MrPiss

Lol the protests in Venezuela are like the low-energy version of the Brazilians one when Bolsonaro lost. Can't wait for the new 6th of January next year.

Marx was clearly wrong about history repeating. History repeats itself infinitely and continuously gets stupider with each repetition.

The new Power Rangers are looking good.

I do sympathize with that views like that somewhat. Especially since fascism and liberalism aren't opposites but complimentary aspects used within capitalism.

Then theres the fact that fascism can be a hard thing to pin down with a definition. Do we call Germany and Japan classic fascism and then the Pinochet dictatorship early neoliberal fascism? Where does fascism apply and when? Can fascism exist without mass politics? (If everyone in the US is pacified by so many consumerist options can they form the political mass necessary for Trump to create a real fascist movement like Nazi Germany?) Can we call what the US does abroad in colonial wars and interventions fascist? At what point are racial codes fascism? Fascism is not a structured ideology like communism so it's very slippery.

Some recommended reading I saw in the news mega is below. Had to skim for the highlights again but you might like it.

https://redsails.org/really-existing-fascism/

It's a pretty well known phrase in the US (I don't know where you're from). Capitalist countries throw out rights and institute reactionary/fascist dictatorships to rediscipline the working class and the quote was the first thing I thought of to explain my views on what it would take for the US to revoke them. It's not literally true but it's spiritually true. Those rights were given out a concessions and are subject to change or being revoked like abortion.

Ultimately, we're in a very far left internet space and if I was talking to a "normal person" I'd gauge their politics and try to figure out how to talk to them without seeming weird.

"If voting changed anything they'd make it illegal."

The capitalist class doesn't need to destroy liberal democracy to keep everyone in line so nothing should change. We might go to having a right wing strong man with a political party that returns to an older kind of political corruption with party machines that strong arm the populace to vote how they want and stuff the ballot boxes as needed. Basically what the US did to create "democracies" around the world like in Russia.

In like 10-20 years there might be a decline in the treat economy and the crushing weight of neoliberalism might spawn an actual socialist movement. If that happens then there would be the bipartisan dictatorship under the Hunter Biden/Barron Trump copresidency where they share the share the presidency like Roman consuls to crush anything anticapitalist.

After a few years they might let go of the dictatorship and institute a multiparty democracy like the eurocucks have with defanged social democrats as the furthest left option and proclaim progress.

Pence was less well known and had a reasonable base of support in christofascist evangelicals. Vance is a loser who has switched sides from anti to pro Trump and is known for lying about his past. Pence was a cleaner, respectable evil and Vance is clearly a slimeball and a loser.

has my vote.

The historical unity of the ruling class is realised in the State, and their history is essentially the history of States and of groups of States.

Fake news. He was from Dresden and betrayed the proletariat by crossing into West Berlin before the Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart was built.

They didn't expect the wonder drugs they inject Biden with to stop working and absolutely destroy the false image created about this spry and young 81 year old man being capable of being president.

Trump would be a lame duck out the gate

I think we're at the point where all presidents become lame ducks except for enacting the latent fascist will of Capital. Ever since Mitch McConnel said in 2010 that his goal was to make Obama a one term president, we haven't really had presidents able to enact their larger policies through congress. For Gods sack Trump kept having controversies in infrastructure week because he could never actually get policies enacted. They'll always find some shit like Joe Manchin or the parliamentarian to stop anything good from happening.

She might eke out another win

I feel like we might be in the era of one term presidents. All a president can do is oversee the collective decline of the country and do nothing about it. After four years of that they become deeply hated and then the next person comes in to rerun the trend. Hard to say but it's just a suspicion I have.

A second Trump term isn’t going to fundamentally change anything, but it might be the fastest way to get rid of him. If he’d won the 2020 election we’d be looking at a Democrat blowout from top to bottom right now instead of everyone holding their breath and hoping real hard that Joe Biden didn’t fuck everything up by not having the grace to just retire when he should have.

Democrats are born losers who will fuck up and seize defeat from the jaws of victory.

My theory is that Joe dies, Kamala becomes president, loses to Trump, and then gets zooted out of her mind on some pills and fumbles her way into successfully doing a January 6th coup to remain in power.