Bard spotting on Bluesky 16 December 2024

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Historians / political scientists have an excellent hypothesis / thesis that shame was a major aspect of the radicalisation of Nazi Germany. Fascism is always a cult obsessed with shame and vengeance for perceived ego wounds

Jeff Sharlet (@jeffsharlet.bsky.social):

Shame isn't a functional political tool. It should be, but it's not. Nine years into the Trumpocene, continuing to invoke it is willful ignorance—& avoidance of the very hard work of finding & making new narratives that might have some power.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

This hypothesis informs an understanding of their rampant transphobia; they all view being a woman as something lesser, something shameful — & therefore view trans women as men who have betrayed the fundamental misogynistic principle they themselves cannot disavow without social death