MrPiss [he/him]

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Cake day: January 2nd, 2024

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  • Not that the GOP is in a healthy state right now, and I’m sure when they eventually lose Trump it will hurt them. But they probably won’t collapse into nothing and scatter away on the wind like Sauron. Instead it’ll probably look a lot like the Dems post-Obama: rudderless, struggling to find a new center.

    They do have a few big internal divisions that they’ll have to struggle through. I think it mostly comes down to the fact that the chud reactionaries and evangelical nut jobs are too powerful in the coalition. They are supposed to be lesser parts of the coalition beneath the big business free market capitalists. Ever since Trump they’ve been a bigger part of the coalition and become too prominent nationally. They’re supposed to be lower level cranks that don’t reach higher than the city council and now Marjorie Tayloy Greene is in congress.




  • I went in without hope for the election and I am actually upset that the Republicans look like they’ll hold all three branches of government fully. That’s not something I had considered since I’m used to some kind of division inside congress. They can do real freak shit with the whole of the Federal government if they can all get in line. Moderately big if since there are factional divides in the party but still there are valid things to be worried about if in the grand scheme of things the empire will continue on unimpeded.

    Anyway, the material conditions drive the world and they will mold and influence you as well. It’s important to build and structure your life in a way that can support your how you want to grow. Basically try to join an organization even if it’s a glorified book club and you might meet good people and restore some of your faith in humanity and also deprogram your liberalism.







  • Europe doesn’t have the ability to go it’s own way. Without energy sovereignty, which was denied to them with the ukraine war and the Nordstrom bombings, and with neoliberal austerity they won’t be able prevent deindustrialization. The world is still addicted to dollar denominated debt so I don’t see a way out for anyone else either. Also, China unfortunately just sits there keeping to themselves so they won’t be build a robust alternative to the US for a good while. Those are all short term outlooks though. I’d like to be proven wrong though.








  • It’s like that clip from the show mythbusters: I reject your reality and substitute my own. They do think it matters in their reality.

    A lot of people will not know about or understand the electoral college because it’s a stupid institution and easy to forget. A lot of people will think they still need to vote because it is a civic duty to vote because a lot of Iraqis died so that we could get our freedoms back from Saddam Hussein. And a lot of people will see their vote as a moral action to show support for their side regardless.

    They have a different reality and the motivations for their actions need to be understood on the terms of their reality and not ours. It’s also beneficial to understand how their reality is formed but that’s a different conversation. It’s especially beneficial to understand their reality if you’re having a real conversation and trying to convince someone and change their mind.