How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/17/how-to-survive-the-broligarchy-20-lessons-for-the-post-truth-world-donald-trump Except for #13, it's a good list.
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SocProf (socprof@masto.ai)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 02:07:16 JST 
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 08:39:02 JST 
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This thread https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1854030304677073233.html made its way around and everybody freaked out. Calm done, it's pretty much nonsense, born out of the author projecting his fears rather than displaying his understanding.
True, my belief in #peakfascism, utterly justified in early summer, has been smashed by the state elections in Germany and the various elections now in the U.S. I had hoped otherwise and it didn't turn out. Yet.
But that doesn't mean that the nonsense displayed in this thread (esp. posts # 11-17, 20-25) should be taken as reliable prediction or even profound insights instead. It's not based on an informed understanding of facts, but based on fear. Which is, as one doesn't need to learn anything for that, easier to act out and act upon.
Calling T and Musk "the worst men in the United States" [#11] and conveniently ignoring Peter Thiel, Miriam Adelson, Mitch McConnell, some of the Supreme Court justices, etc., is just silly.
Anyway, NATO will not cease to exist [#12] (although perhaps shrink); most of Gazans will not be killed [as claimed in #13] (although Israel will, in my opinion, annex the West Bank and leave Gaza to international administration); the EU will not shrink in size [#14] (no arguments given for the preposterous claim it would); a "new axis of evil" [#15] (rather: its enlargement) especially with the "new members" mentioned is so utter and uninformed nonsense that I don't even know where to start debunking that claim. Suffice perhaps that most of these new members are too poor and weak to pose as a threat.
With regard to the horror porn the author sketches of the U.S. turned end-Weimar Republic [# 20-25] with all the screeching of martial law and police murder rates sykrocketting due to police activities, stock market crashes, and all, seriously, man, on what does the author base such fever dreams? Esp. when most of the stuff he is in the prerogatives of the individual states and not the federal government.
Where I think the author is partly right is that nuclear weapons will get proliferated to more states. The author mentions Saudi Arabia, the Emirate of Dubai, and Egypt [#16] but ignores, e.g., the aspirations of Turkey. He also ignores that the UK and France think about sharing their nuclear weaponry with the European countries and even Germany thinking about acquiring nuclear deterrence, and all not for the authors beloved reason, i.e., T playing with witholding the U.S. nuclear shield, but for the other main reason, i.e., the imperialism of Russia and Putin. Which, of course, the author fails to mention; as he fails to mentio the other imperialism in China and Xi. (With that the author lands in the lala-land of conspiracy theories which all fail because they neglect or ignore the complexities they are supposed to explain.)
The author is likewise partly right, in my opinion, that there will be a "new axis of evil". [#15] But definitely not the one he thinks of. (Venezuela, El Salvador, and Israel are in this new axis, but Iran is not? Seriously?)
What emerges with T's second term of office, in my opinion, is an emerging and balancing alliance of oligarchic families, crime networks, states turned to mafia organisations,¹ greedy autocrats, influential billionairs, surveillance capitalists, etc., trying to run states like corporations, transgressing state boundaries and replacing international treaties with oligarchic accords and influence spheres. Their main goal is wealth, sweetened with power. In order for them to get rich and their activities unrestricted, they will use the means and institutions of national states to advance their aspirations. If Ukraine stands in their way, they will obliterate it. If not, they will find a more cost-efficient way around. One that is better for "business". (Imagine a Russian movie gangster's heavy English.)
Financial greed does not need to be the sole motivation; finding meaning and purpose beyond, esp. when combined with a reason to fight and exert power, is a second one. Putin is a good example. Greedy like hell he still invests heaviliy in historical romaticism. Money doesn't provide meaning and purpose. Neither power. Meaning comes from somewhere else. Virility too.
But all that does not mean that "fascism" (in lack of a better word) is now on the loose. It means that many oligarchic endeavours will turn out not to work or to work better when not combined with violence, when climate crisis is taken seriously, etc. That is: The rising and increasing worldwide oligarchic interconnectedness that results in reshaping whole national states into mafia organistation (with the president or leader as the Capo dei capi of such a mafia organisation) is far more likely than "the end of the world" as the author of the thread knows it.
And if that outcome or development is the more likely scenario, than the instabilities that we will confront is less so in the civic spheres of societies than it is in the hierarchies of such crime syndicates posing as states themselves.
What most people ignore when looking at such mafia systems is that they are intrinsically volatile and insecure to all of their members. Violence, paranoia, alliances, mistrust, and constant power struggles make not for the stability of such entities but for the violent character of these. And as one can see in the history of Russia of the past 30 years: Leave the mafia organsation and the Capo unchallenged, and life can be pretty normal for the burgeois peasant.
That does not mean that I prefer such a life. But it means that I think the author of thread misplaces the area where violence will occur. The end is still far away. From that arises hope and obligation.
¹ This is not about a state being infiltrated by some mafia activities – and thus in part being harmed and in another capable to fight back – but a state that is turned completely into a mafia organisation: a criminal enterprise that uses the resources and legal perogatives of a national state in the service of the criminal entity. Or put differently: a mafia organisation that poses as a national state.
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muesli (fribbledom@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 07:58:48 JST 
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Rule #13 of 3D Printing: friends don't let friends buy Creality. I'd currently look at Sovol and Bambu machines in that price range.You'll get a lot more value for your money.
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Clive Thompson (clive@saturation.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 00:44:32 JST 
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"Prairie strips" ...
... are narrow little parts of big farms that the farmers allow to return to nature ...
... with wild native plants growing there, and no fertilizer or pesticides
Turns out these little strips of rewilding have a powerful and postive impact on the health of the surrounding soil
Item #13 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter, free to read and subscribe to here: https://buttondown.com/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-25-the-third-thumb-prairie-strips-and/
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oigreslima (oigreslima@fed.sfl.pro.br)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Oct-2024 00:57:50 JST 
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Para o #TerSoftware #13 cujo tema é softwares que temos nostalgia vou mandar o (ainda funcionando) B2evolution...
Infelizmente seu principal desenvolvedor informou (em 2020) que, após 17 anos de desenvolvimento, estava abandonando o projeto :frown:
Era meu motor de blogue favorito por várias razões!
Neste blogue stateoftheevolution.com/ ele tem indicado algumas sugestões para aqueles usuários que pretendem migrar (uma vez que ninguém fez um fork e continuou o desenvolvimento do mesmo).
Portanto estou vivendo esta nostalgia enquanto planejo uma migração de vários blogues, alguns com mais de 20 anos no ar 😄
Como diria o Mufasa: "O tempo de um reinado se levanta e se põe como o Sol...."
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MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘 (mugsysrapsheet@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Sep-2024 08:25:12 JST 
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🧵 (14/100) #ReasonsNotToVoteForTrump
(con't from #13) McCarthy admitted "investigating a Potus for political reasons is illegal." 🤦♂️
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Anarchism News (anarchismhub@todon.nl)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 16:02:09 JST 
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Libcom: **The Shadow #14 (October 1990)**
" Including: Lower East Side squats threatened by "development", New York Times vs squatters, Community Board sleaze, anti-war rally, Mohawk Nation, cop watching, Bible burning event, etc. Submitted by Fozzie on August 9, 2024 Copied to clipboard Attachments TheShadow_Issue_14.pdf (14.56 MB) Book traversal links for The Shadow #14 (October 1990) The Shadow #13 (August 1990) Up The Shadow #36 (June 1995) PDF Comments "
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Anarchism News (anarchismhub@todon.nl)'s status on Friday, 09-Aug-2024 13:02:09 JST
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Libcom: **The Shadow #13 (August 1990)**
" Including: cops harass Shadow editor, Iraq, pigs persecute peddlers, Mohawk nation vs army, Sabotage books closes, cops attack punk gig, community land trust, etc. Submitted by Fozzie on August 8, 2024 Copied to clipboard Attachments TheShadow_Issue_13.pdf (14.39 MB) Book traversal links for The Shadow #13 (August 1990) The Shadow #10 (March 1990) Up The Shadow #36 (June 1995) PDF Comments "
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Anarchism News (anarchismhub@todon.nl)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 15:59:06 JST
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Libcom: **The Blast vol1 #13 May 15 1916**
" Including: British oppression in Ireland, Malatesta against Kropotkin and pro-war anarchists, Nietzsche on science, etc. Author Alexander Berkman Friedrich Nietzsche Leo Tolstoy Errico Malatesta Submitted by Fozzie on July 24, 2024 Copied to clipboard Contents The only hope of Ireland - Alexander Berkman Revolution - Friedrich Nietzsche Pro-government anarchists - Errico Malatesta Reflections Should Labor be patriotic? - Lyov Tolstoy Science: Gods mortal terror - Friedrich Nietzsche The great adventure - Herman Kuehn Letters Attac…"
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Joshua Byrd 🛸 (phocks@bne.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jun-2024 18:24:31 JST 
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Chips #13 here. Vada wanted to try the sweet potato chips so we got them and they were pretty good. What is absolutely wild to me is that they usually try to sell these for $10.11. 2 bucks more than the normal potato ones. 24 cents seems better to me. 😳
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Puniko ? (puniko@mk.absturztau.be)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 13:57:52 JST
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Solved Regexle #13 with 21 strings and 5 regexes!
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Birdulon (birdulon@shpposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 22:53:03 JST 
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@splitshockvirus @NEETzsche >I feel like nobody here actually has anything going on.
Entirely possible, but I'd like to project a bit more optimistically. I suspect anyone looking at my recent posting history here would assume all I do is make obtuse anime references and engage in crass banter with a handful of people, but I like to think I have a little more going on than that that I just don't bring to this platform, and I think I just expect that it's a similar situation for anyone else I see here with less than 100 posts per day.
Some of the stuff feels so mundane to me that I just assume nobody else will care, others I get out of my system in a close-knit IRC group and leave at that. I've never really cared much for putting things up publicly, since I'm too lazy to do proper opsec with it and I don't want to spend too many of my waking hours thinking about that in particular.
As a random example of something that got a few lines on IRC recently, the other day I was contemplating my usual hair hack 'n' slash and thought about how if I had a clipper guard comb larger than 12mm I'd use it, since it always took a few weeks after that to get to a length I liked. I figured there might be some pitfalls beyond the obvious "it's nontrivial to keep hair straight enough for a consistent cut that way the longer it is", and I didn't think just linearly scaling up what I had on hand was an ideal starting point, so I guggled oversized clipper guards and saw that it was indeed not a novel concept and had some reference images to reason about the shape to aim for. Then I took some measurements of my guard combs, shat out a 40mm model in OpenSCAD, printed it, cursed printer for centering it on the print bed against my instructions and adding support and lifting a few minutes in, coerced it with a small strip on the opposite corner for round 2, noticed my arc profile was a bit too aggressive to print supportless in this orientation but the deformation wasn't too severe, attached it to my clippers, tolerances were a bit off so it got stuck (and is still stuck on there, I'll likely have to break it and print a new, looser V2 when I need to use another guard comb on it), but it did exactly the job I hoped it would and now I can trim my hair a bit more regularly to a length I like.
Then I looked into what a #2 cut even means, and it turned out that the numbers are eighths of an inch, making my 12mm guard a #4, and my new 40mm guard something like #12~#13. Another funny number is that average hair growth is close to 1/8inch per week, so a #2 cut would be similar to a #4 cut after a couple of weeks, and a #12 cut would be like my old #4 cut after around 8 weeks. Maybe I'll do actual #12, #13, #14 sizes to better approximate the results of the #2 top & #1 sides, #0 patterns after a few weeks.
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LA Legault 🍉 (lalegault@newsie.social)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 02:51:59 JST 
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Anarchism News (anarchismhub@todon.nl)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2024 01:58:50 JST
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Libcom: **Communism #13 (June 2002)**
" 13th issue of English language GIC-ICG journal. Submitted by Fozzie on March 11, 2024 Copied to clipboard Contents Notes against the dictatorship of the economy The Economy is in crisis... May it die! "Death to recovery" - Valorisation/devalorisation: Capital’s unsustainable contradiction An invariant position of the communists: DOWN WITH LABOUR! On the praise of work Slogans foreign to the proletariat, Alienated workers’ consciousness Leaflets: "Burning and looting all illusions tonight" / "Antiterrorism = development of terror against o…"
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Anarchism News (anarchismhub@todon.nl)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 04:58:59 JST
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Libcom: **Class War #13 1985**
" Including: CND = Wankers, miners in court, sex and anarchism, porn, crime, Edinburgh stop the city report, Bash The Rich march in Kensington announched, etc. Author Class War Federation Submitted by Fozzie on February 5, 2024 Copied to clipboard Unnumbered and undated but almost certainly issue 13 from circa March 1985. (Hospitalised coppers 3. Press cutting 22nd Feb 1985. “Exactly 100 years ago on April 28th 1885”. Notice of Anarchist Conference March 23rd-24th. Advert for Ladbroke Grove Bash The Rich May 11th.) With thanks to Sparrows Nest Archive …"
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Best Anime Girl Tourney (animegirlconnoisseur@bae.st)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2024 07:28:09 JST
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You MAY repost or quote post this thread, though it's encouraged to boost the main tourney thread as well.
But please do not use this Baest thread for discussion or fun posting. Use @SuperSnekFriend 's tourney threads on Mugicha Club instead.
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💜 Dr. Blight ❤️ (rasp@raru.re)'s status on Friday, 22-Dec-2023 10:35:55 JST
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