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Doctor Faustus 🪖🎮 🎃
@joshuafoust.com
Assistant Professor at Syracuse. I study video games, public relations, military esports, gender theory, and where they intersect. Happily 🏳️🌈. Recovering PR flack, national security journalist, think tanker and NGO exec.
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A version of this happened in Colorado during the devastating floods of 2013. Folks gathered to distribute supplies to their neighbors when armed dudes in pick up trucks showed up and “volunteered” to “keep the peace.” The people couldn’t do much and waited them out. But this isn’t quirky! It’s bad!
It’s very odd to me how a supposedly advanced country has shifted into normalizing armed rebellion but only from white conservatives as routine political speech. The police allow those same militias to assault and murder with near-impunity Black and queer folks holding signs and chanting. It’s bad!
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Doctor Faustus 🪖🎮 🎃
@joshuafoust.com
Assistant Professor at Syracuse. I study video games, public relations, military esports, gender theory, and where they intersect. Happily 🏳️🌈. Recovering PR flack, national security journalist, think tanker and NGO exec.
3.6k followers736 following2.2k posts