"Jeez.

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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.

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@wdlindsy She is. Did you see that she was disinvited from a speech at the Naval Academy after pressure from Heritage?

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@Nonya_Bidniss I did read that appalling news. So many phone calls going on these days, Musk to Putin, Trump to Putin, Putin to both, Trump and Musk to leaders of economic elites, calls from all these folks to owners and managers of the media.

It's royally disgusting.