Ben King

Beautiful.

It's something that would easily be capable of splitting the US apart, imo.

Any state that wanted to avoid the mass casualties would have to combat extremists in their state and the federal government, and literally close their borders to the rest of the country.

If Trump ends up pushing vaccines for Bird Flu, a *lot* of his supporters will turn on him.

I respect that far more than Liberals who won't turn on their leaders even when they commit genocide.

I mentioned to a Bosnian colleague at work about how we used to go blackberry picking when I was a kid, and she said that when she was growing up, they had loads of fruit trees and bushes planted all over the place that they would all eat freely.

Can't hurt the fruit industry though, can we!?

For sure, especially the UK.

We've been talking about potentially coming back.. I don't think the collapse will be as chaotic & violent there.

But if the AMOC fails, I don't fancy the idea of dealing with a 10C drop. That's kind of insane.

Hahaha this is like Trumps version of making himself a Gladiator!

Where abouts are you in the US?

I feel like it will probably be a very uneven process. That states will diverge until the US splits apart. Could take decades, or could start soon.. timing is impossible with such complexity.

But the trends are certainly very, very bad.

There have been some novel and good aspects - being able to freely publish even radical shit, more freedom of expression, etc - but it's been acting as a screen behind which is some truly dark shit, both systemically, and in the Wests actions abroad, both of which are now coming home to roost.

What is Neofascism? And why does it look like this?

I wrote something long form on it recently, how my thoughts about it have evolved.

grimeandreason.substack.com/p/what-is-ne...

Very much wish it wasn't the case, but nevermind.

Yes, he committed genocide.

And?

My Bluesky post that says "The New York Times will call Trump's concentration camp a: A. Migrant zone B. Detention area C. Traveler center D. Person region"

The New York Times describing the plan for the concentration camp as: "Mr. Trump’s memo called for expanding the Migrant Operations Center, which currently occupies a small former barracks that has had capacity for up to 120 migrants but in recent years held at most dozens at a time. It is near empty fields that could be transformed into a tent city."

Didn't see it coming

Huh, you'd think they'd be able to see a fuckin plane coming at them regardless of air traffic control.

I heard it was a police helicopter?

Not gonna lie I did kinda expect our Democratic politicians to have something like a plan to counter the 920-page detailed fascist blueprint that was published in April 2023

Your regular reminder that the first known clinic to offer gender-affirming surgeries was … destroyed by Nazis.

In 1933.

(Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institut für Sexualwissenschaft.)

They always come for trans people first.

I had crossed my mind earlier today that what Trumps doing bares a resemblance to how Musk dealt with Twitter.

How that makes you feel is probably quite a decent measure of how much liberal you still have in you.

That totally sounds like it's just some kid who Musk stuck a chip in his head lol

Neocolonialist neofascists

Vs

Hypernationalist fascists

Maybe from the rubble, the left can emerge as the only people both vindicated, and free of blame.

Same applies to climate negotiations.

It's extremely likely that there's going to be an economic crash, a bird-flu epidemic, food-price spikes, and some gnarly climate related disasters during the next four years.

Surely, *surely* we won't still be trundling along with fuck all serious opposition or revolt by 2028, right?

He spoke at a neo nazi rally in Germany the next week. He's part of an administration banning the existence of trans people and rounding up minorities.

He's not the Mr.Magoo of fascism and you need to stop treating him that way

Seeing a lot of this today

They opposed genocide then.

They oppose genocide now.

That's it.

That's the bar you are failing to clear.

It's already happened before, just over longer periods.

How many people knew basics of farming 1000 years ago?

How many do today?

Industrialisation & specialisation has drastically reduced core skills in a majority of people.

This is why the West is actually uniquely fucked wrt climate change.

Look, we tried to warn people. At this point, the only way out is through. Trump will precipitate a collapse and only then can we rebuild towards a better future. Our goal is to minimize the number of people we lose along the way. Build community, help others. Resilience is all we have.

A demographic bias concerning the study of history and fascism?

I dunno.

I do know it bares fuck all on the actual point made.

I was warning people fascism was coming over a decade ago and have spent the entire time struggling in poverty.

But have the takes of a small child with no knowledge of the world, and you can live comfortably as a bootlicker.

the democrats lost because they hid biden was going senile, didn't do a primary, delayed kicking him out while doing a bunch of embarrassing infighting, promoted an unpopular candidate, & had her run as a conservative palling around with the fucking cheneys. they fucked it all by themselves

Just reading about the massive no-bid contract won in 2021 by a certain non-profit organisation, who"d recently hired an advisor to the Biden White House at the time, to supervise the settlement of unaccompanied minors entering the US & wtf oh ffs my wife is gonna lose her job isn't she?