People who saw project 2025 for what it was were not caught by surprise at all. Trump himself barely matters, it people like Peter Thiel and the heritage foundation who write policy. They need the US to fall apart and they don’t mind helping Putin a bit along the way.

Trump often reminds me of the Galactic President from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

“Only six people in the Galaxy knew that the job of the Galactic President was not to wield power but to attract attention away from it.”

So they choose someone flamboyant and zany and scandalous who will give the press nice headlines and good repeatable quotes.

They thought trucks that had transitioned to male would molest the kids instead of just crushing them like the Ford intended? Ridiculous!

Yeah it’s weird, and if there are elections popular opposition candidates will face a fate like mr Navalny, I’m afraid. Much as I would like AOC as a US president, I think at this point, she needs to run for her life rather than for president. And believe me, I truly hate that this is the case.

She is an amazing person and a fantastic leader. However she is the kind of person the fascists fear and she is also the right shade of skin to earn a one way ticket to El Salvador.

You see the people clamoring for the deportation of mr Mamdani, and he is at this point nothing more than one party’s possible candidate for mayor of one town. Imagine what would happen if ms Ocasio-Cortez were an actual presidential candidate!?

Even now I worry about her safety often. Same for that wonderful ms Crockett, mr Frost and a few others.

And did worship their glorious leader, attacked intellectual, demanded absolute loyalty and caused a great famine… Oh yes Trump’s still working on the last bit. But tanking agriculture and making foreign import harder will get you there I’m sure.

They trigger people? I thought they just served as some kind of label to certify a car is owned by a bit of an immature prick, like a Trump sticker.

I’ve never seen anyone triggered by them unless someone put them on their car without their consent. I’d be pretty annoyed if someone superglued that shit to my car.

But they are speedrunning for the rapture, no consequences when they are off to heaven eh…

They should remove the transmission from their cars, just weld the engine directly to a wheel, not efficiënt but it won’t turn the boys into girls.

Russia’s most densely populated, and politically most relevant are is on the European continent. Get that into your fucking head.

It is but losing the traitor in the assembly is not a bad thing. Now if Europe could jailbreak all that American tech they have in their military gear too, that would be nice.

I read Musk fired the Tesla manager for Europe and North America over the low sales, as if those weren’t a direct result of Musk’s own actions. Like there is only one person responsible for pushing the stupid cybertruck and for associating the brand with fascism.

Happens regularly often the police officers find themselves compelled to kill their passive aggressor in self defense.

It’s only a way of starting an interaction, it escalates easily with things like “illegal possession”, “resisting arrest” and “assaulting a police officer” . Which are all things that might happen without the suspect doing anything really.

You are very optimistic. You need the state to optimize sharing of resources because without it you get smaller and smaller tribal groups competing. Mutual aid groups on a voluntary basis alone are easily splintered and there are too many people who get a kick out of destruction.

I agree that it currently is, but it doesn’t have to be.

I really don’t know how to solve these problems. It would require people to stop being selfish, scared , petty and mean to start with, but there is a huge propaganda machine fanning on those feelings constantly. Revolution is a huge waste of resources, energy and people and usually leads to a new government by the new batch of the most eager and ruthless opportunists.

Accelerationism is a horrible idea. It’s based on the ideas that,

1. We can’t prevent having a fascist state now and then,

2. We can afford the waste and suffering this causes.

With climate change, it should be clear that we can no longer afford the luxuries of wars or even culture wars. Technological advancement should allow us to live with far less waste and far less labor than we do. But that would mean departing from capitalism entirely. We need that post scarcity society now. Resource wise it’s a lot cheaper than what we have now.

What is the alternative though?

Yes and every time you vote in our little country it’s still for the least bad party. It’s the nature of politics. You may like a party, but it still has politicians in it, who are human. Humans seem to be inherently flawed.

You prefer the more evil?

It’s not just murderers that get that though. Even if you went to jail for something like driving while black, you are a dangerous ex-con for life.

Yeah same, the only solution is for you yourself to post in those niche communities more often, making them more active and thus more attractive for other users.