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is it naïve of me to feel, deep in my bones, that despite how bleak it is now, the Western Bourgeoisie are overplaying their hand (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by WhyEssEff@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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Like, yeah, they can 'get away with' ending soft power. They can 'get away with' extrajudicial killings. They're operating off of pure machismo right now. They're getting drunk on their vices. They're stripping masks where masks wouldn't be advised to be stripped. I feel like I understand now that Fascism is, in part, an expression of weakness. They wouldn't be doing this unless they were scared. It's too volatile. It feels both too late on a power-level and too early on a popular-level. Never mind the ticking time bomb that is AI data centers. It feels like, and I'm sure this is cope, there is a timer on their ability to run the circus much longer.

My first instinct here is to doubt myself, intellectual pessimism and all. In that vein, maybe this is just revolutionary optimism, but we're at the point where it feels like there is a palpable anger brewing in the basement. I don't know. Maybe Palantir works as an anti-communist panopticon and we just death spiral forever. I don't want to lose hope.

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[–] rootsbreadandmakka@hexbear.net 43 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Warning: vibes based analysis

I wholeheartedly believe, and will continue to believe until I am presented evidence to the contrary, that the trump people fully expected either their inauguration, or any of the actions they’ve taken in the past year, to have resulted in 2020-style mass rioting that would allow them to go fully mask off. Showing that they fundamentally misunderstood why those protests and riots occurred and just in general the state of the American left. But that just…hasn’t happened, so now they’re at a loss since they really do have this mass fascist project they’d like to implement but they have no real enemy to position themselves against. So while they are completely unopposed in implementing their goals, they have no popular support, they are bleeding all but their most ardent supporters, essentially destroying the coalition that got them back in power in 2024. They’re locked in this contradiction where they can do anything they want unopposed, but everything they do turns around and damages their support. And they’ve tried to cast various laughable groups as the enemies of western civilization. No kings protests, which everyone can see is just a bunch of milquetoast liberals. They tried to act like the dude who shot Charlie Kirk was part of some grand left wing anti-American conspiracy which even the libs could see through. Every enemy they’ve tried to create is varying degrees of laughable, and they keep trying to poke the left and provoke mass rioting again, seemingly not realizing the American left has been on life support for at least 40-something years.

Sort of disappointing on our part tbh but I’m with you, they do seem to be overplaying their hand both domestically and geopolitically.

[–] The_hypnic_jerk@hexbear.net 25 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

That's funny, because it means the dem concept of "going for the high road" works here for them, but only because the reps have no understanding that the two parties have been too effective together at smooshing everyone down economically that they literally can't fight back.

The Dems and reps together were a fucking fierce combo, without the duo working together he whole facade is really crumbling

Like imagine the Dems showing up with no opposition and acting like the enemy is too strong to push any agenda forward so we have to keep bombing people (I'm literally just referencing Obama). But without the violence internally that the Republicans demand, that shit actually worked.

I don't have a point here, recovering from the flu and up too late