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USAnian liberals are v funny.

#RebeccaSolnit rightly observes that the #USA is being dismantled from within, but somehow thinks that's a Bad Thing™. :D

Yes, #Solnit really wants readers to believe in the virtue myths of an empire founded on violent conquest and racism, built on genocide and the Big Lie of "liberty". 🤣😅

Solnit is course right that #Trump is a depraved, crooked monster. But her notion of another, virtuous America, is a Big Lie.

Why does #TheGuardian publish this crap?

The Beginning Comes After the End
by Rebecca Solnit

Important new book by Rebecca #Solnit

The synopsis:

#RebeccaSolnit offers a thrilling account of the sheer breadth and scale of social, political, scientific, and cultural change over the past three quarters of a century.”

https://kottke.org/26/03/beginning-comes-after-the-end
#Politics #authoritarianism #fascism

> Chenoweth is a hugely influential scholar of nonviolent social change, best known for their empirical research that not only documents what makes civil resistance work but demonstrates that it works, often extremely effectively. They direct the  Nonviolent Action Lab, which studies how people have built movements and developed strategies to resist authoritarianism successfully ..
#Chenoweth #Solnit #NonviolentSocialChange #Nonviolence
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/06/biden-trump-race-rebecca-solnit

Why is the #pundit class so desperate to push #Biden out of the race?
Rebecca #Solnit

..."They have become a stampeding herd producing an avalanche of stories suggesting Biden is unfit, will lose and should go away, at a point in the campaign in which replacing him would likely be somewhere between extremely difficult and utterly catastrophic. They do this while ignoring something every scholar and critic of journalism knows well and every journalist should. As Nik."...