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.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    No, I’m not, you Putz. I’ve got Nazi Zombies on my doorstep trying to get in, I’m concentrating on my own country right now. Whoever commits to fully crushing and purging MAGA gets my vote. I don’t care what they think about anything else. When MAGA is handled, we can then afford to address the issues of other nations.

    Sick of trolls trying to get us to take our eye off the ball.