Jared Yates Sexton
@jysexton.bsky.social
Hoosier, Political Analyst, newsletter Dispatches From A Collapsing State, author The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis, adviser The Change Campaign / American Institute For Change
Jared Yates Sexton is an American author and political commentator from Linton, Indiana. He was an associate professor in the Department of Writing and Linguistics at Georgia Southern University. .. more
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Shut It Down
It's time to stop participating in this awful system and bring it to its knees
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The fascists will not stop and are only going to get more violent. The Democrats have betrayed us.
It’s on us to stop this. We have to carry out a general strike and boycott even if we’re not ready. We have to kill this system before it kills us.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/shut-it-down
It’s on us to stop this. We have to carry out a general strike and boycott even if we’re not ready. We have to kill this system before it kills us.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/shut-it-down
It’s been pirated by every right wing influencer account so there’s literally no telling and all of them have armies of bots paid to increase views. My guess is 24 unique views.
We’re living in the fascist police state Alex Jones told everyone liberals would build and he’s deepthroating the boot while the sheeple he criticized risk everything
The fascists called us snowflakes and they’re wetting themselves over a halftime show and regular people are studying street warfare
The fascists called us snowflakes and they’re wetting themselves over a halftime show and regular people are studying street warfare
Hurting Children is the Point: The Right Wing Authoritarian Mindset
The motivation that hides in plain sight is the key to understanding what's happening
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The Epstein horrors have made something clear that has hidden in plain sight and helps explain fascism and our present crisis.
The Right Wing is motivated by a desire to hurt children and make sure their lives and futures are destroyed.
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The Right Wing is motivated by a desire to hurt children and make sure their lives and futures are destroyed.
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Words are incredibly cheap. Actual leaders of a resistance should be putting their bodies on the line, working around the clock organizing a coalition and movement, taking fascists to task.
You’ve been fed scraps for so long a few aggressive words feels like a feast.
You’ve been fed scraps for so long a few aggressive words feels like a feast.
People are so desperate for some leadership that someone will give a speech that doesn’t sound like a room of centrist, corporate consultants typed it up and everyone starts asking if the guy is the front runner for president.
Demand. More. From. Politicians.
Demand. More. From. Politicians.
You only say that because it’s true.
Have you looked at a fucking poll in the last couple of years. The “left” at this point is a supermajority with no representation.
They’d much prefer Democrats said all the right things and smiled while the machine of fascist cruelty and exploitation chugged along just out of their sight and in another part of town or another country.
“Everything you’re saying about centrists would make it impossible to work with them in a coalition.”
Why in the living fuck do you think I would want to be part of a coalition with a group of people who have continually betrayed us and turned a blind eye to obvious cruelty and fascism?
Why in the living fuck do you think I would want to be part of a coalition with a group of people who have continually betrayed us and turned a blind eye to obvious cruelty and fascism?
“This genocide is terrible and wildly unpopular but there’s an election coming! Don’t criticize the president!”
“Maybe we can reform ICE.”
“Sure, I don’t think police should murder people but saying defunding them is going a little too far.”
How do you look yourself in the goddamn mirror?
“Maybe we can reform ICE.”
“Sure, I don’t think police should murder people but saying defunding them is going a little too far.”
How do you look yourself in the goddamn mirror?
To watch ICE murder people and abduct children and then have the gall to say “I totally stand against this but calling to end this could hurt our election chances.”
No, it won’t, and if you can’t stand against fascism you don’t deserve to win an election anyway.
No, it won’t, and if you can’t stand against fascism you don’t deserve to win an election anyway.
The “independent voters” corporate democrats talk about are as real as the bullshit family Schumer always rambles about.
You’re just cowards who are too afraid to stand by your convictions because you know they’re unpopular and upsetting.
You’re just cowards who are too afraid to stand by your convictions because you know they’re unpopular and upsetting.
“You have to think about independent voters.”
No. You don’t. You’ve made them up in your head as a projection of what YOU believe but are too afraid to admit to others or even yourself.
The amount of people in denial in this country is absolutely wild.
No. You don’t. You’ve made them up in your head as a projection of what YOU believe but are too afraid to admit to others or even yourself.
The amount of people in denial in this country is absolutely wild.
It would help if every centrist who says they’d love to abolish ICE or end a genocide or protect trans people or get to universal healthcare but “you have to think about elections” would admit they just don’t want to do any of those things and are quietly fine with fascism if it doesn’t touch them.
ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
Anybody asking for your vote or support shouldn’t hesitate to say ICE should be abolished and every motherfucker involved, top to bottom, arrested and thrown in jail.
That should be the moderate position on this issue.
That should be the moderate position on this issue.
ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
Welcome to Headquarters, the new Gen-Z led progressive content hub.
What we have all been taught to refer to as “politics” is nothing but a diversionary theater produced to distract us as our money, resources, and rights are stolen. It’s a scam all the way down.
We have to recognize this scam for what it is and rediscover what it means to fight together.
We have to recognize this scam for what it is and rediscover what it means to fight together.
Welcome to Headquarters, the new Gen-Z led progressive content hub.
Related topics include how every Right Wing “warrior” is a boot licking sycophant, the desire to destroy feminist progress and create patriarchal dominance, the fucked up psychosexual nature of the Right, why fascists are never happy and hate themselves, and the Right’s reliance on drugs.
There it is. Said as simply as could be said.
That cycle of abuse and wanting to hurt children is at the root of everything from getting rid of vaccine mandates to not stopping mass shootings to ending age of consent laws to the Epstein horrors.
You can dress it up however, but that’s what’s playing out in the rise of fascism.
You can dress it up however, but that’s what’s playing out in the rise of fascism.
Simply put, the Right unconsciously needs to make children suffer like they suffered, preferably even worse. They want to ensure they go through the same abuses and find power in moving from the role of abused to abuser.
That’s what’s underneath our fascist struggle.
That’s what’s underneath our fascist struggle.
What we’re dealing with is more than just politics, which is an expression of deeper psychological processes.
This is an existential battle that will determine whether the world becomes more cruel and more deadly or if we end cycles of abuse and realize a better future. That’s the whole thing.
This is an existential battle that will determine whether the world becomes more cruel and more deadly or if we end cycles of abuse and realize a better future. That’s the whole thing.
There’s a reason the Right hated any notion of mental health or safe places with children. As authoritarians they wanted to destroy any semblance of support for children so that they could continue the cycle of emotionally and psychologically and physically hurting children.
The psychology of Right Wing authoritarianism is rooted in backgrounds of being abused as children by authoritarians and then becoming abusers when they are adults.
That happens in families and it scales upwards to culture and politics. That’s what’s happening now.
That happens in families and it scales upwards to culture and politics. That’s what’s happening now.
The hidden basis of so much of what’s happening with rising fascism is about children, namely destroying developed support and even care for them.
They’re being exploited, murdered in genocide, starved here and abroad. The education system is being completely destroyed.
They’re being exploited, murdered in genocide, starved here and abroad. The education system is being completely destroyed.
Reposted by Martin Paul Eve
The Right has spent years trying to push a return to child labor and attacking age of consent laws. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that they’re exposing us to mountains of the most horrendous stuff imaginable while also normalizing it.
So much of what’s happening is the destruction of childhood.
So much of what’s happening is the destruction of childhood.
Schumer & Jeffries lay out the Democratic demands for a DHS funding deal in a letter to the top Republican leaders
I don’t know, you fucking loser quislings, however about three demands:
Fuck ICE
Abolish ICE
Imprison ICE
Fuck ICE
Abolish ICE
Imprison ICE
Schumer & Jeffries lay out the Democratic demands for a DHS funding deal in a letter to the top Republican leaders