Every word of this post is golden (he is a brilliant writer), so please go read it, but I'll give you what I think is the money shot:

I have a few questions for supremacist bullies: If you want to be friends, why don’t you ever come sit with us? Why is the demand that we come sit with you instead? Why do you want so badly for only some of us to sit over with you, and why aren’t the rest of our friends ever welcome at your table? Why would you expect us to sit at your table, when you won’t stop bullying our friends? What is this belief that friendship should be completely untethered to the ways that you are harming us and our friends, completely untethered from the ways you ignore us when we tell you that you are, completely untethered from the way you demand that you should be the one who gets to announce what our experience of you is? If you want friends, why aren’t you willing to be friendly? Do you want to be friends? Is friends what is desired here? I don’t think so, actually. I think what’s being sought is accomplices.

Moxon is JuliusGoat on the exBird site, and here on Mastodon

"And I believe the appropriate response to all of this corruption is anger, which I’m defining very specifically as something that is observant, clearly seeing the lie as a lie, and the lie’s corruptions as corrupt; as something that is restorative, seeking not to exchange wrong for wrong, but to exchange great supremacist lies with greater truths about intrinsic human value; and as something that is expectant, which believes that change is not only possible but necessary, and filled with a great conviction that it is the responsibility of all of us to see this restorative change come about." - READ MORE HERE

The president is being impeached, even though there exists no case for impeachment. He is old, the president, and his cognition is impaired—so the story goes—while his opponent, former president Donald Trump, who is only 4 years younger and is as ignorant of all matters to do with the office he seeks as he is incurious of basic human decency, is—so the story goes—youthful and sharp as a tack, and possessed of the sort of musculature that would qualify him to appear in action movies. Trump has openly announced his intention to become a fascist dictator if he re-achieves the presidency, promising to use the military to crush dissent, vowing to use his standing army of fascist judges and police to seize power and disband large swaths of the government, and swearing to purge the courts and the government and the nation of undesirable elements. Last night he literally quoted Adolf Hitler, telling his pink-faced crowd that immigrants were poisoning the nation’s blood. The language he’s used to marshal his support among mostly white, mostly Christian Americans can only be described as dehumanizing and eliminationist, the sort of talk that usually precedes mass killings.

A.R. Moxon

We could talk about how so many people who insist that “sunlight is the best disinfectant” for bigotry—by which they mean that bigotry should be allowed to expose itself, and thus be shunned by a public that won’t tolerate bigotry—also seems to insist that every instance of a bigot getting publicly shunned after exposing their bigotry represents a very dangerous trend for free speech, while simultaneously never seeming to object to any of the actual attacks on freedom—of speech, of movement, of bodily autonomy—that are happening across the country. At a certain point, it seems to me that we have to conclude that what such people are actually advocating for is not to use sunlight to expose and disinfect our society of bigotry, but simply to have a society in which bigotry is free to dance in the sun.

The Case For Shunning, A.R. Moxon

[A tweet from A.R. Moxon, user JuliusGoat, reading “Not that it should matter, but Republicans have no intention of stopping with trans people; genociders never do.

Machines built to eat people don’t stop until they run out of people.“]

Machines built to eat people don't stop until they run out of people.

How should one handle Fascists? A.R. Moxon has some pretty good ideas...

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Conservatives want to sabotage our awareness with ignorance. Their attack on 'wokeness' is a perfect example.

Morally empty neutrality is not an option.

“Maybe most “disruptions” that people already enriched by the status quo engage in are meant to disrupt progress, not create it.” - A.R. Moxon

Read this and then subscribe. Pay what you want. This is important.

Go low...and be strong.

Please read this entire essay by A.R. Moxon, “Lying to Fascists” published by The Reframe. As a teacher, one who’s been in classrooms/districts since the mid 2000s, I’ve seen the impact of harmful policies, NCLB, ESSA, the ‘big tests’ COVID building closures, tech, and now parents and guardians who vote against their and their children’s best interest. I’m struggling, y’all. I’ve been attacked…

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If you're looking for an essay to read on the Israel/Palestine situation—one that might heavily resonate with that part of your humanity getting overwhelmed by these horrible atrocities layered in messy realities that can make one feel both hopelessly powerless and ignorantly complacent—I think this 'Hurting The Right People' essay by the dependably insightful A.R. MOXON (a Substack I highly recommend exploring / subscribing to) is the one you might be looking for.

"Another thing that the Huckinses reported they loved about Missouri: according to them people in their areas really loved flying the flag of the United States, while apparently in Portland it was a shameful thing to do. In Missouri, though, the Huckinses never have to stop to think why people might not want to fly a flag that represents power trying to eliminate them from existence. It must feel very comfortable for people who don’t want to see undesired people, to move to a place where there aren’t any undesired people. I imagine it feels very safe. So for some the U.S. flag has begun to mean freedom from the sort of people they would like to not exist, and for others it means the eliminationist force that is eliminating them from society. A flag is a symbol; national flags are a symbol of a nation. So a national flag becomes the symbol of what a country does with its power, and you can tell what a flag means by noting who flies it with pride, and who fears it or shuns it. If a country starts eliminating undesirable people, then that’s what the flag will mean, both to those it eliminates and to those who desired the elimination of people they deemed undesirable. That’s how flags work."

A.R. Moxon, "No Beliefs, Just Intentions https://armoxon.substack.com/p/no-beliefs-just-intentions

Before preceding we should mention what “Nazi ideas” are, since McKenzie didn’t. “Nazi ideas” are: first, that people Nazis consider part of their ethnic and philosophical in-group represent pure paragons of humanity; second, that all other human beings are corrupted and corrupting threats poisoning their bloodstream both literally and metaphorically; and third, that all other human beings therefore should be subjugated, then expelled, then exterminated, so that true humanity can finally thrive. They have other ideas as well, but those make up the core. If you want to hear examples of Nazi ideas, you should listen to the leader of the Republican Party, whose name is Donald Trump. He’s saying stuff like this all the time, and his crowds cheer and cheer, when they aren’t claiming to be opposed to antisemitism and other forms of racism and bigotry and supremacy and suppression, that is.

A.R. Moxon

Sometimes I wonder why the world is so cruel and then am swiftly answered by my social justice degree.

It really is difficult to care and be compassionate to others under systems of oppression.

This isn’t a lamentation of some human condition that we are all evil. I really do hope that the increased interconnected internet and the accessibility of knowledge will bring about more pockets and places of kindness out into the open.

I know we all know that the internet is toxic or whatever but whatever, cynicism and nihilism is boring. And I hate being told that I’m filled with copeium for thinking that. The black pit of despair has taken friends and almost family and myself so why the fuck do you think it’s intelligent and cool to take the nihilism road.

There is joy to be found in spite of the burn out and war crimes. If people in literal fucking war zones going through a genocide can have hope and find joy, who the fuck are we to be cynical and nihilistic. Fuck anyone that says we should just nuke gaza. Have some fucking hope. It’s not copeium. We will not forget that a genocide is happening. South Africa was able to end apartheid, Palestinians will be free. But it takes fucking work to decolonize and if you’re giving up get the fuck out of the way. This isn’t a rant post about people who are burnt out tho, this is a rant post who actively choose to not care. We can’t think that the leopards won’t eat our faces.

To get needlessly personal despite social justice being more than just the individual, I hope for collective liberation because of that quote A.R. Moxon made. “Meet me in the middle, said the unjust, you take a step towards him and he takes a step back, meet me in the middle says the unjust man”. I cannot not care about oppressed people around the world because I know if I did, the leopards will eat my face eventually.

People get respectability and shut the door behind them. But no one is safe. Even if you’re a cisgendered white guy eventually you won’t be privileged enough to not have your face eaten. Im a queer and trans person of colour. I know my position, I hear the potentially genocidal language being used in reference to trans people. I’m not transgenderism. Palestinians are not Hamas. I am not spreading a conspiracy agenda. Hamas is not hiding in hospitals. We will not be free until we are all free.

Reading A.R. Moxon is like therapy for me. Gives me a nice little dose of "oh, no, this stuff really is as fucked up as you think it is" to hold me over.