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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.