This entire thread is a must-read, but re: this specific tweet I've studied historical fascism for a long time. Violent orgs with convoluted and redundant command structures, hard-to-trace legality, even those within it don't understand the organizational structure: textbookhttps://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1284159410097528832 …
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I have ideas about what fascism really is but most academics approach it like a syndrome: a collection of symptoms that indicate an underlying disease Redundant, snarled structures are one of them. It's a weird one, seems more dumb/inefficient than menacing, but it's huge
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If no one knows what the mission is or who's in command or who they work for, the answers to those questions can be literally anything and the answers can change instantly This chaos erodes the rule of law, civil service, oversight entities, and existing power structures
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This, to me, might be the scariest tweet in a long thread of terrifying tweets Police brutality, systemic racism, and fascism are all interlinked. This protest started as Black Lives Matter but whether you like it or not, they've chosen to make it about a lot more now
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If you ever wondered what you'd have done in the early days of Nazi Germany, when no one was quite sure where things were headed but it looked pretty bad, you're doing it right now America isn't Nazi Germany but the principle is the same: the time to act is now
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