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this video puts it amazingly:

The south bank of the Rubicon - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YFdwfNh5vs

Capitalists always thinking "I better leave a back door open here in case this turns into an opportunity..."

We were there years ago. I'm Canadian. In our parliament we have opposition. Sure, it's not always effective and it can slow things down. However, having opposition in government means that the hasty, bad decisions need a moment to be considered by everyone. I know it doesn't always work, but it IS important. The American Democrats should be a gateway that filters out personal and political missteps. Looks like a little grease on those wheels keeps conservatives rolling right though any would-be regulation.

Isn’t this just… feudalism

Corporate feudalism.

Yes it's called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment

And most of the strings for it at this point are being pulled by Peter Thiel

I watched CBS or some outfit like that try to interview Curtis and dig deeper on the guy.

And all I could think is - JFC, the right is terrible at finding someone with even a smidge of coherent thinking. Curtis Yarvin is exactly the type of dipshit I thought he might be given what I was hearing about the guy. I remember way back when, Sam Harris interviewed that other total dumbass masquerading as some kind of vanguard for rightwing intellectualism: Jordan Peterson. And watching Curtis was a lot like that - a total hot mess and just infuriating to watch/listen to.

All I could think about either of them is - just who the fuck is worshipping these assholes? They both come off like incoherent dumbfucks that apparently didn't learn or understand critical thinking, don't really seem to understand anything about philosophy (but sure claim to) and generally come off as someone maybe a freshman during a bong session might consider very deep, but just faceplant when confronted by anyone with even a modicum of understanding of these things - see Jordan Peterson's recent bellyflop when "debating" those atheists. Holy fuck is he an idiot.

Curtis somehow seems even stupider than Jordan Peterson.

It's the hunger games version of the USA

Its just fucken Cyberpunk 2020 except theres no cool cyborg parts.

https://www.nokings.org/

Can someone explain to me these little self-flagellation parties (edit: meaning the replies below, not the root level comment I’m replying to) that seem to appear with every other dystopian headline in this community?

I mean like this mopey circlejerk right here, with Americans unironically declaring “no one is doing anything!” when literally every day brings more news from the hundreds of large active US protests which lately have been maturing as the fash behaves predictably. Even if that weren’t the case, isn’t the obvious solution to “be the change” or are we not doing basic grassroots work anymore?

This shit is really persistent on lemmy, like some kind of self-affirming narrative to excuse inaction, or maybe doomerist/accelerationist propaganda, or some other internet koolaid I’m too offline to understand.

But I want to know how to get the disillusioned circlejerkers plugged into local efforts. The boots on the ground reality of the work being done, not to mention all the preparation leading up to this phase, seems like it’s right in front of them yet they can’t/won’t see it. We really need all the help we can get.

And on a personal level, it’s getting hard to watch them on here whining that no one is doing anything, high-fiving each other for admitting they’re also not doing anything, and other one-downsman-ship type behaviors, because a bunch of people have been busting ass out here for a while and like, if you don’t want to or can’t help, fine. But then you don’t get to complain on the internet that we’re not doing enough.

Looks like Los Angeles is doing it, maybe NY and DC could too.

Sit back and ask the question on the internet!

The same thing that has been done since the start of the regime.

Nothing!

Ah yes, the Chuck Schumer School of Resistance Fighting.

In fairness, he's announced he will sue Trump and that presumably takes time.

He did just announce that the state should withhold all federal taxes.

If he actually does it good, but also buckle up boys

He'll SLAM Trump next!

According to Trump? Because Newsom ran for governor. Literally what he said.

Criminal Democraticship.

Felony NotbeingRepublican.

Aggravated refusal to lick boots.

Something like that