#Patriotic

The Troll Zoo

TrollZoo

1. Pepe the Frog is getting quite old. Adopted by "ironic" racists and trolls in the mid 2010s. Even Donald Trump once Tweeted himself as Pepe once. (Thread) (Reposted) 2.

Wake me up when November ends

MattBoxer94

Doing a little thread as to why I think Never Trumpers won't return to the GOP fold easily. So many on this site are convinced that everything will reset itself

Stephanie Studer

studersc

My special report on Chinese youth is out in @TheEconomist. I spoke to people of the post-Tiananmen generation in nightclubs, on farms. I found them to be patriotic—but also engaged,

Gabriel Malor

gabrielmalor

Many GOP officeholders are grappling—poorly—with the problem that they told their constituents that the election was getting stolen and patriots could stop it. Now they're backtracking: "we didn't mean actual

Merle Massie, PhD ☆ ⛷🚜✒🇨🇦

merlemassie

There's a meme going around comparing the Capitol insurrection with BLM protests. Here are a few key differences the meme conveniently ignores:1. Leadership. The sitting POTUS *called for* the event.

Seth Cotlar

SethCotlar

From the jump, Trump has said menacing things that clearly condoned political violence. Like when he said "2nd Amendment people" might have to do something about Clinton. What's worse, tho,

Palmer Report

PalmerReport

The final month before the election was a dark time for me. My timeline was flooded with fatalist hysteria about how Trump would win "no matter what" or how he'd

🏹 Aallontie

armas_aallontie

Thread on Elias Simojoki (1899-1940) and clerical Fascism in Finland. 0/28 Finnish Nationalism was linked to Christianity since its inception. The standardization of Finnish language began after the Reformation and

Jeff B., who on earth is this guy??

EsotericCD

This guy is just a jerk which, whatever, it's Twitter, it reduces all but the most self-possessed among us to gabble-gabble-fav-retweet-selfvalidating monsters. But there's a bigger point to make about

Andy Smarick

smarick

Anyone unfortunate enough to follow me knows one of my obsessions is that we have a commentariat class that has entirely too little experience in governing. So we have people

Professor Fleming

alwaystheself

I've been saying that our language fails us when trying to describe the violence of January 6th because the violence is endemic to the system. I'm actually not even sure

Mark Sparks

MarkSpa15541436

Republicans are in the unenviable position of having to face the fact they allowed a cult to form, a complete fantasy world written by Donald Trump, because it profited them

Dawson Clawson

DawsonClawson

(1) These sausage wranglers keep using the word “Orwellian” and referencing 1984 in regard to the censorship their seeing by Social Media. But what they refuse to acknowledge is that

David Timoney

fromarsetoelbow

If you read this in the Torygraph under the byline of Nick Timothy or Fraser Nelson, you wouldn't be at all surprised. It's actually Rafael Behr in the Grauniad, who

Elena J 🏳️‍🌈

elena_SF_CA

The word, “conviction,” is an interesting one. Though one man, clearly a failed US President, has escaped conviction by the Senate for his shameful words & actions...It’s another man who

Josh Shahryar (they/them) #BLM

JShahryar

I have been through coups so I can tell you two things. 1. This is indeed a coup attempt. 2. The attempt is doomed to fail.3. We're all gonna be

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