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   ramonita :trantifa: (ramonita@todon.eu)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 19:45:03 JST ramonita :trantifa:

   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.

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     ramonita :trantifa: (ramonita@todon.eu)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 19:45:00 JST ramonita :trantifa:

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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.

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     ramonita :trantifa: (ramonita@todon.eu)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 19:45:02 JST ramonita :trantifa:

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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.

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