#pretensions — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #pretensions, aggregated by home.social.
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Anarcho-Tyranny: How the New Right Explains Itself
The same day Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg charged Daniel Penny with manslaughter for #choking #to #death Jordan Neely—a homeless man who’d been acting in a way Penny perceived as threatening—Rep. #Matt #Gaetz (R-Fla.) recorded a podcast. Elites, he told listeners, were making the common man fearful of defending himself while allowing criminals to roam free. The congressman had a name for this inversion of justice: “#anarcho-#tyranny.”
For a certain kind of right-wing #shitposter #with #intellectual #pretensions—Tim Pool, Mike Cernovich, the New York Young Republican Club—invoking the specter of anarcho-tyranny was obligatory after Penny’s arrest.
The portmanteau signaled that you’d done the reading (or at least listened to a podcast by someone who had) and recognized the "real" oppressed: an ill-defined middle class caught between anarchy from below and tyranny from above.
The term lent an academic gloss to a gut reaction.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/07/anarcho-tyranny-penny-neely-sam-francis-new-right/
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Anarcho-Tyranny: How the New Right Explains Itself
The same day Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg charged Daniel Penny with manslaughter for #choking #to #death Jordan Neely—a homeless man who’d been acting in a way Penny perceived as threatening—Rep. #Matt #Gaetz (R-Fla.) recorded a podcast. Elites, he told listeners, were making the common man fearful of defending himself while allowing criminals to roam free. The congressman had a name for this inversion of justice: “#anarcho-#tyranny.”
For a certain kind of right-wing #shitposter #with #intellectual #pretensions—Tim Pool, Mike Cernovich, the New York Young Republican Club—invoking the specter of anarcho-tyranny was obligatory after Penny’s arrest.
The portmanteau signaled that you’d done the reading (or at least listened to a podcast by someone who had) and recognized the "real" oppressed: an ill-defined middle class caught between anarchy from below and tyranny from above.
The term lent an academic gloss to a gut reaction.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/07/anarcho-tyranny-penny-neely-sam-francis-new-right/
