last week, the cops of Portland protected white supremacists who came in from out of state to gather and terrorize that community. they assaulted the people who came out to side against racism. they nearly killed somebody by shooting a flashbang grenade into the back of his head.
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the whole society-wide gaslighting that comes with fascism and the liberal defense of it is just hard. i'm guessing it's probably worse for people who face it more directly than reading bad op-eds as part of their weird robot job
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anyway thanks to everybody who's been out there doing the work on the ground these past few weeks, and who's writing the useful stuff about anti-fascism and telling the real story. it helps all of us keep going.
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if you're like me and this shit has you constantly feeling like you're losing your mind, though: it's not just you, and you're not. this is literally one of the psychological techniques that fascist societies use. it's a natural reaction to propaganda.
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more on this from molly, who has been doing really good work in charlottesville-- read the whole threadhttps://twitter.com/socialistdogmom/status/1029455412603637767 …
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