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.
It absolutely feels that way. But the issue is that the greatest military power the world has ever seen is under fascist control. 35 percent of that countries people support it. That is a large number. Assuming the rest are against it, you need action within that country. From those people. From what I have seen from American liberals and leftists, that wont happen. All I have seen so far is “WE WILL GET EM IN THE MID TERMS.”
With a government operating this way, that wont do jack shit. Especially with what the democrats DO when they have increased levels of power, which is nothing at best, and enabling at worst.
To those of us in the rest of the world, this seems like an uncertain and terrifying situation that ends in either fascist takeovers of our countries, or war. And there are a few countries throughout the world with fascist or puppet governments that seem to be willing to SUPPORT the US in this. Like I hope you’re right, but the optimism of “this is so crazy it’ll have to just stop” doesn’t seem realistic or helpful to me. We need preparation and action. I know what I’m doing for preparing for whats coming. I know what I’m doing to stop it where I am. Do you?