"Jeez.

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@krimsonbun For sure.

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@BruceMirken Yes, that's right.

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@PeasLuvnJustice Yes, very much so.

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@MishaVanMollusq Horrific.

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@blagh I'm afraid that, no, I don't see that, though I have no doubt these distorters of religion for political purposes are capable of pretending that.

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@WarnerCrocker I doubt it, too.

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@lucybeahere I say that every day with the folks at the Bulwark, the never Trumpers.

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@normalguy Yes. He is, for sure.

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@Kierkegaanks The crowd took him to be referring to Trump. But recent revelations of how often Musk is speaking to Putin — with Carlson being in the mix as a Putin fanboy — make Putin conceivable.

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@CanadianCrone Yes.

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@Asbestos Well-stated. I agree. I think a lot of foundational feminist thinkers would say that, too. And more broadly, a whole other of women speaking from life experience….

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@wendigo I agree.

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@mastodonmigration Very, very messed up, and makes me — and I know, lots of others too — very apprehensive about what appears to be shaping up as this election nears.

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@3dogcouch That seems to me to be how both Peter Jukes and Arwa Mahdawi take his statements, too.

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@vae Yes, this language and ideology heavily loaded in the direction of heterosexual male dominance over women and man regarded as beta men.

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@Nonya_Bidniss Yes, that's absolutely right. See /16-17 in the thread above.

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@vae "The us is cooked when half your population is like that" sounds absolutely right to me.

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@Nazani I'm such a pop-culture know-nothing that I had to google "Goodbye Earl." Yes, I agree, a country rock ballad for right now.

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@wdlindsy Ha! Long thread, I had seen it but missed the citation.

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@Nonya_Bidniss And there's more in Ben-Ghiat's book I could have cited, more in the copious notes I took from it, but did not want to make a long thread longer. She's excellent on these points.