

“Dark times” is putting it mildly.
I expect they’re going to be digging mass graves before this is all over, and Trump is going to be added to the list of worst mass murderers in history.
I wish I was kidding.
“Dark times” is putting it mildly.
I expect they’re going to be digging mass graves before this is all over, and Trump is going to be added to the list of worst mass murderers in history.
I wish I was kidding.
Very true.
I still think “class war” is the most accurate term for it though, and the fact that the working class isn’t (yet) fighting it is just the biggest reason that the moneyed class is winning (so far).
Those who could do something about it won’t.
Those who would do something about it can’t.
I clearly and concisely supported my contention that the term “fascist” is appropriate to this administration.
You responded with a string of laughably false ad hominems, painfully transparent paychological projection and a pathetic attempt to just dismiss my argument out of hand. The one thing you did NOT respond with is even the faintest trace of intellectual integrity, so there’s no point in trying to pursue thecdebate any further.
Oh and… a thing that people like you seem to generally fail to grasp - you don’t really fool anyone. The lurkers can see what you’re doing just as clearly as I can.
It’s really sort of astonishing that every single thing you said here is wrong. And mostly misspelled to boot.
Right, but in the case of the current US and the current administration, the term is accurate.
Fascism is a far-right (check) political ideology characterized by authoritarianism (check), extreme nationalism (check), and the suppression of opposition (check), often led by a dictatorial leader (check). It emphasizes the subordination of individual interests to the perceived good of the nation or race (check) and typically involves a centralized autocratic government (check).
Which is exactly why it’s relevant today.
Fascists don’t magically stop being fascists just because you happen to hate the same people they do.
It’s class war. It’s been class war all along.
That’s why the courts and the legacy media and the bulk of the political establishment have been at the very least enabling him - because what he’s in fact doing, and has been doing since the beginning, is working for the explicit benefit of himself and his moneyed class cronies, to the detriment of everyone else.
Yes.
And some people recognize that it’s not a matter of if the world burns, but merely of when, and believe that sooner is less bad than later.
Sometimes accelerationism is the least bad option.
Accused of sexual assault
Isn’t that a prerequisite for a position in the Trump autocracy?
For the most notable examples of which I’m aware, go back to the period surrounding the subprime mortgage debacle (which he defended), the real estate market collapse (which he insisted wasn’t going to happen literally right up to the moment that it did) and the subsequent Wall Street bailouts (which he supported).
Krugman has been odd lately.
After spending decades slavishly carrying water for the moneyed class, he’s been on a notable anti-Trump lately.
Which implies two possibilities - either he’s finally developed some principles and integrity at this late date, which is unlikely, or the moneyed class support for Trump isn’t quite as universal as the broligarch stranglehold on social media has made it appear…
There’s a new game in town, and it’s called “don’t even pretend that ethics matter any more because they don’t.”
The only rule is that you have to let Trump and his cronies get away with anything.
The reward is that Trump’s criminal “justice” system will let you get away with anything too.
And most of Washington is already playing.
The masks are coming off.
I’m proud to say that I’ve never once bought anything from Amazon. Long before Bezos started to reveal the depths of his psychopathy, the company just grossed me out. There’s something about businesses that are that large and that dominant that just makes my flesh crawl (the same reason I never shop at Walmart or eat at McDonald’s or get coffee at Starbucks or…)
But at this point, it goes way beyond that - Bezos, alongside Musk and Zuckerberg and Ramaswamy and Thiel and so on - is a direct threat to humanity. He and the other would-be oligarchs, under the umbrella of Trump’s ego, are deliberately setting out to destroy the ideals of liberty, democracy and justice in order to build an autocracy in which they will be the masters they believe themselves rightfully to be, and the rest of us will be relegated to being serfs, slaves or corpses.
I would say it doesn’t feel that way because the bulk of the establishment media are fawning over him, and that they’re fawning over him trying to curry favor, or at the very least trying to avoid getting TikToked.
Establishing that precedent just in and of itself would most certainly be more than enough motivation for anyone with a desire to manipulate or limit public discourse and access to the authority by which future bans can and will be implemented.
A motivation that hasn’t been mentioned yet:
Every successful attempt so far by the US government to control what Americans may and may not access on the internet has been rooted in pre-existing legal restrictions on the content, or on access to it. It’s just been things like piracy, CSAM, drug trafficking and the like - things that are illegal in and of themselves, so banning sites that are involved with them has just been a response to thecrxisting illegality.
This is the first time that the US government has succeeded in banning a site without pointing to violations of any existing laws, but simply because they’ve decided to do so.
That’s a significant precedent, and to would-be tyrants, an extremely useful one.
Mm… there’s some merit to that I guess, but that’s expecting more integrity from a politician than is likely even possible. If he wasn’t an ego-driven opportunist, he wouldn’t have had a political career in the first place.
No - I still blame the DNC first and foremost. Biden’s unfitness wouldn’t have mattered if the DNC hadn’t cynically and self-servingly engineered his win.
They didn’t make that DEI accusation because they expected it to be true, so the fact that it’s so patemtly false doesn’t matter.
They made the accusation just because they’re hateful, bigoted pieces of shit trying to appeal to other hateful, bigoted pieces of shit.
Truth means nothing. Hate and greed are the only things that matter to them.