While it’s easy to laugh at their incompetence, please don’t forget that fascists have always been incompetent. And yet, as history has shown time and time again, this in no way means they’re not dangerous or that they cannot cause widespread pain and suffering.

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@aral ahh, I've been wondering about my time line full of "x" comments .... was beginning to wonder if it had some connection to the bomb and doll movies people talk so much about 🤷‍♂️
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interestingly the logo reads as the move left dominating the move right
@aral As Sarah Kendzior has pointed out, they cover up criminality (or other malfeasance/wrongdoing) with scandal. She mostly says this in connection to trump but it easily applies to other authoritarians/fascists.
@aral One place where fascist have been competent is to play on other politcal enties fears and insecurities they are also good at establishing "them vs us". Fear of the unknown is a powerful tool.

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my favorite broken record:

incompetence and stupidity are the plausible denial of malice and complicity

@aral incompetence tends to be compensated for with brutality.