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.
fascism is capitalism antibody reaction to the rise of socialism. this is an auto-immune disorder firing off. fascism deploying itself too early because of conditions.
fascism v neoliberalism, which is nonsensical because neoliberalism was used experimentally first integrated with a fascism government, and was “successful”
so i think instead we get get the inverse, due to both timing, material conditions, and a unifying human desire to fight back against potential extinction
socialism, a new synthesis that’s still in infancy, will be the new antibody