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(DIR) Post #AnlVBAaWOaxqDaHfuq by ramonita@todon.eu
2024-11-06T09:52:24Z
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I don't have anything especially informed to say, but I want to blog online anyway to cope.1. With the Presidency, the Senate, probably the House, and, importantly, the Supreme Court, there's no legalist barriers to fascism left in the USA. The system has some inertia and I don't expect to see project 2025 by February; capital doesn't like disruption. But any shakeup, like a climate disaster or war escalation, may now lead to power grabs that will make the Patriot Act feel like the good old days.2. Similarly, I don't know how much the world's most powerful corporations will let Musk bring the Milei treatment to the USA. But Musk will be more powerful than ever and absolutely insufferable. For those who haven't been destroying your sanity by following this man, he's been full masks-out for a while about his white supremacism, routinely boosting literal Hitlerist Nazis and racist conspiracies. He's also self-destructing, and I have no idea if he will be in a hospital next year or history's cringiest Goebbels. I hope his own energy of "whatever is the funniest happens" manifests and results in Trump uncerimonously throwing him under the bus.
(DIR) Post #AnlVBBsHc2lYCxbNEu by ramonita@todon.eu
2024-11-06T09:53:18Z
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3. Fascism in the USA is out of the "skinheads and paramilitary outcasts" stage, and now in the institutional stage. Your most urgent, violent existential threat isn't the Proud Boys, it's the police. For more on this see the podcast It Could Happen Here, episodes Nov 4 "Trump's Constitutional Sheriffs", and Nov 5 "An Election Episode"https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/trumps-constitutional-sheriffs-234514900/https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/an-election-episode-feat-robert-235319776/4. I wish I could say I am surprised at Latinos licking boots of the deportation don, but alas, I'm Latina.
(DIR) Post #AnlVBDSphdb38bi4qe by ramonita@todon.eu
2024-11-06T09:55:02Z
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5. What's up with polls being so wrong? This has been a thing globally since the 2016, and maybe there's some analysis I missed but the only way I can interpret this is: people who want to vote for fascists are hiding their intentions. Which I can't attribute to opsec, given how the right behaves elsewhere. I can only interpret this as shame without guilt, impliying a conscious choice for what Žižek called the "obscene deal" of fascism: people are not seeing themselves as heroes, they're opting for a level of disruption and subservience in exchange for the opportunity of exercising violence and power. Trump may crash the economy but you get to beat your wife and shoot at the Blacks. Therefore it's useless to appeal to stability or self-interest. We saw this in Russia and now with Musk gleefully promising a crash: no one wants to be Homo economicus, people need something to live for. I myself would very gladly live in poverty, pain and privation if that's what it takes to advance anarchism—I would be happier in the trenches than in a meaningless rat race; so would the fascists.6. We are now one cerebrovascular accident away from having an Opus Dei apontee tradcath, neoreaction tescreal rationalist, resentful Gamergate incel as commander of the world's largest army.
(DIR) Post #AnlVBEcnO59yjnNY12 by ramonita@todon.eu
2024-11-06T09:57:10Z
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7. Israel, Russia and Turkey are the big winners today. Netahanyu is already pulling a Long Knives as we speak. A desperate NATO without USA support will lash out, and also enable whatever genocides Erdoǧan wants. Putinist expansionism seems inevitable, meaning all of us in Europe will get to see war. I am so very sorry for what is probably going to happen to Ukraine and continue to happen in Palestine.8. The AfD, already emboldened by the failure of German neoliberalism and with two governors in their belt, will ride the wave of Trump edging on Hitlerist allusions. In Brazil after yet another round of PT backstabbing the working class, the pendulum is ripe for a swing back to bolsonarismo. Fascist street violence will continue rising as outrage protests and callouts utterly fail to do anything. Similar developments to be expected elsewhere, with Putin having carte blanche for interference.
(DIR) Post #AnlVBFh5PcBc3OOULI by ramonita@todon.eu
2024-11-06T10:01:40Z
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9. All of this is anxious squabbling, a distraction to sustain civilised denial of how dire the environmental polycrisis has already become. But even before the catastrophes become everybody's main problem, the mounting pressure for food, shelter, commodities is powerful fuel to the tinder of fascism.10. There is no safer place, there is nowhere to run, peace without justice is fear and to live in fear is to die before death. If we have to go let's take down as many of the bastards as possible. You cannot maintain the comfortable safety of civilised life—good riddance. It was killing you anyway, chaining you in misery. You don't need bath bombs, you need the other kind. Can you hear the call? Do you hear it, the sweet complicity with which fire whispers to you? Can you feel it in your heart, the secret joy of dancing in the storm, the sacredness of violence, the deep act of love for life and for humanity which is to take up arms?
(DIR) Post #AnlVBGpdBKcDaBOpIe by nerthos@shitposter.world
2024-11-06T11:56:30.508069Z
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@ramonita By all means, please, go and murder the president elect of the USA. That will ensure open conflict, without any way to rewind it. You will all die. Your enemy wishes for violence just as much as you do, but they have the means to win, and they will have the most unarguable justification to take up arms in retaliation to your terrorism. You will not have the army on your side, at best, they'll be ordered to not get involved, at worst (for you) they will carry out raids and airstrikes on you.Let your desire for blood become reality, it is the miracle everyone right of Lenin has been waiting for all their lives. Remove the last fetters on violence so that this chapter can end quickly and permanently, and the bill is printed to your name.