@benroyce Trump has made the US untrustworthy. He is like a giant wrecking ball. So many countries are in the process of building non-US trading and political relationships to enhance their resilience. Trump forgets that just 4% of the world's population lives in the US. The other 96% can survive and thrive without the US. He is overseeing "the suicide of a superpower".

@Iveyline @benroyce I couldn't agree more, but shame on us for even letting him run again after leading an insurrection on January 6th, 2021. Because a second term for our 45th President would have done a lot less damage to our reputation in the world then the same idiot being the 47th. I don't know... maybe we'd be better off now if his insurrection had worked. (For the record, I doubt it goes that far because then we'd likely be in our 10th year of King Trump.)

@benroyce

It's all too likely that we will have to do much more than just voting come the fall.
We will need to get as many people as possible to vote early, by mail if available, in person if not.
We will need to escort those who are at risk from armed masked goons to and from the polls to ensure that every eligible voter can vote.
And we will need to protect the ballots to make sure that every vote cast is counted.
@kingtor @Iveyline

@benroyce @kingtor @Iveyline It's funny how accelerationism is only ever promoted in the direction of benefiting the already wealthy and powerful.

Have you ever heard of an accelerationist advocating for giving the poor, women, and/or minorities too much equality, in order to cause a "conservative" backlash?

Any accelerationists try to get Obama or Harris elected, in hopes of causing a white nationalist backlash?

@isaackuo @kingtor @Iveyline

Accelerationism is loser edgelord contrarianism trying to act philosophical

@KinocKayfar @kingtor @Iveyline

yeah but fascists endlessly promise a "return" to some glorious past (that never existed)

Just like conservatives

So not really that different

I view fascism as always the inevitable evolution of conservatism unopposed

@benroyce @KinocKayfar @kingtor @Iveyline Fascism has been so far the outcome of a period of liberalism, just as it did in the 20th century with Mussolini. History repeats itself.

@fenixmaster @KinocKayfar @kingtor @Iveyline

fuck liberalism but don't blame the malice of fascists on the spinelessness of liberals

that's fucking stupid

your thinking is like "well she wore that dress so that's why she got raped" fucking bullshit

it's like the republicans do something terrible, and some fucking morons go "well that's the democrat's fault"

the democrats fucking suck

but anyone letting the republicans off the hook like that is a moron or outright psyop from the right

@KinocKayfar @fenixmaster @kingtor @Iveyline

yeah

and liberalism is weak

we need the real left to rise

but to say "liberals are weak, therefore they are to blame for the malice that consumes them" is victim blaming stupidity

such a lying narrative only serves the right by redirecting blame

and to see leftists do it is simply a sign you're dealing with an agent provocateur, cosplaying leftist, or a really really fucking stupid confused "leftist"

@KinocKayfar @fenixmaster @kingtor @Iveyline

these sound like some weird cosplayers

fascism is about seizing state power

if there exist some exotic cosplays out there, ok. but they don't mean anything

we have to deal with rising threats and large ideologies

@KinocKayfar @fenixmaster @kingtor @Iveyline

i'm sorry but i don't give a fuck

to browse through a bestiary of exotic flavors of asshole just isn't very interesting to me

fascism is evil built on suffering and abuse and far far worse. full stop

that's all we need to know

i do not remotely fucking care about the "exciting" varieties of sadists and morons out there. fuck them all. destroy everything about their shitass bigotry and ignorance

@KinocKayfar @fenixmaster @kingtor @Iveyline

it's all good

i don't mind your interests

studying the enemy helps us defeat them

if you're out there deep into the exotic taxonomy of rare kinds of fascism, that i personally could care less about, nevertheless your efforts eventually helps the rest of us destroy their fuckwit sadism better

@KinocKayfar @kingtor @Iveyline

I can buy that. Assholes either way. Conservatism is nothing but the fused monstrosity of the evil and the stupid. Fascism is the same, just on steroids

@KinocKayfar @kingtor @Iveyline

Agreed

One is merely a weaker form of the other

Both can go fuck themselves