Austin J. Clements @ClementsAustinJ Twitter profile

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Austin J. Clements

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3 years

"Are you fucking kidding me?!" --my 2yo, clear as a bell, in the middle of PetSmart, upon seeing a snake in real life for the first time

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It’s a historical document at this point

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what is y’all most liked tweet?

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historiography

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I study the right and even I didn’t expect the Spanish Inquisition

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Take it from someone who reads archives of American fascist and authoritarian propaganda from 1920s-onward for a living: yes, absolutely. This reads exactly like something the Klan would produce in the 1920s, Coughlin in 1930s, Skousen in 1950s, JBS in 1960s...

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On p. 18 the 1776 report accuses American universities of "anti-Americanism, libel, and censorship," as well as teaching "outright hatred of this country." This document may end up anthologized some day in a collection of fascist and authoritarian propaganda, if one is needed.

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Told my ER doctor I study religion: Dr: oh interesting yeah I grew up Episcopalian Me: ooh Episcopalians are fascinating Dr: really? We’re not like one of the weird ones Me: well no religion thinks it’s the weird one Dr: you know what I mean we’re not like “weird” Me: 😐

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Playing Life with the kids 11yo: lol I landed on the “have a baby” tile again, like people just park their car and make a baby Me: My wife: Me: well *clears throat* some peop— 11yo: oh no

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Twitter is TMZ for academics

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Austin J. Clements

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2 years

Howard Zinn’s People’s History of the United States

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name a book you read that felt like it changed your view of the world at the time and then later you realised was absolute garbage

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Austin J. Clements

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@montes_narayana They do! But Spanish history is largely absent. I took “European History” courses in high school and cc and it just meant Britain and France, and after 1914 Germany too. According to US historiography Spain existed in 1492 and 1898

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Fascists historically did all of those things

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1 year

Also, fascists don't "run" for office. They don't do polling. They don't try to win court cases. They don't try for "earned media." They use discipline, ideology, and violence to build a mass movement that terrorizes those weak institutions into paralysis and collapse. /15

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@MatthewSitman Surely, I thought, there’s some missing context here. But it’s actually worse

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Well folks it’s happened. A student described Vietnam as a war that occurred “in the late 1900s.” Excuse me while I shrivel and wither into the dust

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Austin J. Clements

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Hey he stole my dissertation’s acknowledgments section

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Hey folks! In addition to raising a foul-mouthed toddler I also study history! Follow if you’re interested in the history of early 20th c American religions and rightwing politics (Catholicism, fundamentalism, Mormonism, nationalism, fascism, antisemitism, populism). Also follow:

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When’s the part of grad school where we smoke cigarettes and argue about jazz?

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@KevinMKruse @david_r_morgan Lil Nas X literally going “get behind me Satan” I don’t see what’s controversial

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History Twitter is the WebMD of democracy

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My poor wife

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Watching Under the Banner of Heaven and I don’t see what the deal is, I feel like I know every one of these people. Y’all should spend more time in rural Utah and Idaho. I mean, or not, obviously

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@ceaubin living in the Bay Area produces many such stories

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Austin J. Clements

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Non-US monograph: The Role of Mucus in Medical Discourses from 1789-2001 US History monograph: Phlegm Fatale: Mucus and the Birth of Modern Medicine Trade press: GUNK! The Untold Story of the Doctors and Witches Who Scraped Our Lungs and Transformed Science Forever

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Academics

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this is the most relatable new yorker cartoon

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People convert to religions for complicated, deeply personal reasons of seeking and fulfillment. My mom joined the LDS church because she thought Donny Osmond was hot

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3 years

Dear historians working on new books in my field: please neglect, fail to consider, or overlook something so that I have an opening to fill the gap in the literature, thank you in advance

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Need this on a T shirt

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My 3yo has picked up a bunch of 1930s vernacular from old Mickey Mouse cartoons (“oh boy!” “Say, what’s the big idea?” “A wise guy, huh?” “Aw shucks!”) so now she goes around talking like James Cagney

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Austin J. Clements

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Excited to announce that Stanford Summer session has approved my course, “Extremism in America from the Ku Klux Klan to January 6” for this summer!

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Austin J. Clements

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When asked questions of what happens after we die, evangelicals will tell you to read the Bible, Catholics will recommend you consult a priest, and Mormons will look for the nearest chalkboard and start drawing you a map

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Does anyone else who studies the far right/religious right ever wonder if maybe we take their ideas more seriously than they do?

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Is there a trick to knowing which nouns in German use die, der, or das, or do I just need to memorize the genders of pizza and traffic lights?

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Austin J. Clements

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Well, no, fascism came into power in countries where conservatives (landed aristocracy, monarchists, Catholics, etc) felt threatened by liberals who they feared would introduce socialism so they backed ultranationalist and fascist groups to ward off both liberalism and communism

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Fascists come to power because liberals prefer fascism to socialism. In a binary between Cornel West and Trump, most liberals in the managerial professional class would hold their noses and vote Trump and then there'd be articles in Politico about how he wasn't so bad after all.

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When I say you can’t really understand anti communism without race and gender as categories of analysis, I mean

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Austin J. Clements

@ClementsAustinJ

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My first peer-reviewed article is now published online with @JContHist ! “‘The Franco Way’: The Spanish Civil War and the American Right, 1936-9”, on the importance of the SCW in creating a particularly American Catholic rightwing vocabulary and worldview

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If you want a deep-dive into the mindset of “I’m not an antisemite I just want to save the Jews from causing their own persecution” you can’t do better (before Lindsay today) than Father Coughlin’s 1939 sermons compiled in the pamphlet “Am I an Anti-Semite?”

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Austin J. Clements

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Just learned that Phoenix was supposed to be 120 degrees this but the smoke from surrounding wildfires blocked the sun to keep us at a brisk 117. Thanks, fire, for cooling us down

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11yo: are we atheists? Me: well “we” aren’t anything, if you don’t believe in god that’s fine, if you believe in god that’s fine 11yo: what if I start going to church? Me: great just say the religious service you want to attend and I’ll take you there 11yo: a furry convention

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CN: ok so the film starts in black and white with bond age 80 Hollywood exec: please no CN: and it goes back to a colorised 1960s in reverse sequence to bond as a dapper lad HE: stop CN: but it’s intercut with future consequences of his actions HE: why are you like this

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According to @mrRuimy , Christopher Nolan is in talks to direct and write at least two James Bond films. They would be true Fleming adaptations set in the period they were written.

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Looking back I think my favorite Twitter of 2022 was Mormon Twitter’s reaction to Under the Banner of Heaven. The extreme poles of “look how they mock us so inaccurately” and “it’s like they filmed my family” with absolutely no in between, terrific social media

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Celebrating Marlene Dietrich’s birthday by reading her Wikipedia list of Hollywood affairs. Happy birthday to a real one

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@varsha_venkat_ I’ve heard so many horrible misogynistic arguments lately but “women will starve to death without penis while men laugh in contempt amidst gay sex” is a whole other level

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Was on a Delta flight and this guy offered me $100K to say I prefer endnotes to footnotes

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Austin J. Clements

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Reading about 19th century Republicans is like History: he supported black suffrage Me: that’s good! H: but he was too lenient to prior confederates Me: that’s bad H: he supported unions Me: that’s good! H: only so long as they kept out immigrants Me: that’s bad

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@ClementsAustinJ

3 years

“‘Lies My Teacher Told Me’ but written by your teachers” is a pretty great pitch not gonna lie

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I'm thrilled to announce that @julianzelizer and I have put together a terrific crew of historians for a forthcoming collection on myths about American history, to be published by the good people at @BasicBooks .

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An archivist I’d spoken to a while back just emailed me to let me know they found some microfilm I’d been looking for but at a different location. Which means this archivist remembered my research and thought of me all these months later. Archivists are the best people

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Too real onion too real

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Someday I’d like to read a labor history that doesn’t assume working class folks are all socialists in various stages of development

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Me: I’m poor white trash Academics: ?? Me: oh sorry forgot to code switch, I’m white subaltern Academics: ah *nodding* yes

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Austin J. Clements

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My wife walked up to the server at our local A&W. The person was possibly Utahn. She wanted to engage the individual but was frozen in fear that she might use a religious designation that might please the devil. Therein lies the problem with President Nelson’s language policing.

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Austin J. Clements

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@DavidAstinWalsh Isn’t that precisely the problem Sweet was trying to identify? If you are unable to critique research/scholarship in your profession because doing so would be a political victory for odious people, then you’ve forfeited any right to call yourself a discipline

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@varsha_venkat_ Well, four people will *say* they’ve read it

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@jademc07 I think atheism is weird too! Like really you think this all just sort of happened? And you’re so sure?

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At the point of dissertation where I go to get a book from the library but some jerk has already checked it out and the jerk is me five months ago

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1 year

Just spent an hour combing through rolls of microfilm to confirm a single citation and it turns out it does not say what previous historian says it said. So…glad I did this…?

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Mormonism!

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What do you call it when it’s a commune of capitalists?

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Is Zotero worth learning to use Zotero?

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Just discovered a recent book that not only covers a great deal of my dissertation topic but does so better than I ever could. Alas

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@nwteacher6 Lol this was me, a Mormon, at my first catholic mass

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Austin J. Clements

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I should just have a “why Catholics and Protestants historically don’t get along” mini-lecture ready to go at any given time, students are typically very confused by this

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@j_n_foster Come unto Christ harder and longer with this one weird trick doctors don’t want you to know about

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3 years

Evangelicals and white Christian nationalism? Please. I grew up LDS—Christopher Columbus, the founding fathers, and the constitution make guest appearances in our sacred texts

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I considered in light of the outright avowals of fascism coming from the American right lately to point to my research and say this has been a conversation since Mussolini marched on Rome. But there’s a difference: interwar pro-fascists didn’t know about the Holocaust /1

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Ok y'all are right, Canva is pretty great

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Advisors: your dissertation needs more signposting Me: Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter

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3 years

Who among us hasn’t cursed the communism of the current presidency from a grocery store parking lot

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Marge Greene today: “Joe Biden is a communist. And that’s what the Democrats are - they’re communists. A lot of people are swallowing down the word ‘socialist,’ but .. they are communists.”

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Just arrived! Excited to dig in

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this is what you get without an HOA we have one place in our neighborhood that isn’t governed by the HOA and this is what we get as a neighbor

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this is what you get without an HOA we have one place in our neighborhood that isn’t governed by the HOA and this is what we get as a neighbor

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@ClementsAustinJ

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@norellehan “Hey G.D. have you ever—“ “No.”

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In hindsight, perhaps telling a conservative religious college “hey I study fascism and the far right and its ties to organized religions can you fund me to study the papers of your cherished leaders?” was a poor tactic

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Curious and objective journalist: why is antifa so evil and bad? Academic rational psychologist: it’s revenge against God for the crime of Being *cries*

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@ChanceBonar But Dr Bonar, surely there was some point in history where owning another human being as property and treating them as inferior even to beasts was good for both parties?

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Next week in our extremism class we are learning about fascism. One of the central questions I’ve asked my students to think about: what is the appeal of fascism? Why would someone be drawn to this? What does it offer that other ideologies/political systems do not?

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Austin J. Clements

@ClementsAustinJ

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How is it that I am only now learning about this steamy pre-code film based on a story from the Book of Mormon?

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My 13yo asked for a cheese grater and a quesadilla maker for Christmas and that’s the kind of energy I want to bring into 2022

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Reading in grad school when you’re a parent

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Austin J. Clements

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As someone who grew up with food insecurity (or whatever today’s euphemism is for “hungry”) I don’t think feeding me when I was ten would have made me lazy and irresponsible as an adult. Might’ve made me less weird about food though

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Literally, a "free lunch" vs working. Perpetual childhood vs responsibility. Of course, the free lunch will always be more immediately popular with people who never ask who pays for it.

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Is there a better compliment an academic can receive than “hey I wanted to take your class but it’s full is there anyway you can add me”?

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Guys bad news I’m reading Fukuyama’s “End of History and the Last Man” and it doesn’t say what you think it says

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4 years

So nice to log off Twitter, where much of my feed is lefties blaming (neo?)liberalism for fascism and righties blaming liberalism for socialism, to go back to the archives and read the same arguments being made exactly 100 years ago

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@ClementsAustinJ

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We need a Mormon-themed exorcism movie

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My daughter referred to me as a “famous historian” and argued that my having “like a thousand” followers on Twitter was proof

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@j_n_foster Oh good I was worried we were going to have to look deeply into our actions and behaviors regarding the LGBTQ community but alas the killer might’ve stopped going to church a few years ago whew that was close

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My favorite Chronicle/InsideHigherEd pieces are the ones that are basically “I was on social media the other day and noticed academics doing things I didn’t like”

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At my Catholic in-laws and my 3yo is asking, “why is there a boy climbing up that ‘t’?”

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Grad students

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It’s been an amazing journey but the chapter has concluded: I passed my orals an am now officially ABD. Thank you to my amazing examiners @profburns @KGinLum @TheGNapp Gordon Chang, and @AnnaBigelow786 for agreeing to chair!

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I’m seeing history Twitter talking about Halloween costumes coordinated to their area of study, guess it’s time to roll out Slutty Calvin Coolidge

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Austin J. Clements

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Fetterman looks like someone you see at RenFest who can run the forge and knows how to wield a broadsword but doesn’t actually work there, I mean this as a compliment

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Austin J. Clements

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Yes but when will we get a book on Mormonism in the FBI and CIA?

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@wscism Me neither all I know is I’m supposed to start getting it checked every year after I turn 40

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An absolute Classic on this very subject

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Temperance crusaders in the US eventually went too far with prohibition but also worth noting the statistics on alcoholism in the 19th century US are ***nuts*** especially compared to other Protestant countries.

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Scholars of religion: everything is a religion Scholars of gender and sexuality: everything is sex Scholars of race: everything is a racism Scholars of fascism: NOTHING IS FASCISM

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Austin J. Clements

@ClementsAustinJ

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Found an American Legion magazine article talking about how fascist dictatorships are becoming the rage across Europe, and speaks of a “Bavarian Mussolini” named Hitler who will likely set Europe ablaze once again. The article is from December 1922, which seems...early

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*spends the research day reading Henry Ford’s reprinting of The Protocols* *logs on to Twitter for a break and sees this*

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This is deeply troubling and alarming

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@ISASaxonists “The racist in me is very curious I mean er the human in me is very racist I mean curious”

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Historians will literally grant agency to water before they grant it to human workers

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“I’m so far left that liberals and fascists all look the same to me” isn’t the sharp analysis some think it is but here we are

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17yo me rn

🇵🇸FKA CatNamer umberg.bsky.social

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Just to be clear: -Mormons are paid to promote their lifestyle to recruit people to their cult -this woman is 22 and pregnant with her 3rd child, she was married at 18 -half the comments on her TikTok are younger women & girls saying things like ‘I wanna be you when I grow up’

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