Brian Doyle

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[Basil🧡 @LinkofSunshine]

The USAID cuts are one of the worst things America has ever done in its history

It could have even been a slow phase out to let non profits take its place. But instead, it was purposely chaotic. They purposely made the state of it ambiguous before suddenly pulling all funding

[Brian Doyle @Odoyle1201]

@Stooperdad @middott1 @JDVance Both Obama’s deal and this proposed deal (as Vance alludes to) involve releasing Iranian funds that had been frozen by the US and allies. It’s the same mechanism.

[Christopher Hooks @cd_hooks]

He’s right, of course, but it doesn’t really mitigate the fact that Cornyn was happy to stay on the bus as long as Trump was throwing other people under it

[Brian Doyle @Odoyle1201]

@JohnMarshall765 @ChrisMurphyCT Uh huh.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

It's hard to fathom how deeply evil this is, and that we have people running our country who get sick pleasure from sending women fleeing violence in Iran to an African country in the middle of a brutal civil war.
https://t.co/JaN8z2LFI2

[Brian Doyle @Odoyle1201]

@Brewer123123123 @DavidBoreanaz12 @tony_tickle_ @ryangrim I did.

[Brian Doyle @Odoyle1201]

@Brewer123123123 @DavidBoreanaz12 @tony_tickle_ @ryangrim traits and/or ideas that allow them to form a unified political community.

[Brian Doyle @Odoyle1201]

@Brewer123123123 @DavidBoreanaz12 @tony_tickle_ @ryangrim You can pull speeches from the leaders of early 20th century fascist movements. The intense focus on redeeming the nation and its traditions from borderline apocalyptic societal catastrophe will be the through-line.

And a nation is a group of people who share /1

[Brian Doyle @Odoyle1201]

@ManForAllTakes @dilanesper Trump’s decision to launch this war created the geopolitical conditions Iran needed to seize control of the Strait without international pushback.

[Brian Doyle @Odoyle1201]

@ClarenceMaximus @gribbo586 @dilanesper This is an existential war for Iran. It’s willing to endure intense hardship to prevail.

In contrast, this is a war of choice for Trump (one that he didn’t even bother building public support for).

That disparity gives Iran the leverage, re: economic sacrifice.

[Brian Doyle @Odoyle1201]

@Brewer123123123 @DavidBoreanaz12 @tony_tickle_ @ryangrim Every definition is going to be an assertion.

If you really want to learn more about the ideological throughlines of fascist movements, look for the work by Umberto Eco, Robert Paxton, etc.

[Brian Doyle @Odoyle1201]

@Brewer123123123 @DavidBoreanaz12 @tony_tickle_ @ryangrim The difference is the degree & sense of emergency.

Traditional conservatives may disapprove of societal change & urge caution.

Fascists will declare societal impurities have already degraded the nation to a near-apocalyptic state, & revolution is needed to redeem the nation.

[Brian Doyle @Odoyle1201]

@Brewer123123123 @DavidBoreanaz12 @tony_tickle_ @ryangrim Fascism holds that the corrupting influence of various social impurities (again, typically minority groups or effete elites) has destroyed these traditions & traits to the point of crisis, such that desperate revolutionary action is needed to save the country from degeneration.

[Brian Doyle @Odoyle1201]

@Brewer123123123 @DavidBoreanaz12 @tony_tickle_ @ryangrim No, the ‘palingenetic ultranationalism’ described really is the heart of these movements. All other tenets revolve around that core.

[Brian Doyle @Odoyle1201]

@Brewer123123123 @DavidBoreanaz12 @tony_tickle_ @ryangrim degraded these traditions, giving rise to “cultural Bolshevism” where men are weak & effeminate, & the people embrace degenerate art, liberal sexual mores, race mixing, etc.

[Brian Doyle @Odoyle1201]

@Brewer123123123 @DavidBoreanaz12 @tony_tickle_ @ryangrim Nazism was a fascist moveMent that held that the Germans are a specific people whose specific bond to the land has resulted in uniquely German traditions and traits (both physical and cultural).

They believed that the invasion of ethnonational outsiders—‘the Jews’—had degraded/2

[Brian Doyle @Odoyle1201]

@Brewer123123123 @DavidBoreanaz12 @tony_tickle_ @ryangrim Do you know what Nazism is?

[Brian Doyle @Odoyle1201]

@Brewer123123123 @DavidBoreanaz12 @tony_tickle_ @ryangrim I’m explaining the reason Musk gets more shit for the salute than Platner does for the tattoo.

If Platner’s online activity looked like Musk’s—constantly discussing the need to preserve and defend the ‘racial purity’ of the West—then he’d be getting a lot more flak.

[Brian Doyle @Odoyle1201]

@Brewer123123123 Man, I hate to break it to you, but you might legitimately be a Nazi if you think a guy who talks about “the great Hitler” is raising reasonable points about “Jewish power.”