Like, yeah, they can ‘get away with’ ending soft power. They can ‘get away with’ extrajudicial killings. They’re operating off of pure machismo right now. They’re getting drunk on their vices. They’re stripping masks where masks wouldn’t be advised to be stripped. I feel like I understand now that Fascism is, in part, an expression of weakness. They wouldn’t be doing this unless they were scared. It’s too volatile. It feels both too late on a power-level and too early on a popular-level. Never mind the ticking time bomb that is AI data centers. It feels like, and I’m sure this is cope, there is a timer on their ability to run the circus much longer.
My first instinct here is to doubt myself, intellectual pessimism and all. In that vein, maybe this is just revolutionary optimism, but we’re at the point where it feels like there is a palpable anger brewing in the basement. I don’t know. Maybe Palantir works as an anti-communist panopticon and we just death spiral forever. I don’t want to lose hope.
That’s funny, because it means the dem concept of “going for the high road” works here for them, but only because the reps have no understanding that the two parties have been too effective together at smooshing everyone down economically that they literally can’t fight back.
The Dems and reps together were a fucking fierce combo, without the duo working together he whole facade is really crumbling
Like imagine the Dems showing up with no opposition and acting like the enemy is too strong to push any agenda forward so we have to keep bombing people (I’m literally just referencing Obama). But without the violence internally that the Republicans demand, that shit actually worked.
I don’t have a point here, recovering from the flu and up too late