Anarchist, communist, opossum. But then, I repeat myself.
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Last Notes npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum - SpaceX IPO has been one of the worst ever starts for a major stock, dropping $1 trillion in value in just a few weeks. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum Discovering that Elon Musk was impersonating his mother on twitter (and, judging from the phrasing, his father too) really highlights both that npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum Because he is a vacuous and hollow shell of a human being with no internal life, Trump just spews an endless series of random exclamations until he stumbles upon one that makes some audience cheer. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum Mark Zuckerberg directed the investment of something like $70-80 billion into his “VR metaverse,” which is now shutting down on 15 June. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum Well well well would you look at that: npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum I often like to point out that electoral republics—what most people might call “liberal democracies”—don’t actually reflect or act to achieve the preferences of their electorates. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum Watching a hegemonic world order fall apart, in real time, right in front of your eyes is *existential crisis* territory, and that’s what many millions of people are going through as the capitalist world order and US-led imperial system are tearing themselves apart as we speak. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum There’s an Australian influencer who posted a video of herself watching Iranian missiles being intercepted over Dubai and saying “It’s not meant to be happening here.” npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum Keir Starmer refusing to participate in US attacks on Iran and then changing his mind but pretending the UK’s involvement is purely defensive so nobody can get mad at him is the most Keir Starmer thing he could have done. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum Trump apparently told reporters that he had hoped the attack on Iran would merely improve his bargaining position vis-a-vis Iran’s new leaders, and that he had already identified multiple potential people to take over, all of whom have been killed. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum Most people only have a very vague idea how US national security and foreign policy decisions are made. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum I hope we can finally put the “wisdom of the founders” trope to rest. Even if the framers of the US constitution had been attempting to create a sort of stable democracy—they weren’t, they were mostly slaver oligarchs—then their tricameral system of checks and balances has failed utterly and spectacularly. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum Comrades, if you have the means, please consider helping out Rad (and his little kitty) get through this month. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum @nprofile…0yfl has done the world a tremendous service and put the Zinelibrary back online: npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum Musk is very obviously miserable, from which I take some solace. I don’t mean for that to indemnify him for the harms he causes, but only to note that he would also be better off in a more equal world. Capitalism is very much a behavioral trap that entices the worst among us to claw their way to the top, but it’s like a wish granted by one of those literal-ironic genies: Musk is compelled to constantly accumulate more and more and it just makes him more and more unhappy. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum Elon Musk has taken to Twitter to note that money can’t buy happiness, which sounds more like a skill issue (I’m built different), but just goes to illustrate a point I’ve made repeatedly: inequalities of wealth and power are not just bad for us but also bad for the people at the top. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum If you live in the US or another place experiencing a fascist takeover, npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum Anytime I say #AbolishThePolice someone inevitably comes along and asks “but who will keep us safe without the cops?” and meanwhile thousands of regular people in Minneapolis have spontaneously self-organized a round-the-clock patrol of the city, replete with a city-wide intelligence network and radio dispatch system, to keep themselves safe from violent assaults by the police. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum Probably the best thing the US Democratic Party could do right now is “literally anything at all” but the second-best thing would be to stop taking up all of the space and oxygen in US politics that an actual opposition party might occupy. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum All cops are bastards because when Jonathan Ross murdered Renee Good by shooting her three times in the head, none of the cops present tried to stop him or apprehended him, and because those same cops made sure that doctors could not treat Good before she died, and because cops have helped Ross hide rather than hunting him down and arresting him for murder, and because cops around the country haven’t spoken out to demand the arrest of this fugitive murderer because they think he did the right and justified thing, because all cops are bastards. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum Tim Walz is deploying the state national guard to make sure that *protesters* don’t get violent and give Trump an excuse to do what he’s literally already doing and meanwhile ICE and CBP are running death squads and conducting pogroms. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum US Democrats out there begging for Trump to “focus” on affordability rather than a fascist seizure of power as if anyone actually thinks that Trump trying to achieve a regular-president goal would be desirable. The man turns everything he touches into shit. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum Some poor kids from West Virginia joining the National Guard and getting shot and killed while on colonial occupation duty in Washington DC by an Afghan refugee who fled the US war there is operating on GREEK TRAGEDY levels. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum The grand sweeping conspiracy is…this. It’s this world we live in, right now, today. It’s a world in which a mediocre dullard like Larry Summers can imagine himself to be deserving of the status of a wealthy public intellectual who gets to run the most prestigious universities in the world and serve in cabinet positions and advise world leaders on how to keep the global economy running and opine on the teevee news as if he’s a genuine expert on anything except his own sense of self-worth. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum All these conspiracy theorists out there who imagine shadowy cabals that secretly run our world, adrenochrome and space lasers and the Rothschilds and plandemics and chemtrails, and the reality has always been: npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum The biggest revelation from the latest Epstein documents is that Donald Trump is very obviously guilty of everything Epstein was. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum “The Left is responsible for fascism” is a comforting but obscene lie liberals tell themselves to excuse their own failed system that delivered fascism to their doorstep while denying any blame on fascists for fascism. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum Hunger in the presence of abundant food remains an atrocity unique to capitalism. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum Local police in California are increasing patrols at grocery stores in anticipation of hungry people taking food once Trump turns off SNAP payments on 1 November because the state works for capital, not for us. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum There’s such a huge gap between “please Mr Trump please follow the constitution instead of building your corrupt fascist regime” and what the protesters did in places like Nepal and Madagascar which was “step down and leave or else you will wish you had.” npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum The Trump regime is building a network of concentration camps. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum I feel like those crowds of people confronting ICE and CBP and DHS could be even more effective if someone started pulling down their gaiters and face masks every time the cops paused to arrest someone. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum It’s pretty funny that the US Democratic Party embraced neoliberalism so thoroughly that this was literally one of Kamala Harris’ campaign promises in 2024: npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum Borders are a form of livestock management. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum It’s pretty wild that something like five million US government employees—most members of the working class—are currently going unpaid but the Trumpist regime is somehow finding billions of dollars to spend on its own priorities and luxuries. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum What if we just started anonymously tipping off ICE that all the chuds, cops, fascists, etc, in your local vicinity are actually illegal immigrants? npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum Maybe not a protester but someone who had been kidnapped by ICE npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum ICE in Portland blocked an ambulance from leaving the site of an ICE facility to take an injured protester to a hospital and threatened to shoot the ambulance crew: npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum So Trump had ordered the reallocation of $8 billion, previously allocated by Congress for other purposes, to pay US military salaries this month. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum Many people in the US grew up seeing maps of the US civil war that depicted a sharp and clear boundary between the Confederacy and the Union. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum Let’s fucking go #Madagascar ! npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum The extent to which the Trump regime is ideologically committed to supporting the shittiest meme government in the world is honestly even worse than I could have predicted. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum This genre of analysis—“Trump has experienced obstacles in his efforts to consolidate power and thus we don’t have to take any substantive actions to resist and can simply rely on institutional guardrails and elections”—is essentially a variation on the same theme as “Israeli is not committing genocide in Gaza because there are still Palestinians alive in Gaza.” npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum A lot of ink is being spilled about the irony of Trump voters having their own economic interests devastated by Trump’s policies, as if Obama didn’t also win overwhelmingly on an explicit agenda of hope and change that he also failed to deliver on. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum @nprofile…cpec @nprofile…4e8z npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum I absolutely loathe the media framing of opposition to genocide as the “Pro-Palestinian” position, as if this is all a team sport between two co-equal parties in a squabble and we’re all just picking our favorite team to support. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum ICE arrested a Chicago alderman for the crime of asking if they had a warrant to arrest someone else *while they were raiding a fucking emergency room*. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum I envy historians their hindsight and ability to discern trends and drivers that are obvious after the fact but difficult to identify when you’re living through them, day-by-day. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum A short and non-exhaustive list of ways people have responded to fascism, none of which are mutually exclusive and all of which carry their own costs and risks of failure: npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum “OMG can you believe these reactionaries spent years claiming to fanatically believe X but are now doing the opposite of X as if they never believed X at all? What a bunch of hypocrites!” npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum The framers were less worried about, and planned less for, a member of their own elite class seizing power entirely for himself rather than sharing and rotating power among the members of that elite class. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum The US Constitution was quite explicitly drafted to prevent actual democracy, because the framers were overwhelmingly wealthy and propertied elites (most of whom were also slavers) who knew that majoritarian governance would mean the end of their parasitic rule. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum It seems unlikely that the Trumpists will be able to consolidate power over the US. They’re just too lazy, too incompetent, too incurious, too pleased with themselves to do the work they’d have to do to establish genuine fascist power in the country. They seem to routinely mistake the appearance of power for the actual substantive consolidation of that power. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum It is simultaneously true that the Nazis were gross incompetents who made their own rule ultimately untenable, AND that they spent 12 years in power during which they killed tens of millions of people and brought much of Europe to ruins. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum Charlie Kirk devoted his life to the capture of state power by a fascist movement, with the goal of using that state power to hurt you and impose his fascist vision on society—one in which members of the in-group could hurt members of a powerless and subjugated out-group with impunity. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum The absolute fawning by the Democratic establishment over Charlie Kirk—a fascist who worked to impose fascism on the US—mostly seems to tell us that Democrats are terrified of the threat posed by fascists and mistakenly believe the optimal response to those fascists is obsequious and pre-emptive surrender. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum UK ambassador to the US Peter Mandelson was a close Epstein friend. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum Libs get mad in my mentions when I note that the US intelligentsia is institutionally captured by fascism but here we have the Washington Post, previously the second-most prestigious daily newspaper in the country, openly running cover for Trump on Epstein: npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum Hypocrisy is frustrating to witness and can be infuriating when it is deployed in service of evil ends. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum Every state capacity that Trump is deploying in service of explicit fascism—ICE, DHS, CBP, a military that conducts extrajudicial executions of random foreigners abroad, an Imperial presidency—is the product of a decades-old bipartisan consensus. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum The US press is still publishing pieces about how old Joe Biden was. Their decision to not cover Trump’s age, health, obvious decline, and whatever the fuck just happened over the last week is just that: a decision. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum US Democrats are so enamored with the idea that Trump is “distracting” because a fundamental pillar of US liberalism is that nothing real can ever happen. It’s just not allowed. So when real things do happen, like a fascist takeover and military occupation of the US capital, they can only conceive of it in terms of messaging, of signs and symbols. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum Someday we’re going to burn those fucking Trump banners they’re plastering all over DC like a dime store Pyongyang and it’s going to be deeply satisfying. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum When we talk about an anti-Semitism problem on the Left… npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum Lots of speculation that Trump has congestive heart failure, that he’s demonstrably unwell, that he’s comically failing to hide the signs of serious illness, that he’s publicly talking about his impending mortality… npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum Saw video of Israeli forces double-tapping Palestinian first responders—striking a hospital and then striking it again to kill the people who arrived to help the survivors of the first strike—and I really can’t emphasize enough how closely the Israeli state mirrors Assad’s regime in Syria. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum Comrades, @nprofile…3vja is dealing with unemployment and could really use some help. If you can, please consider donating even a small amount—many people working together can achieve enormous things. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum I’m not an accelerationist, but I do have ADHD and have no patience for long drawn-out societal collapses or pretenses of normalcy. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum The one thing I will credit to Trump and the other fascists leading the globs fascist reaction is this: npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum The problem with “moderate centrists” like Matt Yglesias, Noah Smith, Keir Starmer, Gavin Newsom, et al, is that they are or allow themselves to become empty vessels for some aspect of elite discourse as a means of guaranteeing a paycheck from elites who like hearing their discourse parroted back at themselves and at the unwashed masses. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum Jordan Peterson’s daughter announcing that he is “taking time off” because of exposure to “mold” is basically code for “he got infected by the fungus from The Last of Us and now she’s keeping zombie Peterson locked up in the basement.” npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum Apropos my previous comments about listening to yourself and taking action on your own initiative during emergencies, I wanted to offer this additional detail I came across about the flooding in Camp Mystic in Texas: npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum The fact that it took Gavin Newsom, an empty opportunist with zero convictions, until August 2025 to figure out that you could short-circuit Trumpists by just…mirroring them back at themselves shows how utterly fucking useless the Democrats have been during this long crisis of fascism in the US. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum This is why I’ve been so frustrated by the whole “techno-feudalism” discourse, as if capitalism is undergoing some sort of transformation into a new system. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum If you want to understand the global fascist turn, it helps to look at people like Elon Musk who have very specific expectations about what kind of person they think they’re supposed to be, as a result of having achieved the highest status possible under capitalism, and still not commanding the status, respect, and command to which they should be entitled. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum This is something David Graeber was working on before he died—the idea that Marxist “modes of production” only really makes sense as a critical theory if we understand the thing being produced not as a kind of *stuff* but rather a kind of *person*. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum A critically important thing to understand is that capitalism, like all the various systems that came before it, is a system of (re)producing hierarchy. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum I’m seeing lots of libs out in the wild with takes like this that go something like npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum Trump has militarily occupied my old home town and I feel this kind of sinking emptiness inside. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum In June, after a Trumpist terrorist murdered Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, some liberals lost their shit at me in my mentions for observing that cops were too scared to enter the home and stop the killer. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum Years ago, when I lived in Washington DC, there was an incident on the metro when a train got stuck in a tunnel that was filling with smoke. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum Three things that happened today: npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum Watching Democratic Party leadership campaigning against Zohran Mamdani instead of Trump’s giant fascism bill, and the New York Times adopt an internet Nazi troll as its de facto editor to go after Mamdani, all because of some milquetoast democratic socialism, all in the span of about a week, is such an astonishing confirmation of everything the left has been saying about these institutions for decades. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum If anyone in Hawaii is in need of MREs, the US government is auctioning off a shit ton for real cheap. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum Everything is going to hell but one silver lining is the apparently collective decision in western countries over the last few years that bras are no longer socially mandatory. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum Russian anarchists sabotaging Putin’s war machine are so fucking brave. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum War is politics by other means and sometimes those politics are “keep Benjamin Netanyahu out of prison for a few more weeks” or “keep President Grandpa distracted with a new video game he can watch on Fox News so Steven Miller can kidnap more children,” which is how we end up with a deadly farce like “The Twelve Days War.” npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum Normies when they find my takes that aren’t explicitly anarchist-coded: npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum For anyone who has ever craved to know what it’s really like, subjectively speaking, to live through the collapse of a previously-powerful empire, complex society, or international state system, I have GREAT news for you. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum Anyone wondering if US armed forces would resist or refuse to carry out blatantly illegal and unconstitutional orders issued by Trump doesn’t need to wonder anymore. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum @nprofile…0c34 npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum Some scattered thoughts: npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum It’s not like things were fine back then, but between 11 September 2001 and the US invasion of Iraq on 20 March 2003, Bush II and his administration basically had to spend the entire time whipping the country into a froth to support the invasion. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum It turns out that the Trumpist terrorist who assassinated Melissa Hortman and her husband in Minnesota first attacked John Hoffman and his wife at their home, and then went to a second home, where he fortunately failed to attack anyone but did encounter a cop who did not interfere with him in anyway. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum A couple of people have told me that my rhetoric here is misguided and that defending ourselves from state violence will give Trump et al the pretext they need to…do what they already wanted to do and are already doing. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum Trump et al are all talking a out California in terms of war and colonial occupation and it is critically important to understand the extent to which they are serious about that framing and the extent to which they hate you. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum I often feel hopeless but watching Angelenos dropping e-scooters off an overpass onto ICE and LAPD cars and it just fills me with so much gladness. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum There is no such thing as a “non-lethal” munition. npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum “From the founding period and before, the American ruling class has understood that a strong, centralized, active U.S. government is the key to creating modern commercial power. If this seems counterintuitive, it is only because our political discourse has lately become invested in the deeply naive and ahistorical idea that the state is there to limit the power of private capital. No idea in our politics is more misguided and unmoored from the historical and empirical record.” npub1hkcr3hrpsu5skqcnavew9s8gtegat76zyd4fd3zlrrc29h66f2sqtls2a5 HeavenlyPossum I understand that there’s this whole world out there of “leftist” streamers and I’m vaguely aware that people like Hasan Piker exist but they might as well be on another planet. I have zero interest and don’t know why anyone bothers.
