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if i were to try and condense all the COINTELPRO style in-universe deactivation propaganda of my generation into one tiktok video, at least part of it would be a dance-based shaming stitch over an LA influencer denying the sexual autonomy of their home surveillance androids

"can you believe this bitch does not let her appliances fuck" would be my album title if i was hired to score the christofascist apocalypse

having seen the "it feels like 2016 not 2020" sentiment around, all i can say is like ya completely, it's embarrassing that in a decade we did not manage to make it abundantly clear that fascism is incoming and has been for centuries, only now is reaching a certain combo of factors where the corporate fascism matches the political fascism perfectly, and then i remember all the fuckin website traps laid to get us to spin out in circular discourse loops about nothing that led us right back here.

idono [putting stained zizek tshirt on] i zsink sere is something to de . . return of natalism as a core. eh . component of fascism . . at de SAME TIME that we are surpazsing .. de computer scientists have thees test, yes? de so-called "turing test?" you have heard of it. eet is a test of. de link between as, lacan, said, and so capably reproudewced by zshee ah. . vachowskis . ah the "Desert Of de" ah "Real" - the Id, playful, erotic - and de Symbolic - the ego, rational, pays taxes, etczetera

struggling to balance sincere distress about fascism with also sincere but also self-effacing joking about how leftists waste so much time and not really sure what i'm doing over here lmao

i am thinking about how organizing groups split up over how the communists killed the anarchists in 1917 forgetting that capital is utterly ASCENDANT and maybe we can get to that later, and how the ritual of sacrificing the impure became a daily event via the Main Character that we allowed the revolutionary foment of 2020 to be dissipated in a series of grifters and Protest Influencers without gaining meaningful momentum as what might be called a 'movement' in any less deactivating time

I am feeling the spun wheels of so many traumas meeting the funhouse prism of an atomizing information culture, where every point of solidarity gets refracted against every other trauma until it becomes impossible to continue a movement on anything but hatred... when we all knew what we needed was to make tactical alliances but we couldn't know if our group would become part of the list of three letter groups we Dont Fuck With. we got fucked with in ways we don't have names for yet and still are

and on top of that! in all the wonderful years of bending gender online or offline! not one of us rigged up a protocol by which our cell phones could fuck our thermostats!

i try never to make a serious point unless it is underneath a thread that is truly impossible to justify in retrospect.

@tdverstynen in oregon they just kept coming around and beating people up in the streets and saying "we are literal nazis" and the rest of the world saw either a carefully insulated bubble of leftist discourse or "holy hell Portland has been literally burned to glass" depending on ad profile, and then we keep acting surprised that, e.g., people for whom fluoride in the water is a serious and pressing concern still exist when it is the entire ecosystem of information that fuels that sickness.

@jonny

Absolutely, the information ecosystem is the root of the problem. By being able to create an entire alternative reality, the far right has captured the fears of a majority of the electorate. Facts be damned.