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hard to overstate how much, say, Vance wishes he were Hungarian instead

I am looking forward to the writing that comes out of this.

"...because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too." These Assclowns don't want their skills measured.

Putting men on the Moon and returning them was about proving that we could put an ICBM anywhere. That's a big reason why government interest dropped after a few successes.

Name me one republican city or state that's popular and a going concern?

Hating America is the beating heart of the conservative project, I wish people would stop letting them get away with faking patriotism.

@mkonnikova's The Confidence Game, a history of con artists, explains these ppl very well. Also Babiak's Snakes in Suits.

Yup! Never mind their love for a local group of losers who ruled their traitorous states for fewer than 5 years when they were literally trying to not be Americans anymore.

We can build on this. We can build on HOPE!

It’s one of the main reasons I’ll never forgive or trust them again. Thank you for articulating it perfectly.

Sticking it to European despots should be America's most proud tradition

Indeed. MAGA actually hates America.

It's true, though it drives my right-wing friends nuts when I say it: they loathe our founding principles

Everyone should know and not forget when MAGA found out via social media (cuz ya know they didn't listen to their local station) about a longtime NPR tradition: www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...

When they use Western Civilization, they mean White Supremacy. They are a bunch of f*ckers.

That recent Homeland Security Twitter post where they literally depicted America as a big load of garbage was a good example of this as well

Mostly they are lining up with post soviet states with histories of moving ethic populations around, which is not very western civ.

18th century dandies, all of them.

They mean Western "civilization" in the year 1100...

The same people who praise the Romans because they spoke with British accents.

lmfao this is gold

The American way of Life is multicultural thus why they hate it

they're measuring it by how many supposed Europeans they see yelling online about "civilizational decline," a situation which I'm sure has absolutely nothing to do with neither the general Bannon/Cambridge Analytica situation nor Musk turning X into his own apartheid-Nazi brain poison marinade vat

I’d wager they think a lot about the Roman Empire.

It is my stern belief that people like this are Confederates. They don't like American Ideals and never have. They want slavery back.

and it’s entirely a fantasy. “western civilization” has always been multicultural & pluralistic. even from a purely logistical standpoint, ethnostates cannot function for very long. any system trying to eliminate our DNA-ingrained sociality & community-drive is destined to fail.

It's the Israeli narrative leaking in - it all started with Yoram Hazony's Nat Con movement

Reminds me of the apocryphal exchange attributed (falsely) to Gandhi: Q." What do you think of western civilization?" A." I think it would be a very good idea."

America was never white enough for them. Sorry I meant right enough. But I repeat myself.

Like spoiled children, they are never, ever satisfied.

While twisting "Western Civ" (whatever that might imply) completely tangled into WHITE SUPREMACYYYYYY!

and of course thats even for the most anglocentric options!

They want the Dr. Strangelove mine-shafts with the 10-1 gender imbalance.

Right before they wanted to pretend they had a coherent alternative educational model to modern academia, they were firmly in the “that won’t get you a job” camp about it.

Where were they radicalized. 🤔

They use slogans like "Make America great again" and "America First" while slobbering over Orban and Putin, and saying we should be more like Hungary or Russia. They are traitors who despise this country.

Yet they unironically insist that it is they who are defending traditions.

Agreed. The right emulates those states bc as dictatorships, they believe that the government succeeds in forcing people to think what the dictator tells them to. They don't realize that those countries are a hairsbreadth from violent revolution at every moment, and the US populace is well-armed!

Isabella of Castile is definitely cancelled for that.

Because they are not Americans, they are fascists. They believe they are persecuted. Everything is someone else's fault. Minorities are less deserving of human rights than straight white people. Their leader is above criticism because he was sent by their god.

The "America" of the "America First" cult is only a small portion of America: mainly uneducated and old white people--many more men than women-- who are less and less able to dominate those different from them. .

Bottom line. MAGA is not very bright, or inclined to serve. They are who you thought they were. We should deport them to the Redest state who voted for this High School musical of an administration.

Also, these Western chauvinists care so much about the values of the West but then apparently are happy throwing away habeaus corpus which goes back to the dang magna carta. It’s essentially the bedrock of the civilization they’re pretending to protect. They and logic are strangers.

...and get RELLY bad facelifts...

I wonder how much ties back to the generations old enough to remember/live in a pre-civil rights America dying off. It’s like they can’t connect to the main strain of racial caste system that historically governed the continent so they’re falling back on euro-nativism (that just doesn’t hold here)

Seriously. Looking to tinpot authoritarian in tiny Hungary for inspiration shows what morally bankrupt losers MAGA are. The left is full of proud Americans & we need to own it. Yes, we have struggled to live up to our ideals, but ever striving to better meet those ideals has made America great.

… etc etc and—propaganda and fash-fantisies notwithstanding—this nation IS ALL THAT. And WILL BE that. And *WANTS* TO BE that. And if YOU clique of noisy frauds can’t get with THAT, then YOU’RE gonna be unhappy here …so maybe better think ‘bout ‘self-deporting’ somewherez else. Motherfuckers

and I would know, I'm dual eligible for membership in both UDC and DAR

Not only are they bad at governing, they are bad at being Americans

Jamelle, looking abroad for inspiration and alternative models has happened quite a few times. In the last century, I'm sure you know, some looked to the Bolsheviks, some looked to the Fascist in Italy, the Nazis, later to Mao and Castro. Most of the lookers were powerful or influential and gullible

I just spent a week in DC with my 13 year-old and couldn’t stop thinking about this.

They’re arsonists of democracy!

Well, their aim isn't democracy, it's the acquisition & retention of power. If wearing the trappings of democracy helps with that, they'll do it. If not, they'll throw off that pretension & go authoritarian. Democracy & good governance isn't the end goal. Power is.

Well he talked about Jesus a lot. That’s a lot of the quotes I see lol

Some of it is they can't quote the people they identify with. They can't use people like George Wallace or Alexander Stephens so they just pretend America didn't exist until Donald Trump came down the escalator in 2015.

Consumers of Russian propaganda

"Meh... who wants Lincoln when you can have Orbán?" - #GOPSeditiousTraitors

They’ve spent most of their lives being taught a false history of this country, one in which white Europeans colonists were heroes instead of villains. The reality for those they subjugated is very different, but it’s the true history of this land.