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am_Unition  ·  6 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The populist phantom

I think this is correct, especially and most concerningly the prediction for future American elections.

I want to talk about intelligent life in the universe with you (btw I recommend looking for planetary magnetospheres with healthy dynamos), but all of the intelligent life inside of me is saying that we actually have to do this stupid ass shit now.

We have only each other. The media is almost completely dismantled.

I'lll see everyone around I guess. Well I dunno the data says the site owner needs to get way more fascists to retain users, empirically. Hmmm (this is a slash 's'). Rest of the net's a hellscape now anyways (this is true).

PS biomass in the lithosphere feeding on radioactivity is an interesting canvas to paint on (idk I think the radiation keeps cell systems limited in complexity, so hmmm, bio is my science weak spot, though), and when I think about the next intelligent lifeform on Earth dominating instead of humanoids, I don't go with chimps, I like to envision the octopi triumphing, for fun.

edit: here's two perhaps seemingly opposed views I hold: 1. I think it was more or less an obvious responsibility to vote straight dem in '24 from a harm reduction standpoint, 2. Populist leftism (like the actually good, not-derailed-by-fascist kind of populism, so sort of fantastical, of course) is still very possible (see AOC & Bernie), but it's hard to see the spark of momentum firing off without completely impugning this absolute joke of a corporatist democratic party establishment. Obviously it's really really bad that the dem option was STILL orders of magnitude better. Imagine that campaign...

    "Well the focus panels show 53/47 majority 'against' trans Americans..."

    "OK Bill well, fuck 'em, maybe America will be ready for progress the next time we don't have to make it ourselves. I'll take a stand when I'm dead, we always said"

two hours laytiuer

    "The Harris camp was dragged leftward, mercilessly, and kowtowed (when we didn't come out to pointedly denounce trans Americans in response to a $1 billion dollar bigotry adbuy of lies); all that woke shit (you know! the bad stuff we all hate because we're older than 53) needs to end ASAP, and Trump isn't even that bad, idiots. We ran a flawless campaign!

      ...

    PSSZTT-Liz Cheney is 15 minutes out of Ann Arbor, things are rolling smooth, everyone. People love this. it's the secret sauce. So many moderates, ripe for the voting. We're not going back.!.. to when.. Kamala was in the admin, just now. And through mid January.