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The Atlantic continues its role as the rag of choice for hand-wringing, neo-liberal stupidity with this piece. Its content is a constant stream of bad takes by people that have fundamental misunderstandings of the way power and politics have or would ever work making fanciful predictions that betray a Disney princess's understanding of America, history, and geopolitics.
I read some amount of free Atlantic articles because their RSS feed -- probably unbeknownst to them -- provides a large amount of their magazine to you for free. Despite this, I find them to be fundamentally unserious and often not even worthy of the small amount of ad-free attention I pay to their writing, nor the effort to swipe their articles out of my feed. Without looking at the header, I could likely tell 100% of the time that what I'm reading is an Atlantic article, because the consistent tone of their contributors -- who are seemingly vetted by the editorial staff to guarantee that only the most lame-brained, navel-gazing positions will ever be published.
Just today, I read a piece of theirs by someone who thought it was important to dedicate such a large amount of nuance and verbiage to a discussion of whether or not Trumpism could be categorized as a form of fascism that he published at least a thousand words in what was practically a lengthy description of the odor over time of his own flatulence. All of this flowery bullshit purely to conclude how it was time -- finally time -- to say out loud that Trump is a fascist.
Like not only are you so late to the party that the caterers that were hired for it were deported by ICE months ago, but who fucking cares what you call it you stupid, pedantic fuck?
To return to a discussion about this specific Disney princess prediction posted here, the police will "collide" with ICE agents in the exact same way they haven't at all in previous days and weeks. The best you can hope for is that the police will not eventually collaborate with Trump's paramilitary and help brutalize the people of this country, and even that is something of a long shot.
After they shamed the public’s reaction to the Luigi Mangione situation without any empathy for the feelings of the American people I’d rather have diarrhea ladled into my face than ever read that pile of dogshit ever again