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  • When google searches for “is Biden still running” spike on election day, it’s kinda hard to swallow “racist and misogynist” as the reason.

    Maybe the electorate really is, but I think we should wait for an election where they don’t run a shambling corpse for the first half, belatedly realize that mistake only when it’s completely undeniable to anyone vaguely paying attention, and forcefully swap him out for the VP that tells union reps to fuck off and goes on television to say “I won’t do anything different from the shambling corpse”





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    eh, there’s a real trend here, but it’s not an apocalypse

    and it’s not all of so-called “western society”. It’s mostly just decline in the US. Think of it like Britain.

    Not long ago, they were at the top of the pile. Richest nation in the world, so much land the sun literally never set. But empire is an organism. It grows, it thrives for a bit, it declines. And it’s not like Britain just disappeared from the globe. They still exist. They’re just also significantly less important.









  • There’s not really one clean cut definition of fascism, mostly a lot of “I know it when I see it”

    That being said, one definition I find kinda useful is; “Fascism is what we call it when an imperial power begins applying colonial policies to itself; the frontier comes home.” Germany had already been organizing concentration camps in northern Africa years before they started rounding up Jewish people. As a colonial power, Germany always had fascist policies, they were just directed outward.

    By this metric, it’s hard not to see the US as a fascist power for… most of the latter half of the twentieth century? Obviously, outright colonization isn’t the standard anymore. It’s mostly mediated through international businesses, propped up by the occasional secretly-funded coup or even an outright military invasion. Those of us living within the official boarders of the US have just been privileged enough to not have to live with the negative consequences.


  • I’m not saying we need to sing them sweet nothings.

    The democrats, as they stand, don’t offer much beyond maintaining the status quo. You can sing people’s praises or chastise them, but if you’re not offering any actual material improvements, then it doesn’t really matter what you say.