Anyway, I ain't mad at you if you're too beat up to hope. And I'll let this one go now; but later on, when you feel like hope again? I'll be here. We'll talk about it again. Dawn is terrible; it's like the sun itself is powering up our fascist society for another day of looting, murder and violent extraction. It's no place for possibilities anymore. But there are still places for thinking about it, and when you're ready, I'll be in those places.
If we spent half as much energy making life hard for nazis, as we do spying on everyone who ever attended a protest against police violence - this would already be over.
There aren't a lot of stories about societies who beat fascism, because societies who beat fascism usually strangle the fuck out of these movements in the crib.
It's when you wait, when you legitimize them, when you bring them into the circles of power because "anything is better than sharing/stopping capitalism" that they win.
"Can't you do it without mentioning the Holocaust?"
NO fool! I can't! Because the fucking rounding people up, and the book burnings, and the criminalization of identities, and the rating out your neighbors STARTED with a tiny number of trans people and a fucking gender clinic and that, facilitated the REST of the Holocaust.
So no, I fucking can't. And I resent you demanding that a great deal.
I mean the no nukes people were right, they were always right, the fact that it took a while for absolutely bonkers nazis to get their hands on the nuclear codes in a bunch of places, doesn't change the fact that they were correct to point out that simply having the weapons, virtually ensured this outcome.
I just wish they hadn't beat you folks down so hard now that even you don't want to talk about it anymore. But the no nukes ppl, even the libs among them, were dead right. Obviously
Right now, the cost of being a nazi, is far too cheap. It's too cheap financially, socially, legally, emotionally and it's cheap because literally nobody is holding nazis accountable for being fucking fascists in any way.
If the price of being a nazi does not rise across all these fronts, sooner or later you're going to wake up and realize your kids and grandkids are nazis now and then we're all fucking done for - not just my trans pinko ass.
So like, I have just as little faith in Amerikkka's ability (or desire) to hold rich cracker fascists accountable for anything as you do; but I read that indictment and if this was Sergeant Ronald Dump from Butthill, Idaho, that guy never sees fucking SUNLIGHT again...
That's not a prediction; that's just me telling you what's in those 37 counts is more or less unprecedented. We send people to jail forever for like 1/1000th of this kinda shit.
The people "on the left" excited by Kennedy running, are the same people "on the left" who have complicated opinions about why Putin was right to invade, and the same people "on the left" who thought we should hear QAnon out about vaccines, and the same people "on the left" who thought we should "work with" *checks notes* fascist militia Boogaloo Bois to, something something.
Maybe they just aren't "people on the left" at all. And it's the exact same people, every time; curious that.
Naw look, given the current political, social, and economic environment, you are absolutely going to need to drag ET's ass out here to talk to me in person or I am just gonna assume "hey look, Aliens!" is just some more shit you're telling me so I stop thinking about how rich people are absolutely trying to kill billions of us because we are literally out of planet for capitalism to continue.
I happen to think all sorts of people should be allowed to exist in public life, even if they or folks like them have not contributed in a direct and positive way to my lived experience. I think you should be able to be yourself even if that means sitting on the couch in your underwear eating Cheetos all day because you "just cannot right now."
Not really sure why appealing to nazis by implying otherwise is a useful activity.
Planet is on fire. Nazis running everything. Rich people literally talking about replacing you "useless eaters" will trillions of artificial minds and running to Mars.
We are totally past the point where it matters if I have any good ideas about what we should do instead of capitalism. It's irrelevant. I do, but I kinda figure we're all going to hash this out together - because you know, the other option is dying for rich nazis who are also going to end life on earth.
Naw tho, I been telling you; fascism is not popular. It literally never has been popular. It's not a "populist movement" that's just some shit rich people and fascists told you to deflect blame and increase their credibility. This shit is like 70% rich nazi maggot astroturf and 30% racist paranoid grandpas who think the Senate should pass a law to force their estranged grandchildren to visit them and take their unhinged opinions seriously.
Please, I am begging you, stop saying this nonsense in my mentions. It's not just that you're wrong, it's that you're more or less saying your comfort and need to pretend this is an orderly society, has more value than my life, which is very much in danger.
I don't want to hear it. Keep it to yourself, for your OWN good. And if you don't? Expect fucking rain.
I know it's hard, but I am telling you that you can't count on these guys being incompetent assclowns to stop them. The literal Nazi Party, in German, was full of cranks, losers, weirdos, and yes, assclowns, too. I'm not saying you shouldn't laugh at Elon and Ronny, you absolutely should. But don't let it convince you that these guys and other guys just like them, aren't a problem. In a society where rich people have no accountability, they can fail over and over until they finally break through
@CrypticCatfist so some fucking genius running your server decided to defederate Social because of spam; rather than suspend. All follows and followings are severed. Including ours. I refollowed.
So, it is just now coming to my attention that thanks to a complicit corporate media who doesn't talk about things like this, many Americans are confused re: CNN, its intentions, and why it had a town hall for a fascist. Let me tell you what they apparently are not telling you on the news:
A rich nazi bought CNN months ago and is pretending he's making it more like Fox to "be profitable." He is not. He's a rich nazi, spending his money the way rich nazis do - to spread nazisim.
A fascist got himself elected president of the United States, did a bunch of fascist shit, and then tried a type of coup known as an autogolpe - a coup to keep a strongman in power anti-democratically. Instead of putting that guy's ass in jail, we're putting him all over our TV under the logic that "he's running for office, so stopping him is anti-democratic."
In many ways, Weimar Germany would laugh at how weak WE are; so the comparison is more than apt.
The bizarre idea that being a dissident is socially rewarding in a fascist society is a pretty absurd bit of nazi propaganda. Literally in the entire history of this obscene capitalist experiment we call America, general public consensus has been against folks advocating/fighting for progress, or resisting fascist oppression. Every single time. Usually with real social, monetary, and sometimes terminal health consequences. Ie, they get murdered.
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