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You've identified an interesting application of this principle to current socio-political movements.

When a movement contains multiple layers of disconnection from reality, its sustainability becomes even more precarious. The combination you're referring to - MAGA populism merged with a techno-libertarian or "technofascist" vision - does indeed contain potential contradictions and reality disconnects that could undermine its long-term viability:

1. Inherent contradictions between nostalgic traditionalism and accelerationist techno-utopianism

2. Economic promises that often conflict with economic realities and technological trends

3. Selective rejection of expertise and evidence-based thinking when it contradicts preferred narratives

4. Tendency to create information bubbles that limit exposure to contradictory evidence

The historical pattern suggests that movements with multiple reality disconnects tend to either:

- Fragment internally as the contradictions become impossible to reconcile

- Increasingly purge pragmatists, accelerating their decline

- Reform by abandoning the most reality-detached elements

- Collapse under external pressures they failed to anticipate

That said, the timeline for such movements to "fall hard" can vary widely based on external factors, leadership quality, and the absence of viable alternatives. Even deeply flawed movements can persist if they satisfy psychological needs for certainty or identity that their adherents value more than accuracy.

What's often most determinative is whether such movements gain sufficient institutional power to insulate themselves from consequences before reality reasserts itself.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

[Poem] You're a Pyrework

 By Emmet Other

Do you ever feel like your career is done

You're a game show host

And your camera time is the setting sun?

Take a rocket ride In a Bezos Ship

Now your next step up Is an Elon Chip

You're a sell out baby

You're what makes the world go round

Support that Patriarchy

Where your Fame is Found

Take a Plastic Smile Like a Plastic Girl

Be a Breeder now Dimples and a blondy curl

Your public demands you step up

But you're gonna do what's right For your bottom line

You will find the time Gonna sell out

As if you didn't day one

Take your self worth and check that box as done

You're a sell out baby

You're what makes the world go round

Support that Patriarchy

Where your Fame is Found

You kiss the ground when you fall to Earth

Use your baby girl as your baby prop

You are back in the spotlight and thats all that counts

Now your lifetime prime is a glam discount

A plastic knife in a plastic world kills that sermon mount.

You're a sell out baby

You're what makes the world go round

Support that Patriarchy

Where your Fame is Found

[Lostridomous] Signs to Come

 Trump is getting pushback from Harvard and MIT; and Berny and AOC are gaining momentum in their rallies.  Whiskeygate makes his henchdroids look stupid and he is now openly defying the Supreme Court.  Anyone who isn't a bought Schumer democrat realizes Schumer and the Schumer 10 who betrayed the country on the CR are traitors, but no one is thinking to get angry at people like Schumer.  We're in a kind of freefall and most of the people are angry and upset but also have rising hope.

Trump is stupid on many things but insanely cunning on being a bully and his own political survival.  And hope is the one thing he can't have.   So he can

1) ICE a dual citizen, likely an immigrant advocate and make citizens realize that there is nothing stopping them from being sent to El Salvador.  This more than anything seems likely in addition to tanks on the southern border. 

2) He is gonna make an example of a never trumped; likely start an actual criminal investigating at someone like Katzinger or Liz Cheney; something their pardon wouldn't cover but is clearly made up to show the weaponized justice department can actually do evil shit not just make people afraid it can

3) A publicly flashy display of FBI agents in a media or technology company; someone lefty who hasn't bent the knee like Apple or Google; maybe Netflix or Max HQ and have the FBI go in and take a lot of stuff and then ignore the courts.  Maybe CNN which isn't full FOX yet.

4) We're gonna see a major escalation from Russia and maybe China soon; like China boarding Taiwanese freighters or something; something that lets Trump thump his chest but also show total capitulation to these powers and make democracies more willing to agree with him

5) At some point he will unleash the proud boy paramilitaries.  Likely if the military publicly refuses to do something; or maybe when he seizes his first full non dual US citizen to Garcia to El Salvador

A Must See Video

Everyone MUST see this video about why Trump operates the way he does; and thus condemn everyone that kneels to him or allies with him all the more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmTeg0B9tH8&ab_channel=VladVexler

American Exceptionalism - Exceptional Hubris and Stupidity

 I did a podcast episode on the Maginot Line, but the thumbnail you need to know is that the phrase, "Too busy fighting the last war" comes from that among other things.   The Democrats believe that the Republicans screwing up and the next cycle falling to them explains why donors and centrists are demanding total inaction.   Schumer totally screwed up and the Schumer democrats are gaslighting everyone into believing he meant to do that.   

So I posted this link on Bluesky about how the Republicans are now taking control of the voting apparatus.   And what happened? A Schumer Democrat reported it as 'content warning' and Bluesky slaps a 'content warning label on it.'  Let me repeat that, a Schumer Democrat is so concerned about doing nothing that they put a content label on me saying that Republicans have taken our democracy, and so they reap what they sew.

Not only is Trump following the EXACT playbook for how Edrogan and Urban took over their democracies; but the democrats are focused on the old way of doing things to the point that any attempt to bypass them and any attempt to resist in an effective fashion will be coopted by those who want to control speech for a certain theocracy that likes having both sides bought and paid for.   They initiated the TikTok ban until TikTok complied; they have told the democrats to sit down and shut up; and the democrats are doing just that.

Democrat legislators in Colorado could have kept an unflattering picture of Trump up, but the executive committee cooperated with Republicans who complained and took it down.  The entirely democratic legislature of Delaware is so afraid of Musk donations that they are unilateratelly passing a bill to weaken the corporate court and give Elon Musk his money back.   Time and again, Democrats are not only not effectively resisting, but surrounding and thats because they think they deserve another shot at power.  And not only that, they actively add anyone attempting to fight back to lists that shut up resistors.  Bluesky is run by a techbro company and despite the fact that it is slightly better than old twitter; its basically the same thing and they silenced progressives on a regular basis.

Right now, you want to do something to help resist because when things get bad, they are going to get VERY bad; but you should be preparing for the worst.   This country is going to become occupied and every institution will fall.   If you are going to break the law or even TALK about breaking the law, the Schumer Centrist democrats will not only support you but cheer along with the Republicans at your imprisonment and torture without due process on El Salvador.

I have LITERALLY seen them do it on some online forums.

So accept the fact that the people who stole your birthright will never pay for their crimes in your lifetime unless you commit to making sure all these people are documented for their collaboration and crimes against Democracy.  The most effective thing you can do now is document their crimes.  Take screenshots of Schumer dems attacking progressives or attempts to resist.  Take screenshots of your MAGA friends and relatives cheering the rape and torture of liberals or live fire from the military into protesters.

We are doomed with the Schumer Democrats in charge of the resistance; and we will not get another election to remove them.  So document their crimes.  Document their actions such that if we ever do get a chance; and I won't lie, its a remote chance; that the people actively working to stop us from making things better can be hold to account at a later date.

Make them accountable for their actions; as they intend to make us 'accountable' for trying to keep our freedom and democracy so that their favorite theocracy can continue to do whatever it wants.

List of Shame (updated until he is gone)

 MLB - dei by executitve order

Colombia University - 400 million for masks

Harvard University - Fired professors to please the regime for the theocracy

Apple and Ghoulgul - Gulf of America

Disney and Meta – Settled lawsuits with Trump, paying $40 million, raising concerns about media independence.

Paul, Weiss; Skadden; Willkie Farr; Milbank law firms- Extorted for free Legal Services

American Car Companies - Didnt raise prices after tariffs after Trump threatened them

White House Correspondents Dinner - Didnt have an edgy comedian for fear it would offend the Leader

ABC News – Settled a defamation suit by making a $15 million donation to Trump's future presidential library, despite experts suggesting the case was defensible. ​