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"well-written but very depressing. gonna need a short break from this one…" — Oct 31, 2025 05:10AM
"well-written but very depressing. gonna need a short break from this one…" — Oct 31, 2025 05:10AM
It is not that people are unmindful of the contradiction and need to be enlightened; no, the contradiction itself is what works, in effect “emancipating” people from the task of developing a rational position, a pathway to fascism. When
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a lot of right-wing populism hinges on this idea; hateful people seek "emancipation" from developing a rational justification for their prejudice. whole pseudosciences emerge from some primal denial to expand one's imagination of society. i once constantly dreamt of the perfect argument one could make to dismiss this hateful rhetoric that crops up with every new trumpism, once and for all exposing the hypocrisy of the right— only to now realize that that hypocrisy is the point.
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