Just nice of him to subtly sneak in there that, also, he kind of hates Jews

It's really amazing to me that he cedes an impt ground of argument entirely. He suggests that the ideals of the Declaration and its conception of a creedal nation identified with Enlightenment liberal values are identical to "progressive liberalism in 2025." Just accepts that proposition implicitly!

Yes that stuck out to me too. It may be just bad writing. He may be trying to say, "and here is another form of creedal identity with the same problem, one that is currently being promulgating by the left." but it comes off as "the progressive left has kept faithful to the DoI (derogatory)"

yeah, essentially he's surrendering the entire ground of "American Civic Religion" to the left and sets the boundaries of who belongs on his side somewhere between those of Andrew Jackson and Nathan Bedford Forrest.

Brains also cooked.

No reflection with elites.

Spiro Agnew waited until he was forced from office to come out with this kind of stuff, for one?

POTUS calls it the Epstein Hoax SOTH says Americans deserve full transparency House GOP vote to keep the files blocked, backing AG Where does VPOTUS stand? I am encouraging users to skeet @jd-vance-1.bsky.social until we get an answer: DO YOU STAND WITH THE PEOPLE OR THE PEDOS?

I encourage people to block JD Vance and not give fascists oxygen

The fascists are breathing O2 whether you like it or not, and ignoring them has made them stronger. Fighting with reason has also achieved nothing. This is how you beat them. You corner them in a catch 22 until they concede, no matter how much they squirm. And they are squirming for dear life rn

No. There is no anti-fascist organization in the world that encourages dialogue in public. You have completely lost the plot. Fascism has never been defeated in the public square except through hangings

Yea MLK, Gandhi, Walesa, and Mandela really didn’t know what they were doing…why are you on SOCIAL media in the first place? While I encourage you to BE A LONG SHARP THORN UP VPOTUS’s ass, feel free to continue toiling in the shadows if you think that’s useful THE PEOPLE WILL HAVE THEIR JUSTICE!

Not a single one of them would encourage talking to Nazis in the marketplace of ideas so I don't know why you invoked any of them. I don't even think Gandhi would have thought that that was a good idea and he and terrible ideas like that Jews should just let the Holocaust happen.

“The marketplace of ideas”? Dude this is liberal twitter not the Lyceum. Your posts ooze arrogance Also, as a Jew, please STFU. Your comments are uninformed and anti semitic. Naziism was defeated through all out warfare. It was appeasement from smart fucks like you that let it get as far as it did

You know I find interesting is that you're actively arguing as if I said the opposite of what I said

What shadowy sigma moves do you propose to take down American Fascism?

Because engaging with other political philosophies is part of the playbook of fascists. They try to elevate themselves and put themselves on a pedestal and depict themselves as a valid alternate political philosophy. Talking with them only helps legitimize this

These are not mutually exclusive options and I certainly don't regret someone doing [redacted] or even [really redacted]. I think the first step is to not engage with fascists. You only give them a platform to spread their ideas if you engage with them

I'm glad you asked. There's always [redacted] but if people wanted to go to the nonviolent route it would take building real power and holding politicians accountable. How do you build real power? Well one way would be for Democrats to encourage everyone to join a union or start a union

They agree with him.

I mean, Greenblatt is a walking Zionist stereotype of the weak Diaspora nebech who doesn't know how to fight back. Lander is a much better leader for the ADL if he wants that job instead of elective office (e.g. Congress).

Why would the ADL appoint him if he completely disagrees with their communication strategy? He can't just seize that role.

Lander would be good. Did anyone ever go through trying to stand up a good ADL? How about a “Grandchildren of Survivors Against Camps”

I mean, the ADL, under Greenblatt, fought against the Muslim ban in 2017. Greenblatt and the board are all Democrats (Greenblatt's previous job was Obama advisor), they're just chickenshit.

At those point I think the ADL had lost all credibility. Lander would be better off starting a whole new organization