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.
For what it’s worth I’ve never heard so much unhappy murmur about the state of things in my life and seen so many move lefter faster than now. Might be cope, but I’m seeing this in people who are still techically relatively well off. It’s like the bougies are going so ghoulish and ripping the wires of the walls so fast that it’s become something even the libs can’t unsee.
I’ve been thinking about the fragility of it all a lot, feels like at least the start of something.
I feel like I am doing well, but I’m pissed that others are not and that we’re ruled by evil people. All over the world, psychopaths rule everything. If we beat them, we just cycle back to being manipulated and in this situation again. When will humanity ever be free of the greed burden? It ruins over and over again.