First, booker is not blocking an appointment and Filibusters are only useful if they’re blocking legislation and he’s not doing that either; that’s why this stunt is only political theater.

Secondly, Republicans use the quorum and budget ceiling rules when they’re a minority, but the Democrats won’t do the same thing, so they’ve clearly decided that decorum matters more that fascism.

Finally, fascism has been in the pipeline for atleast 40 years and expecting a silver bullet is unrealistic; read the documentation that you demanded from me (assuming that you didn’t demand it in bad faith).

read the materials, it says nothing like this.

it took me 30 seconds to find these on google; you should try doing the same thing.

anti-fascist handbook

forming an antifacist group

podcasts

anything besides performative theater is good

He wasn’t obstructing anything; it was just theater.

the yougov poll showed that it was because they didn’t want to be complicit w the gazan genocide

i think that the scariest thing about all of it is that it can only collapse once there’s isn’t enough money in the world to provide the table scraps necessary to keep the pawns inline; meaning that there isn’t enough food, shelter or even drinkable water to keep them towing the line.

the last largest financial crises averted a system wide shutdown and created a welfare state that allowed this system to continue operating and its wealth gap ensures that there will be millions of people who will voluntarily join the military in the hopes of viable future; as is happening right now.

it also feels like the media capture of the colonial narrative is holding strong examplified in tiktok’s ban and ukraine’s invasion. those native american pogroms were documented during their time and the people adjacently impacted, ie the mexicans, were cast aside until the memory of them only existed history books.

i feel that capitalism learns from its mistakes and adjusts since the people who benefit from it are learning, thinking beings who want to perpetuate it for their personal gain; the only thing that can stop it is itself, once it’s inherent contradictions become too large to smooth over.

i think it’s on par with liberals reading and refusing to learn from it.

they can; they just don’t.

at best: this is going the same way that the native american genocides happened and just like then, there will be no consequences.

at worst: americans and isrealis will be subjected to more bombings and/or more 9/11’s, leading our governments to respond with more wars and our people to further inculcate themselves with further complicity.

you’re nicer than i am; i just send them a link to my github/gitlab repo’s and then COMPLETELY check out.

The willful ignorance is depressing

it makes me wonder if things will ever improve.

The most effective one I know I call “eating the breadcrumbs”

First I follow the breadcrumbs since Neurotypicals and some neurodivergents like talking about themselves and I listen for indicators of things they like and respond w questions that align w them.

Then I eat the breadcrumbs by maintaining a practiced look upon my face that seems like I’m enjoying a snack and pursue each chance I get to make a joke so that I can actually enjoy the conversation. (Alcohol helps A LOT with this part).

It’s a lot like social masking, but it’s targeted at an individual and w a bit more depth instead of a just a public facade.

It’s also more draining than ordinary masking; so I mostly use it in social situations than I know will replenish my energy.

First the hill and now the ny times; who among the liberal media will be next to admit the reality that led to this needless Ukrainian tragedy and will the western world acknowledge it?

AOC/Bernie drawing huge crowds

you’re aware that the democrats have enabled nearly all of trump’s agenda and neither bernie nor aoc are advocating for the democratic leadership to change course, right?

he’s well connected & educated enough to know that the academy has always aligned with western hegemony; so it makes me wonder what he expected from them beyond a shallow public spectacle of support to fool the liberals who don’t pay close enough attention.

negative peace

this is what politically moderate people of this world like the Democrats keep creating for us despite warnings from influential leaders and great thinkers like MLK Jr. warning us against it:

… I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice …

i bet that this was part of the plan when they decided to start pushing the ukranians to get closer to the nato and the eu.