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Techno‑feudal elite are attempting to build a twenty‑first‑century fascist state

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Re: Techno‑feudal elite are attempting to build a twenty‑first‑century fascist state

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Post by shimman »

bananamogul wrote: post #58
cyanydeez wrote: post #44

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uh...fox news started from NIXON, so too were the far right judges. this republican farce hit a tipping point, it didnt just suddenly be fascist. its like bitcoin and they suddenly saw they had 51%. whether its true is debateable but this isnt just a few months.

"NIXON" (also known plainly as Nixon) was "far right?" You must be joking. By any measure, and in every poly sci department, Nixon is viewed as moderate or even slightly left wing. He created the EPA, signed the Clean Air Act, created OHSA, signed NEPA, monkeyed with wage and price controls, signed a breath-taking number of anti-discrimination and affirmative-action orders, pushed school desegregation in the South...…

I think you need to look into the history of Roger Ailes, this is 50 years in the making. Maybe a 100 if you want to include the John Birch society.

Re: Techno‑feudal elite are attempting to build a twenty‑first‑century fascist state

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Post by time2buybitcoin »

cyanydeez wrote: post #44
designerarvid wrote: post #28

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Not to get into politics too much, but surely that is a bit different. EU right wing populism and conservative raise had been slowly happening for some 15-20 years. US for 14 months.

uh...fox news started from NIXON, so too were the far right judges. this republican farce hit a tipping point, it didnt just suddenly be fascist. its like bitcoin and they suddenly saw they had 51%. whether its true is debateable but this isnt just a few months.

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Re: Techno‑feudal elite are attempting to build a twenty‑first‑century fascist state

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RGamma wrote: post #18
d_silin wrote: post #3

The article is unpleasantly accurate.

> a transnational “authoritarian international” in which oligarchs, political operatives, royal families, security chiefs, and organized criminals cooperate to monetize state power while protecting one another from scrutiny. At least the crackpots now get to see what a real deep state (concentrated power behind public facade) looks like.

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Re: Techno‑feudal elite are attempting to build a twenty‑first‑century fascist state

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Post by tastyface »

busterarm wrote: post #52
tootie wrote: post #49

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Jenny Cohn on bluesky posts a ton of stuff on technofeudalist: https://bsky.app/profile/jennycohn.bsky.social A favorite target is Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale who was recently discussing regime change in Iran with Reza Pahlavi, son of the former Shah.

I'm good, thanks.

Why are you here?

Re: Techno‑feudal elite are attempting to build a twenty‑first‑century fascist state

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Post by AreShoesFeet000 »

Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #57
AreShoesFeet000 wrote: post #25

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In my personal experience, an ironic statement that hits too close to home will - regardless of the irony - get downvoted. Partly because irony serves to be lost and it is lost too much. Partly because it still uncovers something uncomfortable. A lot of people really do want fascism. So you loose on both sides. Brutal.

I guess if you get downvote for saying something ironical, then that's the loss of audience, not you. One can argue that a thoughtful irony which gets downvoted might be more interesting than thoughtful irony which gets upvoted because of the points you mention. Irony shouldn't be in a bubble of all upvotes. Funnily enough I had searched up some irony quote websites a few days back and going back on them was fun to f…

Damn that’s good quote. And I would even go as far as saying that the apparent cynicism of the “honesty with the volume cracked up” is just a mirroring of the inversion that symbols suffer while transiting Culture.

In fact now I’m a bit worried that you can’t really have any sort of accurate feeling of the magnitude of the ironic statement that went over your head. You hear something that’s not true, you internalize it, you figure the character of it’s falseness, and when it’s your time to subvert it you invert it and amp it up creating something more absurd, which in turn will be internalized by even more people without its apparent falseness that you tried so hard to convey.

This makes me think that speaking absurd is the only way to convey truth. Not immediately, but eventually.

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Post by lioeters »

dyauspitr wrote: post #6

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Being a centrist is a cowardly position, inevitably on the wrong side of history, serving the ruling class while backstabbing your fellow workers and citizens. You'd rather pretend to be asleep and let it all happen to us than open your eyes and fight with humanity.

Re: Techno‑feudal elite are attempting to build a twenty‑first‑century fascist state

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Post by bigyabai »

watwut wrote: post #26
seneca wrote: post #2

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Are you claiming elite is NOT doing that? Because project 2025 is kind of about that and billionaires in fasct do support fascist policies.

With a name like Seneca, one has to appreciate their commitment to nominative determinism. Leal to the very last.
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