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on the phone with dad. he does NOT get how our president's people still sup…

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20 mai 2026 à 20:21

on the phone with dad. he does NOT get how our president's people still support him. he reeealllly doesn't get it.

he understands authoritarianism, he understands that there are all these people who have been trained since childhood to "just believe, just have faith". he understands cults of personality. he's from the former USSR for pete's sake. he knows how these things go.

he knows all these things intellectually, but he doesn't get it-get it.

i'm not sure what to tell him. i told him what @saltphoenix told me once: that there are plenty of people who would rather hurt themselves if it means that the other guy gets hurt worse. for example, during desegregation, municipalities closed down public pools before they would let black people use the pools. so no one gets to swim!

that kind of thinking is hard for me to understand as well, because i'm all "well, we can work together and BOTH of us get things because we're stronger together," but that is not the point of view for loads of people.

i don't think i'll be able to give dad an intellectually and emotionally satisfactory answer because it's very hard for a non-authoritarian to understand an authoritarian's willingness to go along with the worst shit. 🤷

if we use a family metaphor, it might go something like "well, daddy does hit me every so often, but he ultimately has our best interest in mind."

#authoritarianism #USPol #politics #fascism #antifa

Comrades, here is a funny question for you.As we all know Putin is a far-ri…

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7 mai 2026 à 12:52

Comrades, here is a funny question for you.
As we all know Putin is a far-right fascist. And as all far-right fascists he wants to praise Hitler. But ruling a country that was completely decimated during ww2 by Hitler and for 70 years positioned itself as a left Marxist state he can’t do it openly. What is a solution to such conundrum?
Let me describe it this way – Putin really wants to have hot annal sex with Hitler, but he is too afraid to catch STD, so he decided to use a protection. And such protection, you may call it a condom is Ivan Ilyin.
Ivan Ilyin is far-right publicist who runned away from Russia because of the civil war to Germany and started praising Hitler, Mussolini and fascism non-stop from there. When world war became dangerous for Germany around 1943 – Ilyin left Germany for Switzerland and continued praising Hitler from there.
He stopped doing it only in 1948 – probably someone told him, that he may be kicked out from the country or smth.
So what did Putin do for 26 years? – He praised Ilyin instead of Hitler. Got it? – and all far-right KGB Marxists renegades (that is specifically soviet thing – guys who were praying for capitalism to return, secretly praising Nazism, but making a good Marxist image of themselves) were getting those whistle-blowing references and winked back to Putin.
But, as you have already guessed – there is a problem. If you use one condom for 26 years straight, sooner or later it will stop protecting you.
So what happened? – all that thing worked well, while only far-righters knows about Ilyin. But during 26 years, that Putin were praising him – a lot of folk really has read his writings and find out the truth. Now it is not a protection or whistle-blowing for right-wingers but an odd stupid “King is naked” thing... in our case “King is a Hitler praising fascist”.
One of the last stupid things was renaming an entire department of Russian state university to School of Ilyin. Direct result of it was a creation of Antifascist student committee. In democratic countries this sh*t-show has already ended political career of all involved, but in Russia – I d say members of student Antifascist committee may soon join the list of political prisoners.
Hope you have known something new from this.
#Putin #russia #antifa #fascism #antifascism #anarchism #Ukraine #farright #funny #left #ideology

Gowwd… this so resonated with me. Like a cathedral bell inside my head, ban…

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7 mai 2026 à 01:12

Gowwd… this so resonated with me. Like a cathedral bell inside my head, banging me into some awakened state. It’s slowly dawning on me that it’s time for another change in the way I live my life. Here I was thinking, I got this. I know what’s going on and I’m prepared for it. I have skills enough to recognise what it’s doing to me. Well, let me tell you. No matter how prepared and skilled you think you are, you can be fooled given enough time. As an unlikable army intelligence instructor I once had to endure was fond of saying: ‘The system, given enough time and resources, will always break you.’ And it’s hard these days to recognised, among all of those we’re subjected to, which system is brainwashing because there’s so much noise generated around it.

“Thinking and writing have become harder. It’s as if the neurons in my brain don’t connect with each other in quite the same way. I go to check a fact and get instantly diverted by a hundred other distractions on my phone. I find myself unable to devote time to thinking and writing like I used to.” (Source: https://www.theguardian.com/media/ng-interactive/2026/may/06/how-to-survive-the-information-crisis-we-once-talked-about-fake-news-now-reality-itself-feels-fake )

Oh, and that Intelligence Instructor… the British officer? I guess he’d be long gone by now. He seemed unhealthy to me at the time, both in body and mind.

#InformationOverload #Modernity #LifeNotLived #NoiseSmokeMirrors #Writing #WritingCommunity #DehumanisingRiot #FakeNews #BrianWashing #Oligarchy #Fascism #Zioinism #IslamicExtremism #Propaganda #GroupThink #NewsSpeak #Politics #WarAndPestilence #Antifa

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