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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)

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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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[–] Beaver@hexbear.net 25 points 3 days ago

In the end, true global-scale power comes from a foundation of competent organized human effort. That requires lots and lots of valuable things like actual inter-personal trust between people, a confidence in government, a drive for knowledge and learning, widespread literacy, the ability to make useful spreadsheets... you know, those countless "soft wussy things" that the Hard Men of this moment don't value. On every front, people in power in the USA are working tirelessly to tear down the foundational human ability of it's people.

What's interesting about the recent Venezuelan kidnapping operation is that we see on full display the value of multi-spectrum cultivation of human capability. The US military has a strong esprit-du-corps and a culture of desk jockeys and nerds doing support work, combined with political will and physical capital, that allows it to do shit. But even it is being dragged down by the industrial collapse, unable to modernize or re-arm (the US's inability to match Russia's artillery shell output is one damning data point).