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DemocracyMattersALot , to random
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"Whatever actually happens in an act of political violence, there will be someone, somewhere, who claims that victimhood means innocence, and that innocence justifies more violence by hands that remain ever blameless. This sort of logic
is already all over the internet. That move was made in all the fascist cases. When the German Nazis took over Austria in 1938, they raised a monument to their martyrs. The Romanian fascists killed to avenge theirs."

-- Historian Timothy Snyder

misterprickles ,
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For fun, academic balance, the purposes of debate, here's William Hogeland arguing that historians probably can't teach us as much about current affairs as they pretend.

(I'm aware this is by definition an ahistorical approach to life, and not one I necessarily agree with.)

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/07/biden-step-down-history-heather-cox-richardson.html

mastodonmigration , (edited ) to random
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While the GOP try's to blame the Democrats for political violence, the truth is that they are reaping the wild wind of their own making.

"We might be tempted to think that violence against one side must come from the other side. But the bloody genie, once unleashed, often stays close to home. Those who have made violence normal are especially vulnerable, because they will always have colleagues or followers who think they have not gone far enough." - Timothy Snyder

https://snyder.substack.com/p/political-violence

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misterprickles ,
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For fun, academic balance, the purposes of debate, etc, here's William Hogeland arguing that historians probably can't teach us as much about current affairs as they pretend.

(I'm aware this is by definition an ahistorical approach to life, and not one I necessarily agree with.)

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/07/biden-step-down-history-heather-cox-richardson.html

misterprickles , to random
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1320: declares its independence from

1776: the declares its independence from

1810: declares its independence from

1821: declares its independence from

1822: declares its independence from

1947: declares its independence from

1948: declares its independence from Mandatory

Why are you hung up on the last on this list?

(You might not know, but I do.)

misterprickles OP ,
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Think about it.

All of those independence movements had winners and losers, and the latter were without exception the "indigenous" population. And almost nobody cares about any of those people except when we talk about Israel/Palestine.

I know why that is.

GottaLaff , to random
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Via Angry Staffer:

…Project 2025 ..

  • would let red states monitor & prosecute women who get abortions

  • won’t commit to defending NATO nations

  • wd fire attys who won’t prosec his political opponents

  • suspend posse comitatus & deploy the military on US soil

  • wd end pandemic preparedness office

  • wd fire 1000s of civil servants

  • pardon all J6 rioters

  • try to make law enf officers immune from prosec

If this doesn’t scare the living shit out of you, you aren’t paying attention.

misterprickles ,
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Oh dear. Is anyone still pretending that the choice between Trump and Biden is a nuanced policy decision?

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