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      It doesn’t, that’s the problem. A problem a lot of us Americans are dealing with - when you can’t make any sense of what or why these politicians and their supporters have these ideas and do the things … It’s very hard to not be worried. Like I have anxiety bad enough it’s a disorder but I feel like every thinking man woman and child in the USA right now is walking around just holding onto that low-key anxious energy because nothing makes any sense.

      Like even if you try to find a reason there isn’t one and if there is a reason it’s nonsensical, probably racist, and one hundred percent not grounded in our shared reality.

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        But it does make sense (just not good). You and I might not agree with the motives, but they do exist. There are entities both external and internal to the US that want to tear society down. Causing disfunction, fomenting hate, allowing infrastructure to decay, creating chaos, sowing discord and more are all a part of that effort. There might be differing reasons these entities have, but it boils down to greed and authoritarian control. It is happening elsewhere, as well. We see right-wing ideology/politics springing up in Latin America, Europe and Asia.

        The Foundation of Geopolitics is one of the texts that lined out the (Russian) path for the future and how to disrupt the West that was aligned against them and it appears to be working. The other large influencer is Israel. I am certain the Mossad is out there thwarting the democratic process to help shape their goals. The billionaire club are the other parties that are helping to bring all this together. I thought I read somewhere that they are pressing the gas-pedal for human extinction b/c they believe they are better and above that. Therefore they will survive and will start the new (improved) human cycle or something after we are removed. Again, their reasons might vary, but the results are the same. Shackles for you and me and the world is theirs to conquer. So far.

        I am sure I have a less than perfect perspective and two paragraphes doesn’t cover much here really, but this is roughly how I see current affairs from my limited proto-human lense.

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          I thought I read somewhere that they are pressing the gas-pedal for human extinction b/c they believe they are better and above that.

          Accelerationism

          Dark MAGA - Here’s a video too. Curtis Yarvin is loved by Peter Thiel. JD Vance is Thiel’s protege. Thiel is the one that wanted to make a corporate government nation state out of Greenland, entirely deregulated. They call it “Praxis.” Trump also started talking about “freedom cities” which is the same concept. Literally making their own nation states to live in while the poors are left out to die or whatever in the coming climate apocalpyse.

          Shit is fucked up yo.

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          I hear ya. I just mean looking at it from a purely selfish and utilitarian lens there really is no actual reason for a lot of the bad shit happening. Like it’s not helping anyone, it’s actively harming people and a lot of the people getting harmed voted for it.

          I guess maybe because it makes people money in terms of the military industrial complex and prison complex (slavery) so that could be part of it. I’m tired of it all though - this timeline is so stupid.

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            I think you might like this video

            Benn calls it “leveragism” but basically it’s about control. Rather than making more money, it’s more valuable to devalue/strip the power of communities to fight against you so that you can more easily institute your policies. When you think of it like that, stuff that just seems wildly cruel starts to make sense.

            But really, Benn is just analyzing material conditions and coming to a logical conclusion. I don’t think he’s read Marx, but it’s basically Marx lol.

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              I mean … it is wildly cruel it doesn’t just seem that way. I suppose yeah if you view it through some sociopathic cretin billionaires perspective it makes “sense” but it’s still super fucked.

              Honestly anyone that is cool with that shit needs a swift visit to the guillotine.

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                Oh yeah, for sure, just for clarification when I say seems to just be cruel, I mean only cruel. There’s motive behind it. But it’s unequivocally cruel and only performed by those who capitalism rewards the most: the unempathetic, the narcissistic, those who are willing to exploit others and the planet the most. They care only about power and nothing about the people or the environment they destroy. Those are just numbers to them.

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      Conservatives have been wrong about everything for a few centuries now. Covid was one of those most clear and unambiguous examples of their world view and ideology being wrong. It broke them, because there was no longer a single grain of doubt to hide behind, as millions died around them. So now they just manufacture a separate reality whole cloth, because it’s easier than trying to spin objective reality in their favor.