they’re desperate and will latch onto anything that gives them relief from their daily lives. throughout human history that’s been vice and extremism. a small number of gross looking men have directed that extremism towards the right wing to the detriment of the left. they got us here because the left too often said “these are the weapons of the enemy. i do not need them. i will not use them.”

well.

we lost the war because we refused to pick up any weapons. or at least the politicians we’d most be able to help did. the right monopolized violence, technological mass media, and populism. the left saw this, and just as in the 1920s, refused to push the extremists, the fascists, nazis, bolsheviks, and militarists, out of power. too much of the focus was placed on following the proper order of procedure. none was placed on “how do we hold government accountable”

why?

nacy pelosi doesn’t want an accountable government. these nut jobs have tried to kill her and her husband, but ooooh that stock portfolio tho. and she’s not the only one

i marched and everyone i talked to in person was adamant that their goal was to shift kamala left, not to shift the election toward trump. i get your anger about the election, but don’t let the terminally online color what those protestors really wanted. they’re also now the most organized resistance against trump. they’re still working, even under threat of violence from the national guard. they’re heroes, not villains

i’m convinced that whole thing is a tax fraud. i don’t know how specifically, but it’s a scam/scheme

but the movie they needed

the movie is intentionally bad. if he’s bad in it, it’s just because he did the job he was asked, aka, he did a good job being an actor

so glad we saved the Gazans from kamala harris. glad we did that

i think it has more to do with dialect than anything. i speak appalachian dialect so sometimes i’ll use an archaic word. the irony is she usually figures it out faster than most other english speakers since our archaics are largely eastern european in origin, but to her in that moment it feels like “oh, i don’t know what this native english speaker is saying, i guess english is still a skill i’m working on”

i always am like “oh no, i talk funny” but it’s been happening more as she’s become closer friends with me and my fiance and we all talk on metaphysics and shit

that reason is colonialism. the thought is that Israel helps us control the oil and intelligence in West Asia. the obvious problem: they don’t, actually, because our support of them makes dealing with oil producing countries harder, not easier, and the intelligence they provide us is incredibly faulty on account of being a fascist dictatorship. so that explains the support they get from liberal rubes, but what about the support they get from hardline conservatives? well hardline conservatives like fascism as a system of government so they like israel. that’s basically it. oh sure, some of them genuinely think there needs to be a homeland for the jews (nevermind most of our ancestral homelands are in western Ukraine, but these jackasses don’t know enough about us to know Ukraine has been consistently a better ally of the jewish people than israel). and some think all jews must return to israel in order for the events of revelations to unfold (never mind that was John the revealer writing about exactly what he was seeing in the year 90 happen to and against the jews and early christians, and the weird language was so he could get around roman censors). for the most part, it’s all as simple as “fascists like dealing with fascists because they understand eachother”

the lesson is that there are still sleepwalkers to awake. i don’t know how we do it, but it’s possible

my ukrainian coworker always apologizes for her bad english. meanwhile she can, and does, write poetry in all four languages she speaks

The CIA installed fascism abroad nearly every chance they got. The CIA endorses and likes fascism. Fascism pays their capitalist overlord’s bills. And don’t think the CIA doesn’t serve Capitalism very directly. They’re who installed capitalism/fascism as the alternative to communism. The people resisting the bolshevik fascism of the USSR called themselves “anarchists” because they believed in communist ideals of predecessors such as Nestor Mahkno, George Orwell, and Utah Phillips (that whole general cohort of post WWI, pre WWII anti-fascist anarcho-communists, really) but their imperial overlords had co-opted the word “communist”. Yet here in this country we act like the only way to resist bolshevism is to go full nazi, which misses the point entirely of what the people of the USSR yearned to be free from.

We celebrated the fall of the soviet union like it meant the world over would be free, and like it meant we had won against an adversary, instead of realizing that what those people were fighting to overthrow was not a ideal, but a system. They wanted out from under a system of torture that enslaved them into subservience through violence. Meanwhile we over here act like we’re not enslaved into subservience through violence because the violence is so far away from us most of the time that we don’t see it. We just know potatoes are $3/potato, and that Kroger/Albertson’s makes all the money, and that we need a job to get enough money to have some of the potato, so we work for a company that pays politicians to keep the minimum wage low so we can’t afford potatoes grown without prison labor. It’s not that we’re free, it’s that the mechanisms of our enslavement are so vast and complicated that as long as we’re not at the deepest depths of the pits of our techno-feudal society, we might not even notice that 22 billionaires control the entire world through both soft and military power.

The 2020s have been a total rejection of all the optimism 1990s. We failed to implement that version of freedom because we were too distracted by the oligarchs’ toys. We didn’t get enough class consciousness to throw off the yokes in the moment when the oligarchs were on their back foot. Now many of us have it, enough to start a real movement, but that movement has been crushed underneath a misinformation campaign implemented by a sickly potato shaped man in a room in Moscow (a trope that keeps repeating throughout history, by the way) that seeks to prevent the sort of international uprising it would take to eliminate fascism forever. Instead of getting all on the same page at the same time, we’re disorganized. Again. Just like every rise of fascism. It’s the one weapon they have against us, keeping us disorganized, meanwhile they crave both power and order. They fuckin’ love that shit. It’s the only goddamn thing they care about.

Anyway.

Yeah.

Intelligence agencies will never stop Trump. They love Trump. They created Trump.

he hates NATO. he hates Ukrainians

let him put out fires for a while. see how he likes it

but actually tho

yeah but like… will they be the real files?

don’t believe the fascists’ lies

“Because I don’t feel like it”

really makes you think

no. they’re extremely well trained. this is exactly what their instructors say to do. delay, defer, detain. those are their instructions

lateral move at best. marked step down most likely