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paul johnson

@rhetoricpj.bsky.social

I live in pittsburgh and like it. wrote a book about conservative populism. have spent the last 15 years studying the right. go arsenal! I like gin. Book: https://www.uapress.ua.edu/9780817321093/i-the-people/

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what in the actual

02.03.2026 14:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

much of the last third of the twentieth century was defined by the fact that from 1973-1981 Arab states put the US to the fuel sword. much if the last 40 years has been defined by the fact that the United States couldn't process that act through anything other than psychopathic superpower syndrome

02.03.2026 14:01 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yea wildfire prolif time baby. Should be super chill.

02.03.2026 13:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Truman Doctrine Necropolitcs: some American somewhere feeling aggrieved --> kiill kill kill

02.03.2026 13:09 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

This is what we in the psychoa biz call a slip

02.03.2026 00:17 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The affect of violence is like, kind of the whole deal!

02.03.2026 00:07 — 👍 13    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Yea this plus slotkin gets you like 80% of everything: add in a little "we mapped chattel slaverys ills into marxism-as-totalitarianism" and BOOM

01.03.2026 14:33 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"Operation I'm Definitely Good in Bed"

28.02.2026 15:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

boy this is really stupid and bad

28.02.2026 07:21 — 👍 28    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

stuff like this makes me feel very strongly that the next 18 months are so are going to be absolutely as bonko as anything we've ever lived through

28.02.2026 04:19 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
The End of Subjective Universality and the Privatization of Aesthetic Taste

"Taste can be whatever so long as it is a vector for patriarchal racial capitalist accumulation and status. The point is that it is subjective and non-universal."

www.its-her-factory.com/2026/02/the-...

24.02.2026 18:52 — 👍 13    🔁 12    💬 2    📌 0

Very sorry for your loss Libby i can only imagine what an important person he was for you

26.02.2026 21:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

yea i mean the further back in history you go the more well-read some of the conservative outlets were

26.02.2026 13:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

the latter.

26.02.2026 13:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

oh man thats amazing

26.02.2026 13:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Reorganization of political economy of entertainment industry (derogatory)

26.02.2026 01:53 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

you can't understand Trump without understanding the abject, vol. 5,473

25.02.2026 22:51 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Scenes of subjection as sovereign governance

25.02.2026 03:32 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

reminds me of all the worries that scholars are too focused on right-wing demagogues in the US rather than left-wing demagogues. look when a left-wing demagogue gets more than a powerball ticket's chance away from ruling this country with the iron fist we can update our dictionaries

24.02.2026 19:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

we could change the name once a billion phoney left-wing such orgs popped up. until then....

24.02.2026 18:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

What's funny is the regime media focused on the Guthrie abduction story to take focus from ICE, war on Iran, etc and now...

24.02.2026 13:39 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

I nominate "slopaganda"

24.02.2026 13:28 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yea wtf

24.02.2026 13:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

and because its an outlier opinion it gets more engagement and elevation, so the algos could easily be converting like 5% into 15% in our minds or something

23.02.2026 21:16 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

an intellectual footnote rather than a widely understood monster....yea could see it

23.02.2026 21:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

i have probably 12 non-trivote arsenal fans in my life and i'd say 0 want him sacked. i think descriptively, some people think he'll need to be sacked if they don't win any silverware this season?

23.02.2026 20:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Adroit point, must be said

22.02.2026 16:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Maybe noem could get away with blaming the dems if she hadn’t been plastering her own face all over the airport for a year

22.02.2026 16:17 — 👍 16    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

Yea white is broken

22.02.2026 15:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Not implausible!

22.02.2026 15:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0