It inherently favors the bully
It inherently creates the busybody to oppose it
It inherently creates an ammoral center to buffer it
It inherently breaks its back holding the Arc of The Universe Towards Justice
It inherently empowers the darkest nature of man
It inherently deceives to clog the wheels of progress with human souls
It inherently breaks the hearts of those with hearts
It is no good to anyone
But
Conservatives
And
Parasites
I dont know what it is about edgelord technofascists and the need to create sock puppets but I run into it sometimes. I first encountered it with gamergaters on twitter now well documented, then later sadpuppy fascists trying to rig the World Con awards. Maybe when you are an edgelord incel you like to invent people but then again llms and the push for imaginary money and imaginary friends makes sense that basement dwelling Chads would do.
I have also seen similar tactics from Nigerian and Russian scammers on many mediums, the more big tech the medium the bigger and more heads the hydra had. Botsentinel on twitter had an infinite supply of sockpuppets to defend it.
So when I see a (according to many) "reliable and good guy" make a block list full of anti lgbt blocks on Mastodon, I am not AT ALL surpised when the edgelord sockpuppets spring out of the woodwork talking the same until I point it out and then only mostly the same. Dude has a Patraon for his hate speech so it only makes sense that he will create as many new mastodon accounts as required to defend his mealticket
Visiting my parents, a conversation came up that moved the post I was thinking of doing on why I consider those who call taxation theft, theives themselves forward in my mental queue. The world is going through a major conflict right now; arguably conflicts, the most prominent is globalists vs populists or fascists vs anti fascists, or even conservative vs liberal. And none of them are quite right. I am not going to spend time explaining what those six words really mean, but provide a link that at least gets the process started. The inciting conversation really came about why China was facing problems now due to its very limited thinking during the population limit that were popular in the world mindset during the 1970's and are slowly kiling them now. That lead to a discussion over people who are willing to easily accept authoritarian solutions to problems, even people who are in favor of small government.
I think the best way to distill this to the real world is, why is the worlds richest liberatian; Charles Koch, willing to fund the worlds most dangerous fascist; Ron Desantis. After all, a small government advocate should be the most virulent anti fascist of all, since on their lovely little world view chart they put themselves at opposite of statism. And yet, this is just babbling. Time and time again, libertarians are just as willing to use authoritarian means to achieve their ends as anyone else; more so I would argue. My step father summed it up rather well as Zero Sum vs Growth. And it was perfect, except for memetic purposes.
The best summary of the issue I can think of is why so many gold standard advocates, who are now reincarnated into bitcoin advocates; which I summarize in my critique of twitter. To take a very complicated concept and distill it down as much as possible; people who like the gold standard like it because there is only so much gold. People who like bitcoin mainly like it because there is only so many bitcoins. They hate inflation, they hate inflationary currencies, and they want the world to exist the same way forever. Never mind, that entropy is the greatest force in the universe and change even more constant than death itself; this is the mindview of people who dont understand abstract concepts very well.
I dislike Tiktok because I dislike the Ccp. I have an author channel I tried to build there and rarely use because of tiktok abuse with reporters. But Mark Zuckerberg is disgusting and his efforts to ban tiktok are disgusting. The complicity of the democratic party shows why they dont work for us, why biden hasnt dont anything about the Maga in the government and why simply "voting blue no matter who" is treading water not solving the problem
The democrats are no your friend.
This creator is not the only one saying so. I am working on a podcast series about a new constitution and the willingness of the dems to jump into bed with Mark Zuckerberg and his manufactured tiktok panic is as fake as the now recently exposed conservative bullshit on transpanic.
Dont take my word or the word of Tiktok for it, there are plenty of sources indicating Meta is behind the attempt yo ban tiktok. I criticize the CCP all the time. But just because I realize tiktok causes problems and shpuld be regulated, doesnt mean I dont also acknowledge that it should not be BANNED and that Biden is complicit with Meta.
First, a tiny bit of metaphorical background.
The game "Among Us" (for those living under a rock the last few years) is a popular computer game, made particularly popular just before and during the COVID disaster where you play a bunch of astronauts trying to complete tasks to repair the ship before alien infiltrators who look like them kill them and throw each other out an airlock trying to mob justice the alien to keep from all dying a horrible death.
I say this, because we now live in an age in which fascists are willing to go to any lengths to kill, imprison, cancel, enslave and humiliate anyone who isn't them. This isn't a new problem, but the fascists have a number of new tools and allies. The traditional allies of the fascists are the authoritarian sympathizers and those who fetishize law and order. The other traditional allies are those who blame "The other"; those who hate people not like themselves. Of late, Fascists have begun to do this to any other they could find; LGBT, BIPOC, Liberals, Antifa, Cartoon Characters, MNM's, you name it. And the new tools are just as frightening. With AI enhanced research tools, as well as demographic data gleefully handed over to them by the filth gnomes of silicon valley; they in some ways know more about us than we know ourselves. Palantir, Blackrock, the Wagner Group and an entire dark ecosphere created by the filth Koch brothers have allowed them to know just where to squeeze society in its most vulnerable sectors with messages tailor made (sometimes at the individual level) to exploit fear and ignorance. And they also have billionaires on their side. Indeed, most (if not all) Billionaires see the handwriting on the wall and realize that the internet and modern sensibility, as well as demographic trends away from a clear white majority mean that more and more people are understanding that the very idea of a billionaire even existing is problematic to society. As such more and more of them are turning towards the Big Lie and helping undermine our democracy. And some crypto fascists are pretending to be Very Concerned Citizens who are not Maga but are Maga enablers. So, just like in Among Us, you have to ask the question...who do you trust?
In modern times, the number of people sympathetic to Trump varies between 25% and 40% depending on the benchmark you use. You would think that as dark and dire as that is, that 60% to 40% is more than enough to out vote them in any election; but between exploited flaws in the highly problematic (and rotting) 1789 constitution along with capricious short attention spans, lack of intelligence or simple desperation due to economic slavery at stagnant pathetic wages; the number of people who want to kill and enslave everyone else vs the number of people actively trying to keep that from happening is about actually (to my observation) at parity.
Group A is Maga and Filth Billionaires and group B is ....practically everyone else. That's Neoliberals, Neocons, Libertarians, Progressives, Leftists, Liberals, Corporate Democrats, Blue Dog Democrats, Non Fascist Evangelicals and even Socialists and Communists. ANYONE who doesn't want to be a maga slave finds themselves having to hold their nose and vote for someone or indirectly work with someone they want. Aside from the fact that this proves our system in the United States is fucking terrible, it also brings to mind a popular Benjamin Franklin quote.
"We must, indeed, all hang together or most assuredly, we shall all hang separately." Because they were all white, male and (presumably) straight, we assume that they were of a similar mind, but the Continental Congress represented a similar gaggle of anti tyrannical forces we find ourselves arrayed against now.
The Center is not the glue that holds us together. The people actually in the streets, the people taking this fight to the people who shoot, kill and harm actual civilians are the actual ANTIFA folks who counter protest against the filth Proud Boys and filth Oathkeepers. And while this group is as varied as the continental congress, far more come from the left than the right. The center is not what holds us together, its the progressive left that does.
The horseshoe theory is quite dead.
But in an age where imagery matters, and highly complex ideas need to be conveyed to short attention span low information voters; words matter, symbols matter. How do you convey the need to stay away from fascism and that simply being in its orbit is unacceptable without alienating allies you need to survive? Specifically speaking, both siderism is totally unacceptable. Treating both sides as the same legitimizes fascism and anyone doing it is (wittingly or not) an ally of fascism. To some, centrism means putting themselves between both sides, and this kind of centrism is capitulation to fascism. To some, centrism is simply denial of the inevitable failure of capitalism and to place themselves between communism and Fascist capitalism; somewhere in the territory of Social Safety Net Capitalism (which by European standards is actually Center Right, but by American Corporate Standards is The Center).
I, personally, like to bash Centrism because anything having to do with Fascism, anything remotely in its orbit, is bad. But I also rationally recognize I need people who define themselves as The Center but aren't Both Siderists by any stretch of the imagination to stand with me against Fascism. We all hang together or we all hang separately. So as many memes and sayings roll off the tongue intuitively against Centrism (aka Both Siderism), I cant use the term Centrism BECAUSE of Centrists who define themselves with The Center (Bothsiderism Centrists vs The Center Centrists.) I recognize my need to use clearer terms (Both Siderism) and hope my Centrist (The Center) allies understand that they need to give up the idea that The Horseshoe theory applies anymore. Our leaders are progressives....not Centrists (of either variety)
I started this blog several years ago, and while I have changed my mind on certain points, both in terms of the bombasticness with which I deliver them and the self righteous assuredness that I had; the core of everything that I was saying remains true, and is no more clearly demonstrated by six rogue seditious court members one of whom by all accounts should be put on trial for Rape. Everyone is innocent until proven guilty by Kavanaugh was given free reign in a highly dubious manner by the FBI and the Trump DoJ and has shown the repeated flaws in our system.
I created the podcast series 11 Fixes for a Broken Everything as a vaccine against those who said I was trying to repair a totally broken system with a new one without trying to stay in the current frame work. Everything in that series could be done by just a regular law and the president. Of course, at the time I made it, I was unable to imagine the corrupt and thoroughly coopted political lives that Senator Manchin and Senator Sinema demonstrated showing why the Senator truly is the Floater house.
Indeed, while I am not the first to say that the constitution needs a reboot, I find that all the points I made when I started when I made this blog still stand; the legislature is corrupt, the courts are coopted and the executive is either fascist or inept. Too much power is collected in the wrong places and too much separation of power exists in other places. If you dont separate the ability to prosecute from the ability to enforce then you have an executive who never investigates itself and that a following executive is reluctant to prosecute since the next administration might do the same thing and they might deprive themselves of useful tools (as they sit it) to implement their agenda. The senate is blindingly undemocratic (as it was intended) and its control thereof makes things only worse.
That's why I'm making Rhombus Tick's "A Constitutional History of Terra" for the Tossing Grenades at Windmills Podcast. It will start with a humorous anecdote about why a more functional democracy in a far more dangerous (and therefore interesting) world than our own adopted a constitutional change along with me pontificating about why we should apply the change in our own reality. I planned this long before the complete abomination that is Dobbs.
The thing about the current court is; they're now comfortably saying the quiet part out loud. We know they're going to allow a republican legislator to select Electoral Electors, we know that they will allow them to bypass state constitutions. Its not just Dobbs, is abomination after abomination and frankly the democrats are completely and utterly unprepared to handle this. We need to be in this for the long haul and overcome not only Republicans and foreign powers anxious for the complete destruction of the American Hegemony but Centrists, Civility Democrats and Semantics Democrats as well. But America is a nation of dreamers, and I believe we can rise to the challenge.
The road will be long, painful and likely bloody as they literally try to kill us for doing the right thing. But in the end, it will be worth it.
