Some people are speculating that she’s trying to Cenk to fire her so she can get out of her contract and go full right wing grifter. I’m just really tired of these people who pretended to be leftists, who many of us said weren’t really leftists, pulling this shit. And for the record, Cenk isn’t so great, either. At this point, I’m skeptical of anyone who is doing punditry for a living.
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Huh. If fascism requires a belief in a master race and the massacre of anyone not in that race, then a whole lot of governments that have been labelled “fascist” through the years are owed apologies.
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Yeah, I’m honestly not even sure Mussolini would fit that definition of fascist, and he literally came up with the name to describe his party.
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Obligatory:
https://bsky.app/profile/ziibiing.com/post/3law66jmgjk2n
No one-box, but you want to watch the video.
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Needs a sign in… 
I didn’t sign in!
ETA: Found it for you on TikTok, if that helps.
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Uh, I’m seeing a big blank space. Let’s see if I can make it plain text in some way.
Yup, I think that’ll work for you.
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I can see that fine… Good for them.
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More on the protests…
This needs to happen everywhere right now. We need a global underdog world strike.
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New paper published @ajpseditor.bsky.social
Showing that reduced access to public services fuelled far right support in
Existing work on far right highlights globalization & migration grievances, what about people’s experiences with the state?
We use
reform to find out
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Our lack understanding of how people’s experiences with state matter for far right support is surprising because
a) research suggests that people think that access to public services is crucial to their lives
b) far right parties mobilize anti-establishment sentiment: elites are out of touch
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Public service provision has been under pressure due to cuts, sluggish growth or public debt pressure
We argue that exposure to a reduction in access to public services, which we call public service deprivation
generates grievances that make affected people more likely to support far right
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We argue that public service deprivation creates grievances about one’s community not receiving a “fair” share of public resources
At the same time it raises concerns about “others” receiving more
These others are often migrants who far right parties frame as “undeserving”
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At same time, left parties might not benefit from public service deprivation because
spending more on public services might be less attractive
as large parts of electorate oppose tax increases or increases in public debt,
especially since popular discourse highlights fiscal prudence
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We test our argument using a public services reform in Italy that has a population threshold
An ideal test case because far-right parties have enjoyed a substantial rise in electoral support & public service deprivation varies substantially within it
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What do we find?
We find that far-right support in national elections increased in municipalities affected by the reform compared to unaffected ones, while support for left parties decreased
For the nerds, these result are robust in many ways, please check paper & SI
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We explore mechanism underlying this relationship by examining geo-coded individual-level survey data & party rhetoric
These analyses show that:
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Exposure to public service deprivation generated the demand for the messages of the far-right by raising concerns about immigration
But also that far-right increasingly linked public services to immigration in their political messaging in aftermath of reform.
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So, combination of demand for, and supply of, far-right messages helps explain how public service deprivation fuels far-right support
Big shout out to my co-authors: @simonecremaschi.bsky.social @paularettl.bsky.social @marcocappelluti.bsky.social
You guys are the best!
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I’ll have to remember that Elon/Eloff word play.
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When you create an echo chamber which excludes ethics, excludes inconvenient facts, and drives out marginalized groups, you might think that echo chamber is reasonable, and ethics, facts, and those marginalized groups are extremist.
When you do that you might think also groups which try to be ethical, try to stay fact-based, and try to welcome marginalized groups are themselves echo chambers because they’re at odds with your echo chamber, with traditional violence, and with much of the public.
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“They keep saying “far right”, but the policies of AfD that I’ve read about don’t sound extremist…”
… compared to some of the fine gentlemen whom I follow here on X, with their book recommendations like The Turner Diaries or The Camp of the Saints. Not that I have any problem with them either. Everyone is welcome in my Nazi bar!"
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