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.
Part of me agrees. Last year I’m pretty sure I made a joke in some comment here on hexbear that i’m becoming an accelerationist because I think the US invading Greenland might be the only thing that finally makes other countries stand up against them. I am very much not convinced of that anymore.
To your post though, you’re right. Like the drifter says at the end of Disco Elysium. Capital has to take its mask off do the deed. Playing their hand as it is shows their real face to more. I guess. I’m trying to tell myself that. Trying to not give in to despair and its fucking hard right now, i’m legitimately at one of the lowest points of my life here