Voidance [none/use name]

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Cake day: January 14th, 2024

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  • Like the most brain dead neoliberal i am constantly surprised by how sharp Trumps political instinct is. That picture is some Mark Antony showing Caesar’s bloody cloak to the crowd level shit. I’m also reminded of Baudrillard’s point about how JFK and Robert Kennedy were given ‘real’ assasinations beacuse they had a real political program, in contrast to Gerald Ford and Nixon. Trump raising his fist to the cheers of the people as if he’s a revolutionary instead of a puppet of the status quo lmao










  • Ultimately I know and agree with this. But the implication frightens me. When I look at the West it seems like the conditions for revolution, - I suppose for a widespread class consciousness - are very distant. Things would have to get much worse before people understand that capitalism can’t be saved. And people will have to lose a lot more before their ready to fight for something new.
    And with climate change and all the other ticking time bombs, it will get worse. But fascism is already here. And this wedge issue of immigration won’t go away. Climate change will cause unprecedented movement of peoples. And the West is already primed to blame their economic hardships on immigrants. So fascism is already stronger and more organised than we are, and the conditions it thrives in are only going to increase.
    Maybe once boomers depart the stage then this kind of racism and chauvinism will lose some of its momentum. I hope so.