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Erik Torenberg
@erik
When people talk about threat to democracy or institutions, what they mean is threat to democrats or democratically run institutions. When democrats storm the White House or try to jail their political opponent or stage a coup on their own candidate, this is good for democracy because it serves the democrat party.
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anewname
@anewname
love the strong, self-assured illiterate and ahistorical vibes here, nice
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Erik Torenberg
@erik
I invite you to the top of the pyramid
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anewname
@anewname
ok: you’re operating in bad faith by refusing to look at historical analogies and using a story as the basis of your political analysis (i believe you’d call that straw manning my man), one that isn’t set up as a counter factual (if) but as a certainty (when) because a priori you’re assuming a system way more robust than it is fragile and a series of nebulous actors you don’t identify (“when people talk…”) doing that thang again with the straw man, rather than, like, engaging with the many, many scholars and thinkers on fascism who’re like: this guy checks all the fascist boxes, he’s a fascist. i invite you back to the bottom of the pyramid. it’s just: your media intake/historical analysis is obviously coloring your embedded understanding of events, which makes sense, but the silly absolutism and tech-bro confidence is as tiring as it is uninspired. 🤷🤷🤷
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