Not sure if this is the right place for it.
Substack is apparently going even further mask off.
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Wow, this is awful.
I wonder how much longer Heather Cox Richardson and Robert Reich (et al.) will choose to remain there.
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I finally made it through the video. Had to pause a couple times and take a day or two off to recover before resuming. I have no idea how he made it through that ordeal so smoothly.
I think my favorite moment was near the end, when he picked one of them to debate him on any topic of their choice, and that guy wanted to end birthright citizenship and require every teenager to take a citizenship test in high school. Whether they were born here or not, regardless of their parents.
And Hasan’s response was basically to laugh and say something like “As someone who took the citizenship test, I hate to tell you this, and your friends in this room, who think there’s white replacement theory and ‘white genocide’ going on are really going to hate to hear it, but if you make every teenager in this country take a citizenship test, those immigrant kids are gonna beat your white kids.” Blew their minds.
Tactically did not follow up with “and then you’ll have to deport your kids.”
I’m not ready to watch the followup videos yet, but I am interested to see what he said afterward.
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Somewhere in Scotland, Charlie Stross nails the point. I completely get why he uses all-caps.
I am not much of a fan of Newsweek but his post in full:
Russia Says Nazism Making Comeback in West: Putin Ally Says Trump 'Open to Dialogue' with Russia, But Warns Nazism Returning to West - Newsweek
Remember:
a) With the far right, it’s ALWAYS projection
b) A big part of the reason the far right are everywhere in the west right now IS BECAUSE OF VLADIMIR PUTIN SUPPORTING THEM
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Also, most if not all states require 8th grade students to pass a Constitution test in order to graduate middle school. At least in Illinois, it’s pretty rigorous: a decent percentage do not pass on their first try.
He didn’t grow up here and I suspect his daughters are too young to be in middle school yet, so he probably doesn’t know this particular factoid or he would have said something.
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Watch especially the conclusion.
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It struck me that for Hollywood to make V for Vendetta, it was a way for thwarted and impotent American liberals to feel that they were making some kind of statement about how pissed off they were with the current situation without really risking anything. It’s all set in England, which I think that probably, in most American eyes, is kind of a fairytale kingdom where we still perhaps still have giants. It doesn’t really exist; it might as well be in the Land of Oz for most Americans. So you can get set your political parable in this fantasy environment called England, and then you can vent your spleen against George Bush and the neo- conservatives. Those were my feelings, and I must admit those are completely based upon not having seen the film even once, but having read a certain amount of the screenplay. That was enough.
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Dominic does, in fact, go into that.
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I couldn’t get through this, but here it is.
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Coolcooltotallynorm–
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Yeah, no shit
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Was wondering if any of our members from across the pond were going to speak up here on this. Thank you!
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Our German and German-adjacent posters have been speaking up about this!
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About half of my team lives in Germany and they have very carefully been asking about the situation here in the states. Carefully, mainly because you never know who has what view and might go off on it.
My biggest Trumphead left a few years back though, thankfully.
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