From 'They Knew' by Sarah Kendzior:

"They say that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Since Americans spent centuries failing to learn from history, we get to repeat it all at once. The year is 2021 and we are living through simultaneous revivals of the worst of the American past. The Civil War, the Spanish flu, the white mob violence of the 1919 red summer, the extreme wealth disparity of the Gilded Age, the fascist movements of the 1930’s and 1940’s, the Jim Crow era of voter suppression, the riots of the 1960’s, the corruption of Watergate, the cover ups of Iran-Contra. In August 2021 hurricane Ida made landfall in Louisiana on the anniversary of hurricane Katrina. One month before the 20th anniversary of 9/11, the Taliban re-took Afghanistan dressed in U.S. military uniforms abandoned in the hasty retreat from the quagmire war. It's like America is on its deathbed, watching its life flash before its eyes."

#theyknew #kendzior

Great ep. #gaslit #gaslitnation #Kendzior #Chalupa #DOJ

https://twitter.com/TheKimClub/status/1615731020518805505?t=rHVkMwXp-f4MvtUk9l8IxQ&s=19

#Kendzior #GasLitNation #Gaslit

https://twitter.com/sarahkendzior/status/1613254127215349762?t=Gqkfcj-iU0WEIMMDqH3nsg&s=19

I'm reading Sarah #Kendzior 's They Knew, How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent, which was in my pile of books on conspiracy theories and am of two minds: one the one hand, I have an uneasiness at the way some scandals are "pushed", and some frank disagreements, on the other hand I tend to agree with one of the premisses of the book (that deviations to democratic processes and complacency with them feeds a conspiracist culture). Has anyone here read that book and has an opinion?

I'm not sure I agree with #Kendzior's reasoning. What I have read makes me think #Twitter is NOT the community and dissident organizing hub even INSIDE the US. Jan 6th organizing was done on Zello. #Dissidents outside the US organize on #Telegram, #Signal and other encrypted messaging apps. #Politics #Authoritarianism #organizing