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#CoryDoctorow @pluralistic on fire in this blog post: https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/26/sole-and-despotic-dominion/#then-they-came-for-me

A concise definition of #conservatism: "There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

With lots of examples from (tech) corporate and MAGA conservatism. "The Flu Klux Klan wants to ban you from wearing a mask for health reasons, but they will defend to the death the right of ICE brownshirts to run around in gaiters and Oakleys as they kidnap our neighbors off the streets."

Conservatism underpins #fascism. Therefore "we should treat every attempt to pull any of these scams as an inch (or a yard, or a mile) down the road to fascist collapse."

#Antifascism#NieWiederIstJetzt#CDUCSU#SPD#AfD

#CoryDoctorow @pluralistic on fire in this blog post: https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/26/sole-and-despotic-dominion/#then-they-came-for-me

A concise definition of #conservatism: "There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

With lots of examples from (tech) corporate and MAGA conservatism. "The Flu Klux Klan wants to ban you from wearing a mask for health reasons, but they will defend to the death the right of ICE brownshirts to run around in gaiters and Oakleys as they kidnap our neighbors off the streets."

Conservatism underpins #fascism. Therefore "we should treat every attempt to pull any of these scams as an inch (or a yard, or a mile) down the road to fascist collapse."

#Antifascism#NieWiederIstJetzt#CDUCSU#SPD#AfD

@dangillmor ”There must be in-groups who the law protects but does not bind, and out-groups who the law binds but does not not protect.”
-Frank Wilhoit

This is the only true rule of conservatism.

And it was made in the context of pointing out that we have no other politics than #conservatism left.

All parties today protect the wealthy at the price of hurting the non-wealthy. Only different flavours of implementing #wilhoitslaw remain in power.

This needs to change.