• Tommy Douglas:

  Once more let me remind you what fascism is. It need not wear a brown shirt or a green shirt – it may even wear a dress shirt. Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege.

• Michael Parenti » 🔈 Fascism, The False Revolution
• Gabriel Rockhill:
  • Fascism: Now You See It, Now You Don’t!
  • Liberalism and Fascism: Partners in Crime
  • The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discreetly Internationalized It

He’s old and cranky like me 🤷

Among many other things, the person who created Mozilla/Firefox.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla#History

A downvote for antifascism is an upvote for fascism. Simple as.

Anti-antifa downvotes 💀

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I don’t feel particularly shameful because I don’t self-identify with the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. It’s not my state, it’s theirs.

Amazing. He’s just mashing on the tariff keyboard.

That doesn’t even make sense. If it’s useless thinking, then why do anything about it?

That’s a dark joke.
Dark as soot.

I’ve never looked into how Matrix works at all, so I can’t really speak to that.

There are six bullet points. Which ones are no longer true?

The only one I know of is point 4, in that you can now choose not to share your phone number. But, IIUC, the app uses the dark pattern of forever nagging you to share it, hoping you’ll eventually accidentally click the wrong choice.

I sure don’t know. SimpleX is suggested, among others: https://dessalines.github.io/essays/why_not_signal.html#good-alternatives

The Japanese economy is in a long decline, and Japan is a US vassal, so I wouldn’t worry about the yen becoming the world’s reserve currency.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza_Accord

I’ll preface this with: maybe they still exist to a small extent, but get little support from the recommendation algorithms.

The late Mark Fischer theorized on this.

• In the period between the end of WWII and the start of the neoliberal era (e.g. Thatcher & Reagan), the working class in the capitalist imperial core experienced a period of wealth that never came before and almost definitely will never come again^[1]. This gave people the free time and the freedom to take risks—artistic and otherwise—as never before.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalist_Realism
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauntology_(music)
• Mark Fisher – The Slow Cancellation of the Future (2014)

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Edit to add, this sequence in Children of Men literally sent shivers down my spine, and must have done so to Fischer as well, because he starts Capitalist Realism with a reference to it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJO0n6kvPRU

Please let the history books record that a NY real estate failson & reality TV star was the nail in the coffin of US imperialism.

Known for over fifty years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident