The Skinny: Chuds, Social Media & Censorship Edition
A lengthy, informal journal piece on Patreon about censorship, social media and the fallout from the Trump-inspired Jan 6th chud riot in D.C.
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Essays
Counting Coup on Can’t You Read
Over on Can’t You Read, Nina closes the Trump-era chapter of American Fascism by reciting her works and counting coup on faux-left contrarians and numpties.
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On What Twitter Is & Why I’m Fine With Never Coming Back
A link to a new essay on my free Patreon blog that discusses why Twitter’s role in public discourse is frankly pretty sinister, and I don’t miss it one bit.
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Essay: On Whiteness, Identity Politics & the Pig Empire Left (Link)
A longer, heavily sourced essay about why vast portions of the labor class left need to get over their reactionary ideas about what identity politics actually means; before history and shifting demographics leave them behind.
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Essay: Organize or Die (Link)
A lengthy informal essay about the importance of organizing a three tiered societal movement around a radical left wing program.
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‘The Devil You Know? A Response to Recent Revisionist History From the Contrarian “Left”
An op-ed aggressively refuting the contrarian faux-left position that calling Trump a fascist is some sort of liberal psyop designed to distract the left.
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Essay: On Mea Culpas, the Populist Alliance & the Young American Left (Link)
A link to a (free to read) Patreon Blog essay that looks at online Twitter drama, declaring war on Bidenist neoliberalism and why anti-identity politics populism is cancer for the left.
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How to (Make a Troll) Disappear Completely: A Primer on Americanized Fascism
“Well how do *you* define fascism then?” Put your mouth guard in princess because I’m done playing around…
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American Fascism and Networks of Power on Can’t You Read
A link to a short essay on Can’t You Read about why fascism will survive Trump; includes a recommended reading article showing fascist power networks in action during the Covid-19 anti-lockdown protests.
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November Small Ball Update
A (now redundant) roundup of all of Nina’s smaller posts in October and November; including Facebook Journal and Can’t You Read links we’ve never shared until now on ninaillingworth.com.
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Opening Pandora’s Box on Can’t You Read (Link)
With Trump’s coup seemingly ground to a halt, it’s time to celebrate the end of the fascist moment – isn’t it? Not so fast says analyst Nina Illingworth. By combining some brief observations on the seemingly-doomed Trumpist “chicken coup,” and a link to a vitally important article by Indi Samarajiva about why even a failed reactionary coup is a disaster for a society that calls itself a democracy, our intrepid author debunks the still quite dangerous idea that we’ve survived the Swine Emperor and everything is going to go back to normal soon.
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