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It's future-proof since it can be updated every legislative cycle.

Fully agree there. This administration has to be removed from office. While there's still a congress to do this. What I'm worried about now is a Reichstag fire event that will allow them to enact emergency legislation that will put the Patriot Act to shame. I watched the USA collectively lose its mind in 2001; it wouldn't take much to do that again.

I only have one minor pushback. I read The Art of the Deal back in 2016. And having not read Mein Kampf, I can safely say it is no Mein Kampf. When it's not totally incoherent it reads like a puff piece in a tabloid rag. So I guess I'm just less afraid of Trump than I am of a Hitler-class demagogue, but that says nothing about the MAGA movement as a whole. You don't need intelligence to be a figurehead for a fascist coup.

I think it's time for a general strike. There are rumblings of a reinvigorated labor movement, so for the first time since the 1970s I think it's within the realm of possibility.

Yeah ok so he's not as bad as late Hitler.

Here's my most optimistic take for Americans. This guy is not as bad as Hitler. He's out to scam the world, not conquer it militarily. So that's a plus, for now. If his successor is Vance then the invasion of Canada and Mexico might actually happen.

Idk it doesn't look like we'll run out of food and the population bomb turned out to be a dud. Maybe the food chain will collapse in the ecocrisis, but Capital will find a way to produce food more energy-intensively to compensate.

It's a classic, but it reflects the anxieties of the time for sure.

I have a friend who looks like this. 6'5, Carhardt jacket, overalls, drinks Budweiser like it's water. Hangs out with socialists. He says he got his septum piercing mainly so the alt right would leave him alone.

Marxism-Leninism explicitly calls on using technology to eliminate scarcity. That's what collectivized agriculture and mass electrification were for. Along the development pathway the leadership sort of forgot this because they ran into a lot of problems (not the least of which was an incredible amount of hostility from the capitalist powers).

In my view Zeitgeist was just an update on The State and Revolution, but somehow without the armed overthrow of the government. Like technology will somehow allow us to surpass our class antagonisms and ingrained social structures (eapecially militarism) without toppling the ruling elite. I think it turned out to be a naive view unfortunately.

I recently saw a gorilla skull. Note how small the brain is and how much extra bone there is to protect it. Punching this would hurt you more than the gorilla.

Was it the poet who lives on the beach? That was the only one I'd have been threatened by

Thanks, I had to research to even notice anything was wrong.

Having visited Berlin and Auschwitz, I agree with you. I just implore you not to take the perils of the military industrial complex required to defeat such evil lightly. Especially important is the alienation that it creates in its adherents, which prefigures additional evil. To paraphrase Einstein, our civilization will not survive the next world war.

Since you're into Douglass, here's a snippet from across the ocean. One of our greatest poets was Petőfi, who rallied the Hungarians to revolution against the Habsburgs. He died in the war but his compatriot, Kossuth, escaped and toured America, and much was written about him in Douglass' paper.

The parallels to today are uncanny, with a war in Crimea, a divided Europe, and an overstretched Anglo empire.