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https://twitter.com/sjcloobeck/status/929223296054206465

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Probably the most significant year in the development of American fascism:

Suppression of socialist resistance and the establishment of the peacetime security state.

Speaking of Woodrow…

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Still don’t know

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But when I bring up how much of European (ethno-nationalist) politics rely on shielding themselves with American hate websites while organizing their movements there, it gets dismissed by the usual Freeze Peach crowd.

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To be clear, I am not taking AT&T Time Warner’s side. I am not in favour of media monopolies, period. But people need to stop thinking that the government’s actions here are in any way about preventing a monopoly.

This is not a “bust 'em all up” move. This is about creating a state propaganda system with no viable alternative voice. I know it’s easy to say “Fuck those guys,” when it comes to ATT/TW/Comcast, but it’s vital to keep an eye on the actual slight og hand, not just stand slack-jawed staring at the trick.

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This reply, from one of the Hell of a Way to Die vets, sums up the general theme of the responses:

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More Cloobeck-stomping:

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But he was on Undercover Bosses!

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Related to the topic of episode #5:

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Oman is an excellent source of weird-but-interesting things to think about:

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