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Plantsmantx.bsky.social @plantsmantx.bsky.social

Do you see it as infighting, or do you see Jeffries and others like him as enemies?

aug 24, 2025, 6:56 pm • 1 0

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Ryan Alan @foodicide.bsky.social

I don't see most Americans as enemies, Jeffries included. I think he is the torch bearer of a dying political movement that has a demographic that is largely out of touch with the experience of normal people, and certainly with the populist elements of the electorate. He is an ineffective ally.

aug 24, 2025, 7:03 pm • 0 0 • view
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Plantsmantx.bsky.social @plantsmantx.bsky.social

The majority of Black Americans are out of touch with "normal people"? I very much agree that we're out of touch with the populist elements of the electorate, though...thank goodness.

aug 24, 2025, 7:07 pm • 0 0 • view
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Ryan Alan @foodicide.bsky.social

I wouldn't define anyone, on the basis of race as not "normal people".

aug 24, 2025, 8:07 pm • 0 0 • view
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Plantsmantx.bsky.social @plantsmantx.bsky.social

And yet...

aug 24, 2025, 8:08 pm • 0 0 • view
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Plantsmantx.bsky.social @plantsmantx.bsky.social

Which Americans *do* you see as enemies?

aug 24, 2025, 7:11 pm • 0 0 • view
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Ryan Alan @foodicide.bsky.social

Oh gosh. The fascists who understand that they're fascists, maybe the fascists who don't, but I think they're persuadable.

aug 24, 2025, 8:06 pm • 0 1 • view
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Plantsmantx.bsky.social @plantsmantx.bsky.social

"Persuadable fascists"?

aug 24, 2025, 8:07 pm • 0 1 • view
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Ryan Alan @foodicide.bsky.social

I didn't say quite that. People who are fascists and don't realize it are potentially persuadable. People often fall into political movements for shallow reasons unrelated to their actual convictions. I think there are Trump supporters who would not consider themselves fascist even though he is.

aug 24, 2025, 8:11 pm • 0 0 • view
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Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social

Sounds like a punk band name.

aug 24, 2025, 8:11 pm • 2 0 • view
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Ryan Alan @foodicide.bsky.social

Only if they were persuading them with fists.

aug 24, 2025, 8:12 pm • 0 0 • view
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Beard and Circuses @beardandcircuses.bsky.social

Infighting isn't a thing. There's being PRIVILEGED and settling while letting marginalized people be destroyed, or there's working to make things better, which includes holding your politicians accountable.

aug 24, 2025, 7:02 pm • 1 0 • view