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.
No there is something there, public is too disgusted by it all even if they can’t fully explain why yet. Venezuela reminded people too much of Iraq and the fact they are just doing things and trying to justify it after the fact means media is trying to keep up and failing. I was thinking of something like facism burn out or immediately trying to set the pot into boiling instead of gradually turning up the heat.
Yes, but if it works - and USA gets a pipeline of oil and gold and cheap labour - people will forgive about Venezuela. I mean, let’s face it, people don’t really give much of a fuck in the first place.
I really don’t know if the spoils of imperialism will leak down tho or will leak down enough to make people forget. It’s still gonna be framed in “own soldiers” vs anyone else. The accumulation at the top pretty much is getting beyond gilded age levels of fuck you. The age of buying the public off is switching over to just keeping them in submission because treats are being denied