Weekend reading: The Triumph of Weaponized Nostalgia
Past eras of stable white Christian patriarchal dominance are widely sanitized and mythologized in our political discourse. The result is white male elite fan fiction that provides cover for reactionary politics.
https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/the-triumph-of-weaponized-nostalgia
1,174 mile (1,020 NM) flight from CLE to AUS
~ 1,224 gallons (4,632 liters).
~ 8,201 lbs (3,720 kg) of jet fuel used.
~ $6,852 cost of fuel.
~ 13 tons of CO2 emissions.
I have often wondered why Putin's attack on #Ukraine angers me so deeply.
Walking on the beaches of Lillebælt, I realized it is because of this:
To this day, we Danes still see the concrete fortifications left by the Nazis on our shores, because 1 fascist leader got the insane idea, he had the right to topple our democracy.
He had no right. All he had was the delusion he was somehow supreme to everyone else.
We stopped the fascist in 1945.
We will stop the fascist now.
We always win when we actually show up. You’d think we’d have showed up a bit more reliably before things got this bad. Now we have to show up like this. A lot. Because this ain’t over. It’s barely begun.
Source: @Karoli
https://mastodon.social/@Karoli@crooklyn.social/110856731584545069