a sense of overwhelming crisis beyond the reach of any traditional solutions; • the primacy of the group, toward which one has duties superior to every right, whether individual or universal, and the subordination of the individual to it; • the belief that one's group is a victim, a sentiment that justifies any action, without legal or moral limits, against its enemies, both internal and external; • dread of the group's decline under the corrosive effects of individualistic liberalism, class conflict, and alien influences; • the need for closer integration of a purer community, by consent if possible, or by exclusionary violence if necessary; • the need for authority by natural chiefs (always male), culminating in a national chieftain who alone is capable of incarnating the group's historical destiny; • the superiority of the leader's instincts over abstract and universal reason; • the beauty of violence and the efficacy of will, when they are devoted to the group's success; 219
luke@wavedamage.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Probably not the best guideline for taking mental health seriously, but my “depression check” has always been if I am down enough to think Radiohead is a good band. The answer has always been a resounding “no.” Onward we go.

krat@kwholesaler.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I don't give a fuck what insipid slogan Democrats come up with about ICE. they are not coming to help the people or they would have by now. The ordinary people of Minneapolis have done more for our rights over the past week than elected Democrats have done in decades

Jacob T. Levy@jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12mo ago

If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.

luke@wavedamage.bsky.social · last yr.

Immediately upon sitting down on my train to catch a show in the city a woman next to me starts a phone conversation where the topic quickly shifted to AI, I hate it here

luke@wavedamage.bsky.social · last yr.

Why does every old video of Bjork fiddling with synths and studio equipment have her and the equipment laying on the floor? They don’t have tables in Iceland or what?