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People believe that you don’t eat the food as hot as it’s cooked but they don’t realize that in this case they’re eating people. They’re comfortable not reading the ingredients.

I still remember the radicalization efforts all the way back after 9/11 and blogs started to become news sources. All the rational people I followed made a slow slide into right-wing paranoia as they realized that content was lucrative.

Being radicalized into apathy and nihilism still counts

I feel like economy is a dog whistle at this point.

According to Carole Cadwalladr (The Guardian), Trump is a bacillus but the problem is the pipes (Silicon Valley). www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Darker skin tones: radicalization. Whiter skin tones: "shifting the Overton window."

I'm reading Milton Mayer's "They Thought They Were Free" right now, and the early chapters have made me put the book down a few times just to process it all.

I put it on the list!

Read it a couple of months ago, and…just wow. So many similarities, both obvious and very subtle.

First they came for the etc etc

Or watch Cabaret. The clean-cut young blond man singing Tomorrows Belongs to Me” gave me the creeps when I first saw the movie in the 70s and I’ve been screaming ever since about how it can—did—happen here.

It's human nature to focus on "me" and discount anything that can be described as peripheral. I suspect that Mr Trump and his party are going to create a generation of political radicals just like the Great Depression and its do-nothing politicians did.

A scary rainbow flag was seen in their neighborhood.

Especially when the economy isn’t actually in terrible shape.

Yes, well, I disagree I did that, so I can't really accept being a part of that "we." I talked at length about what fascism is and is not, what racism is and is not, what constitutes political terrorism and who has been engaging in it, that sort.

They're invited to revisit his previous use of camps for immigrants at the border and spread around the states.

Part of the strategy in Nazi Germany was making, what happened in the camps so outlandish, that a lot of people dismissed any information as exaggeration. Believe the stories.

Oh he will do exactly what he wants and if ppl don’t understand that they’re naive

With as much radicalism going on, I’m curious if you think that was the cause of the big lean towards Tr*mp, this round. Or blind ignorance. It feels like a lot of people were just angry w/ Biden & voted for Tr*mp just because he was the opposition (which makes the whole thing even scarier)

Drinks and high-fives all around in the Kremlin.

You’re better than most for having that conversation. I have never seen a group of people so determined to be on the wrong side of history

Common German excuses that won't work for the US: —economy was so bad —he built the Autobahn —we couldn't anticipate what they are capable of We're disappointed...

I honestly think more people voted for him because they believe he will put immigrants in camps, jail doctors who perform abortions and care for transgendered and reinstate Christian Nationalism into our schools.

rural pandora's box.