(it's also striking how _immediately_ people went to fatphobic attacks on Maines.)
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as @AdamSerwer also often says, the period immediately after 9/11 was one of the worst times for free speech in this country and it's largely been memory-holed less than twenty years later.https://twitter.com/yourewrongabout/status/1389215994166398977 …
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(and how totally unrelated to reality those attacks were! there's nothing with being fat, but Maines is not and was not fat. but it instantly went "we want to punish this woman. how do you attack a woman? say she's not fuckable. what's the best way to say that? call her fat.")
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Literally: "Watch what you say" --The White House, 2001
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That's how the PATRIOT Act got passed unread. A period of weaponized national stupidity
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What an incredible gift to the Cheney administration
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Just about everything about the GWB Administration has been memory-holed, but hey, at least it's taken like 20 years. We're only about 4 months from the Jan 6 Insurrection and we've just about forgotten all about that. At least if the press has its way.
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